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PRINCIPAL

Total Donated

$43,606,592

Contributions

96,709

Unique Donors

7,007

Donors who listed PRINCIPAL as occupation posted $43,606,592 in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s FEC.gov bulk index. Those receipts are 96,709 contributions from 7,007 donor records. PRINCIPAL is an ambiguous English title: it can mean a school administrator, a firm owner, an investment-firm rank, or a generic senior role. On FEC forms it is still one occupation string. In compact form the occupation total is $43.6 million.

Key figures

  • PRINCIPAL itemizations sum to $43,606,592 from 96,709 contributions and 7,007 donors.
  • The word is ambiguous self-reported text, not a school-administrator or firm-rank census.
  • Mean amounts are about $451 per contribution and about $6,223 per donor record.
  • Industry pages are a separate employer-side cut and should not be added to this total.

Dollar scale without a job census

$43,606,592, 96,709 itemizations, and 7,007 donor records describe different slices of the same occupation filter. Mean contribution size is about $451. Mean dollars per donor record is about $6,223. Repeat giving is about 14 itemizations per donor record.

Those means sit between high-volume trades and concentrated executive keys. They do not tell you which sense of principal the donor meant. The packet has no employer cross-tab and no median.

7,007 donor records used this word on at least one matching line. That is a contributor-record count, not a count of school principals or of private-equity principals.

One word, several civilian meanings

FEC occupation is free text. The bulk file does not split PRINCIPAL into education versus investment versus ownership. Researchers who need one of those senses must use employer text, committee, or another field; this overlay does not invent that split.

Nearby titles such as MANAGING PARTNER, OWNER, and PRESIDENT are separate keys. A donor who wrote PRINCIPAL on one gift and OWNER on another will appear in both occupation totals for those gifts. This page cites only $43,606,592, 96,709 contributions, and 7,007 donors.

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Questions

How much have PRINCIPAL donors given in FEC records?
Itemizations that list PRINCIPAL sum to $43,606,592 across 96,709 contributions and 7,007 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a count of school principals or of investment-firm principals. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.
Does PRINCIPAL mean school principal in this file?
Not necessarily. Occupation is self-reported free text. The same string can cover school administrators, firm owners, and other uses of the word. This packet has no employer split. The matching facts remain $43,606,592, 96,709 contributions, and 7,007 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.
What is the average PRINCIPAL contribution?
Dividing $43,606,592 by 96,709 itemizations yields about $451 per contribution. Dividing by 7,007 donors yields about $6,223 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.
Can I add PRINCIPAL dollars to an industry total?
Not without double-counting. Industry pages group employer categories. Occupation PRINCIPAL is a contributor-title filter. Use one cut at a time. Cite 96,709 contributions and 7,007 donor records with the $43,606,592 headline when quoting this key. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

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

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