ENGINEER
2014 Election Cycle
Total Donated
$812,182
Contributions
854
Unique Donors
207
Filers who wrote Engineer in the employer or occupation rollup reported $967,342 in itemized individual contributions during the 2014 election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 993 contributions from 249 donors. Engineer here is a text grouping, not a census of licensed PEs and not a society PAC. This page joins that occupation-style key to 2014 so it is not confused with named-company keys such as Innovative Interfaces Inc or with the MD 2012 clinical abbreviation cell. Two hundred forty-nine engineer-title donors are not Microsoft’s 272-donor 2014 cell; title buckets and company keys stay uncombined.
Key figures
- Engineer × 2014 is $967,342 in itemized individual contributions.
- The cell includes 993 contributions from 249 donors.
- 2014 is about 4.0% of the grouping’s $24,337,583 all-cycle total.
- The key is a title string, not a company.
- FEC gifts and federal research awards remain separate datasets.
Why Engineer and 2014 are joined
LobbyVault’s industry keys include occupation-like strings that appear often enough to form buckets. Engineer is one of those buckets. Crossing it with 2014 keeps every other occupation and every other cycle out of the dollar total. The result is $967,342 — a cell, not a verdict on engineers as a class. Named-company keys are stored separately even when a filer might also be an engineer there.
The same grouping, added across all stored cycles, is $24,337,583. The 2014 slice is about 4.0% of that stack. A midterm cell that is one-twenty-fifth of a large title bucket usually means the label is used in many other windows. It does not mean 2014 was quiet; the cycle hub holds that wider view without the Engineer filter.
What the Engineer string captures
Donors type titles. Some write engineer, some write software engineer, some write a company name. Those strings do not collapse into one official taxonomy. People who listed a firm name land in employer groupings, not here. Mixing this page with Microsoft 2014 or Innovative Interfaces Inc 2014 would mix a title bucket with named-company keys.
249 donors are contributor identities whose matched text fell in this grouping, not a sample of one metro’s technical workforce. A filer who listed both engineer and a company name may still land in only one rollup on this site.
Treat $24,337,583 as the denominator for the 4.0% share. Neighboring occupation strings such as Executive keep their own facts. This page does not rank them.
Full analysis: Engineer occupation filings and the 2014 FEC cycle →
Questions
- How much did Engineer-labeled donors give in 2014?
- FEC.gov aggregates show $967,342 in itemized individual contributions for the Engineer grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 993 contributions and 249 donors. The label is a self-reported title bucket, not a PE census.
- Are these 249 donors at one tech company?
- No. Engineer is an occupation-style grouping built from FEC text. The 249 donors are contributor identities that matched that string, not a headcount at a single firm. Named employers such as Microsoft have their own keys.
- What share of the Engineer total is 2014?
- The grouping’s all-cycle sum is $24,337,583. $967,342 divided by that figure is about 4.0%. Other cycles make up the remainder.
- Where is the overlay for this join?
- Open Engineer 2014 for the table, Engineer for the grouping hub, and the 2014 election cycle for the year without this title filter. All FEC ties collects other two-dimension pages.
FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.
Related ties
Top Donors in 2014
| # | Name | Total | Contributions | City / State | Occupation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ENSIO, PAAVO | $55,200 | 3 | TUCSON, AZ | — |
