Volunteer

Volunteer as stored text, 2014 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Volunteer and 2014 — sum to $629,022. The cell holds 608 itemized contributions and 173 unique donors. 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 2014 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. One hundred seventy-three 2014 donors are unique keys matching that word. Campaign volunteer work and nonprofit volunteering can share the same four 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.

4.6% of the Volunteer roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $13,666,117 ($13.7 million). The 2014 slice of $629,022 is about 4.6% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.4%. Treating 2014 as the Volunteer FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $13,666,117 as the denominator for the 4.6% 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 2014 from being folded silently into $13,666,117.

Questions

How much did Volunteer donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $629,022 in itemized individual contributions for the Volunteer grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 608 contributions and 173 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $13,666,117 all-cycle figure.

What share of Volunteer FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $13,666,117. The 2014 cell of $629,022 is about 4.6% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.4% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Volunteer hub holds other cycles; the 2014 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed volunteers?

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 2014 only, totaling $629,022 from 173 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Volunteer 2014 join?

Open Volunteer 2014 for the cycle overlay, Volunteer for the grouping hub, and the 2014 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.