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GEOLOGIST
Total Donated
$4,306,318
Contributions
9,622
Unique Donors
367
Top Employer
GEOLOGIST
People who wrote GEOLOGIST in the employer or occupation field on federal campaign filings account for $4,306,318 in itemized receipts on FEC.gov. LobbyVault counts 9,622 contributions and 367 donors. Mean gift size is about $448; mean per donor is about $11,734. The word is a scientific title on an FEC form. It is not a NAICS mining-or-oil sector total and not a roster of licensed geologists.
Key figures
- GEOLOGIST FEC strings sum to $4,306,318.
- 9,622 contributions came from 367 donors.
- About $448 per gift and $11,734 per donor on a simple mean.
- Energy-company employers are separate slugs.
- The “industry” is a job-title self-report, not NAICS.
367 donors and $4,306,318
Three hundred sixty-seven unique people produced 9,622 contributions, about 26 itemized gifts per person. $4,306,318 ÷ 367 ≈ $11,734 per donor. Top employer is GEOLOGIST, so many filers used the specialty as the employer field rather than an energy-company or consultancy name. Those company names, if typed, live on other industry slugs.
Petroleum geologist, hydrologist, and geophysicist are longer or different strings. They are not assumed to be inside $4,306,318.
Title versus energy employer
A geologist who listed an oil company as employer and geologist as occupation may be keyed to the company’s industry page instead of this one. This $4,306,318 is the GEOLOGIST industry key. Combining it with unnamed energy-employer totals would invent a sector figure the packet does not contain.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Occupation breakdowns are the companion title index.
Full analysis: Geologist money in federal elections →
Questions
- How much have geologist-labeled filers given federally?
- The GEOLOGIST industry cluster totals $4,306,318 in itemized FEC contributions, from 9,622 contributions and 367 donors. Filers wrote GEOLOGIST in employer or occupation. The figure is FEC free text, not a NAICS mining or oil-and-gas total. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
- Does this include oil-company employees who are geologists?
- Only if the industry key on the row is GEOLOGIST. Filers who listed a company name as employer may sit in that company’s industry slug. This page’s $4,306,318 is the specialty-word cluster. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
- Are geophysicists included?
- Only if they used the GEOLOGIST string. Geophysicist and hydrologist, if stored as other keys, are other slugs. This total does not automatically absorb those titles. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
- Why is geologist on the industry list?
- LobbyVault industries rank FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Job titles share the index with company names because FEC.gov does not attach NAICS. Top employer in the facts is GEOLOGIST. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.
Industry ties
Cycle-over-Cycle Trend