| 2 | SIMS, ROBERT | $40,460 | 59 | CULVER CITY, CA | — |
| 3 | DANNENBAUM, JAMES | $39,312 | 14 | HOUSTON, TX | — |
| 4 | MILLER, STEVE | $28,515 | 21 | ORLANDO, FL | — |
| 5 | BOWEN, ROBERT | $27,163 | 35 | INDIANAPOLIS, IN | — |
| 6 | PERRY, DAVID | $26,755 | 24 | NORTH ROYALTON, OH | — |
| 7 | MARTIN, ROBERT T MR | $26,251 | 29 | FORT WORTH, TX | — |
| 8 | COONEY, JOHN | $24,988 | 23 | NEW WINDSOR, MD | — |
| 9 | KELLY, THOMAS | $23,444 | 34 | BLENHEIM, NJ | — |
| 10 | RETTIG, JACK | $22,600 | 14 | CLEAR LAKE SHORES, TX | — |
| 11 | SEMNANI, KHOSROW B MR | $20,000 | 2 | SALT LAKE CITY, UT | — |
| 12 | ADAMS, GEORGE | $19,999 | 13 | SANTA MONICA, CA | — |
| 13 | THOMAS, RICHARD | $19,850 | 42 | BKLYN, NY | — |
| 14 | MONTAGUE, JOHN | $19,397 | 19 | PORTLAND, OR | — |
| 15 | ZIEVE, PETER | $19,200 | 6 | MUKILTEO, WA | — |
| 16 | EPSTEIN, SIDNEY | $15,950 | 14 | CHICAGO, IL | — |
| 17 | CALDWELL, TIMOTHY | $13,300 | 11 | BALTIMORE, MD | — |
| 18 | DECAMP, GERRY B. MR. | $12,500 | 5 | HOUSTON, TX | SELF-EMPLOYED |
| 19 | COLF, RICHARD | $12,200 | 5 | WOODLAND, WA | — |
| 20 | NICKERSON, MARTINUS H | $11,975 | 11 | BELLINGHAM, WA | — |
| 21 | WEIR, THOMAS | $11,000 | 4 | WYCKOFF, NJ | — |
| 22 | DESHPANDE, ANIL | $10,650 | 5 | ORLANDO, FL | — |
| 23 | BOGER, ALLEN | $10,000 | 8 | ARGYLE, TX | — |
| 24 | ENSIO, PAAVO MR | $10,000 | 2 | TUCSON, AZ | — |
| 25 | BAKER, JOE | $9,320 | 6 | ROUND ROCK, TX | — |
| 26 | KIM, RICHARD | $8,685 | 9 | OLIVET, MI | — |
| 27 | WILLIAMS, GEORGE | $8,095 | 19 | PASADENA, CA | — |
| 28 | ANDERSON, GLENN | $7,690 | 6 | NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR | — |
| 29 | PHILLIPS, CHESTER D | $7,600 | 5 | LITTLE ROCK, AR | — |
| 30 | JAVADZADEH, JOE | $6,800 | 5 | EDMOND, OK | — |
| 31 | GOVIL, ARON | $6,800 | 5 | MUTTORTOWN, NY | — |
| 32 | DOW, ROBERT | $6,495 | 4 | NORTH DIGHTON, MA | — |
| 33 | BURNETT, DOUGLAS | $6,000 | 5 | WEARE, NH | — |
| 34 | MITSUNAGA, DENNIS | $6,000 | 3 | HONOLULU, HI | — |
| 35 | GUTIERREZ, RAMIRO | $6,000 | 3 | PHARR, TX | — |
| 36 | PLUMER, MARK | $5,300 | 3 | LOS ANGELES, CA | — |
| 37 | PARRISH, ARTHUR E | $5,200 | 2 | COLUMBIA, SC | — |
| 38 | KRUEGER, MARY Z. MRS. | $5,200 | 2 | GRAND RAPIDS, MI | ENGINEER |
| 39 | GREEN, JONATHAN | $4,750 | 8 | SEWICKLEY, PA | — |
| 40 | WAGGONER, JOE | $4,500 | 3 | JACKSON, MS | — |
| 41 | GRAHAM, CHRISTOPHER | $4,307 | 8 | MELBOURNE, FL | — |
| 42 | MORALES, RAUL | $4,000 | 4 | GUAYAMA, PR | — |
| 43 | MANN, RANDY | $3,995 | 2 | OWINGSVILLE, KY | — |
| 44 | RIVERS, DAVID | $3,740 | 8 | MARCUS HOOK, PA | — |
| 45 | MEYER, VERNON F | $3,700 | 3 | WESTLAKE, LA | — |
| 46 | WHANG, JAMES | $3,500 | 2 | RICKVILLE, MD | — |
| 47 | SILVER, JONATHAN | $3,500 | 4 | YUKIPA, CA | — |
| 48 | CHAMBERS, WILLIAM | $3,300 | 6 | WALTHAM, MA | — |
| 49 | WHITE, FRED | $3,300 | 5 | RESEDA, CA | — |
| 50 | WILSON, JOHN D | $3,100 | 2 | LOUISVILLE, KY | — |
Top Recipients in 2014
| # | Committee | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C00401224 | $93,220 | 120 |
| 2 | C00510958 | $55,400 | 4 |
| 3 | C00027466 | $46,251 | 31 |
| 4 | C00254185 | $39,312 | 14 |
| 5 | C00366401 | $32,588 | 28 |
| 6 | C00546770 | $30,290 | 20 |
| 7 | C00309567 | $29,213 | 39 |
| 8 | C00241349 | $26,755 | 24 |
| 9 | C00409110 | $23,444 | 34 |
| 10 | C00487470 | $19,999 | 13 |
| 11 | C00544734 | $19,850 | 42 |
| 12 | C00547414 | $19,397 | 19 |
| 13 | C00397737 | $19,200 | 6 |
| 14 | C00003418 | $18,505 | 19 |
| 15 | C00148999 | $15,950 | 14 |
| 16 | C00010603 | $15,106 | 20 |
| 17 | C00042366 | $13,800 | 11 |
| 18 | C00472704 | $12,200 | 5 |
| 19 | C00546804 | $10,650 | 5 |
| 20 | C00545285 | $10,000 | 8 |
| 21 | C00325076 | $10,000 | 2 |
| 22 | C00437277 | $9,320 | 6 |
| 23 | C00458125 | $8,685 | 9 |
| 24 | C00298000 | $8,095 | 19 |
| 25 | C00358952 | $6,800 | 5 |