Government Relations donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

Government Relations × 2014

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS plus cycle 2014 equals $811,863. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2014. Government affairs, lobbyist, and public affairs are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an LDA registrant census, a Senate lobbyist list, or a K Street directory. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Government Relations donations at /occupations/government-relations/ and the 2014 election cycle at /election-cycles/2014/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $811,863 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Government Relations in 2014 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $811,863. In-house versus contract versus association shops is unpublished for Government Relations in 2014. The occupation page and the 2014 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS in a midterm window

$10.1 million ($10,141,599) belongs to the exact string GOVERNMENT RELATIONS across harvested cycles. It is not an LDA registrant census, a Senate lobbyist list, or a K Street directory. People who wrote nearby wording — government affairs, lobbyist, and public affairs — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2014 slice is 8.0% of that title bucket. Share of GOVERNMENT RELATIONS is not share of all 2014 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $811,863. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $10,141,599. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Government Relations donations and the live 2014 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 $811,863.

1,180 government-relations receipts in 2014

369 donors and 1,180 receipts — about 3.2 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $688; mean per donor about $2,200. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 369 donors makes this a modest occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 1,180 is a line count, not 369 one-time gifts; receipts outnumber donors by a wide margin, so repeat gifts and amended lines are doing real work in the count. In-house versus contract versus association shops is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by GOVERNMENT RELATIONS. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $811,863.

2014 cell versus the 2012 GR join and PACs

Cite $811,863 as Government Relations in 2014. Cite $10,141,599 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add LDA reports and the employer’s PAC to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $811,863 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 8.0%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode GOVERNMENT RELATIONS 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 midterm-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite government-relations money in 2014

A clean footnote names occupation GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, election cycle 2014, $811,863 in itemized individual contributions, 1,180 receipts, and 369 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $688 per line and $2,200 per donor in the cell. If the live Government Relations donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 1,180 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Government Relations donations rolls every cycle into one GOVERNMENT RELATIONS running total. The 2014 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2014 total. Only the Government Relations × 2014 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 1,180 receipts and $811,863. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did government relations filers donate in 2014?

Filers who listed Government Relations itemized $811,863 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, from 1,180 receipts and 369 donors. That is 8.0% of $10,141,599 under GOVERNMENT RELATIONS. Government affairs, lobbyist, and public affairs are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include lobbying-firm PACs?

No. $811,863 is individual contributions tagged Government Relations in 2014. LDA reports and the employer’s PAC file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $811,863 would blend FEC tables. See Government Relations donations or the 2014 election cycle hub for committee names. Government Relations in 2014 is $811,863 on 1,180 receipts from 369 donors.

Are government relations labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses GOVERNMENT RELATIONS. Government affairs, lobbyist, and public affairs are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an LDA registrant census, a Senate lobbyist list, or a K Street directory. Cite $811,863 for this title in 2014 on 1,180 receipts from 369 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Government Relations donations ($10.1 million for the string) and the 2014 election cycle. The overlap is $811,863 from 1,180 receipts and 369 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Government Relations in 2014.