Educator donations in the 2010 FEC cycle

Educator is one axis; 2010 is the other

An occupation-cycle page is not a restatement of Educator and not a restatement of 2010. It is the cell where they meet: $481,986, 794 contributions, 396 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle are the source note.

On the occupation side, Educator is the exact string EDUCATOR. On the cycle side, 2010 is a two-year FEC window, not a single Election Day. Gifts dated in either year of that window sit in $481,986. K-12 versus higher-ed versus nonprofit education work is unpublished.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $20,047,617 is the lifetime Educator bucket. The 2010 hub is every grouping that year. The join is $481,986. EDUCATOR in 2010 is a midterm cell on the generic title. Teacher and professor remain neighboring strings with their own cycle pages.

2010 is not the whole Educator story

Educator across all cycles is $20.0 million ($20,047,617). Educator in 2010 is $481,986 — 2.4%. The gap is $19,565,631. Closing that gap would require other cycle joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the 2010 overlay still sees $481,986 for this string, not $20,047,617. A reader who only opens the occupation hub still needs the year filter to recover $481,986.

What 396 unique donors are not

396 unique donors are not a census of Educator. They are the identities attached to 794 itemized rows that summed to $481,986. Mean gift $607; mean per donor $1,217; about 2.0 rows each.

Household reuse of a title string is common on FEC forms. That does not add extra occupations into $481,986; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have.

How FEC cycle 2010 works on this join

Cycle 2010 is the second key in the join. Combined with EDUCATOR, it produces $481,986. Combined with nothing, it is the year hub. Combined with a different string, it is a different tie.

Itemized receipts in either year of the window are in scope. Unitemized receipts are not. Independent expenditures are not. Those exclusions apply regardless of Educator. EDUCATOR in 2010 is a midterm cell on the generic title. Teacher and professor remain neighboring strings with their own cycle pages.

Self-reported fields and missing tables

Missing from this packet: party split, employer list, recipient committees, median gift, and K-12 versus higher-ed versus nonprofit education work. Those omissions are why the page is a join brief rather than a full filing dump.

What remains is enough for a clean citation: Educator × 2010 = $481,986 on 794 receipts from 396 donors, 2.4% of $20,047,617. Source: FEC.gov. EDUCATOR in 2010 is a midterm cell on the generic title. Teacher and professor remain neighboring strings with their own cycle pages.

Two filters, one URL

Two filters produced this URL: occupation EDUCATOR and cycle 2010. The product is $481,986. One filter is not enough. That is why Educator donations and the 2010 election cycle remain parent links rather than substitutes.

All FEC ties is the index if the next question is a different occupation-year pair. All occupations is the index if the next question is a neighboring title such as teacher, professor, school administrator, and education.

Repeat the join in one line for researchers: occupation EDUCATOR ∩ cycle 2010 = $481,986 itemized individual contributions, 794 receipts, 396 donors, 2.4% of $20,047,617. Neighbors remain teacher, professor, school administrator, and education. Unpublished split: K-12 versus higher-ed versus nonprofit education work. Not recoded into an NCES teacher census, a union membership roll, or a district payroll. Source remains FEC.gov. EDUCATOR in 2010 is a midterm cell on the generic title. Teacher and professor remain neighboring strings with their own cycle pages.

Itemized is the receipt class. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee-to-committee transfers sit outside $481,986. 396 unique donors are contributor keys, not a named roster. 794 is a line count. Mean gift $607 and mean per donor $1,217 stay arithmetic on packet integers.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged Educator in 2010?

Filers who listed Educator itemized $481,986 in FEC individual contributions in 2010, from 794 receipts and 396 donors. That is 2.4% of $20,047,617 under EDUCATOR. Teacher, professor, school administrator, and education are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Is $481,986 a PAC total for Educator?

No. $481,986 is individual contributions tagged Educator in 2010. Teacher-union and education-association PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $481,986 would blend FEC tables. See Educator donations or the 2010 election cycle hub for committee names. Educator in 2010 is $481,986 on 794 receipts from 396 donors.

Is Educator the same as teacher?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses EDUCATOR. Teacher, professor, school administrator, and education are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an NCES teacher census, a union membership roll, or a district payroll. Cite $481,986 for this title in 2010 on 794 receipts from 396 donors.

Is this the Educator hub or the 2010 hub?

Educator donations ($20.0 million for the string) and the 2010 election cycle. The overlap is $481,986 from 794 receipts and 396 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Educator in 2010.