Community Volunteer political contributions from Georgia

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER joined to Georgia donor state

Occupation COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER and donor state GA produce $852,668, 1,011 contributions, and 47 donors. The occupation hub is $9,995,077, 12,698 contributions, and 1,027 donors. Georgia’s dollar share is about 8.5% ($852,668 of $9,995,077). Its contribution share is about 8.0% (1,011 of 12,698). Its donor share is about 4.6% (47 of 1,027).

Dollar share and contribution share sit close together. Donor share sits lower. Forty-seven people produced about one twelfth of occupation dollars while making up about one twenty-second of occupation donors. That is moderate concentration: not a three-donor placeholder cell, not a 350-donor clinical cell.

VOLUNTEER, HOMEMAKER, RETIRED, and NOT EMPLOYED are other keys. They are not inside $9,995,077 unless grouped here. This packet does not claim that grouping.

A civic-sounding title on itemized receipts

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER is typed on the receipt. Filers use it for unpaid civic work, for a preferred self-description when they do not list a paid job, or as a committee-typed phrase. FEC.gov does not verify volunteer hours or nonprofit affiliation. One thousand twenty-seven national donors used the string.

Itemized federal contributions have disclosure thresholds. People in this cell had receipts large enough to itemize. COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER on the form is not evidence of household income or of unpaid status. Twelve thousand six hundred ninety-eight contributions from 1,027 donors nationwide is about 12 itemized gifts per donor. Georgia’s 1,011 contributions from 47 donors is about 22 gifts per donor. Repeat itemization is denser in the Georgia cell.

Forty-seven Georgia donors and mean gift size

Dividing $852,668 by 1,011 contributions yields about $843 per gift. Dividing by 47 donors yields about $18,142 per donor. Nationally, $9,995,077 divided by 12,698 contributions is about $787 per gift. Georgia’s mean is close to the national occupation mean. The distinctive Georgia pattern is gifts-per-donor (about 22 versus about 12 nationally), not an outlier mean check.

Donor state GA is the address on the receipt. Recipients need not be Georgia committees. This join does not assign party and does not identify the organizations, if any, where the 47 people volunteered.

Forty-seven Georgia donors produced 1,011 contributions, about 22 itemized gifts per person, versus about 12 nationally. Frequency is the distinctive Georgia pattern in this occupation. Mean gift (about $843 versus about $787) is close to the national mean. That is why contribution share (8.0%) can track dollar share (8.5%) while donor share (4.6%) lags.

What 8.5% of Community Volunteer dollars is not

Georgia’s share is a table split. It is not evidence that Georgia caused community-volunteer giving, that volunteers as a class funded a party, or that campaign receipts measure civic engagement. Occupation and state travel together on receipts. Causation is not in the join.

Coverage is itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov. Unitemized money and independent expenditures are out of scope. Occupation labels are filer-entered. These receipts are not charitable donations.

VOLUNTEER, HOMEMAKER, and RETIRED are sibling non-employed stamps, not parents. A Georgia filer who typed HOMEMAKER is not in $852,668. Campaign receipts are not charitable gifts. The occupation word volunteer does not convert an FEC line into a 501(c)(3) donation.

Occupation hub, state hub, other non-employed titles

Community Volunteer donations carries the $9,995,077 national occupation total. Georgia campaign finance carries all GA-coded itemized individual activity. All occupations and All FEC ties keep COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER separate from VOLUNTEER, HOMEMAKER, and RETIRED so $852,668 is not treated as a combined non-employed sector.

The occupation hub still holds $9,142,409 outside Georgia ($9,995,077 minus $852,668). Use Community Volunteer donations for that remainder. Georgia campaign finance holds every other GA-coded title. This page holds only COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER × GA.

Questions

How much have Community Volunteer donors in Georgia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Community Volunteer and state Georgia total $852,668, from 1,011 contributions and 47 donors. Nationwide, Community Volunteer-coded receipts are $9,995,077 from 12,698 contributions and 1,027 donors. Georgia is about 8.5% of those dollars.

Does Community Volunteer mean unpaid nonprofit workers in Georgia?

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER is the occupation text as entered on itemized filings. FEC aggregates do not verify unpaid status or 501(c) affiliation. The 47 Georgia donors and 1,027 national donors are people whose records used that phrase.

Are these campaign gifts the same as charitable donations?

No. The $852,668 is itemized individual contributions to FEC-filing committees. It is not a gift to a charity. Sharing the word volunteer on an occupation line does not convert a campaign receipt into a 501(c)(3) donation.

Is this money given to Georgia candidates?

Not necessarily. GA is the donor state on the contribution. The $852,668 can be received by any FEC-filing committee. This page does not break receipts by office or by in-state versus out-of-state committees.