Builder political contributions from Bethesda, MD

How Builder meets Bethesda

This page is a join. One dimension is contributor city Bethesda, MD. The other is occupation or industry grouping Builder (stored as BUILDER). $31,825 is the intersection — dollars on receipts that carry both labels. $157,728,166 is the city bucket before the employer filter, built from 416,217 itemized lines. The harvested donor count inside the intersection is 7 donors, not a census of everyone in Bethesda who ever worked in a related trade.

LobbyVault does not add a third table and does not route these dollars through USAspending. A Form 3 itemization is not a federal award. Open the Bethesda, MD city hub for the unfiltered city book, the Builder industry hub for the grouping outside this city filter, Maryland campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Each of those pages answers a different question. This one answers only the intersection.

25 contributions from 7 donors produced $31,825. Repeat gifts add receipts; 7 donors is the headcount in this extract for the join, not a Census of Builder workers in Bethesda. Arithmetic mean per receipt is about $1,273; per donor, about $4,546. Those means are division of packet facts, not typical salaries and not medians.

What the Bethesda city book holds

Bethesda indexes $157,728,166 ($158 million rounded) on 416,217 itemized individual contributions. City labels are filer-entered. A suburb that types a different city never enters $157,728,166. Joint-fundraising and committee addresses that happen to list Bethesda can sit in the same bucket as residents. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for the city as a whole, so this page does not invent one from 416,217.

Maryland campaign-finance pages cover the state, which is a larger geography than Bethesda. Do not treat $157,728,166 as the MD state total. Unitemized federal gifts never carry a published city in this roll-up, so they never enter $157,728,166. State-office campaigns in Maryland file under state law and sit outside these FEC individual-contribution aggregates. Bethesda sits in Maryland next to the District; filers who typed WASHINGTON or another suburb never enter this Bethesda book.

The Builder slice inside Bethesda

Inside Bethesda, receipts tagged Builder total $31,825 on 25 lines from 7 donors. That is under 0.1% of $157,728,166. About $1,273 per receipt is $31,825 divided by 25. About $4,546 per harvested donor is $31,825 divided by 7. Those ratios describe shape. They are not medians, not typical household gifts, and not salaries.

Builder is an exact employer/occupation string, not a sector roll-up. Nearby spellings, firm names, and blank employer rows are other keys. $31,825 counts only rows that stored BUILDER with contributor city BETHESDA.

Repeat gifts, household pairs, and spelling variants of Builder that did not match this key never enter $31,825. Repeat gifts that did match add to 25 without necessarily adding to 7. Keep line count and donor count attached to their nouns when citing Bethesda.

What this join is not

It is not a ranking of Bethesda neighborhoods. It is not a safety comparison. It is not proof that Builder money funded a federal contract, grant, or loan. Campaign contributions and USAspending awards are different disclosure systems even when they mention the same city. This packet has no award dollars, so this page prints none.

It is not Builder nationwide unless the industry hub — a different page — is cited separately, and this packet does not harvest that nationwide integer. It is not a PAC independent-expenditure total. Motive is not a field. Party split is not a field in this packet. Missing fields stay missing.

under 0.1% is $31,825 divided by $157,728,166. Rounding the city total to $158 million does not create a second extract. Use $157,728,166 in a table. Use $158 million only as a headline form of the same integer. Correlation is not causation: two filer-entered fields meeting is not evidence that Builder “controls” Bethesda politics.

How to cite the Bethesda × Builder facts

Citation template: occupation or industry grouping Builder, contributor city Bethesda, MD, $31,825 on 25 itemized individual contributions from 7 donors, against a city-wide $157,728,166 on 416,217 contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.

Then send the reader to the live Bethesda, MD hub, the Builder industry page, Maryland campaign finance, and All FEC ties. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live hubs control. Do not add $31,825 to $157,728,166; the first number is already inside the second.

Using the Bethesda and Builder hubs together

The Bethesda, MD hub is the unfiltered city index: $157,728,166 on 416,217 lines. The Builder hub is the grouping without this city’s filter; this packet does not print that nationwide integer, so do not guess it from $31,825. Maryland campaign finance is the state roll-up, a larger geography than Bethesda. All FEC ties is the inventory of other two-table pages. Use all four links. None of them turns $31,825 into a federal award.

If you need names, open the live city and industry hubs rather than reverse-engineering 7 donors from this snapshot. If you need cycle cuts of Bethesda, those are city-cycle joins, not this file. If you need Builder in a single even-year window, those are industry-cycle joins. This file stays on one city and one employer string: Bethesda and Builder, $31,825, 25 receipts, 7 donors.

Questions

How much did Builder donors in Bethesda contribute?

Itemized individual contributions tagged Builder and Bethesda, MD total $31,825 across 25 receipts from 7 donors on FEC.gov aggregates indexed here. That join is under 0.1% of Bethesda’s $157,728,166 city-wide book. It is not a PAC total. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is $31,825 the full Bethesda political-money total?

No. Bethesda indexes $157,728,166 across 416,217 itemized contributions. $31,825 is only the Builder employer/occupation slice inside that city. Other strings, unitemized gifts, and state-office filings sit outside the join. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Does Builder money in Bethesda fund federal spending there?

No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $31,825 does not become a contract because both rows can mention Bethesda. Different statutes, different forms. This packet has no obligation dollars. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where are the Bethesda and Builder live tables?

Use the Bethesda, MD city hub, the Builder industry hub, Maryland campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Original itemizations remain on FEC.gov. This guide quotes $31,825, 25 receipts, 7 donors, and $157,728,166.