BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Total Donated
$6,454,275
Contributions
21,484
Unique Donors
1,242
Donors who listed BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT as occupation account for $6,454,275 in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s index of FEC.gov bulk files. That sum sits on 21,484 contribution lines tied to 1,242 donor records. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT is a function name as often as it is a job title. FEC.gov stores the text; it does not map it to a sales or partnership occupational code. In compact form the occupation total is $6.5 million.
Key figures
- BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT itemizations sum to $6,454,275 from 21,484 contributions and 1,242 donors.
- Mean amounts are about $300 per contribution and about $5,197 per donor record.
- The function label is not a cleaned business-development industry total.
- Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X, not a verified job roster.
Headline receipts on a function string
$6,454,275 is the occupation-level dollar total. 21,484 is the itemization count. 1,242 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $300 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $5,197 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 17 itemizations per donor record. Twenty-one thousand-plus lines from 1,242 donor records points to frequent itemization rather than a handful of large checks.
Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $300 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.
A two-word function is a coarse bucket. Business-development directors, BD representatives, and partnership leads can all land here—or on longer strings that never join this total.
Why BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT is a noisy label
Some donors write BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; others write BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER or BD. FEC bulk data keeps each spelling. LobbyVault does not merge them.
FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT after indexing. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, SALES, and BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT.
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Questions
- How much have business development donors given in FEC records?
- Itemizations that list BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT sum to $6,454,275 across 21,484 contributions and 1,242 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.
- Is business development a standardized FEC job code?
- No. Occupation is free text. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT itemizations sum to $6,454,275 from 21,484 contributions and 1,242 donor records. Related titles with extra words are not included. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.
- Does this include business development managers?
- Only if the occupation field is exactly BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. A donor listed as business development manager is a different key. This page is $6,454,275, 21,484 lines, and 1,242 donors. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.
- How do I see who received the money?
- The BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Confirm any committee on FEC.gov. This packet does not include a recipient ranking. The occupation total remains $6,454,275. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.
Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. Indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.