SELF EMPLOYED INVESTMENTS

Two donor identities under a three-word investing label

LobbyVault stores employer and occupation groupings on one axis and election cycles on the other. Rows that match both keys — Self Employed Investments and 2008 — sum to $116,120. Fifty-one itemized contributions and 2 unique donors produced that cell. The figure is not a fund’s disbursement, does not name recipient committees, and is not an independent-expenditure total. Committee transfers live in other FEC tables. The join exists because two public dimensions overlapped on a stored string and an even-year tag.

Neither the Self Employed Investments hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Exact Self, used alone, is a placeholder this extract does not treat as a profession. Self Employed Investments is longer form text that names independent investing work. INVESTOR, INVESTMENTS, SELF EMPLOYED without Investments, and named firms such as Fidelity Investments remain other buckets if filers typed those strings instead. This page is the three-word grouping only. The FEC does not verify assets under management, a broker license, or a holdings report from the occupation field.

2.5% of the Self Employed Investments roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,680,701. The 2008 slice of $116,120 is about 2.5% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 97.5%, or $4,564,581. Treating 2008 as the Self Employed Investments FEC story would ignore that remainder. A presidential cycle cell this small relative to the parent is still a six-figure join, and it is still a thin slice of the published book.

Treat $4,680,701 as the denominator for the 2.5% share. It is not portfolio value, not brokerage revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $4,680,701 and keeps the cycle hub from being mistaken for a single occupation’s book.

Questions

How much did Self Employed Investments donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $116,120 in itemized individual contributions for the Self Employed Investments grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 51 contributions and 2 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,680,701 all-cycle figure.

What share of Self Employed Investments FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,680,701. The 2008 cell of $116,120 is about 2.5% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 97.5%, or $4,564,581, on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is Self Employed Investments the same as the FEC placeholder Self?

No. Exact Self is a junk employer placeholder this extract does not treat as a profession. Self Employed Investments is a three-word occupation string naming independent investing work. INVESTOR, INVESTMENTS, and named firm keys remain other buckets. This join reports the 2008 string match only, totaling $116,120 from 2 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Self Employed Investments 2008 join?

Open Self Employed Investments 2008 for the cycle overlay, Self Employed Investments for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.