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CHAIRMAN

Total Donated

$98,545,716

Contributions

35,525

Unique Donors

6,317

Donors who listed CHAIRMAN as occupation account for $98,545,716 in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s FEC.gov bulk index. Those dollars sit on only 35,525 contributions from 6,317 donor records. The title is sparse in the file and heavy in dollars per line compared with high-frequency professional labels. In compact form that dollar total is $98.5 million in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data.

Key figures

  • CHAIRMAN occupation itemizations sum to $98,545,716 from 35,525 contributions and 6,317 donors.
  • Mean amounts are about $2,774 per contribution and about $15,600 per donor record.
  • The title is self-reported and does not distinguish corporate boards from party roles.
  • CEO, PRESIDENT, and FOUNDER remain separate occupation keys.

Low volume, high dollars per itemization

35,525 contributions is a thin stack next to occupations that post hundreds of thousands of lines. Against $98,545,716, the mean is about $2,774 per contribution. Against 6,317 donors, the mean is about $15,600 per donor record. About 6 contributions per donor is a modest repeat rate.

That shape is concentration: fewer records, larger average amounts. It is not proof that every chairman writes a large check. Means move with tails. The packet has no median or top-gift list.

Chairwoman, chair, and board chair are other strings if that is what the donor wrote. This page is the CHAIRMAN match only.

Board title versus political party chair

In English, chairman can mean a corporate board chair or a party committee chair. The FEC occupation field does not classify which. Employer text, when present, is the better clue and is not one of this packet’s three facts.

Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word. There is no board-secretary verification. Retired chairs and honorary chairs may still type CHAIRMAN.

Full analysis: CHAIRMAN occupation money in FEC itemizations →

Questions

How much have CHAIRMAN-occupation donors given?
Occupation CHAIRMAN is attached to $98,545,716 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 35,525 contributions and 6,317 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a board-of-directors registry. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.
Why is the average chairman contribution high?
$98,545,716 on 35,525 itemizations is about $2,774 per contribution, and about $15,600 per donor record. Those are arithmetic means on a small-volume key. The packet does not include a median. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.
Does CHAIRMAN mean Republican or Democratic party chair?
Not by itself. The occupation field does not encode party role versus corporate board role. $98,545,716 is money on lines that happen to say CHAIRMAN. The matching contribution count is 35,525 and the matching donor-record count is 6,317. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.
Is chairwoman included?
Only if the occupation text normalized to CHAIRMAN. Other chair titles are separate strings unless they matched this key. This page cites 6,317 donors on the CHAIRMAN match. The matching contribution count is 35,525 and the matching donor-record count is 6,317. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.

Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. Indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.

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