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SOCIAL WORKER

Total Donated

$6,567,509

Contributions

22,938

Unique Donors

307

Top Employer

SOCIAL WORKER

$6,567,509 in itemized individual contributions sit under the FEC employer text SOCIAL WORKER, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 22,938 contributions from 307 donors. SOCIAL WORKER is a professional title in the employer box, not a NAICS social-assistance total, not a union PAC, and not every nonprofit employee. COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER is a sibling status string, not a license synonym.

Key figures

  • SOCIAL WORKER as FEC employer text totals $6,567,509 from 307 donors.
  • 22,938 contribution lines sit under that license-title string.
  • COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER and PSYCHOLOGIST are separate FEC keys.
  • The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or association PAC total.

A license title where a agency name usually goes

Many social workers type a hospital, a county, or a nonprofit. 307 donors typed SOCIAL WORKER instead. LobbyVault groups that title as an industry key. The $6,567,509 total is those itemized gifts. It is not HHS grants and not a census of licensed social workers.

Donors who listed a specific agency, KAISER PERMANENTE, a school district, or COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER sit in other rows. Occupation pages can show social worker as a title beside a named employer. This page stays on the employer-box string SOCIAL WORKER.

Clinical, school, and policy social workers can share SOCIAL WORKER if they skipped the agency name. The $6,567,509 total cannot be read as hospital-social-work spending or as a union PAC.

307 donors and 22,938 lines

307 unique donors produced 22,938 SOCIAL WORKER contribution lines totaling $6,567,509. That is on the order of 75 itemized receipts per donor — dense relative to the 307-person donor count. Recurring itemized gifts can produce that ratio. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a clinical-versus-policy split.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and any association committee filings are outside the $6,567,509 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.

307 unique donors produced 22,938 lines. That density is repeats, not 307 simultaneous jobs. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings stay out of every figure here.

Full analysis: SOCIAL WORKER as FEC employer text: $6.6 million

Questions

How much have SOCIAL WORKER-listed donors given federally?
LobbyVault attributes $6,567,509 to the SOCIAL WORKER employer string, from 22,938 contributions and 307 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not an association PAC and not a NAICS social-assistance total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
Is SOCIAL WORKER a company on FEC forms?
On this row it functions as employer text: 307 donors typed SOCIAL WORKER where filers usually put a firm or agency. It is not a single employer’s treasury. People who listed a hospital, county, or nonprofit name sit in other rows. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts are omitted.
Does this include community volunteers or psychologists?
No. COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER and PSYCHOLOGIST are separate strings. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text SOCIAL WORKER. People who typed only VOLUNTEER are in that other row. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
How many unique donors listed SOCIAL WORKER?
The rollup counts 307 donors and 22,938 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a census of licensed social workers. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Cycle-over-Cycle Trend

SOCIAL WORKER political contributions by election cycle.
CycleTotalContributionsDonors
1980$12,885187
1982$3,97842
1984$15,445123
1986$6,00074
1988$15,971133
1990$13,450124
1992$23,350395
1994$7,950145
1996$22,075314
1998$18,027224
2000$7,617123
2002$7,500123
2004$22,600184
2006$11,50092
2008$36,387334
2010$42,900153
2012$45,100175
2014$54,900172

Top Donors

Top SOCIAL WORKER donors ranked by total donated.
#NameTotalContributionsCity / StateOccupationHistory
1CHASIN, LAURA R$4,2507CAMBRIDGE, MA1980
2EPSTEIN, SARAH G$3,0004WASHINGTON, DC1980
3LADD, HELEN P$2,8853CAMBRIDGE, MA1980
4COLE, MARCIA NEWMAN$1,0001LYNDHURST, OH1980
5IGNACIO, LEMUEL F$1,0001SAN JOSE, CA1980
6BAKALAR, SANDRA$5001BROOKLINE, MA1980
7BAKALAR, SAMDRA$4751BROOKLINE, MA1980
8ELIAS, ROSAMARIA$2501SAN JUAN, PR1980
9HURTADO, AURELIO$2501ST HELENA, CA1980
10INABA, MASATO MRS$2501BERKELEY, CA1980
11MCDONALD, LINDA$2501CANOGA PARK, CA1980

Top Recipients

Top political committees that received SOCIAL WORKER donations.
#CommitteeTotalContributions
1DSCCC00042366$89,2758
2DNC SERVICES CORP / DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEC00010603$23,95012
3COUNCIL FOR A LIVABLE WORLDC00029165$17,3353
4OBAMA FOR AMERICAC00431445$7,0508
5KERRY COMMITTEEC00177147$7,02514
6COFFMAN FOR CONGRESS 2016C00570457$5,4001
7COFFMAN FOR CONGRESS 2018C00629287$5,4001
8COFFMAN FOR CONGRESSC00497180$5,2001
9DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF MARYLANDC00141812$5,0004
10AMERICA COMING TOGETHERC00388876$5,0007
11FUND FOR A DEMOCRATIC MAJORITYC00140376$5,0001
12UDALL FOR COLORADOC00331439$4,9007
13FRIENDS OF JAY ROCKEFELLERC00416826$4,6007
14HARVEY GANTT FOR SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEEC00242156$4,00010
15FRIENDS OF SENATOR ROCKEFELLERC00224972$4,0007
16SALAZAR FOR SENATEC00397679$4,0007
17NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AN EFFECTIVE CONGRESSC00003558$3,8713
18WINREDC00694323$3,7421
19ACTBLUEC00401224$3,7028
20BOB SCHAFFER FOR US SENATEC00434985$3,6001
21FRIENDS OF MARY LANDRIEU, INC.C00325126$3,6007
22FRIENDS OF BARBARA BOXERC00279315$3,40010
23MARTHA COAKLEY FOR SENATE COMMITTEEC00466573$3,10011
24MARK PRYOR FOR US SENATEC00366401$3,10010
25GUY MILLNER FOR US SENATEC00308700$3,0001