Fundraiser occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Fundraiser as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation FUNDRAISER and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $507,387, 590 contributions, and 255 donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Development director, fundraising, campaign consultant, and bundler are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an AFP membership roll, an LDA bundler list, or a committee staff roster. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder on the occupation hub.

Parent hubs: Fundraiser donations at /occupations/fundraiser/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations at /occupations/ lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties at /ties/ keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $507,387 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Fundraiser in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $507,387. Nonprofit development versus political fundraising shops is unpublished for Fundraiser in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Hundreds of donor keys and hundreds of lines is a mid-scale occupation cell; it is not a list of named bundlers.

FUNDRAISER as a job label, not a bundler roster

$6.0 million ($5,997,881) belongs to the exact string FUNDRAISER across harvested cycles. It is not an AFP membership roll, an LDA bundler list, or a committee staff roster. People who wrote nearby wording — development director, fundraising, campaign consultant, and bundler — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 8.5% of that title bucket ($507,387 of $5,997,881). Share of FUNDRAISER is not share of all 2008 receipts. The remainder, $5,490,494, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $507,387. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $5,997,881. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Fundraiser donations and the live 2008 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $507,387.

255 fundraiser donors and 590 receipts in 2008

255 donors and 590 receipts — about 2.3 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $860; mean per donor about $1,990. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. Hundreds of donor keys and hundreds of lines is a mid-scale occupation cell; it is not a list of named bundlers. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 590 is a line count, not 255 one-time gifts. Nonprofit development versus political fundraising shops is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by FUNDRAISER. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $507,387. This page does not invent bundler names. Committee pages, not this occupation-cycle join, carry recipient committee IDs.

Occupation versus committee payroll and PACs

Cite $507,387 as Fundraiser in 2008. Cite $5,997,881 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add the employer’s PAC or the candidate committee that paid the fundraiser to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $507,387 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 8.5%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode FUNDRAISER into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset. USAspending.gov awards are a different ledger. This page does not claim that 2008 donations funded contracts or grants.

How to cite Fundraiser money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation FUNDRAISER, election cycle 2008, $507,387 in itemized individual contributions, 590 receipts, and 255 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $860 per line and $1,990 per donor in the cell. If the live Fundraiser donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 590 as unique workers in the trade named by FUNDRAISER.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Fundraiser donations rolls every cycle into one FUNDRAISER running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Fundraiser × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 590 receipts and $507,387. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Consultant as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $5,490,494 outside 2008. Most of the $5,997,881 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. This page does not invent bundler names. Committee pages, not this occupation-cycle join, carry recipient committee IDs. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 2.3. That ratio is 590 divided by 255, not a measure of turnout. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Fundraiser filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Fundraiser itemized $507,387 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 590 receipts and 255 donors. That is 8.5% of $5,997,881 under FUNDRAISER. Development director, fundraising, campaign consultant, and bundler are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include the committees that hired the fundraisers?

No. $507,387 is individual contributions tagged Fundraiser in 2008. The employer’s PAC or the candidate committee that paid the fundraiser file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $507,387 would blend FEC tables. See Fundraiser donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Fundraiser in 2008 is $507,387 on 590 receipts from 255 donors.

Are Fundraiser labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses FUNDRAISER. Development director, fundraising, campaign consultant, and bundler are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an AFP membership roll, an LDA bundler list, or a committee staff roster. Cite $507,387 for this title in 2008 on 590 receipts from 255 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Fundraiser donations ($6.0 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $507,387 from 590 receipts and 255 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Fundraiser in 2008.