Designer donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Designer as occupation, 2012 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation DESIGNER and election cycle 2012. Matching rows sum to $1,448,366, 1,292 contributions, and 594 donors. 2012 is a presidential-year creative-title cell with under six hundred donors. 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.

Designer is a short creative title, not a discipline recode. Nearby strings — GRAPHIC DESIGNER, INTERIOR DESIGNER, FASHION DESIGNER, and UX DESIGNER — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $1,448,366 or $18,568,646. A one-word DESIGNER stamp absorbs specialties that other filers spelled out.

2012’s dollar share is 7.8% ($1,448,366 of $18,568,646). 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 $1,448,366.

The Designer string across cycles

Under the exact label DESIGNER, harvested individual contributions sum to $18.6 million ($18,568,646). The 2012 cell is 7.8% of that occupation total. The FEC file does not verify a specialty, a union card, or a studio appointment. 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.

Designer is not a CalArts alumni roll and not a fashion-week census. Open Designer donations for the $18,568,646 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, 1,292 itemized contributions map to 594 donors. That is about 2.2 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 $1,121; dollars per donor average about $2,438. 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 $1,448,366 by those stages or by party. The 2012 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the Designer row. 594 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2012, not a turnout figure.

How to read the two dollar columns

Keep $1,448,366 attached to 2012 and $18,568,646 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 $1,448,366 with both nouns: Designer and 2012.

What the Designer–2012 join does not claim

Occupation labels are filer-entered. Designer is not a CalArts alumni roll and not a fashion-week census. A person who wrote a nearby title is not in $1.4 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 design-studio census, not an AIGA roll, and not a union-local headcount. Use All occupations to compare other labels; use All FEC ties for other joins. 1,292 receipts and 594 donors are the volume facts for this join.

Questions

How much did designers donate in 2012?

Filers who wrote Designer on FEC individual contribution records itemized $1,448,366 in the 2012 cycle, across 1,292 receipts from 594 donors. That cell is 7.8% of $18,568,646 harvested under the same exact occupation string. Nearby spellings are counted on other occupation pages.

Does Designer mean graphic, fashion, or product design?

The stored string is DESIGNER with no specialty. Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Fashion Designer, and UX Designer are other keys if filers spelled them out. This join does not recode those compounds into DESIGNER. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Designer in 2012 is $1,448,366 on 1,292 receipts from 594 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 $18.6 million for this string across cycles. The cycle hub holds every occupation that filed in 2012. This page reports only the overlapping cell, $1.4 million, so the two dimensions are not restated as one table.

Does the 2012 Designer total include PACs or party committees?

$1,448,366 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 Designer donations hub or the 2012 election cycle hub for committee-level rows.