BUSINESS OWNER

An owner phrase, not an Economic Census

FEC forms store BUSINESS OWNER when that is what the filer typed. They do not apply NAICS across every small firm. The $13,380,189 total is itemized individual gifts whose grouped employer text matches the two words. It is not small-business loan volume, not a Chamber PAC, and not every principal who wrote the LLC’s legal name instead.

People who typed ENTREPRENEUR, SELF-EMPLOYED, BUSINESSMAN, EXECUTIVE, or a company name sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into BUSINESS OWNER.

974 donors and 22,765 lines

974 unique donors produced 22,765 BUSINESS OWNER contribution lines totaling $13,380,189. Receipts per donor run near 23. Dollars per unique person run higher than in some wider founder-style rows such as ENTREPRENEUR’s 2,517 donors. 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 $13,380,189.

Questions

How much have BUSINESS OWNER-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $13,380,189 to the BUSINESS OWNER employer string, from 22,765 contributions and 974 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a NAICS small-business total and not a Chamber PAC. 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 BUSINESS OWNER the same as ENTREPRENEUR or SELF-EMPLOYED?

No. ENTREPRENEUR and SELF-EMPLOYED are separate grouped strings with their own pages. A receipt stamped BUSINESS OWNER is counted only in the $13,380,189 here. LobbyVault does not merge owner-style phrases into one founder 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 include every small-business principal who donated?

No. Only receipts whose grouped employer text is BUSINESS OWNER are in the total. People who wrote a company name, ENTREPRENEUR, or SELF-EMPLOYED are elsewhere. The 974 donor count is unique contributors in this string, not a Census firm count.

Why are there more contributions than donors?

The 22,765 lines include repeat gifts from the same 974 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.