Consultant contributions received by ACTBLUE

Occupation-style CONSULTANT meeting a conduit committee

CONSULTANT is stored as an employer/industry key, but it reads like an occupation. Filers often put a job title in the employer box. ACTBLUE is committee C00401224, a conduit that reports earmarked individual contributions. This page is the overlap: itemized receipts grouped to CONSULTANT whose recipient in this aggregate is ACTBLUE. The $8,373,556 figure is that intersection.

CONSULTANT is not a NAICS professional-services total and not a census of consulting firms. People who listed MCKINSEY, ACCENTURE, or a named boutique sit in other industry rows. People who listed CONSULTANT as the employer and gave through ActBlue sit here. The join does not mean ActBlue is a consulting PAC.

One hundred seventy-one thousand three hundred six contributions is the widest line count in this batch. High volume through a conduit is a reporting pattern, not a headcount of consultants in the United States.

Nine percent of a $91.8 million CONSULTANT bucket

The CONSULTANT grouping shows $91,820,178 in itemized individual money. The ActBlue cell is $8,373,556, or about 9.1% of that total. More than nine-tenths of CONSULTANT-coded dollars went to other committees — candidate accounts, party committees, or other conduits. Those dollars remain on the industry hub.

A 9.1% share can still be $8.4 million because the occupation-style bucket is enormous. Do not read the percentage as ActBlue dominating consultant giving. Read it as one committee’s slice of a catch-all string.

171,306 lines and a $49 mean

ACTBLUE received $8,373,556 from CONSULTANT-coded receipts across 171,306 contributions. Dividing dollars by gifts gives about $49 per contribution. That low mean is what a very high line count does to an $8.4 million cell. Many modest itemized earmarks can produce this arithmetic without any gift equaling $49.

One hundred seventy-one thousand lines are not 171,000 unique people. Repeat earmarks and multi-cycle giving raise the count. The packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The ActBlue overlay includes every employer, not only CONSULTANT.

Title-in-employer-box is not a funding pipeline

This join does not prove that consultants as a profession funded ActBlue, and it does not connect those earmarks to USAspending awards. Federal contracts to consulting firms are a different dataset. An occupation word on an FEC form is not a NAICS code and not a cash pipeline into agency obligations.

Correlation between a job-title employer string and a conduit is a field match. Motive is not in the aggregate. Unitemized gifts never appear.

Where CONSULTANT and ActBlue live apart from this cell

The Consultant industry page keeps the $91,820,178 grouping and its other recipients. The ACTBLUE committee page keeps C00401224 volume from every employer. All industries ranks named consulting firms separately from this occupation-style key. All FEC ties lists other employer-committee cells so this 9.1% conduit slice is not mistaken for a profession-wide total.

CONSULTANT as a catch-all string is why 171,306 lines can still be only 9.1% of $91,820,178. Named consulting firms in the same industry index are not this bucket. Adding MCKINSEY or ACCENTURE to CONSULTANT would mix an occupation-style key with brand keys. The $49 mean is $8,373,556 divided by 171,306.

Occupation-box volume versus brand-firm volume

People who typed a firm name are usually not in CONSULTANT. People who typed CONSULTANT as the employer are not a NAICS professional-services total. The 9.1% ActBlue share describes only the occupation-style key. ActBlue as C00401224 also received GOOGLE-coded money on a separate tie page; that is a different employer filter with 70,995 lines, not a subset of these 171,306.

Quote $8,373,556 of $91,820,178 into C00401224. Keep the 171,306 contribution count next to the dollars so the low mean is explained as volume, not as a typical consultant's politics. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures are omitted. Downstream earmarks through the conduit are not listed as separate cells on this page. All industries is where named firms live beside this title-in-the-employer-box key.

Questions

How much did Consultant-coded donors give through ActBlue?

FEC.gov aggregates show $8,373,556 in itemized individual contributions grouped to CONSULTANT and received by ACTBLUE (C00401224). That join covers 171,306 contributions. The CONSULTANT grouping across all committees is $91,820,178. These figures are not independent expenditures.

What share of Consultant FEC money went to ActBlue?

About 9.1% of the $91,820,178 CONSULTANT total is in this join: $8,373,556 to C00401224. The remaining share went to other committees. A single-digit percentage still leaves a large dollar cell because the occupation-style bucket is wide.

Does CONSULTANT include McKinsey or Accenture donors?

Only if the grouped employer text is CONSULTANT. Named firms are other industry keys if stored separately. This page does not recode consulting brands into the occupation string. Figures are limited to the labeled join.

Why is the average gift about $49?

Dividing $8,373,556 by 171,306 contributions yields about $49 per itemized gift. High contribution counts pull the mean down. The packet does not publish a median. Unitemized gifts are omitted from this join.