REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER as FEC employer text: $22.0 million

A three-word title, not a development-sector census

FEC forms store whatever filers type in the employer box. REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER is that phrase. The $22,018,134 total is itemized individual gifts whose grouped employer text matches it. It is not square footage under construction, not a land-bank ledger, and not every principal who donated while listing a project LLC instead of the job title.

People who typed REAL ESTATE, REALTOR, DEVELOPER, ARCHITECT, or a company legal name sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER. Software developers who typed only DEVELOPER are in that shorter row, not this three-word cluster. The FEC file has no license flag and no project-type flag; a person who builds apartments and a person who assembles land for sale can share the same stored phrase if they typed it.

1,082 donors, 34,409 lines, $22.0 million

1,082 unique donors produced 34,409 REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER contribution lines totaling $22,018,134. Unique-person count is small beside the dollar total: dollars per donor run high compared with wide payroll names that spread similar dollars across thousands of people. Receipts per donor also run high relative to the unique-person count. 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 by groups that do not carry this individual-employer string are outside the $22,018,134. Trade-association PACs that list a committee name, not this title, are other rows. Size here is a filing-frequency fact: 1,082 people produced 34,409 itemized lines totaling $22,018,134, not a Census of establishments in construction or real estate.

REALTOR, REAL ESTATE, and DEVELOPER

REALTOR is a one-word license-style key. REAL ESTATE is a two-word sector-style key. DEVELOPER is a one-word title that also captures software and product roles. Combining any of them with REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER would mix stored strings and would still miss people who typed a project LLC. This page stays at $22,018,134 for the three-word phrase only.

Occupation pages show the companion field stored beside REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER. Some receipts may list the phrase in both boxes; others may pair it with SELF or a company. Those pairs are stored as typed. A person can appear as REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER one cycle and as a named LLC the next. Readers who arrived from a firm-name search should still open this title table, because some principals type the three-word credential instead of the project company; the reverse is also true.

Donor table

The REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. With 1,082 unique donors, individual lines are inspectable in a way wide payroll firm rows are not. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer a zoning vote, a building permit, or a motive from the title.

Repeat names among 34,409 lines are expected. People who develop property but typed a partnership or fund as employer are not in these 1,082 unless a receipt also carried the REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER grouping. Read the employer field on the line before writing a construction-sector story.

What the string does not certify

The FEC field is not a state real-estate license, not a NAHB membership file, and not a Census of establishments in construction or real estate. Unitemized gifts, state-only filings, and committee disbursements that lack this individual-employer string stay outside the $22,018,134.

A principal who listed an LLC as employer is in that LLC row. A broker who typed REALTOR is in the REALTOR row. ARCHITECT and CONTRACTOR remain other built-environment titles. This rollup will not become a licensed-developer subset. Zoning hearings, building permits, and land-use votes generate political questions that this $22,018,134 string total does not answer; the itemized gift is the only fact on the line.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $22,018,134, 34,409 contributions, 1,082 donors, top employer REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not a NAICS construction or real-estate sector.

Compare REAL ESTATE, REALTOR, and DEVELOPER on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles stored next to this phrase. Named project companies, if typed, are other employer keys. Keep REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER’s $22,018,134, 34,409 contributions, and 1,082 donors on this three-word string. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a homebuilder PAC and not a NAICS development total.

Questions

How much have REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $22,018,134 to the REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER employer string, from 34,409 contributions and 1,082 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a NAICS construction or real-estate total and not a homebuilder PAC. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this the same as REALTOR or REAL ESTATE?

No. REALTOR, REAL ESTATE, and the one-word DEVELOPER are separate grouped strings. The $22,018,134 total is only receipts whose employer text grouped to REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER. LobbyVault does not merge those titles into one property sector. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include software developers?

Only if they typed the three-word phrase REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER. People who typed DEVELOPER alone sit in that shorter row, which also captures software titles. This $22,018,134 cluster is the longer property-style string. Check employer text on each receipt. Figures are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

How many unique real-estate-developer donors are listed?

The rollup counts 1,082 donors and 34,409 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a license-board census or a NAHB headcount. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.