What private-investor occupation donors give in federal races

Concentrated status phrase, four-figure mean gift

$10,334,178, 7,639 itemizations, and 954 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $1,353. Mean dollars per donor record are about $10,833. Repeat giving is about 8 itemizations per donor record.

7,639 lines from 954 records is a concentrated status stack: fewer schedules than high-volume job titles at similar dollars. The $1,353 per-line mean sits with other investor-style phrases, not with high-repeat status keys that post many small gifts.

The packet has no AUM field, no accredited-investor flag, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can dominate the average.

PRIVATE INVESTOR is not INVESTOR

The FEC record does not verify that the donor invests privately or holds a securities license. Retirees, family-office staff, and people using INVESTOR alone sit on other keys unless the extract merged them. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $10,334,178, 7,639 contributions, and 954 donors. INVESTOR, PRIVATE EQUITY, and INVESTMENTS remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and overlapping investor strings

954 donor records used PRIVATE INVESTOR on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed PRIVATE INVESTOR 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 status phrase.

Industry pages group employers, not this status

Industry pages group employers. PRIVATE INVESTOR as occupation is the donor’s status text, not an employer-industry code. Adding $10,334,178 to an industry total double-counts.

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

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals PRIVATE INVESTOR, dollars equal $10,334,178, contributions equal 7,639, donors equal 954, 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 $10,334,178, 7,639 contributions, and 954 donors. The shorter INVESTOR key stays on its own page unless the extract merged it into PRIVATE INVESTOR.

Reading PRIVATE INVESTOR next to the shorter INVESTOR key

PRIVATE INVESTOR in this extract is $10,334,178 on 7,639 itemizations from 954 donor records, or $10.3 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, retired, or private equity may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact PRIVATE INVESTOR key is in $10,334,178.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $1,353 per contribution and about $10,833 per donor record, with roughly 8 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining PRIVATE INVESTOR with INVESTOR without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 954 donor records on 7,639 lines is a concentrated status pool, not an accredited-investor census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $10,334,178. A person who listed PRIVATE INVESTOR 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 INVESTOR, dollars equal $10,334,178, contributions equal 7,639, donors equal 954. 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 INVESTOR occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($10.3 million) are the same headline amount as $10,334,178, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 7,639 contributions and 954 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the concentrated status phrase separately from INVESTOR. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not an accredited-investor flag. A citation that stays inside the packet names PRIVATE INVESTOR, $10,334,178, 7,639, and 954 together.

Questions

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

The PRIVATE INVESTOR occupation string is attached to $10,334,178 across 7,639 contributions and 954 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of accredited investors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does PRIVATE INVESTOR include the shorter INVESTOR key?

Only if the bulk extract normalized INVESTOR to this phrase. Otherwise INVESTOR is a separate key. This page covers PRIVATE INVESTOR: $10,334,178, 7,639 contributions, and 954 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average private-investor contribution?

Dividing $10,334,178 by 7,639 itemizations yields about $1,353 per contribution. Dividing by 954 donors yields about $10,833 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 8 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing private investor prove the donor manages a family office?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify assets or entity form. Quote 7,639 contributions and 954 donor records with the $10,334,178 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.