How much have PUBLIC RELATIONS-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $5,309,080 to the PUBLIC RELATIONS employer string, from 16,971 contributions and 326 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a trade-association PAC and not a NAICS advertising-and-PR total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this a communications-agency PAC total?

No. PUBLIC RELATIONS is a self-reported phrase stored in the employer grouping. The $5,309,080 total is individual contributions whose text grouped to that phrase. Firm treasury and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include Edelman or other agency staff?

Only if the grouped employer text is PUBLIC RELATIONS. Agency legal names are separate keys if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the two-word phrase. Staff who typed COMMUNICATIONS or CONSULTANT sit in those other rows. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed PUBLIC RELATIONS?

The rollup counts 326 donors and 16,971 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count to about 52 lines per person. This is not a PRSA headcount. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

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PUBLIC RELATIONS money in federal elections

Contributors who listed PUBLIC RELATIONS on federal itemized receipts account for $5,309,080, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 16,971 contributions from 326 donors. PUBLIC RELATIONS is a two-word occupation-or-shop phrase as typed, not a NAICS advertising-and-PR total, not a trade-association PAC, and not every firm legal name such as EDELMAN or WEBER SHANDWICK. Unitemized gifts stay outside the $5,309,080.

Key figures

PUBLIC RELATIONS as FEC employer text totals $5,309,080 from 326 donors.
16,971 contribution lines sit under that two-word phrase.
Agency legal names are separate FEC keys if stored that way.
The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or association PAC total.

A shop phrase, not an agency census

FEC forms store PUBLIC RELATIONS when that is what the filer typed. They do not apply an advertising NAICS code. The $5,309,080 total is itemized individual gifts whose grouped employer text matches the two-word phrase. It is not billings, not a PRSA membership file, and not every staffer who typed a holding-company or boutique legal name instead.

People who typed PR, PUBLICIST, COMMUNICATIONS, or a specific agency name sit in other rows if stored that way. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into PUBLIC RELATIONS. The FEC field is not a census of communications firms. Occupation pages show titles stored beside the phrase.

326 donors and 16,971 lines

326 unique donors produced 16,971 PUBLIC RELATIONS contribution lines totaling $5,309,080. That is on the order of 52 itemized receipts per donor — a dense repeat pattern for a relatively small unique-person count. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among agency, in-house, and freelance communications jobs.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and association PAC filings are outside the $5,309,080 unless an individual receipt itself carries this phrase. Unitemized gifts never appear. Coverage is federal itemized individual receipts only.

Agency legal names stay separate

Holding-company and boutique employer strings are separate keys. Combining them with PUBLIC RELATIONS would mix a generic phrase with legal names. This page stays at $5,309,080 for PUBLIC RELATIONS only.

Occupation breakdowns list titles next to the phrase. CONSULTANT and COMMUNICATIONS as other keys still hold people who omitted PUBLIC RELATIONS. State filings are omitted from the $5,309,080.

Donor table

The PUBLIC RELATIONS donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer a client roster, a retainer, or a motive from the two-word phrase. The 326 unique-person count is not a headcount of U.S. PR practitioners.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the phrase. Repeat names among 16,971 lines from 326 people are expected. People who typed an agency legal name are not in these 326 unless a receipt also grouped to PUBLIC RELATIONS.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $5,309,080, 16,971 contributions, 326 donors, top employer PUBLIC RELATIONS. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare other industry keys on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles stored next to this phrase.

Keep PUBLIC RELATIONS’s $5,309,080, 16,971 contributions, and 326 donors on this two-word label. Agency legal names, PR as an abbreviation, unitemized gifts, and committee PAC documents stay on their own records. The donor table lists disclosed recipients without converting the string into a NAICS advertising total.

Phrase dollars versus agency PAC filings

PUBLIC RELATIONS as two words is the stored key behind $5,309,080. Agency legal names and the abbreviation PR, if stored, are other rows. Association PAC filings are other FEC documents. Unitemized gifts stay outside the 16,971 lines from 326 donors.

About 52 receipts per person is a dense repeat pattern for a small unique-person count. That density is a reading of itemized individual gifts, not a PRSA membership file and not agency billings. The packet does not split agency, in-house, and freelance communications jobs.

Occupation pages show consultant and communications titles stored beside the phrase. The industry index ranks boutique and holding-company strings separately. Follow the donor table for disclosed recipients. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to PUBLIC RELATIONS. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Keep PUBLIC RELATIONS’s 326 donors and 16,971 lines on the two-word phrase. Agency legal names remain other keys. The donor table lists disclosed recipients for the $5,309,080 only.

Questions

How much have PUBLIC RELATIONS-listed donors given federally?: LobbyVault attributes $5,309,080 to the PUBLIC RELATIONS employer string, from 16,971 contributions and 326 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a trade-association PAC and not a NAICS advertising-and-PR total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
Is this a communications-agency PAC total?: No. PUBLIC RELATIONS is a self-reported phrase stored in the employer grouping. The $5,309,080 total is individual contributions whose text grouped to that phrase. Firm treasury and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
Does this include Edelman or other agency staff?: Only if the grouped employer text is PUBLIC RELATIONS. Agency legal names are separate keys if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the two-word phrase. Staff who typed COMMUNICATIONS or CONSULTANT sit in those other rows. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
How many unique donors listed PUBLIC RELATIONS?: The rollup counts 326 donors and 16,971 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count to about 52 lines per person. This is not a PRSA headcount. Figures are limited to the FEC 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.