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OWNER

Total Donated

$320,909,004

Contributions

584,805

Unique Donors

56,888

The occupation text OWNER is attached to $320,909,004 in federal itemized receipts in LobbyVault’s FEC.gov bulk index. Those receipts are 584,805 contributions from 56,888 donor records. OWNER is a short self-reported label; it is stored apart from BUSINESS OWNER even though English speakers treat the phrases as cousins. In compact form that dollar total is $320.9 million in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data.

Key figures

  • OWNER occupation itemizations total $320,909,004 from 584,805 contributions and 56,888 donors.
  • BUSINESS OWNER is a separate string and is not included in this sum.
  • Mean amounts are about $549 per contribution and about $5,640 per donor record.
  • The label is self-reported FEC occupation text, not a business-license match.

A broad title with a large donor pool

56,888 donor records make OWNER one of the wider occupation keys in this extract. $320,909,004 across that pool averages about $5,640 per donor record. Across 584,805 itemizations the mean is about $549 per contribution. The donor pool is larger than several C-suite strings that post comparable dollars with fewer people.

About 10 contributions per donor record is the repeat rate. That sits near other small-business-style labels and below occupations that itemize dozens of times per person. The ratio does not identify sole proprietors versus multi-entity owners; the FEC box does not encode entity count.

Because OWNER is short, it absorbs many kinds of property and business claims: shop owners, practice owners, and people who wrote owner without naming what they own. The public record is the word, not a NAICS code.

OWNER versus BUSINESS OWNER in the same extract

BUSINESS OWNER is a longer string with its own dollar, contribution, and donor facts. This page does not include those rows. A donor who wrote OWNER on one gift and BUSINESS OWNER on another appears in both totals for the matching lines.

Committees following best efforts record what the donor provided. They are not required to expand OWNER into a business description. Researchers who want a combined “owners” figure must add the separate keys themselves and say so; this overlay cites only $320,909,004, 584,805 contributions, and 56,888 donors.

Full analysis: OWNER as filed on FEC occupation lines →

Questions

How much have OWNER-occupation donors given?
Itemizations listing OWNER sum to $320,909,004 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 584,805 contributions and 56,888 donor records. The total is the occupation-string sum, not a census of business owners. 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.
Is OWNER combined with BUSINESS OWNER?
No. BUSINESS OWNER is a separate occupation key. This page’s $320,909,004 excludes gifts whose occupation text was BUSINESS OWNER unless that text normalized to OWNER. The matching contribution count is 584,805 and the matching donor-record count is 56,888. 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.
How many OWNER donors are in the file?
56,888 donor records are attached to OWNER itemizations. That count is FEC contributor records, not a de-duplicated list of unique humans or a registry of firms. The matching contribution count is 584,805 and the matching donor-record count is 56,888. 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.
Does OWNER tell me what kind of business the donor runs?
No. Occupation is free text. The word OWNER does not encode industry, revenue, or legal form. Employer and industry tables, when used, are separate filters on other fields. The matching contribution count is 584,805 and the matching donor-record count is 56,888. 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.