ARCHITECT

Architect as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Architect and 2008 — sum to $1,091,751. 1,186 itemized contributions and 343 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Architect hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Architect is a job title, not a state architecture-board roster. Three hundred forty-three donors in 2008 matched that word across 1,186 lines. Named firms typed as employer sit on firm pages. Landscape Architect is a longer string if stored separately. ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECTURAL FIRM, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, and named studios are other keys. This page is the one-word Architect string.

3.8% of the Architect roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $28,735,315 ($28.7 million). The 2008 slice of $1,091,751 is about 3.8% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.2% ($27,643,564). Treating 2008 as the Architect FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $28,735,315 as the denominator for the 3.8% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $28,735,315.

Questions

How much did Architect donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,091,751 in itemized individual contributions for the Architect grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,186 contributions and 343 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $28,735,315 all-cycle figure.

What share of Architect FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $28,735,315. The 2008 cell of $1,091,751 is about 3.8% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.2% ($27,643,564) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Architect hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed Architect donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Architect. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $1,091,751 from 343 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Architect 2008 join?

Open Architect 2008 for the cycle overlay, Architect for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.