What small-business-owner donors give in federal races

High-repeat owner phrase, a $220 mean

$10,278,471, 46,721 itemizations, and 2,267 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $220. Mean dollars per donor record are about $4,534. Repeat giving is about 21 itemizations per donor record.

46,721 lines from 2,267 records is a high-repeat owner-title stack. The $220 per-line mean is arithmetic on that volume, not a typical small-firm profit redirected to politics.

The packet has no employee-count field, no NAICS code, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average while most lines remain smaller.

SMALL BUSINESS OWNER is not BUSINESS OWNER

The FEC record does not verify firm size, ownership share, or legal form. People who typed OWNER or BUSINESS OWNER sit on other keys unless the extract merged them. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $10,278,471, 46,721 contributions, and 2,267 donors. BUSINESS OWNER, OWNER, and ENTREPRENEUR remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and overlapping owner titles

2,267 donor records used SMALL BUSINESS OWNER on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed SMALL BUSINESS OWNER on some gifts and OWNER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the owner phrase.

Industry pages already group employers

Industry pages group employers. SMALL BUSINESS OWNER as occupation is the donor’s status text, not the employer-industry code. Adding $10,278,471 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the SMALL BUSINESS OWNER occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the phrase next to OWNER and BUSINESS OWNER.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, dollars equal $10,278,471, contributions equal 46,721, donors equal 2,267, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Quote the three facts together so the high-repeat mean is visible next to the headline dollars.

Reading the three-word owner phrase next to shorter owner keys

SMALL BUSINESS OWNER in this extract is $10,278,471 on 46,721 itemizations from 2,267 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 owner, business owner, or entrepreneur may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact SMALL BUSINESS OWNER key is in $10,278,471.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $220 per contribution and about $4,534 per donor record, with roughly 21 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining SMALL BUSINESS OWNER with BUSINESS OWNER without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 2,267 donor records on 46,721 lines is a high-repeat owner pool, not an SBA-size census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $10,278,471. A person who listed SMALL BUSINESS OWNER 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 SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, dollars equal $10,278,471, contributions equal 46,721, donors equal 2,267. 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 SMALL BUSINESS OWNER occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($10.3 million) are the same headline amount as $10,278,471, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 46,721 contributions and 2,267 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the high-repeat owner phrase separately from BUSINESS OWNER. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not an SBA size class. A citation that stays inside the packet names SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, $10,278,471, 46,721, and 2,267 together.

Questions

How much have small-business-owner donors given in FEC data?

The SMALL BUSINESS OWNER occupation string is attached to $10,278,471 across 46,721 contributions and 2,267 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of SBA-defined small firms. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does SMALL BUSINESS OWNER include BUSINESS OWNER filings?

Only if the bulk extract normalized that phrase here. Otherwise BUSINESS OWNER is a separate key. This page covers SMALL BUSINESS OWNER: $10,278,471, 46,721 contributions, and 2,267 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average small-business-owner contribution?

Dividing $10,278,471 by 46,721 itemizations yields about $220 per contribution. Dividing by 2,267 donors yields about $4,534 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 21 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing small business owner prove firm size?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify employee count or revenue. Quote 46,721 contributions and 2,267 donor records with the $10,278,471 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.