Investor political money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Investor as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation INVESTOR and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $11,873,578, 6,687 contributions, and 3,247 donors. Investor in 2008 is a self-applied label on itemized receipts. FEC.gov does not confirm securities licenses. The occupation hub is $135,613,491 across every cycle in the aggregate. The 2008 cycle hub mixes every other occupation that used that year. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

2008’s dollar share is 8.8% ($11,873,578 of $135,613,491). The remainder, $123,739,913, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. Thousands of donor keys in a financial-crisis presidential year is a broad occupation cell, not a handful of fund principals. 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 $11,873,578.

The Investor string across every cycle on file

$135,613,491 is the occupation-side denominator. It is not limited to 2008. INVESTMENTS, RETIRED INVESTOR, and CAPITALIST are other occupation keys if stored separately. Adding those keys to $135,613,491 would be a researcher-built recode, not this table. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts.

Open Investor donations for the $135,613,491 roll. Open the 2008 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.

3,247 donors and a 2008 mean gift

Dividing $11,873,578 by 6,687 contributions yields about $1,776 per gift. Dividing by 3,247 donors yields about $3,657 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 2.1 (6,687 ÷ 3,247). Those ratios describe this string in 2008, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

3,247 is a donor-key count inside the occupation × cycle aggregate, not a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2008. Repeat itemization, couples filing separately, and people who used the string on some receipts but not others all move the 3,247 figure. The cycle hub still holds every other occupation’s 2008 receipts beside this cell.

What 8.8% of Investor dollars is not

A 8.8% share of Investor-coded dollars from 2008 does not mean the occupation caused those gifts, and it does not mean people with that title funded a policy outcome. Occupation and cycle are reported together. The overlap is descriptive. Independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and unitemized gifts are out of scope.

Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger. This join does not claim that 2008 donations funded contracts or grants. Quote $11,873,578 as itemized individual receipts tagged INVESTOR in 2008, source FEC.gov, and stop there.

How to cite Investor × 2008

A complete claim names Investor and 2008, then $11,873,578, 6,687 contributions, 3,247 donors, and 8.8% of $135,613,491, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 3,247 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Investor and 2008—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $1,776 and mean per donor $3,657 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a licensing board.

Occupation hub, cycle hub, and adjacent finance titles

The occupation hub still holds $123,739,913 outside 2008. Most of the $135,613,491 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. INVESTMENTS, RETIRED INVESTOR, and CAPITALIST are other occupation keys if stored separately. Those titles are not parents of INVESTOR on this page. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 2.1. That ratio is 6,687 divided by 3,247, not a measure of turnout.

Questions

How much did Investor-tagged donors give in 2008?

The join records $11,873,578 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Investor in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 6,687 contributions and 3,247 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $135,613,491, so 2008 is 8.8% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every investor who donated in 2008?

No. The 3,247 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to INVESTOR in 2008. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $11,873,578 on 6,687 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What share of Investor occupation money is the 2008 cycle?

8.8%: $11,873,578 of $135,613,491. The remaining $123,739,913 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. That share is $11,873,578 divided by $135,613,491, not a ranking of civic engagement and not a peak-year list. Other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that remainder.

Where are the live Investor and 2008 tables?

Investor donations carries the $135,613,491 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places Investor beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Investor × 2008 intersection only.