1980 · $164,1301984 · $149,3251982 · $116,5751996 · $74,0251986 · $70,3001994 · $65,5561992 · $63,2002012 · $56,8862000 · $54,7402008 · $53,262
| Cycle | Total | Contributions | Donors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | $164,130 | 205 | 107 |
| 1982 | $116,575 | 113 | 39 |
| 1984 | $149,325 | 138 | 40 |
| 1986 | $70,300 | 66 | 28 |
| 1988 | $31,525 | 32 | 14 |
| 1990 | $30,500 | 37 | 19 |
| 1992 | $63,200 | 57 | 22 |
| 1994 | $65,556 | 76 | 19 |
| 1996 | $74,025 | 76 | 24 |
| 1998 | $33,215 | 57 | 16 |
| 2000 | $54,740 | 85 | 20 |
| 2002 | $28,250 | 42 | 16 |
| 2004 | $48,185 | 63 | 18 |
| 2006 | $40,398 | 45 | 14 |
| 2008 | $53,262 | 65 | 23 |
| 2010 | $52,077 | 51 | 19 |
| 2012 | $56,886 | 57 | 20 |
| 2014 | $42,994 | 34 | 15 |
Top Donors
| # | Name | Total | Contributions | City / State | Occupation | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KLABZUBA, ROBERT | $21,000 | 13 | FT WORTH, TX | — | 1980 |
| 2 | BUTLER, PATRICK | $8,500 | 8 | HOUSTON, TX | — | 1980 |
| 3 | HAWN, GEORGE S MR | $7,000 | 3 | CORPUS CHRISTI, TX | — | 1980 |
| 4 | MOORE, J HIRAM | $6,750 | 4 | AUSTIN, TX | — | 1980 |
| 5 | MCWILLIAMS, W K JR | $5,990 | 9 | METAIRIE, LA | — | 1980 |
| 6 | FERGUSON, GLENN C | $5,725 | 12 | BAKERSFIELD, CA | — | 1980 |
| 7 | KLABZUBZ, ROBERT | $5,000 | 1 | FORT WORTH, TX | — | 1980 |
| 8 | LEDBETTER, HUGH E | $4,250 | 7 | NORMAN, OK | — | 1980 |
| 9 | JACK, JAMES R | $2,750 | 3 | SULPHUR, OK | — | 1980 |
| 10 | MAJOR, R O | $2,500 | 3 | MIDLAND, TX | — | 1980 |
| 11 | BARNES, J C JR | $2,500 | 2 | MIDLAND, TX | — | 1980 |
| 12 | GOULD, J G | $2,500 | 3 | WICHITA, KS | — | 1980 |
| 13 | DURHAM, MAX H JR | $2,250 | 4 | METARIE, LA | — | 1980 |
| 14 | DARSEY, W G III | $2,000 | 2 | LAFAYETTE, LA | — | 1980 |
| 15 | HUDNALL, J S MR | $2,000 | 3 | TYLER, TX | — | 1980 |
| 16 | BURKE, EARL | $2,000 | 2 | HOUSTON, TX | — | 1980 |
| 17 | HENRY, GARY E | $2,000 | 1 | WICHITA FALLS, TX | — | 1980 |
| 18 | ANDERMAN, GEORGE G | $2,000 | 3 | DENVER, CO | — | 1980 |
| 19 | MITCHELL, R B | $2,000 | 3 | HOUSTON, TX | — | 1980 |
| 20 | DODGE, DONALD D JR | $1,900 | 5 | ENGLEWOOD, CO | — | 1980 |
| 21 | CANNAN, MORRIS MR | $1,540 | 4 | SAN ANTONIO, TX | — | 1980 |
| 22 | GREEN, A T JR | $1,500 | 2 | NEW ORLEANS, LA | — | 1980 |
| 23 | ALLDAY, EDWIN MR | $1,500 | 2 | HOUSTON, TX | — | 1980 |
| 24 | ANDERSON, ARDEN A | $1,500 | 2 | PENSACOLA, FL | — | 1980 |
| 25 | MITCHELL, R B MR | $1,500 | 3 | HOUSTON, TX | — | 1980 |
| 26 | FRIZZELL, JACK Q | $1,500 | 2 | ABILENE, TX | — | 1980 |
| 27 | BOWLES, JACK | $1,250 | 2 | OKLAHOMA CITY, OK | — | 1980 |
| 28 | KING, WILLIAM A | $1,250 | 4 | MINNEAPOLIS, MN | — | 1980 |
| 29 | LEDBETTER, HUGH E MR | $1,250 | 2 | NORMAN, OK | — | 1980 |
| 30 | KING, WILLIAM A MR | $1,050 | 3 | MINNEAPOLIS, MN | — | 1980 |
| 31 | HEFNER, ROBERT A 111 | $1,000 | 1 | OKLAHOMA CITY, OK | — | 1980 |
| 32 | HANSON, BERNOLD M MR | $1,000 | 1 | MIDLAND, TX | — | 1980 |
| 33 | DAVIS, ELLIOTT MR | $1,000 | 1 | TULSA, OK | — | 1980 |
| 34 | JONES, A V MR | $1,000 | 1 | ALBANY, TX | — | 1980 |
| 35 | DISENROTH, MALCOLM JR | $1,000 | 1 | TULSA, OK | — | 1980 |
