How much have real estate investor filers given in federal elections?

The REAL ESTATE INVESTOR industry cluster totals $4,816,298 in itemized FEC contributions, from 12,776 contributions and 380 donors. The label is the text filers wrote, not a NAICS real-estate code and not a trade-association total. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Is REAL ESTATE INVESTOR an occupation or an industry?

On FEC.gov it is uncoded text in employer or occupation. LobbyVault’s industry index still ranks it because ingest treats that string as an industry key. Top employer in the facts is the same phrase. Occupation breakdowns remain the title-oriented companion index.

How many unique donors used this label?

LobbyVault counts 380 donors producing 12,776 contributions. That unique-donor figure is people whose disclosed text matched REAL ESTATE INVESTOR, not a count of licensed investors nationwide. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Does this include brokerage-brand employers?

Only rows keyed to REAL ESTATE INVESTOR. Filers who listed a brand as employer sit in that brand’s industry slug. This page’s $4,816,298 is the investor-phrase cluster only. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

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Real estate investor money in federal elections

Filers who listed REAL ESTATE INVESTOR as employer or occupation on federal reports account for $4,816,298 in itemized receipts on FEC.gov. The cluster holds 12,776 contributions and 380 donors. Mean gift size is about $377; mean per donor is about $12,674. The phrase is a self-description on an FEC form, not a NAICS real-estate sector and not a roster of licensed brokers.

Key figures

REAL ESTATE INVESTOR FEC strings sum to $4,816,298.
12,776 contributions came from 380 donors.
About $377 per gift and $12,674 per donor on a simple mean.
The label is self-reported text, not NAICS.
Brokerage-brand strings are separate industry pages.

Self-description, not a license file

REAL ESTATE INVESTOR is language contributors chose. Some are full-time principals; others use the phrase as a shorthand next to retired, homemaker, or a company name in the other box. LobbyVault’s industry key here is that exact phrase, and top employer matches it—so many rows put the same words in the field the ingest treated as industry.

Brokerage brands (Coldwell Banker and others) and titles such as realtor sit on other slugs. A person who wrote a firm name as employer and REAL ESTATE INVESTOR as occupation may appear in a firm cluster, this cluster, or both depending on which field keyed the industry rollup. Occupation breakdowns are the parallel view.

$4,816,298 across 12,776 gifts

Three hundred eighty donors produced 12,776 contributions, about 34 itemized transactions per person. $4,816,298 ÷ 12,776 ≈ $377 per gift. $4,816,298 ÷ 380 ≈ $12,674 per donor. Those means sit above many payroll-withholding clusters and below the sparsest large-check professional strings.

The packet does not identify property type, geography, or whether the filer was a syndicating sponsor versus a passive limited partner. FEC forms do not collect those facts. The public record is the string plus itemized dollars.

Limits of 380 unique donors

Unique-donor matching can merge similar names or split one person who used different spellings. 380 is the LobbyVault count for this string, not a national census of real-estate investors. People who wrote “investor,” “real estate,” or a LLC name are other keys.

Cycle years are not in the facts. This guide does not assign $4,816,298 to a single election.

What not to read into the total

The total is not NAR membership, not a REIT political budget, and not lobbying spend. It is $4,816,298 in itemized federal receipts tagged to REAL ESTATE INVESTOR on FEC.gov as aggregated by LobbyVault.

Open the REAL ESTATE INVESTOR donor table for names. Compare peer strings under all industries. Use occupation breakdowns for adjacent titles.

Source

Industry REAL ESTATE INVESTOR; $4,816,298; 12,776 contributions; 380 donors; top employer REAL ESTATE INVESTOR. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Open the REAL ESTATE INVESTOR donor table for the 380 unique donors and 12,776 itemized contributions that sum to $4,816,298. Unitemized receipts are omitted. Brokerage-brand strings, realtor titles, and LLC names are other slugs. Occupation breakdowns list related titles. All industries lists brand and investor-adjacent strings. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Mean gift size about $377 and about 34 itemized gifts per person are arithmetic on the packet. Property type, geography, and sponsor versus limited-partner status are not on the FEC employer/occupation fields. This guide does not treat $4,816,298 as NAR membership giving or as a REIT political budget. The packet has no cycle year. Refunds on FEC.gov can move the snapshot. Per-donor mean about $12,674 uses total divided by 380 people. Combining unknown realtor strings would invent a sector total. Cite this self-description string only.

Self-description receipts and omitted real-estate keys

REAL ESTATE INVESTOR keyed $4,816,298 from 12,776 contributions and 380 donors. Mean gift size about $377 and about 34 itemized gifts per person are arithmetic on the packet. Unitemized receipts are omitted. Brokerage-brand strings, realtor titles, and LLC names are other slugs. The 380 unique donors are matching text, not a national census of investors. Property type, geography, and sponsor versus limited-partner status are not on the FEC employer/occupation fields. Top employer matches REAL ESTATE INVESTOR, so many filers put the phrase in the employer box.

Open the REAL ESTATE INVESTOR donor table for names and committees. All industries lists brand and investor-adjacent strings. Occupation breakdowns list related titles. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. This guide does not treat $4,816,298 as NAR membership giving or as a REIT political budget. The packet has no cycle year. Refunds on FEC.gov can move the snapshot. The four facts stay $4,816,298, 12,776 contributions, 380 donors, and top employer REAL ESTATE INVESTOR. Combining unknown realtor strings would invent a sector total.

Questions

How much have real estate investor filers given in federal elections?: The REAL ESTATE INVESTOR industry cluster totals $4,816,298 in itemized FEC contributions, from 12,776 contributions and 380 donors. The label is the text filers wrote, not a NAICS real-estate code and not a trade-association total. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
Is REAL ESTATE INVESTOR an occupation or an industry?: On FEC.gov it is uncoded text in employer or occupation. LobbyVault’s industry index still ranks it because ingest treats that string as an industry key. Top employer in the facts is the same phrase. Occupation breakdowns remain the title-oriented companion index.
How many unique donors used this label?: LobbyVault counts 380 donors producing 12,776 contributions. That unique-donor figure is people whose disclosed text matched REAL ESTATE INVESTOR, not a count of licensed investors nationwide. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
Does this include brokerage-brand employers?: Only rows keyed to REAL ESTATE INVESTOR. Filers who listed a brand as employer sit in that brand’s industry slug. This page’s $4,816,298 is the investor-phrase cluster only. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

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