Architect occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Where Architect meets 2008

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation ARCHITECT and the 2008 election cycle. The intersection is $3,067,040 ($3.1 million), 3,599 contributions, and 1,776 donors. 9.6% of Architect occupation dollars ($31,910,255) fall in 2008.

2008 is an even-year federal cycle labeled 2008 on FEC.gov, a presidential-year window in itemized receipts. This page does not add later cycles into the 2008 dollars. ARCHITECT is a job-title string. Landscape architect, intern architect, or architecture firm owner, if typed that way, are other buckets. The 2008 page does not map donors to state architecture boards.

A Architect bucket, not a license file

On the occupation side, $31,910,255 is the Architect total across cycles. Sibling labels (ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER, and ENGINEER) stay on other pages. Architect is not an AIA membership count, a firm PAC, or a licensed-architect census.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $31,910,255. The Architect donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $3,067,040 is a slice of. Dividing $3,067,040 by 3,599 receipts yields about $852 per line; dividing by 1,776 donors yields about $1,727 per person. Those ratios are arithmetic, not medians.

3,599 Architect receipts in presidential-year 2008

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Architect. $3,067,040 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

3,599 contributions from 1,776 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. About 2.0 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $852; mean per donor about $1,727. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $3,067,040. Three numbers define the Architect × 2008 cell: dollars $3,067,040, contribution rows 3,599, unique donors 1,776. Share of occupation dollars is 9.6% of $31,910,255.

FEC receipts are not federal awards

Matching Architect with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Architect donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not an AIA membership count, a firm PAC, or a licensed-architect census.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. ARCHITECT is a job-title string. Landscape architect, intern architect, or architecture firm owner, if typed that way, are other buckets. The 2008 page does not map donors to state architecture boards. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $3,067,040 funded USAspending obligations. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Architect donations hub is $31,910,255; the 2008 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Architect and 2008 tables

Architect donations holds the $31,910,255 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Architect. All occupations places ARCHITECT beside other titles without merging sibling strings (ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER, and ENGINEER). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $3,067,040 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Architect dollars ($31,910,255). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $3,067,040, 3,599 contributions, 1,776 donors, 9.6% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Volume facts for Architect in 2008

Keep 3,599 contributions and 1,776 donors in the same citation so readers can see whether Architect in 2008 is a high-volume stack or a concentrated roster. About 2.0 receipts per donor and about $1,727 per donor are ratios, not typical gifts.

The all-cycle occupation total $31,910,255 answers a different question: every window combined, not this two-year clock. Unitemized receipts, independent expenditures, and state-office campaigns sit outside this extract. FEC.gov is the source.

Questions

How much did Architect-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Architect grouping’s 2008 cell is $3,067,040 in itemized individual contributions, from 3,599 contributions and 1,776 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $31,910,255 all-cycle occupation total.

Is this the AIA’s political spending?

No. Individual itemized gifts tagged ARCHITECT are not an association PAC total. The 2008 cycle filter on Architect is $3,067,040, 3,599 contributions, and 1,776 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $31,910,255. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Architect FEC money fell in 2008?

About 9.6%. $3,067,040 divided by $31,910,255 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 90.4% ($28,843,215) on the occupation hub. See the Architect occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Architect 2008 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. $3,067,040 is itemized receipts tagged ARCHITECT in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.