What orthodontist donors give in federal races

A wide specialty pool under $5.5 million

$5,538,928 is the occupation-level dollar total. 15,876 is the itemization count. 1,761 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $349 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $3,145 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 9 itemizations per donor record. Fifteen thousand-plus lines from 1,761 donor records is a wide specialty pool: more people than many surgical strings with similar dollars.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $349 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Mean dollars per donor record sit toward the modest side among professional-title strings in this extract. Frequency and dollar size are different dimensions; this bucket is heavier on headcount than on dollars per person.

Orthodontist is not dentist and not a board list

Medical and dental occupation strings often look precise and still fail a license check. The FEC does not verify orthodontic specialty certification. DENTIST is a different occupation page with its own facts.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals ORTHODONTIST after indexing. DENTIST, DDS, and ORAL SURGEON remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to ORTHODONTIST.

What 1,761 donor records can and cannot show

1,761 donor records used ORTHODONTIST on at least one matching itemization. 1,761 donor records used ORTHODONTIST on at least one matching itemization. That is not a membership list from an orthodontic society. Retired specialists and forms filled with a spouse’s title can appear.

A person who listed ORTHODONTIST on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

Keep health-sector industry tables separate

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. An orthodontist in private practice and one in a group clinic share this occupation string if they typed ORTHODONTIST. Adding $5,538,928 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the ORTHODONTIST occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $5,538,928.

How to cite the orthodontist key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: ORTHODONTIST itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,538,928 on 15,876 contributions from 1,761 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Do not treat the total as a census of practicing orthodontists.

Treating ORTHODONTIST as typed specialty text

ORTHODONTIST in this extract is $5,538,928 on 15,876 itemizations from 1,761 donor records, or $5.5 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. A dental board can list who may practice orthodontics. FEC itemizations list whoever typed ORTHODONTIST. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $349 per contribution and about $3,145 per donor record, with roughly 9 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. DENTIST, DDS, and ORAL SURGEON remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to ORTHODONTIST. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $5,538,928. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ORTHODONTIST, dollars equal $5,538,928, contributions equal 15,876, donors equal 1,761. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($5.5 million) are the same headline amount as $5,538,928, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the shape of ORTHODONTIST in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have orthodontist donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list ORTHODONTIST sum to $5,538,928 across 15,876 contributions and 1,761 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Are dentists included in the orthodontist total?

No. DENTIST is a separate occupation string. This page covers ORTHODONTIST only: $5,538,928, 15,876 contributions, and 1,761 donors. Mixing them would invent a combined dental total the packet does not contain. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Does the FEC confirm orthodontic specialty credentials?

No. Occupation is self-reported. A specialty word on Schedule A is not a credential check. Treat the 1,761 donor records as a count of matching text, not a board roster. The indexed sum remains $5,538,928. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where do I review individual gifts?

The ORTHODONTIST occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $5,538,928. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.