What RESEARCHER donors give in federal races

Modest pool, high line count

$13,109,440 is the occupation-level dollar total. 65,981 is the itemization count. 1,808 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $199. Mean dollars per donor record are about $7,251. Repeat giving is about 36 itemizations per donor record.

65,981 lines from 1,808 records is a high-repeat pattern for a four-digit donor pool. The per-line mean of about $199 sits with other professional-title keys that generate many modest itemizations.

These means are not typical-check estimates and not a measure of grant income allocated to politics. The packet has no academic-versus-industry split and no gift-size distribution.

RESEARCHER is not SCIENTIST

SCIENTIST, PROFESSOR, ECONOMIST, and ANALYST are neighboring occupation keys. This page cites only RESEARCHER: $13,109,440, 65,981 contributions, and 1,808 donors. Those other strings stay outside the total unless the bulk extract normalized them here.

The FEC does not verify publications, lab appointments, or PhD records. Market researchers, academic researchers, and people who used the title loosely can all appear. Occupation is the donor’s word on that line.

What the dollars do not measure

$13,109,440 is not a university PAC total and not an NIH-grant census. Industry pages group employers. A researcher at a university and a researcher at a firm share this occupation string if they typed RESEARCHER.

Party is not stored in the occupation column. Open the RESEARCHER occupation page for recipient rows. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $13.1 million.

Using the hub

Cite $13,109,440, 65,981 contributions, and 1,808 donors together. A sentence that shows only the dollars hides that the money arrived in 65,981 pieces. Use the occupations index to compare RESEARCHER with SCIENTIST without merging them.

Unitemized receipts are omitted. Harvested facts have no cycle year. Live filters may change displayed sums. Source: Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Limits

1,808 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Extra words (senior researcher, retired researcher) create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to RESEARCHER.

Do not treat about 36 itemizations per donor record as a typical giving cadence for all researchers. It is an arithmetic ratio on this exact string.

Professional title without a publication match

RESEARCHER in this extract is $13,109,440 on 65,981 itemizations from 1,808 donor records. About 36 itemizations per donor record is a high repeat rate. Mean line size is about $199; mean dollars per donor record are about $7,251. SCIENTIST, PROFESSOR, and ECONOMIST remain other hubs.

Industry pages will not equal $13,109,440. Degree and publication status are not verified. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals RESEARCHER, dollars equal $13,109,440, contributions equal 65,981, donors equal 1,808. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column. Compact millions ($13.1 million) are the same headline amount as $13,109,440, rounded to one decimal place.

65,981 itemizations from 1,808 records is a high-repeat pattern for a four-digit donor pool. Senior researcher and retired researcher create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to RESEARCHER. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Lab and university appointments are not matched. Harvested facts have no cycle year.

1,808 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Live hub filters may change displayed sums; this file restates harvested packet facts only. Use the occupations index to compare RESEARCHER with SCIENTIST without merging them. Quote the exact string, then $13,109,440, 65,981 contributions, and 1,808 donors, and stop.

Academic and industry researchers share RESEARCHER if they typed that noun. 65,981 itemizations from 1,808 donor records produced $13,109,440. About 36 itemizations per donor record is a high repeat rate. SCIENTIST and PROFESSOR stay outside. Publications are not verified. Cite $13,109,440 with both counts. Exact-string matching is the method.

Publication lists are not in the packet. 1,808 donor records is not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Restate the citation as occupation equals RESEARCHER, dollars equal $13,109,440, contributions equal 65,981, donors equal 1,808.

Research associate hybrids stay outside $13,109,440 unless they normalized to RESEARCHER. Open the live occupation hub for recipient rows. Compact millions ($13.1 million) match the dollar total rounded to one decimal place.

Questions

How much have RESEARCHER donors given in FEC records?

Occupation RESEARCHER is attached to $13,109,440 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 65,981 contributions and 1,808 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a census of published researchers. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is SCIENTIST included in RESEARCHER?

No. SCIENTIST is a separate occupation string. This page covers RESEARCHER only: $13,109,440, 65,981 contributions, and 1,808 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters.

Why are there so many RESEARCHER contributions?

65,981 itemizations from 1,808 donors implies about 36 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $199. The packet does not split causes. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing RESEARCHER prove academic affiliation?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify lab or university appointments. Quote 65,981 contributions and 1,808 donor records with the $13,109,440 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.