PRESIDENT

Dollars versus how often the title appears

The PRESIDENT bucket is large in money and smaller in transaction count than several professional labels. $524,537,942 across 728,591 itemizations implies about $720 per contribution. Spread across 71,381 donors, the mean is about $7,348 per donor record. Both means sit well above many high-volume occupations that post more gifts at lower amounts.

The itemization-to-donor ratio is about 10 contributions per donor record. That is fewer repeat lines than labels that generate twenty or thirty itemizations per person. The file still includes people who gave once and people who gave many times; the ratio is only a file-wide average.

Nothing in these three facts assigns the money to a party, a chamber, or a presidential campaign. PRESIDENT on the occupation line is independent of the candidate office field elsewhere on the same schedules.

Why the label is easy to misread

Searchers often treat PRESIDENT as a political office. In FEC contributor records it is an occupation. A bank president, a nonprofit president, and a closely held-company president can all type the same six letters. Vice presidents, CEOs, and chairmen who use those other words are stored on other occupation pages.

Committees are required to use best efforts to collect occupation. They are not required to verify that the donor is a sitting chief executive. Typos, abbreviations, and bilingual titles may land in other strings. This page is the exact PRESIDENT match in the indexed bulk data.

Questions

Are PRESIDENT occupation donors U.S. presidents?

No. PRESIDENT is the text donors wrote in the occupation box on FEC itemizations. The indexed total of $524,537,942 comes from 71,381 donor records using that job-title string, typically organization presidents, not holders of the presidency. The matching contribution count is 728,591 and the matching donor-record count is 71,381. 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 much money is attached to the PRESIDENT occupation?

LobbyVault’s index of FEC bulk data shows $524,537,942 on 728,591 contributions. Those are itemized amounts where occupation normalized to PRESIDENT. Unitemized receipts are outside this occupation total. 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.

How many people listed PRESIDENT as occupation?

71,381 donor records are tied to the PRESIDENT occupation string. That is a count of contributor records in the bulk file, not a verified census of sitting presidents of companies. The matching contribution count is 728,591 and the matching donor-record count is 71,381. 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 PRESIDENT combined with CEO or VICE PRESIDENT?

No. Each occupation string is totaled on its own page. Gifts labeled CEO, C.E.O., VICE PRESIDENT, or EXECUTIVE are excluded from the $524,537,942 PRESIDENT sum unless the occupation text matched PRESIDENT. The matching contribution count is 728,591 and the matching donor-record count is 71,381. 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.