Business donors and dollars in the 2014 cycle

The join key behind $1.1 million in 2014

The packet facts for this join are occupation BUSINESS, occupation total $18,619,893, cycle 2014, cycle total $1,061,253, 666 contributions, and 245 donors. 5.7% is $1,061,253 as a share of $18,619,893. No other dollar, year, or headcount belongs on this page.

Internal links stay inside that inventory: Business donations for the occupation hub, 2014 election cycle for the cycle hub, all occupations for peer strings, and all FEC ties for other joins. Those pages do not add receipts to federal awards and do not convert occupation strings into NAICS codes.

Reading $18.6 million without flattening 2014

The occupation-wide total for BUSINESS on this extract is $18,619,893 ($18.6 million). That figure includes every indexed cycle for the same string, not only 2014. $1,061,253 is the 2014 slice (5.7%). BUSINESS is the bare occupation string. BUSINESS OWNER, BUSINESSMAN, BUSINESSWOMAN, and SELF EMPLOYED are other keys. The join does not treat BUSINESS as a NAICS roll-up or as a census of firms.

Party, office, and recipient committee are not in this packet’s occupation facts. $18,619,893 is dollars on the string, not dollars to a party. If you need recipient mix, use the occupation hub’s committee tables rather than reading a party into $1,061,253. This join’s facts stop at occupation, cycle, dollars, rows, and donors.

2014 itemized lines for the Business string

The 2014 value is the FEC two-year election cycle that closes on the 2014 federal election calendar. It is a reporting window on individual contribution records, not a single Election Day total and not a count of offices on the ballot. Receipts dated inside that cycle window stay here; receipts dated in another even-year cycle sit on that other join. Inside that window, Business accounts for $1,061,253 on 666 contributions from 245 donors.

Cycle hubs change when bulk files are reloaded. Occupation hubs change when strings are re-aggregated. This join inherits both refresh paths. After a reload, confirm $1,061,253, 666, and 245 on 2014 election cycle and Business donations before quoting the snapshot.

Using $4,332 per donor without inventing a typical gift

666 contributions and 245 donors describe different units. A row is an itemized receipt line. A donor is a unique person inside this occupation–cycle filter as LobbyVault matches names. 666 divided by 245 is the mean lines per donor in this cell; $1,061,253 divided by 245 is about $4,332 per donor; $1,061,253 divided by 666 is about $1,593 per line. Means are not medians. Large gifts pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median.

$1,593 per line is a check on scale, not a legal limit. Federal contribution limits vary by recipient and year and are not a field in this packet. Do not infer a limit from $1,593 or $4,332. Cite the FEC limit tables if you need that rule; they are outside these facts.

A complete citation names occupation BUSINESS, cycle 2014, dollars $1,061,253, contribution lines 666, and unique donors 245. Omitting the occupation string makes the cycle look occupation-wide. Omitting the cycle makes the occupation hub look like a single-year figure. Omitting the donor count invites a reader to treat 666 as people. Keep all five tokens.

Where to go next from this occupation–cycle cell

This page is not a claim that donations fund federal spending. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets. The join here is occupation × cycle inside FEC.gov only. It is not a ranking of occupations, not medical or political advice, and not a statement that Business as a profession acted in concert in 2014.

Use all FEC ties to move to another occupation–cycle pair without treating this cell as a baseline rank. Use all occupations to see other strings. Use Business donations and 2014 election cycle for the unjoined hubs. Quote $1,061,253 with 2014 and BUSINESS attached every time.

Business donations is the all-cycle table for this string. 2014 election cycle is the all-occupation table for 2014. All occupations is the string inventory. All FEC ties is the join inventory. None of those pages authorizes adding $1,061,253 to a USAspending obligation total or ranking Business as more influential than another title.

Questions

What did people listing Business disclose in 2014?

Itemized individual contributions with occupation BUSINESS total $1,061,253 in the 2014 FEC cycle. LobbyVault counts 666 contributions and 245 unique donors in that cell. The occupation-wide total for the same string on this extract is $18,619,893, so 2014 is 5.7% of that roll-up. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.

Is this page the same as the Business occupation hub?

No. $1,061,253 is the 2014 slice only. The occupation hub still shows $18,619,893 across the extract. This page is a join: occupation string plus even-year cycle. It is not a restatement of Business donations and not a restatement of 2014 election cycle. Adding other cycles here would invent dollars the packet does not list.

Does each contribution equal one Business donor?

The join lists 245 unique donors and 666 contribution lines for BUSINESS in 2014. A person can give more than once, so lines exceed donors. About $4,332 per donor and $1,593 per line are means from $1,061,253, not medians and not typical gifts. Name matching can split or merge people. This is not a job-census headcount.

Can I treat Business as a NAICS or BLS group?

No. The filter is the exact occupation string BUSINESS as filers typed it. Nearby titles stay on other keys listed under all occupations. The string is not a NAICS code, not a BLS occupation, and not a PAC. See Business donations for this key’s all-cycle table and all FEC ties for other joins. Cite FEC.gov.