REAL ESTATE INVESTOR
Total Donated
$4,816,298
Contributions
12,776
Unique Donors
380
Top Employer
REAL ESTATE INVESTOR
Filers who listed REAL ESTATE INVESTOR as employer or occupation on federal reports account for $4,816,298 in itemized receipts on FEC.gov. The cluster holds 12,776 contributions and 380 donors. Mean gift size is about $377; mean per donor is about $12,674. The phrase is a self-description on an FEC form, not a NAICS real-estate sector and not a roster of licensed brokers.
Key figures
- REAL ESTATE INVESTOR FEC strings sum to $4,816,298.
- 12,776 contributions came from 380 donors.
- About $377 per gift and $12,674 per donor on a simple mean.
- The label is self-reported text, not NAICS.
- Brokerage-brand strings are separate industry pages.
Self-description, not a license file
REAL ESTATE INVESTOR is language contributors chose. Some are full-time principals; others use the phrase as a shorthand next to retired, homemaker, or a company name in the other box. LobbyVault’s industry key here is that exact phrase, and top employer matches it—so many rows put the same words in the field the ingest treated as industry.
Brokerage brands (Coldwell Banker and others) and titles such as realtor sit on other slugs. A person who wrote a firm name as employer and REAL ESTATE INVESTOR as occupation may appear in a firm cluster, this cluster, or both depending on which field keyed the industry rollup. Occupation breakdowns are the parallel view.
$4,816,298 across 12,776 gifts
Three hundred eighty donors produced 12,776 contributions, about 34 itemized transactions per person. $4,816,298 ÷ 12,776 ≈ $377 per gift. $4,816,298 ÷ 380 ≈ $12,674 per donor. Those means sit above many payroll-withholding clusters and below the sparsest large-check professional strings.
The packet does not identify property type, geography, or whether the filer was a syndicating sponsor versus a passive limited partner. FEC forms do not collect those facts. The public record is the string plus itemized dollars.
Full analysis: Real estate investor money in federal elections →
Questions
- How much have real estate investor filers given in federal elections?
- The REAL ESTATE INVESTOR industry cluster totals $4,816,298 in itemized FEC contributions, from 12,776 contributions and 380 donors. The label is the text filers wrote, not a NAICS real-estate code and not a trade-association 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.
- Is REAL ESTATE INVESTOR an occupation or an industry?
- On FEC.gov it is uncoded text in employer or occupation. LobbyVault’s industry index still ranks it because ingest treats that string as an industry key. Top employer in the facts is the same phrase. Occupation breakdowns remain the title-oriented companion index.
- How many unique donors used this label?
- LobbyVault counts 380 donors producing 12,776 contributions. That unique-donor figure is people whose disclosed text matched REAL ESTATE INVESTOR, not a count of licensed investors nationwide. 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 brokerage-brand employers?
- Only rows keyed to REAL ESTATE INVESTOR. Filers who listed a brand as employer sit in that brand’s industry slug. This page’s $4,816,298 is the investor-phrase cluster 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.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.
Cycle-over-Cycle Trend
| Cycle | Total | Contributions | Donors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | $39,050 | 46 | 31 |
| 1982 | $8,000 | 9 | 5 |
| 1984 | $37,750 | 31 | 13 |
| 1986 | $12,650 | 17 | 6 |
| 1988 | $15,000 | 17 | 10 |
| 1990 | $4,300 | 9 | 6 |
| 1992 | $15,700 | 18 | 6 |
| 1994 | $19,100 | 19 | 8 |
| 1996 | $27,850 | 21 | 8 |
| 1998 | $25,500 | 25 | 9 |
| 2000 | $16,500 | 15 | 7 |
| 2002 | $9,250 | 10 | 4 |
| 2004 | $7,250 | 9 | 4 |
| 2006 | $4,150 | 6 | 3 |
| 2008 | $25,300 | 12 | 5 |
| 2010 | $11,850 | 8 | 3 |
| 2012 | $33,500 | 5 | 2 |
| 2014 | $70 | 2 | 1 |
Top Donors
| # | Name | Total | Contributions | City / State | Occupation | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | COLEMAN, JOHN B MR | $7,000 | 3 | JUPITER ISLAND, FL | — | 1980 |
| 2 | HECKMANN, RICHARD J | $5,000 | 1 | SUN VALLEY, ID | — | 1980 |
