Volunteer

Volunteer as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Volunteer and 2008 — sum to $987,883. 937 itemized contributions and 298 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Volunteer hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Filers who typed Volunteer on the employer or occupation line land in this bucket. The FEC does not verify unpaid status. Two hundred ninety-eight 2008 donors are unique keys matching that word. Campaign volunteer work and nonprofit volunteering can share the same letters on a form. RETIRED, NONE, NOT EMPLOYED, and HOMEMAKER are other FEC occupation/employer strings with their own pages. Volunteer is the stored word, not a recode of those neighbors.

7.2% of the Volunteer roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $13,666,117 ($13.7 million). The 2008 slice of $987,883 is about 7.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.8% ($12,678,234). Treating 2008 as the Volunteer FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $13,666,117 as the denominator for the 7.2% share. It is not market capitalization, not 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 $13,666,117.

Questions

How much did Volunteer donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $987,883 in itemized individual contributions for the Volunteer grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 937 contributions and 298 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $13,666,117 all-cycle figure.

What share of Volunteer FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $13,666,117. The 2008 cell of $987,883 is about 7.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.8% ($12,678,234) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Volunteer hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed Volunteer donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Volunteer. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $987,883 from 298 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Volunteer 2008 join?

Open Volunteer 2008 for the cycle overlay, Volunteer 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.