OPHTHALMOLOGIST
Total Donated
$4,566,702
Contributions
14,399
Unique Donors
1,360
Top Employer
OPHTHALMOLOGIST
People who wrote OPHTHALMOLOGIST in the employer or occupation field on federal filings account for $4,566,702 in itemized receipts on FEC.gov. LobbyVault counts 14,399 contributions and 1,360 donors—the largest unique-person roster in this packet wave. Mean gift size is about $317; mean per donor is about $3,358, lower than specialty clusters with fewer people. The title is FEC free text, not a NAICS health-care sector.
Key figures
- OPHTHALMOLOGIST FEC strings sum to $4,566,702.
- 14,399 contributions came from 1,360 donors — a wide roster.
- About $317 per gift and $3,358 per donor on a simple mean.
- Optometrist is not assumed to be in this total.
- The “industry” is a job-title self-report, not NAICS.
A wide roster: 1,360 donors
One thousand three hundred sixty unique donors produced 14,399 contributions, only about 11 itemized gifts per person. That is a flatter distribution than anesthesiologist or psychotherapist strings in this wave, which pack more rows into fewer people. $4,566,702 spread across 1,360 people yields about $3,358 per donor. The packet does not identify whether the extra unique people are one-time itemized givers versus a broader specialty PAC pattern.
Top employer is OPHTHALMOLOGIST, so many filers used the specialty as the employer field. Clinic and hospital names are other slugs.
Specialty title on the industry list
LobbyVault industries rank FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Medical specialties enter the same index as banks and universities. OPHTHALMOLOGIST is not an optometrist string; optometrist, if present, is a different key and is not inside $4,566,702.
Occupation breakdowns are the natural companion for physician titles. This page is the industry-key view of OPHTHALMOLOGIST as harvested.
Full analysis: Ophthalmologist money in federal elections →
Questions
- How much have ophthalmologist-labeled filers given federally?
- The OPHTHALMOLOGIST industry cluster totals $4,566,702 in itemized FEC contributions, from 14,399 contributions and 1,360 donors. Filers wrote that specialty in employer or occupation. The figure is FEC free text, not a NAICS health-care 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.
- Why are there so many donors compared with other specialties?
- LobbyVault counts 1,360 unique donors inside this string against 14,399 contributions, only about 11 gifts per person. Spreading $4,566,702 across that roster yields about $3,358 per donor. The packet does not explain why the unique-person count is large; it only reports those four facts.
- Are optometrists included?
- Only if they used the OPHTHALMOLOGIST string. Optometrist is a different word and, if stored as another key, is another slug. This page’s $4,566,702 is OPHTHALMOLOGIST only. 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 a medical specialty listed as an industry?
- 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 OPHTHALMOLOGIST. 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
Top Donors
| # | Name | Total | Contributions | City / State | Occupation | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MILLS, RICHARD E DO | $700 | 1 | TULSA, OK | — | 1980 |
| 2 | CASE, PAUL H | $550 | 2 | PHOENIX, AZ | — | 1980 |
| 3 | MCDONALD, HENRY H DR | $500 | 2 | PASADENA, CA | — | 1980 |
| 4 | AZAR, ROBERT F DR | $250 | 1 | NEW ORLEANS, LA | — | 1980 |
| 5 | DARIN, JOHN J | $200 | 1 | WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA | — | 1980 |
| 6 | LITTLE, HUNTER L MD | $200 | 1 | PALO ALTO, CA | — | 1980 |
Top Recipients
| # | Committee | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEEC00003376 | $15,000 | 1 |
| 2 | FREEMAN FOR CONGRESSC00131581 | $700 | 1 |
| 3 | AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC INFORMATION ASSOCIATION - OSTEOPATHIC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEC00113803 | $500 | 1 |
| 4 | RUSSELL B LONG COMMITTEEC00047332 | $250 | 1 |
| 5 | AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC POLITICAL COMMITTEE (OPHTHPAC)C00196246 | $250 | 1 |