| 36 | HARVEY, RALPH D | $1,000 | 1 | OKLA CITY, OK | — | 1980 |
| 37 | GOODWIN, JAMES C | $1,000 | 1 | GOLDEN, CO | — | 1980 |
| 38 | HUMMEL, PETER W | $1,000 | 1 | RENO, NV | — | 1980 |
| 39 | HUMMEL, PETER | $1,000 | 1 | RENO, NV | — | 1980 |
| 40 | HARRIS, MERRILL R MR | $1,000 | 1 | JACKSON, MS | — | 1980 |
| 41 | FARMER, KENNETH K MR | $1,000 | 1 | CASPER, WY | — | 1980 |
| 42 | GRIFFITH, EARL G | $1,000 | 2 | DENVER, CO | — | 1980 |
| 43 | FRANTZEN, DAN R | $1,000 | 1 | LAFAYETTE, LA | — | 1980 |
| 44 | FISCHER, L F MR | $1,000 | 1 | HOUSTON, TX | — | 1980 |
| 45 | HAGAN, RILEY JR | $1,000 | 1 | JACKSON, MS | — | 1980 |
| 46 | HOLLOWAY, PERRY | $1,000 | 1 | SHREVEPORT, LA | — | 1980 |
| 47 | HOYLE, J PHILIP JR MR | $1,000 | 1 | OKLAHOMA CITY, OK | — | 1980 |
| 48 | HAM, ROBERT L MRS | $1,000 | 1 | OKLAHOMA CITY, OK | — | 1980 |
| 49 | HENDRICKSON, WILLIAM J | $1,000 | 1 | WICHITA FALLS, TX | — | 1980 |
| 50 | GREEN, A T JR MR | $1,000 | 1 | NEW ORLEANS, LA | — | 1980 |
Top Recipients
| # | Committee | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS *C00091009 | $92,250 | 64 |
| 2 | REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEEC00003376 | $60,575 | 62 |
| 3 | NRSCC00027466 | $58,953 | 41 |
| 4 | MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (MORPAC)C00004812 | $50,000 | 1 |
| 5 | REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXASC00143743 | $33,350 | 35 |
| 6 | AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEC00110338 | $32,515 | 1 |
| 7 | DNC SERVICES CORP / DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEC00010603 | $31,591 | 17 |
| 8 | WINREDC00694323 | $31,442 | 14 |
| 9 | NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CONTRIBUTIONSC00002931 | $20,500 | 41 |
| 10 | LOUISIANA ENERGY NATIONAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AKA LEN-PAC)C00114207 | $20,000 | 21 |
| 11 | NATIONAL CONSERVATIVE CLUB (FKA) NATIONAL CONGRESSIONAL CLUBC00119370 | $17,550 | 30 |
| 12 | REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEEC00003418 | $16,245 | 37 |
| 13 | NATIONAL CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEC00024687 | $16,225 | 44 |
| 14 | ACTBLUEC00401224 | $14,906 | 16 |
| 15 | HELLER FOR CONGRESSC00410837 | $13,900 | 1 |
| 16 | TRUMP MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN COMMITTEEC00618371 | $13,679 | 25 |
| 17 | DCCCC00000935 | $13,580 | 20 |
| 18 | COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT RON PAULC00305342 | $13,000 | 7 |
| 19 | KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON FOR SENATE COMMITTEEC00279273 | $12,200 | 31 |
| 20 | FRIENDS OF PHIL GRAMM '90C00170712 | $10,500 | 33 |
| 21 | RAYE FOR CONGRESSC00519231 | $10,100 | 8 |
| 22 | TEXAS VICTORY COMMITTEE-REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS (FEDERAL ACCOUNT)C00012732 | $10,000 | 23 |
| 23 | CONNALLY FOR PRESIDENT COMMITTEEC00107318 | $9,290 | 37 |
| 24 | TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.C00369033 | $9,250 | 17 |
| 25 | ELECT BLAKE FARENTHOLD COMMITTEEC00473736 | $9,250 | 5 |