PHILANTHROPIST as FEC employer text: $12.2 million

A self-description, not a foundation census

FEC forms store PHILANTHROPIST when that is what the filer typed. They do not apply NAICS 8132 for grantmaking. The $12,157,931 total is itemized individual gifts whose grouped employer text matches the word. It is not foundation grant outlays, not a 501(c)(3) PAC (those organizations have different political-activity rules), and not every major donor who wrote RETIRED, INVESTOR, or a family-office name instead.

People who typed INVESTOR, RETIRED, NOT EMPLOYED, or a foundation legal name sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into PHILANTHROPIST.

314 donors, 8,224 lines, $12.2 million

314 unique donors produced 8,224 PHILANTHROPIST contribution lines totaling $12,157,931. Dollars per unique person run high compared with wide payroll names that spread similar totals across thousands of donors. Receipts per donor run near 26. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Unitemized gifts never appear. Independent expenditures that lack this individual-employer string are outside the $12,157,931.

Wealth-status siblings

INVESTOR, RETIRED, NOT EMPLOYED, and HOMEMAKER are related self-descriptions with separate, often larger, totals. PHILANTHROPIST is this one word only. A combined “private wealth” recode must list every key and accept cross-receipt overlap.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside PHILANTHROPIST. Some donors pair it with SELF or NONE in the other box; those pairs are stored as typed.

Donor table

The PHILANTHROPIST donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. With 314 unique donors, individual lines are inspectable in a way 3,000-person firm rows are not. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer a foundation endowment, a donor-advised fund, or a motive from the status word.

Repeat names among 8,224 lines are expected. People who make charitable gifts but typed INVESTOR or RETIRED as employer are not in these 314 unless a receipt also carried PHILANTHROPIST.

PHILANTHROPIST’s 8,224 lines from 314 donors totaling $12,157,931 are a concentrated status word, not INVESTOR, RETIRED, NOT EMPLOYED, HOMEMAKER, or a foundation legal name. Unitemized gifts and Form 990 grant outlays stay out. The donor table is short enough to inspect. Occupation pages show titles beside PHILANTHROPIST. LobbyVault does not treat the word as a 501(c)(3) treasury. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not NAICS grantmaking.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $12,157,931, 8,224 contributions, 314 donors, top employer PHILANTHROPIST. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS.

Compare INVESTOR and RETIRED on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles next to this status word. Follow committees on the donor table for party and office. Form 990 files are a different dataset.

Keep PHILANTHROPIST’s $12,157,931, 8,224 contributions, and 314 donors on this status word. INVESTOR and RETIRED stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside PHILANTHROPIST. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not Form 990 grants and not NAICS 8132.

Status-word concentration versus INVESTOR and RETIRED

PHILANTHROPIST’s $12,157,931 from 314 donors and 8,224 lines is among the most concentrated status rows in this batch: fewer unique people than ACTOR’s 382, with dollars in the same neighborhood. INVESTOR and RETIRED are much larger sibling self-descriptions. NOT EMPLOYED and HOMEMAKER are additional status keys. A major donor who wrote a family-office or foundation legal name is in that organization row, not necessarily in the 314.

Unitemized gifts, state filings, Form 990 grant outlays, and independent expenditures that lack this individual-employer string are outside the $12,157,931. LobbyVault does not treat the word as a 501(c)(3) treasury. Receipts per donor run near 26. Repeat names among 8,224 lines are expected.

The donor table is narrow enough to inspect. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a donor-advised-fund inference. Occupation pages show titles beside PHILANTHROPIST. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault — $12,157,931, 8,224 contributions, 314 donors — self-reported form text, not NAICS 8132 grantmaking.

Questions

How much have PHILANTHROPIST-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $12,157,931 to the PHILANTHROPIST employer string, from 8,224 contributions and 314 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not foundation grants and not a NAICS grantmaking-sector total. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is this foundation political spending?

No. The $12,157,931 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to PHILANTHROPIST. It is not a 501(c)(3) treasury and not a Form 990. LobbyVault does not fold charity filings into this industry row. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this include everyone who listed INVESTOR or RETIRED?

No. INVESTOR and RETIRED are separate strings with their own pages. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text PHILANTHROPIST. The 314 donors are unique contributors in this string, not a Census of major givers. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Why so few donors for $12.2 million?

The rollup counts 314 unique people and 8,224 lines. Dollars are concentrated across a small unique-person set compared with wide payroll names. Repeat itemized gifts still raise the line count. The packet does not publish a mean gift. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.