Officer donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

Officer is one axis; 2014 is the other

An occupation-cycle page is not a restatement of Officer and not a restatement of 2014. It is the cell where they meet: $426,217, 488 contributions, 200 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle are the source note.

On the occupation side, Officer is the exact string OFFICER. On the cycle side, 2014 is a two-year FEC window, not a single Election Day. Gifts dated in either year of that window sit in $426,217. Military versus law-enforcement versus corporate officer usage is unpublished.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $5,333,585 is the lifetime Officer bucket. The 2014 hub is every grouping that year. The join is $426,217. OFFICER is an ambiguous short title. The packet does not say whether filers meant military, police, corporate, or another officer role.

2014 is not the whole Officer story

Officer across all cycles is $5.3 million ($5,333,585). Officer in 2014 is $426,217 — 8.0%. The gap is $4,907,368. Closing that gap would require other cycle joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the 2014 overlay still sees $426,217 for this string, not $5,333,585. A reader who only opens the occupation hub still needs the year filter to recover $426,217.

What 200 unique donors are not

200 unique donors are not a census of Officer. They are the identities attached to 488 itemized rows that summed to $426,217. Mean gift $873; mean per donor $2,131; about 2.4 rows each.

Household reuse of a title string is common on FEC forms. That does not add extra occupations into $426,217; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have.

How FEC cycle 2014 works on this join

Cycle 2014 is the second key in the join. Combined with OFFICER, it produces $426,217. 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 Officer. OFFICER is an ambiguous short title. The packet does not say whether filers meant military, police, corporate, or another officer role.

Self-reported fields and missing tables

Missing from this packet: party split, employer list, recipient committees, median gift, and military versus law-enforcement versus corporate officer usage. Those omissions are why the page is a join brief rather than a full filing dump.

What remains is enough for a clean citation: Officer × 2014 = $426,217 on 488 receipts from 200 donors, 8.0% of $5,333,585. Source: FEC.gov. OFFICER is an ambiguous short title. The packet does not say whether filers meant military, police, corporate, or another officer role.

Two filters, one URL

Two filters produced this URL: occupation OFFICER and cycle 2014. The product is $426,217. One filter is not enough. That is why Officer donations and the 2014 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 police officer, military officer, corporate officer, and loan officer.

Repeat the join in one line for researchers: occupation OFFICER ∩ cycle 2014 = $426,217 itemized individual contributions, 488 receipts, 200 donors, 8.0% of $5,333,585. Neighbors remain police officer, military officer, corporate officer, and loan officer. Unpublished split: military versus law-enforcement versus corporate officer usage. Not recoded into a DoD officer roster, a police-department census, or a corporate-officer list. Source remains FEC.gov. OFFICER is an ambiguous short title. The packet does not say whether filers meant military, police, corporate, or another officer role.

Itemized is the receipt class. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee-to-committee transfers sit outside $426,217. 200 unique donors are contributor keys, not a named roster. 488 is a line count. Mean gift $873 and mean per donor $2,131 stay arithmetic on packet integers.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged Officer in 2014?

Filers who listed Officer itemized $426,217 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, from 488 receipts and 200 donors. That is 8.0% of $5,333,585 under OFFICER. Police officer, military officer, corporate officer, and loan officer are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Is $426,217 a PAC total for Officer?

No. $426,217 is individual contributions tagged Officer in 2014. Public-safety and industry PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $426,217 would blend FEC tables. See Officer donations or the 2014 election cycle hub for committee names. Officer in 2014 is $426,217 on 488 receipts from 200 donors.

Is Officer the same as police officer?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses OFFICER. Police officer, military officer, corporate officer, and loan officer are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a DoD officer roster, a police-department census, or a corporate-officer list. Cite $426,217 for this title in 2014 on 488 receipts from 200 donors.

Is this the Officer hub or the 2014 hub?

Officer donations ($5.3 million for the string) and the 2014 election cycle. The overlap is $426,217 from 488 receipts and 200 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Officer in 2014.