CTO

An acronym under a $6.4 million headline

$6,430,020 is the occupation-level dollar total. 12,843 is the itemization count. 660 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $501 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $9,742 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 19 itemizations per donor record. Twelve thousand-plus lines from 660 donor records shows repeat itemization in a still-concentrated executive-acronym pool.

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 $501 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Mean dollars per donor record sit higher than high-volume professional labels with similar headline dollars. Frequency and dollar size are different dimensions.

CTO is not a spelled-out officer title

The FEC record does not verify that the donor holds a chief technology officer role. Startup CTOs, nonprofit CTOs, and people using the letters loosely can all appear. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

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 CTO after indexing. CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER, and CIO remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to CTO.

Questions

How much have cto donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list CTO sum to $6,430,020 across 12,843 contributions and 660 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.

Does listing CTO prove the donor is a chief technology officer?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify corporate officers. Quote 12,843 contributions and 660 donor records with the $6,430,020 total. 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.

Is CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER included in the CTO total?

Only if the occupation field equals CTO. Spelled-out titles are separate keys. This page covers $6,430,020, 12,843 contributions, and 660 donors for the three-letter string. 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.

What is the average CTO contribution in this file?

Dividing $6,430,020 by 12,843 itemizations yields about $501 per contribution. Dividing by 660 donors yields about $9,742 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.