What partner/principal donors give in federal races

Widest donor pool in this batch, a $543 mean

$7,182,788, 13,239 itemizations, and 2,896 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $543. Mean dollars per donor record are about $2,480. Repeat giving is about 5 itemizations per donor record.

13,239 lines from 2,896 records is a wide, low-repeat ownership-title stack. The $2,480 per-donor mean is lower than many officer keys because the donor count is large relative to the dollar total. The packet has no equity-share field and no median gift.

2,896 donor records on 13,239 lines is the widest donor pool in this batch, with only about 5 itemizations per record. Mean dollars per donor record of about $2,480 are the lowest among these keys because the donor count is large relative to $7,182,788. The packet has no equity-share field and no party flag, so the total cannot be read as a partnership-filing census.

PARTNER/PRINCIPAL is not PARTNER and not PRINCIPAL

The FEC record does not verify that the donor holds both ranks. Law-firm partners, accounting principals, and school principals who typed the slash string can all appear. Best-efforts rules do not force a uniform partnership vocabulary.

This page cites only $7,182,788, 13,239 contributions, and 2,896 donors. PARTNER, PRINCIPAL, and CO-OWNER remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them. Combining those strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC occupation to a homemade cluster.

Donor records and dual slash titles

2,896 donor records used PARTNER/PRINCIPAL on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed PARTNER/PRINCIPAL on some gifts and PARTNER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party or firm type from the slash. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $7,182,788.

Committees receiving these itemizations are not named in the packet. The 13,239 lines are occupation-side totals only. Refunds, redesignations, and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Do not treat $7,182,788 as net of refunds unless a later extract says so.

Industry pages group firms, not this slash title

Industry pages group employer-side categories. A law-firm partner and an architecture principal share this occupation string if they typed PARTNER/PRINCIPAL. Adding $7,182,788 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the PARTNER/PRINCIPAL occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the slash title next to PARTNER and PRINCIPAL.

PARTNER/PRINCIPAL dollars of $7,182,788 sit on 13,239 itemizations from 2,896 donor records, the widest donor pool in this batch. Low repeat giving of about 5 lines per record is the citation pattern. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code and never enter this total.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals PARTNER/PRINCIPAL, dollars equal $7,182,788, contributions equal 13,239, donors equal 2,896, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Quote the three facts together so the wide donor pool is visible next to the headline dollars. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules.

Reading PARTNER/PRINCIPAL as a slash ownership key

PARTNER/PRINCIPAL in this extract is $7,182,788 on 13,239 itemizations from 2,896 donor records, or $7.2 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. People who type PARTNER, PRINCIPAL, or OWNER may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact PARTNER/PRINCIPAL key is in $7,182,788.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $543 per contribution and about $2,480 per donor record, with roughly 5 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. 2,896 donor records on 13,239 lines is a wide, low-repeat slash-title pool, not a census of partnership filings.

Industry pages should not be added to $7,182,788. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals PARTNER/PRINCIPAL, dollars equal $7,182,788, contributions equal 13,239, donors equal 2,896.

PARTNER/PRINCIPAL, PARTNER, PRINCIPAL, and CO-OWNER can describe overlapping people in ordinary speech and remain separate FEC strings. This page is only PARTNER/PRINCIPAL: $7,182,788, 13,239 contributions, 2,896 donors. The slash is part of the stored key; PARTNER PRINCIPAL without a slash, if it exists, is not rolled into this total unless the extract merged it.

Questions

How much have partner/principal donors given in FEC data?

The PARTNER/PRINCIPAL occupation string is attached to $7,182,788 across 13,239 contributions and 2,896 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of firm partners. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does PARTNER/PRINCIPAL include PARTNER and PRINCIPAL?

Only if those donors typed PARTNER/PRINCIPAL. PARTNER and PRINCIPAL are separate keys unless the extract merged them. This page covers PARTNER/PRINCIPAL: $7,182,788, 13,239 contributions, and 2,896 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average partner/principal contribution?

Dividing $7,182,788 by 13,239 itemizations yields about $543 per contribution. Dividing by 2,896 donors yields about $2,480 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 5 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing partner/principal prove an equity stake?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify partnership agreements. Quote 13,239 contributions and 2,896 donor records with the $7,182,788 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.