Orthodontist contributions to the American Association of Orthodontists PAC

A specialty PAC beside a larger dental title

43.1% of Orthodontist itemized dollars landed on AAO PAC. $3,152,917 went to other federal committees. Dentist is a different occupation key with its own ADA PAC join; those dollars are not inside $5,538,928 unless stored as ORTHODONTIST.

8,087 receipts at mean $295 is a mid-count pattern. Unique donors are unpublished. Board certification is not an FEC field.

Links: Orthodontist occupation hub, AAO PAC committee page, All occupations, All FEC ties. Dentist to ADA PAC is a sibling dental join, not a parent total.

Keep Orthodontist → AAO PAC (C00293910): $2,386,011 in 8,087 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties indexes other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

ORTHODONTIST as typed

The occupation-wide total is $5,538,928. Orthodontics, DDS, and dentist can exist as other strings. They are not inside $5,538,928 unless stored as ORTHODONTIST. LobbyVault does not recode dental specialties into Dentist.

A filer can list Orthodontist and never appear in $2,386,011. A filer can list Dentist on C00293910 and sit outside this occupation slice.

Quote Orthodontist for the occupation-wide $5,538,928 and quote AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHODONTISTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (C00293910) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $2,386,011 across 8,087 itemized receipts, 43.1% of the occupation book, mean $295. Remainder $3,152,917 (56.9%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $2,386,011 to $5,538,928. Do not treat 8,087 as unique donors.

C00293910 as AAO PAC

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHODONTISTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE received $2,386,011 from this occupation key. Other occupations on the same PAC sit outside the join. $2,386,011 is not the PAC’s all-occupation total and not AAO dues.

Independent expenditures are excluded. Cycle year is not in the packet. Cite FEC.gov for the live committee file.

Amended Schedule A filings move $2,386,011 and $5,538,928. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. This /ties/ page is a join snapshot, not a substitute for the occupation hub or the committee file on FEC.gov. Coverage stops at itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee. Unitemized gifts never enter either integer.

What 43.1 percent does not prove

A large dollar share is not an AAO membership rate and not a headcount of practicing orthodontists. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Do not add Dentist’s ADA PAC join to this total.

Device and aligner-industry stories are not fields. The join is two FEC labels. Correlation of a specialty string with a specialty PAC is a filing pattern.

Keep Orthodontist → AAO PAC (C00293910): $2,386,011 in 8,087 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties indexes other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

Citation

FEC.gov: occupation Orthodontist $5,538,928; Orthodontist to C00293910 $2,386,011 in 8,087 contributions; mean $295. Not independent expenditures.

All FEC ties lists Dentist–ADA PAC as a different join. Keep the occupation keys separate. Do not add the two dollar totals.

Quote Orthodontist for the occupation-wide $5,538,928 and quote AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHODONTISTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (C00293910) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $2,386,011 across 8,087 itemized receipts, 43.1% of the occupation book, mean $295. Remainder $3,152,917 (56.9%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $2,386,011 to $5,538,928. Do not treat 8,087 as unique donors.

Questions

How much did orthodontists give to AAO PAC?

$2,386,011 in 8,087 itemized contributions from occupation Orthodontist to C00293910. That is 43.1% of Orthodontist’s $5,538,928 occupation-wide total. Mean $295 is arithmetic. Unique donors are unpublished. Independent expenditures are excluded. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Should I add dentist giving to ADA PAC?

No. Dentist is a different occupation key and ADA PAC is a different committee. Orthodontists who listed Dentist appear on the Dentist pages, not here, unless FEC stored ORTHODONTIST. Adding the joins would mix unlike keys. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Is $2.4 million AAO PAC’s total fundraising?

No. $2,386,011 is the Orthodontist occupation slice. Other occupations on C00293910 sit on the committee overlay. Dues and independent expenditures are outside the source note. The live FEC committee file is the PAC-wide view. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Does 43.1 percent mean most orthodontists give to AAO PAC?

No. 43.1% is a dollar share of itemized Orthodontist occupation receipts, not a share of people and not a membership rate. $3,152,917 of the occupation book went to other federal committees. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.