PSYCHOTHERAPIST

High dollars per person, 230 donors

Two hundred thirty unique donors is a small roster relative to the $4,671,850 total. Dividing evenly yields about $20,312 per donor and about $335 per contribution ($4,671,850 ÷ 13,938). The extreme row density (about 61 itemized gifts per person) often appears when a modest number of repeat filers generate many itemized transactions across cycles. The packet does not name those people or prove a PAC-withholding pattern; it only supplies the four aggregates.

Top employer is PSYCHOTHERAPIST, so many filers put the specialty in the employer field rather than a clinic name. Practice-name employers are other slugs.

Title versus clinic employer

A therapist who listed a group practice as employer and psychotherapist as occupation may be keyed to the practice’s industry page instead of this one. $4,671,850 is the PSYCHOTHERAPIST industry key. Psychologist, LCSW, and psychiatrist are different strings if stored separately.

Occupation breakdowns are the companion index for mental-health titles. This industry page exists because LobbyVault ranks FEC self-report strings, including job titles, in one industry list. NAICS is not applied.

Questions

How much have psychotherapist-labeled filers given federally?

The PSYCHOTHERAPIST industry cluster totals $4,671,850 in itemized FEC contributions, from 13,938 contributions and 230 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 is the per-donor average so high?

Arithmetic only: $4,671,850 divided by 230 donors is about $20,312. A small unique-person count and 13,938 contributions (about 61 per donor) produce that mean. The packet does not identify the largest gifts or claim a typical check size equal to the mean.

Are psychologists included?

Only if they used the PSYCHOTHERAPIST string as the industry key. Psychologist, psychiatrist, and LCSW, if stored as other keys, are other pages. This total is $4,671,850 for PSYCHOTHERAPIST 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 clinical title 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 PSYCHOTHERAPIST. 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.