Volunteer as FEC employer text: $13.7 million

An unpaid-status word ranked as an industry

FEC forms ask for employer. Some filers write Volunteer (mixed case as stored) instead of NOT EMPLOYED or RETIRED. LobbyVault ranks that word and sums attached itemized gifts to $13,666,117. The figure is not nonprofit-sector wages, not a United Way census, and not every unpaid intern who typed a host organization’s legal name instead.

People who typed NOT EMPLOYED, HOMEMAKER, STUDENT, or a charity’s legal name sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode Volunteer into those keys. Mixed case here is the stored label; an all-caps VOLUNTEER grouping, if it exists separately, would be another key.

947 donors and 28,412 lines

947 unique donors produced 28,412 Volunteer contribution lines totaling $13,666,117. That is on the order of 30 itemized receipts per person. Dollars per unique donor run high relative to some wider status rows. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Unitemized gifts never appear. Independent expenditures that lack this individual-employer string are outside the $13,666,117.

Status siblings

NOT EMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED, RETIRED, HOMEMAKER, HOME MANAGER, and STUDENT are related self-descriptions. Volunteer is this word only. A combined “out of paid work” recode must list every key and accept cross-receipt overlap.

Occupation pages may show a second field beside Volunteer. Those occupation words remain separate industry keys when they were placed in the employer box.

Donor table

The Volunteer donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer household wealth, a 501(c) role, or a motive from the status word. The FEC field is not a volunteer-hours log.

Repeat names among 28,412 lines from 947 people are expected. People who volunteer but typed a nonprofit’s legal name as employer are not in these 947 unless a receipt also carried Volunteer.

Volunteer’s 28,412 lines from 947 donors totaling $13,666,117 are a mixed-case status word, not NOT EMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED, RETIRED, HOMEMAKER, HOME MANAGER, or STUDENT. Charity legal names remain organization rows. Unitemized gifts stay out. Occupation pages may show a second field. Placeholders such as REQUESTED are missing data. The donor table does not log volunteer hours. Follow committees for party and office. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not NAICS nonprofits.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $13,666,117, 28,412 contributions, 947 donors, top employer Volunteer. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS.

Compare NOT EMPLOYED, HOMEMAKER, and RETIRED on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles next to this status word. Follow committees on the donor table for party and office.

Keep Volunteer’s $13,666,117, 28,412 contributions, and 947 donors on this mixed-case status word. NOT EMPLOYED, HOMEMAKER, and RETIRED stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns may show a second field beside Volunteer. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a 501(c) census and not NAICS.

Unpaid-status coverage versus NOT EMPLOYED and HOMEMAKER

Volunteer’s $13,666,117 from 947 donors and 28,412 lines is a mixed-case status word as stored, not NAICS civic organizations and not unpaid campaign-staff wages. NOT EMPLOYED is a much larger space-separated row. UNEMPLOYED, RETIRED, HOMEMAKER, HOME MANAGER, and STUDENT are additional self-descriptions. A person who volunteers at a charity but typed the charity’s legal name is in that organization row, not necessarily in the 947.

Receipts per donor run near 30. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from the $13,666,117. An all-caps VOLUNTEER grouping, if stored separately, would be another key. LobbyVault does not recode Volunteer into NOT EMPLOYED. Placeholders such as REQUESTED are missing data, not this status.

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a volunteer-hours log or a household-wealth inference. Occupation pages may show a second field. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault — $13,666,117, 28,412 contributions, 947 donors — self-reported form text, not NAICS.

Questions

How much have Volunteer-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $13,666,117 to the Volunteer employer string, from 28,412 contributions and 947 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a NAICS nonprofit-sector total and not unpaid campaign-staff wages. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is Volunteer the same as NOT EMPLOYED?

No. NOT EMPLOYED is a separate grouped string with its own, much larger page. A receipt stamped Volunteer is counted only in the $13,666,117 here. LobbyVault does not merge status words into one out-of-workforce industry. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this count every unpaid volunteer who donated?

No. Only itemized federal receipts whose employer text grouped to Volunteer are in the total. People who wrote a charity’s legal name, NOT EMPLOYED, or RETIRED are elsewhere. The 947 donor count is unique contributors in this string, not a volunteer-hours census.

Why are there more contributions than donors?

The 28,412 lines include repeat gifts from the same 947 people. Recurring itemized donations raise the receipt count. The FEC field records each itemized transaction, not a once-per-person census. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.