What private-equity occupation donors give in federal races

Few lines, large mean gift

$12,573,762, 6,643 itemizations, and 990 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $1,893. Mean dollars per donor record are about $12,701. Repeat giving is about 7 itemizations per donor record.

6,643 lines from 990 records is a concentrated pattern: fewer schedules than high-volume job titles that post similar headline dollars. The per-line mean of about $1,893 sits well above status labels that stack many small itemizations.

The packet has no fund-size, carry, or firm-name field. Means are not medians. A few large itemizations can dominate the average.

The phrase is not a PE-firm census

The FEC record does not verify that the donor is a partner, associate, or operations staffer at a private-equity firm. Consultants, retirees, and people describing an investment style can all type PRIVATE EQUITY. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $12,573,762, 6,643 contributions, and 990 donors. INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, GENERAL PARTNER, and VENTURE CAPITAL remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and overlapping finance strings

990 donor records used PRIVATE EQUITY on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed PRIVATE EQUITY on some gifts and INVESTOR on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the finance phrase.

Industry pages already group employers

Industry pages group employers. PRIVATE EQUITY as occupation is the donor’s job-field text, not the employer-industry code. Adding $12,573,762 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the PRIVATE EQUITY occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the phrase next to other finance strings.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals PRIVATE EQUITY, dollars equal $12,573,762, contributions equal 6,643, donors equal 990, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Quote the three facts together so the concentrated mean is visible next to the headline dollars.

Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact beyond $12,573,762, 6,643 contributions, and 990 donors. Neighboring finance phrases stay on their own pages unless the extract merged them into PRIVATE EQUITY.

Reading PRIVATE EQUITY as a field label

PRIVATE EQUITY in this extract is $12,573,762 on 6,643 itemizations from 990 donor records, or $12.6 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. People who type investor, general partner, or venture capital may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact PRIVATE EQUITY key is in $12,573,762.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $1,893 per contribution and about $12,701 per donor record, with roughly 7 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining PRIVATE EQUITY with neighboring finance strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 990 donor records on 6,643 lines is a concentrated field-label pool, not a fund-manager census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $12,573,762. A person who listed PRIVATE EQUITY on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals PRIVATE EQUITY, dollars equal $12,573,762, contributions equal 6,643, donors equal 990. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live PRIVATE EQUITY occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($12.6 million) are the same headline amount as $12,573,762, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 6,643 contributions and 990 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the concentrated field-label pattern rather than a fund-manager census. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not an SEC registration. A citation that stays inside the packet names PRIVATE EQUITY, $12,573,762, 6,643, and 990 together.

Questions

How much have private-equity occupation donors given in FEC data?

The PRIVATE EQUITY occupation string is attached to $12,573,762 across 6,643 contributions and 990 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of private-equity firms. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does PRIVATE EQUITY include venture capital filings?

Only if the bulk extract normalized that phrase to PRIVATE EQUITY. Otherwise VENTURE CAPITAL is a separate key. This page covers PRIVATE EQUITY: $12,573,762, 6,643 contributions, and 990 donors. Check the occupations index for neighboring finance strings. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average private-equity occupation contribution?

Dividing $12,573,762 by 6,643 itemizations yields about $1,893 per contribution. Dividing by 990 donors yields about $12,701 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 7 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing private equity prove the donor works at a PE firm?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify firm, title, or assets under management. Quote 6,643 contributions and 990 donor records with the $12,573,762 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.