How much have PRESIDENT-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $21,289,165 to the PRESIDENT employer string, from 28,455 contributions and 2,100 donors. These are itemized individual receipts whose grouped text is PRESIDENT, not White House appropriations and not a NAICS public-administration total. Unitemized and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this mean donations by the U.S. president?

No. PRESIDENT is self-reported employer or occupation text. Corporate, nonprofit, union, and other presidents can generate the same word. The 2,100 donors and $21,289,165 total are that text cluster, not an official-acts ledger for any one officeholder. 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 the same as EXECUTIVE in FEC data?

No. EXECUTIVE is a separate grouped string with its own page. A receipt stamped PRESIDENT is counted only in the $21,289,165 here. LobbyVault does not recode titles into a single officer category. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

How many unique donors listed PRESIDENT?

The rollup counts 2,100 donors and 28,455 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an employee headcount of every organization that uses the title. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

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PRESIDENT on FEC employer lines: $21.3 million

Contributors who listed PRESIDENT on federal itemized receipts account for $21,289,165, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 28,455 contributions from 2,100 donors. PRESIDENT is the literal employer/occupation string stored on those schedules. It is not a tally of White House budgets, not a NAICS public-administration code, and not a count of every person who has ever held a presidency of a company, a union, a university, or a country.

Key figures

PRESIDENT as FEC employer text totals $21,289,165 from 2,100 donors.
28,455 contribution lines sit under that string.
The word is self-reported form text, not a White House or NAICS total.
EXECUTIVE and named-company rows are separate keys.

A job-title word in the industry ranking

FEC Schedule A asks for employer and occupation. Many filers put PRESIDENT in one of those boxes. LobbyVault’s industry ranking then treats that word like every other grouped string — ATTORNEY, MICROSOFT, RETIRED — and sums the attached itemized gifts. The $21,289,165 figure is that sum. It is not the official budget of the Executive Office of the President, and it is not corporate treasury spending by firms whose officers use the title.

People who wrote CEO, EXECUTIVE, CHAIRMAN, or a company name without the title sit in other rows. A bank president who typed the bank’s legal name instead of PRESIDENT is not in this $21,289,165. The public record stores the text as typed, not an HR org chart.

2,100 donors, 28,455 receipts

2,100 unique donors produced 28,455 PRESIDENT contribution lines totaling $21,289,165. That is a moderate repeat rate compared with high-volume payroll names that generate tens of receipts per person. The packet does not break out which of those donors meant a corporate office, a nonprofit board, or some other presidency, and this page does not invent that split.

Party, office, and cycle are not on the industry headline. Follow recipient committees on the donor table for those dimensions. Independent expenditures and PAC filings that do not carry this individual-employer string are outside the $21,289,165.

How to read the donor table

The PRESIDENT donor table lists disclosed contributors attached to this string. A large line is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer that the donor is the sitting U.S. president, a former president, or a corporate officer with procurement influence. The FEC field is self-reported text.

Occupation pages can show a second field next to the same people — for example an occupation of ATTORNEY with an employer of PRESIDENT, or the reverse. Those combinations are stored as typed. They are not recoded into EXECUTIVE or into a named company.

Sibling titles and company names

EXECUTIVE, BUSINESS OWNER, ENTREPRENEUR, and named firms such as GOLDMAN SACHS are separate keys. Combining them with PRESIDENT would double-count only if the same receipt appeared in two grouped strings; LobbyVault’s industry pages keep each grouped string on its own total. The $21,289,165 here is PRESIDENT only.

Abbreviations (PRES, PREZ) and longer phrases (PRESIDENT/CEO) would be other keys if donors typed them that way. This page does not search for those variants. What remains is 2,100 donors, 28,455 lines, and $21,289,165 under the exact grouped label PRESIDENT.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $21,289,165, 28,455 contributions, 2,100 donors, top employer PRESIDENT. Unitemized gifts and non-federal activity are omitted. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS.

Use the industry index to compare other title-words and the occupation index to see job titles stored in the companion field. Neither view is a directory of elected presidents.

What the $21,289,165 cluster does not contain

The PRESIDENT total of $21,289,165 is itemized individual receipts only. Unitemized gifts, non-federal filings, and committee PAC documents that do not carry this employer/occupation string are outside the figure. So is any official appropriation for the Executive Office of the President. The 28,455 lines and 2,100 donors describe a title-word cluster, not a White House personnel roster and not a count of every corporate officer who used CEO or CHAIRMAN instead.

Repeat gifts explain why 28,455 exceeds 2,100. A person can give to several committees, or several times to one committee, and remain one donor in the unique count. LobbyVault does not publish party percentages on the industry headline. Recipient committees on the PRESIDENT donor table are the disclosed destinations. Follow those committees for office, party, and cycle. This page does not invent those cuts because they are not in the packet facts.

EXECUTIVE, BUSINESS OWNER, ENTREPRENEUR, and named-company rows such as GOLDMAN SACHS remain separate keys. Abbreviations (PRES) and longer stamps (PRESIDENT/CEO) would be other keys if stored that way. Occupation pages show the companion field beside PRESIDENT. The FEC field is self-reported text, not an org chart and not NAICS public administration. Use the industry index to compare other title-words. Use occupation breakdowns for job titles stored next to this string. Cite $21,289,165, 28,455 contributions, and 2,100 donors from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Questions

How much have PRESIDENT-listed donors given federally?: LobbyVault attributes $21,289,165 to the PRESIDENT employer string, from 28,455 contributions and 2,100 donors. These are itemized individual receipts whose grouped text is PRESIDENT, not White House appropriations and not a NAICS public-administration total. Unitemized and non-federal filings are omitted.
Does this mean donations by the U.S. president?: No. PRESIDENT is self-reported employer or occupation text. Corporate, nonprofit, union, and other presidents can generate the same word. The 2,100 donors and $21,289,165 total are that text cluster, not an official-acts ledger for any one officeholder. 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 the same as EXECUTIVE in FEC data?: No. EXECUTIVE is a separate grouped string with its own page. A receipt stamped PRESIDENT is counted only in the $21,289,165 here. LobbyVault does not recode titles into a single officer category. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.
How many unique donors listed PRESIDENT?: The rollup counts 2,100 donors and 28,455 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an employee headcount of every organization that uses the title. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.