Community Volunteer donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Community Volunteer as occupation, 2012 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER and election cycle 2012. Matching rows sum to $1,205,926, 721 contributions, and 302 donors. 2012 is a two-word civic-status cell, kept separate from VOLUNTEER. The occupation hub rolls every cycle that used this spelling. The 2012 election-cycle hub rolls every occupation that filed that cycle. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

Community Volunteer is a two-word civic-status stamp as typed. Nearby strings — VOLUNTEER, HOMEMAKER, RETIRED, and COMMUNITY ACTIVIST — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $1,205,926 or $9,995,077. Community Volunteer on an FEC form is a self-description, not proof of hours at a named charity.

2012’s dollar share is 12.1% ($1,205,926 of $9,995,077). The remainder sits in other cycles on the occupation hub and is not itemized by year on this packet. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $1,205,926.

The Community Volunteer string across cycles

Under the exact label COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER, harvested individual contributions sum to $10.0 million ($9,995,077). The 2012 cell is 12.1% of that occupation total. The FEC file does not verify unpaid status or a named nonprofit affiliation. A share in a presidential cycle is a slice, not proof that the remaining dollars sat in any particular other year. Those other years are not in this packet.

Community Volunteer is not a campaign-field-staff list and not a 990 unpaid-staff field. Open Community Volunteer donations for the $9,995,077 roll. Open the 2012 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures.

2012 receipts and donors

Inside the 2012 cell, 721 itemized contributions map to 302 donors. That is about 2.4 receipts per donor in the join — a repeat-gift ratio, not a unique-person survey of everyone who holds a similar job. Dollars per receipt average about $1,673; dollars per donor average about $3,993. Averages hide large and small lines sitting in the same total.

Presidential-year volume can mix primary, general, and other receipts dated to 2012. This packet does not split $1,205,926 by those stages or by party. The 2012 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the Community Volunteer row. 302 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2012, not a turnout figure.

How to read the two dollar columns

Keep $1,205,926 attached to 2012 and $9,995,077 attached to the occupation string. Adding them would double-count the 2012 dollars that already sit inside the occupation total. Subtracting them does not yield “all other cycles”; it only yields a remainder that this packet does not itemize by year.

Cite FEC.gov. Individual contributions are not PAC independent expenditures and not lobbying registrations. Nothing in the join says donations paid for a federal award, a research grant, or a USAspending obligation. Quote $1,205,926 with both nouns: Community Volunteer and 2012.

What the Community Volunteer–2012 join does not claim

Occupation labels are filer-entered. Community Volunteer is not a campaign-field-staff list and not a 990 unpaid-staff field. A person who wrote a nearby title is not in $1.2 million. A person who wrote this string is in it even if the day job differs. LobbyVault does not audit licenses. The public record is the string plus the dollars.

No motive, no vote, no ranking of occupations. Not a 501(c) volunteer roster, not a charity-hours census, and not a civic-club membership file. Use All occupations to compare other labels; use All FEC ties for other joins. 721 receipts and 302 donors are the volume facts for this join.

Questions

How much did community volunteers donate in 2012?

Filers who wrote Community Volunteer on FEC individual contribution records itemized $1,205,926 in the 2012 cycle, across 721 receipts from 302 donors. That cell is 12.1% of $9,995,077 harvested under the same exact occupation string. Nearby spellings are counted on other occupation pages.

Is Community Volunteer the same as Volunteer?

No. COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER is a two-word stamp. Volunteer without Community is a different key. Homemaker and Retired are other status labels. This join uses only COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER and does not stack those nearby strings onto this cell. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Community Volunteer in 2012 is $1,205,926 on 721 receipts from 302 donors.

What is an occupation-cycle join on LobbyVault?

It is the overlap of one self-reported occupation key and one even-numbered FEC cycle. The occupation hub holds $10.0 million for this string across cycles. The cycle hub holds every occupation that filed in 2012. This page reports only the overlapping cell, $1.2 million, so the two dimensions are not restated as one table.

Does the 2012 Community Volunteer total include PACs or party committees?

$1,205,926 is an aggregate of individual contributions whose occupation field matches this string. It is not PAC independent spending, not committee-to-committee transfers, and not a party split. This packet has no party field. Open the Community Volunteer donations hub or the 2012 election cycle hub for committee-level rows.