Advisor receipts in the 2012 election cycle

Joining ADVISOR to the 2012 cycle

Advisor in 2012 is $433,476 on 382 itemized lines from 178 people in the unique-donor roll-up. 2012 accounts for 7.5% of the Advisor occupation total ($433,476 of $5,786,620). Most Advisor-coded dollars sit in other FEC cycles. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, grouped by self-reported occupation and election cycle, are the source.

382 contributions from 178 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. Unique-donor count collapses multiple gifts by the same person inside this occupation-cycle pair. It does not verify that those 178 people still used that title after 2012. The one-word spelling is the stored key. Longer advisor titles stay on other pages. This cell does not recode CONSULTANT into ADVISOR.

This page is not a restatement of the Advisor hub or of the 2012 cycle hub. The occupation hub is every cycle. The cycle hub is every occupation. The tie is the intersection: $433,476.

Reading ADVISOR without merging sibling titles

Filers who typed advisor produced the all-cycle occupation total of $5,786,620. ADVISOR is a one-word title spanning financial, political, and academic uses. FINANCIAL ADVISOR, INVESTMENTS ADVISOR, and the -er spelling ADVISER remain other keys. The join does not assign industry or Series registrations. The occupation is not an SEC RIA census, a FINRA representative file, or a merge with FINANCIAL ADVISOR.

Reading 2012 without treating it as all Advisor money

The 2012 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Advisor. $433,476 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2012. A presidential-year FEC window. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a 2014 midterm cycle.

382 contributions from 178 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. About 2.1 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $1,135; mean per donor about $2,435. Those means are arithmetic on the 2012 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $433,476. Three numbers define the Advisor × 2012 cell: dollars $433,476, contribution rows 382, unique donors 178. Share of occupation dollars is 7.5% of $5,786,620.

How not to read Advisor money in 2012

Matching Advisor with 2012 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Advisor donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not an SEC RIA census, a FINRA representative file, or a merge with FINANCIAL ADVISOR.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. ADVISOR is a one-word title spanning financial, political, and academic uses. FINANCIAL ADVISOR, INVESTMENTS ADVISOR, and the -er spelling ADVISER remain other keys. The join does not assign industry or Series registrations. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $433,476 funded USAspending obligations. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Advisor donations hub is $5,786,620; the 2012 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Advisor and 2012 tables

Advisor donations holds the $5,786,620 occupation total. The 2012 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Advisor. All occupations places ADVISOR beside other titles without merging sibling strings (ADVISER, FINANCIAL ADVISOR, and INVESTMENTS ADVISOR). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $433,476 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Advisor dollars ($5,786,620). Use the 2012 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $433,476, 382 contributions, 178 donors, 7.5% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Using the Advisor 2012 figures in a citation

A usable sentence names both sides: occupation ADVISOR, cycle 2012, $433,476 itemized, 382 contributions, 178 donors, source FEC.gov. Do not round $433,476 into a second invented extract.

Do not cite $5,786,620 as the 2012 figure. $5,786,620 is all-cycle Advisor. Do not cite a cycle-wide total from this page; $433,476 is Advisor only.

Questions

How much did Advisor-labeled donors give in 2012?

The Advisor grouping’s 2012 cell is $433,476 in itemized individual contributions, from 382 contributions and 178 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $5,786,620 all-cycle occupation total.

Does Advisor include financial advisors?

Only if they typed ADVISOR. FINANCIAL ADVISOR and INVESTMENTS ADVISOR are separate occupation pages. The 2012 cycle filter on Advisor is $433,476, 382 contributions, and 178 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $5,786,620. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Advisor FEC money fell in 2012?

About 7.5%. $433,476 divided by $5,786,620 is the 2012 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 92.5% ($5,353,144) on the occupation hub. See the Advisor occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Advisor 2012 money fund federal awards?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $433,476 is itemized receipts tagged ADVISOR in 2012, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.