STUDENT as an FEC label: $181.2M itemized

A school-status word in the employer column

FEC forms ask for employer. Many people without a payroll job type STUDENT. Others type a university name, which becomes a different industry key. LobbyVault's $181.2M is only the STUDENT string. It is not 'higher education as a NAICS industry' and not a campus PAC.

Committees still itemize these receipts under the same rules as any other individual gift. The label does not create a youth-vote statistic. Age is not in this industry rollup.

10,709 donors and a $181.2M headline

10,709 donors produced 268,780 STUDENT contribution lines. Relative to NOT EMPLOYED's millions of lines, this is a tighter list. Dollars can still concentrate if a smaller set of names gives repeatedly or in large itemized amounts. The packet does not publish a mean gift, so this page does not invent one.

Party share is not part of the industry total. Recipient committees live on the donor table.

Universities as employers are a different row

A donor who listed Harvard, a state flagship, or 'university' as employer will not appear in the $181.2M STUDENT total unless the grouped label is STUDENT. Faculty and staff who typed the school name are elsewhere. That split is a filing-text split, not a judgment about who is 'really' a student.

Occupation pages show mixed pairs: employer STUDENT, occupation STUDENT, or employer NOT EMPLOYED with occupation STUDENT. Those mixed rows may land in different industry keys depending on harvest grouping. IPEDS enrollment counts and this FEC row do not match. The $181.2M total is 10,709 donors and 268,780 lines tagged STUDENT. A university typed as employer is a different key. Faculty and staff who typed the school are not students in this table unless the grouped label is STUDENT.

Reading the donor table

The STUDENT donor table lists disclosed names and amounts. A large gift is a public contribution. It does not prove the donor is currently enrolled, and it does not prove a parent made the gift in the student's name — FEC liability sits on the named contributor.

If a row looks like a bundler or a one-time maximum, follow the committee page. The industry headline is only the label sum. Age and class year are absent. A 40-year-old graduate student and an undergraduate can share the word. Parent gifts listed in a child's name would still name the contributor on the form; this page does not reassign them.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $181.2M, 268,780 contributions, 10,709 donors, top employer STUDENT. Unitemized and non-federal activity are omitted.

LobbyVault does not score this cluster as a generation or a campus movement. Open the table for names and committees. NOT EMPLOYED software checkboxes sometimes sit next to student on web forms. Mixed pairings show up on occupation pages. Harvest still keys this industry row on STUDENT for the $181.2M figure.

Enrollment, parents, and university employers

The $181.2M STUDENT total is not an enrollment census. The 10,709 donor count is unique itemized contributors under this string, and the 268,780 contribution lines are their disclosed gifts. Unitemized campus small-dollar programs may never appear. A parent who listed their own employer is not in this row. A student who listed a university as employer rather than STUDENT harvested to the school name. LobbyVault does not reassign gifts among relatives.

Age is absent from this industry rollup. Party share is absent. Occupation pages may pair STUDENT with NOT EMPLOYED on the other field; grouping still follows the industry key. Open the STUDENT donor table for names and committees. The label is self-reported FEC text, not a NAICS education sector, sourced from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Campus PACs and university foundations are other entities. Cite $181.2M as individual STUDENT-string receipts from FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS education sector and not an enrollment census. Enrollment IPEDS tables will not reproduce the 10,709 STUDENT donors. The $181.2M total and 268,780 lines are the typed word. University-as-employer receipts harvested to school-name keys. Faculty who typed the school are not in this row unless the grouped label is STUDENT. Age and class year are absent. Parent-versus-student identity follows the named contributor on the form; this page does not reassign gifts. NOT EMPLOYED checkboxes on web forms create mixed pairings visible on occupation pages. Campus PACs are other entities. Unitemized gifts and state races are omitted. Cite $181.2M from FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS education sector.

Questions

How much have STUDENT donors given in federal elections?

LobbyVault's FEC.gov rollup attributes $181.2M to the STUDENT string, from 268,780 contributions and 10,709 donors. University-as-employer rows are separate. The label is not a NAICS education sector. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is this all college students in the United States?

No. It is the set of itemized receipts whose grouped FEC text is STUDENT. Enrollment data live in other agencies. People who typed a school name are in other industry rows. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Why are there only 10,709 donors but $181.2M?

The donor count is 10,709 unique contributors under this label; the contribution count is 268,780 lines. Repeat giving and large itemized gifts can produce a high dollar total on a modest unique-donor list. The packet does not publish an average.

Does STUDENT include parents giving for a child?

FEC records name the contributor. If the form says STUDENT, that is the stored occupation/employer text for that named person. This page does not reassign gifts to relatives. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.