| 3 | DENNY, ROBERT O | $2,900 | 4 | ANCH, AK | — | 1980 |
| 4 | CORNETT, EUGENE P | $2,100 | 4 | OSGOOD, IN | — | 1980 |
| 5 | BROWN, CHARLES E MR | $1,250 | 2 | MONROE, LA | — | 1980 |
| 6 | DUHL, BENJAMIN | $1,250 | 2 | GREAT NECK, NY | — | 1980 |
| 7 | DRYER, FREDERIC R MR | $1,000 | 1 | MILWAUKEE, WI | — | 1980 |
| 8 | MUSS, JOSHUA A | $1,000 | 2 | DALLAS, TX | — | 1980 |
| 9 | MONTGOMERY, FRANCIS J MS | $1,000 | 1 | LOS ANGELES, CA | — | 1980 |
| 10 | MAUTNER, HANS C | $1,000 | 1 | SCARBOROUGH, NY | — | 1980 |
| 11 | LAWRENCE, SYLVAN MR | $1,000 | 1 | NEW YORK, NY | — | 1980 |
| 12 | HOLMES, TALLEY R JR | $1,000 | 1 | WASHINGTON, DC | — | 1980 |
| 13 | HELMING, PATRICIA H MRS | $1,000 | 1 | BETHESDA, MD | — | 1980 |
| 14 | GUTHARTZ, BARNETT | $1,000 | 1 | MIAMI BEACH, FL | — | 1980 |
| 15 | DEANE, DISQUE D | $1,000 | 1 | NEW YORK, NY | — | 1980 |
| 16 | BARSHOP, PHILIP M | $1,000 | 3 | SAN ANTONIO, TX | — | 1980 |
| 17 | COLEMAN, DUDLEY | $1,000 | 1 | JACKSONVILLE, FL | — | 1980 |
| 18 | CHAIKEN, FILMORE | $1,000 | 1 | MIAMI, FL | — | 1980 |
| 19 | BERMAN, STEPHEN M | $1,000 | 1 | MILL VALLEY, CA | — | 1980 |
| 20 | COOK, ISSA B | $1,000 | 1 | HOUSTON, TX | — | 1980 |
| 21 | AHLSCHLAGER, WALTER W | $800 | 1 | DALLAS, TX | — | 1980 |
| 22 | COLLUM, HAROLD | $750 | 1 | DALLAS, TX | — | 1980 |
| 23 | FILLINGIM, F M JR MR | $750 | 1 | FT WORTH, TX | — | 1980 |
| 24 | KESSLER, HOWARD M | $700 | 2 | HERMOSA BEACH, CA | — | 1980 |
| 25 | GOLDBERG, MAX | $550 | 2 | HOUSTON, TX | — | 1980 |
| 26 | LIFTON, MARTIN | $500 | 1 | EAST HILLSROSLYN, NY | — | 1980 |
| 27 | BANKHEAD, JOHN H | $500 | 1 | JASPER, AL | — | 1980 |
| 28 | MILLMAN, LEONARD MR | $500 | 1 | DENVER, CO | — | 1980 |
| 29 | GREENBERG, DAVID T | $500 | 1 | WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ | — | 1980 |
| 30 | BAKER, GERSON | $500 | 1 | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | — | 1980 |
| 31 | DUNNICLIFFE, WILDA B MRS | $500 | 1 | LA JOLLA, CA | — | 1980 |
| 32 | BAKALYAN, GERALD K | $400 | 1 | LOS ANGELES, CA | — | 1980 |
| 33 | BARTLETT, SCOTT (IK) | $340 | 1 | EUGENE, OR | — | 1980 |
| 34 | MORRIS, PHYLLIS JUANS | $300 | 1 | ESCONDIDO, CA | — | 1980 |
| 35 | BLAESER, JAMES A | $250 | 1 | DALLAS, TX | — | 1980 |
| 36 | BLECHMAN, FREDERICK MR | $250 | 1 | HUNTINGTON WOOD, MI | — | 1980 |
| 37 | FLETCHER, WHIT | $250 | 1 | WASHINGTON, DC | — | 1980 |
| 38 | HECK, HOMER | $200 | 1 | CEREDO, WV | — | 1980 |
| 39 | CONTARDI, DON | $200 | 1 | MEQUON, WI | — | 1980 |
Top Recipients
| # | Committee | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FRIENDS OF THE MAJORITYC00523035 | $25,000 | 1 |
| 2 | INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SHOPPING CENTERS INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ICSC PAC)C00217638 | $15,000 | 1 |
| 3 | REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEEC00003376 | $14,800 | 4 |
| 4 | MCCAIN VICTORY OHIOC00448860 | $12,500 | 2 |
| 5 | MARY BONO COMMITTEEC00332890 | $11,300 | 1 |
| 6 | NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS *C00091009 | $9,750 | 8 |
| 7 | FRIENDS OF SCHUMERC00346312 | $8,800 | 2 |
| 8 | NATIONAL PAC INC A/K/A NATPACC00150995 | $8,000 | 3 |
| 9 | HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENTC00431569 | $6,900 | 1 |
| 10 | NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CONTRIBUTIONSC00002931 | $5,900 | 10 |
| 11 | ACTBLUEC00401224 | $5,312 | 3 |
| 12 | CALIFORNIA VICTORY 2000C00345876 | $5,000 | 1 |
| 13 | SCHUMER '98C00327270 | $5,000 | 4 |
| 14 | ISSUES '96 (FKA ISSUES '94)C00109744 | $5,000 | 1 |
| 15 | FRIENDS OF SENATOR D'AMATO (1998 COMMITTEE)C00282889 | $5,000 | 3 |
| 16 | AMERICANS FOR AN EFFECTIVE PRESIDENCYC99002594 | $5,000 | 3 |
| 17 | WATER APPLICATIONS & SYSTEMS CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEC00326058 | $5,000 | 1 |
| 18 | TERRY SANFORD FOR U S SENATEC00201707 | $4,000 | 1 |
| 19 | DEREK MARSHALL FOR CONGRESSC00765461 | $3,150 | 2 |
| 20 | THE CONGRESSMAN JOE BARTON COMMITTEEC00195065 | $3,050 | 1 |
| 21 | FRIENDS OF PHIL GRAMM '90C00170712 | $3,000 | 5 |
| 22 | PEOPLE FOR BOSCHWITZ 1990C00128330 | $3,000 | 4 |
| 23 | FRIENDS OF SONNY BONOC00287607 | $3,000 | 1 |
| 24 | VICTORY IN NEW YORKC00340323 | $3,000 | 3 |
| 25 | DAVID ASHE FOR CONGRESSC00397844 | $3,000 | 2 |