CREATIVE DIRECTOR

High-repeat receipts in a small director pool

$5,970,821 is the occupation-level dollar total. 19,519 is the itemization count. 636 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $306 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $9,388 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 31 itemizations per donor record. Nineteen thousand-plus lines from 636 donor records is a high-repeat pattern in a still-limited headcount: many receipts per person.

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 $306 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

The repeat rate is high relative to dual-title CEO keys with similar dollars. Recurring conduit gifts and multi-committee giving can each add rows.

How director titles splinter in FEC text

ART DIRECTOR, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, and DIRECTOR are different occupation keys. A donor who files DIRECTOR in one cycle and CREATIVE DIRECTOR in another is split across occupation pages.

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 CREATIVE DIRECTOR after indexing. ART DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR, and CREATIVE remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to CREATIVE DIRECTOR.

Questions

How much have creative director donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list CREATIVE DIRECTOR sum to $5,970,821 across 19,519 contributions and 636 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 art director included in this total?

No. ART DIRECTOR is a different occupation key. This page covers CREATIVE DIRECTOR only: $5,970,821, 19,519 contributions, and 636 donors. Combining them would invent a total the packet does not publish. 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.

Why so many contributions from 636 donors?

The index lists 19,519 lines against 636 people, about 31 lines per record. Repeat itemizations are the norm. Dividing $5,970,821 by lines yields about $306 per contribution, a mean rather than a typical check. 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.

Where can I inspect the itemizations?

The CREATIVE DIRECTOR occupation page lists indexed lines. Confirm amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total remains $5,970,821. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.