TEACHER as FEC employer text: $10.2 million

A job title where a district name usually goes

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. Many filers type TEACHER instead of a school district, university, or private school. The $10,159,471 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not NEA or AFT PAC spending, not state pension payroll, and not a NAICS 6111 rollup of elementary and secondary schools.

People who typed a named district, PROFESSOR, STUDENT, or UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into TEACHER. The FEC field records stored text, not a certification roster.

1,104 donors and 62,810 lines

1,104 unique donors produced 62,810 TEACHER contribution lines totaling $10,159,471. That is on the order of 57 itemized receipts per donor — among the higher paperwork volumes in this dollar band, closer to payroll-style clusters than to a few large gifts. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and union PAC filings are outside the $10,159,471 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 62,810 lines are expected.

University strings are not this title

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, and STANFORD UNIVERSITY are employer-name keys for people who typed those institutions. Combining them with TEACHER would mix a generic title with named campuses. This page stays at $10,159,471 for TEACHER only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside TEACHER — educator, retired, self-employed — as typed. STUDENT remains a separate key. A donor who listed a specific public-school district is not in these 1,104 people unless the receipt grouped to TEACHER.

Donor table without curriculum inference

The TEACHER donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a curriculum fight, a pension bill, or a motive to that line. Retired teachers who still type TEACHER share the string with current classroom staff.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This guide does not assign a partisan percentage to the title. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $10,159,471, 62,810 contributions, 1,104 donors, top employer TEACHER. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Unitemized gifts, state races, and union PACs are omitted.

Compare named-university rows on the industry index. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside TEACHER. Cite $10,159,471 from FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS schools table.

District names and PROFESSOR remain other keys

TEACHER as a job title is not a named school district, not PROFESSOR, and not UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Those strings sit on other keys. The $10,159,471 total, 62,810 contribution lines, and 1,104 donors describe this one-word title only. STUDENT remains a separate key. Union PAC filings stay outside the industry headline.

Unitemized gifts, state races, and NAICS 6111 school payroll stay outside the $10,159,471. Occupation pages show titles beside TEACHER. Retired teachers who still type the word remain in the 1,104. The FEC field is not a certification roster. Repeat names among 62,810 lines are expected at about 57 receipts per donor.

Open the TEACHER donor table for disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a curriculum or pension-bill inference. Cite $10,159,471, 62,810 contributions, and 1,104 donors from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Do not add named universities to this title and call the sum an education industry.

Researchers who want an education recode must list named districts, PROFESSOR, STUDENT, and UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA as separate additions. The $10,159,471 figure does not absorb those rows. It stays on TEACHER as 1,104 donors and 62,810 lines. Union PAC filings remain other FEC categories. Follow recipient committees on the TEACHER donor table. Party share is not computed on the industry headline. Repeat gifts explain the high line count. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, self-reported employer text, not NAICS 6111 and not a certification roster.

Questions

How much have TEACHER-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $10,159,471 to the TEACHER employer string, from 62,810 contributions and 1,104 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a teachers-union PAC and not a NAICS schools total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from that figure. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is this NEA or AFT political spending?

No. The $10,159,471 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to TEACHER. Union PAC filings are other FEC categories. Named school districts and universities sit in other employer keys. Figures here are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include University of California employees?

Only if the receipt grouped to TEACHER. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA is a separate employer string with its own page. PROFESSOR and STUDENT are other keys. Staff who typed a district name are in that row instead. Unitemized gifts are omitted.

Why so many contributions from 1,104 donors?

The 62,810 lines include repeat gifts from the same 1,104 people — on the order of 57 itemized receipts per donor. Recurring itemized programs raise the line count. The FEC field is transactional, not a once-per-teacher census. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only.