PROFESSOR

Title-as-industry: $4,764,599

Four hundred seventy-six donors produced 18,270 contributions totaling $4,764,599. Mean gift size is about $261; mean per donor is about $10,010; row density is about 38 gifts per person. Filers who put a university in employer and professor in occupation may be keyed to the campus industry instead of this title industry. This $4,764,599 is the PROFESSOR key only—rows where ingest treated that word as the industry string. Top employer in the facts is also PROFESSOR, which means many filers placed the title in the employer box or used it as both fields.

Assistant professor, adjunct, and lecturer are different strings if stored separately. Do not add them into this total. The packet contains one label.

Why occupation pages still matter

LobbyVault maintains a separate occupation index. PROFESSOR can appear in both taxonomies. This guide follows the industry packet: overlay /industries/professor/, facts as given. Occupation breakdowns remain the better map if you want title cuts across many employer names.

University industry pages capture employer strings. A complete picture of academic filers requires both indexes plus an understanding that neither is NAICS.

Questions

How much have professor-labeled filers given federally?

The PROFESSOR industry cluster totals $4,764,599 in itemized FEC contributions, from 18,270 contributions and 476 donors. Filers wrote PROFESSOR in employer or occupation. Campus employer names are separate industry slugs and are not included in this sum. 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 professor on the industry list?

LobbyVault industries rank FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Job titles enter the same ranking as companies because FEC.gov does not attach NAICS. Top employer in these facts is PROFESSOR—the title used as the industry key. 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 university pages double-counting these professors?

A row is keyed to one industry string in this rollup. Filers who listed a university as employer may appear on that university’s industry page instead of PROFESSOR. This page’s $4,764,599 is the PROFESSOR key only. Occupation breakdowns are the title-wide companion view.

How many unique professor-labeled donors are there?

LobbyVault counts 476 donors and 18,270 contributions inside this string. That is not a census of U.S. faculty. Other academic titles are other keys. 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.