Interior Designer donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Interior Designer as occupation, 2012 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation INTERIOR DESIGNER and election cycle 2012. Matching rows sum to $1,228,663, 915 contributions, and 415 donors. 2012 is a compound design-specialty cell beside the broader DESIGNER key. 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.

Interior Designer is a compound design-specialty title as typed. Nearby strings — DESIGNER, INTERIOR DECORATOR, ARCHITECT, and INTERIOR ARCHITECT — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $1,228,663 or $11,008,458. A filer who wrote only Designer is outside this cell even if the work is interiors.

2012’s dollar share is 11.2% ($1,228,663 of $11,008,458). 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 $1,228,663.

The Interior Designer string across cycles

Under the exact label INTERIOR DESIGNER, harvested individual contributions sum to $11.0 million ($11,008,458). The 2012 cell is 11.2% of that occupation total. The FEC file does not verify NCIDQ, a state interior-design registration, or a contractor license. 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.

Interior Designer is not an architecture-license extract and not a furniture-dealer PAC. Open Interior Designer donations for the $11,008,458 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, 915 itemized contributions map to 415 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 $1,343; dollars per donor average about $2,961. 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 $1,228,663 by those stages or by party. The 2012 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the Interior Designer row. 415 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2012, not a turnout figure.

How to read the two dollar columns

Keep $1,228,663 attached to 2012 and $11,008,458 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 $1,228,663 with both nouns: Interior Designer and 2012.

What the Interior Designer–2012 join does not claim

Occupation labels are filer-entered. Interior Designer is not an architecture-license extract and not a furniture-dealer PAC. A person who wrote a nearby title is not in $1.2 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 an ASID membership roll, not a contractor-license extract, and not a studio census. Use All occupations to compare other labels; use All FEC ties for other joins. 915 receipts and 415 donors are the volume facts for this join.

Questions

How much did interior designers donate in 2012?

Filers who wrote Interior Designer on FEC individual contribution records itemized $1,228,663 in the 2012 cycle, across 915 receipts from 415 donors. That cell is 11.2% of $11,008,458 harvested under the same exact occupation string. Nearby spellings are counted on other occupation pages.

Is Interior Designer the same as Designer?

No. INTERIOR DESIGNER is a compound title. Designer without Interior is a different, broader key. Interior Decorator and Architect are other strings. This join does not recode those titles into INTERIOR DESIGNER or check a design credential. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Interior Designer in 2012 is $1,228,663 on 915 receipts from 415 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 $11.0 million for this string across cycles. The cycle hub holds every occupation that filed in 2012. This page reports only the overlapping cell, $1.2 million, so the two dimensions are not restated as one table.

Does the 2012 Interior Designer total include PACs or party committees?

$1,228,663 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 Interior Designer donations hub or the 2012 election cycle hub for committee-level rows.