PROFESSOR
Total Donated
$143,456,267
Contributions
1,004,889
Unique Donors
24,104
Contributors who listed PROFESSOR as occupation posted $143,456,267 in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s FEC.gov bulk index. The money arrived in 1,004,889 contributions from 24,104 donor records. PROFESSOR is the occupation text on Form 3 and Form 3X schedules, not a match to university payroll files. In compact form that dollar total is $143.5 million in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data.
Key figures
- PROFESSOR itemizations total $143,456,267 from 1,004,889 contributions and 24,104 donors.
- Mean line size is about $143; repeat itemizing is about 42 contributions per donor record.
- TEACHER and other academic titles are separate occupation keys.
- The string is self-reported FEC occupation text, not a faculty payroll extract.
A million itemizations on a mid-pack dollar total
1,004,889 contributions is an unusually high line count for $143,456,267. The mean itemization is about $143, among the smallest means in this occupation harvest. 24,104 donor records imply about $5,952 per donor and about 42 contributions per donor record.
That pattern is high-frequency, modest-size itemizing. Many PROFESSOR records reappear across filings. The packet does not say whether those repeats are monthly small gifts, bundled items, or gifts to many committees. It only supplies the three occupation-level numbers.
Teacher, lecturer, instructor, and adjunct are other strings if donors used those words. This page is PROFESSOR only. Combining academic titles would invent a total the bulk file does not publish.
Academic titles as free text
Assistant, associate, and full professors may all type PROFESSOR. So may retired faculty and people who teach part time. The FEC occupation box does not encode rank, tenure, or campus. Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word.
A faculty member who wrote PHYSICIAN, SCIENTIST, or RESEARCHER instead will appear on those pages. Occupation is stored per itemization, so mixed titles across gifts split the person’s dollars.
Full analysis: Professor donors in FEC occupation records →
Questions
- How much have PROFESSOR donors given in FEC data?
- Occupation PROFESSOR is attached to $143,456,267 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 1,004,889 contributions and 24,104 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a university employment match. 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.
- Why are there more than a million professor contributions?
- 1,004,889 itemizations from 24,104 donors implies about 42 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $143. The packet does not include a median or a gift-size table. 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 TEACHER included in the PROFESSOR total?
- No. TEACHER is a separate occupation string. Only lines that normalized to PROFESSOR are in $143,456,267, 1,004,889 contributions, and 24,104 donors. 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.
- Does PROFESSOR include K-12 teachers who used that word?
- If they typed PROFESSOR, those lines are here. The FEC field does not verify campus level. Most K-12 donors who wrote TEACHER are on the TEACHER page instead. The matching contribution count is 1,004,889 and the matching donor-record count is 24,104. 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.