Private Equity donations in the 2010 FEC cycle

Two keys: PRIVATE EQUITY and 2010

The packet’s keys are literal: occupation string PRIVATE EQUITY, cycle 2010. Their product on FEC.gov individual-contribution aggregates is $427,766, from 252 contributions and 130 donors. No recipient list, party split, or PAC total is published here.

Treat the label as a self-reported occupation. Free-text fields let filers write a longer title, a nearby spelling, or an employer instead. Those rows are counted elsewhere. This page does not merge those buckets. Neighbors include private equity partner, PE, venture capital, and investor.

$427,766 is smaller than $12,573,762 because other cycles exist, and it is not a share of national 2010 giving because this packet has no cycle-wide denominator. The join is the point. PRIVATE EQUITY is an industry-style occupation string. Venture capitalist is a neighboring title with its own cycle cells.

Private Equity as typed, not a census

After this 2010 cell of $427,766, $12,145,996 of the Private Equity grouping remains in other even-year windows. That remainder is 96.6% of $12,573,762. The 2010 page is not empty of other occupations; this file simply does not add them.

Percentages here use packet facts only. No national 2010 total is supplied, so no share of the election is claimed. 3.4% is Private Equity-internal. Buyout versus growth versus venture-style private equity is unpublished.

Means on $427,766

130 donors and 252 contributions are compatible because one identity can give more than once. The implied 1.9 gifts per donor is a mean. High-repeat filers would pull that mean up; one-time filers would pull it down. The packet does not split those groups.

$3,291 per donor and $1,697 per line are derived from $427,766. They are not contribution limits and not typical gift size if the distribution is skewed. Buyout versus growth versus venture-style private equity remains unpublished.

2010 is not Election Day

An election-night search is the wrong grain for $427,766. The FEC cycle 2010 is a two-year bucket. Dates belong on the overlay, not in invented subtotals.

The cycle hub and this tie differ by one filter. The hub is all strings in 2010. The tie is Private Equity in 2010. Only the tie is $427,766. PRIVATE EQUITY is an industry-style occupation string. Venture capitalist is a neighboring title with its own cycle cells.

Form text is not a payroll file

Do not treat 252 receipts as unique workers in the trade named PRIVATE EQUITY. Do not treat 130 donors as a labor-force estimate. Buyout versus growth versus venture-style private equity is unpublished. Private-equity association PAC filings file as committees and are omitted.

PRIVATE EQUITY is an industry-style occupation string. Venture capitalist is a neighboring title with its own cycle cells. Neighbors — private equity partner, PE, venture capital, and investor — stay on their own occupation-cycle URLs. Mixing them into $427,766 would invent a sector total this packet does not contain.

Keeping $427,766 attached to both keys

Keep both nouns in every citation: Private Equity and 2010. Dropping the year turns $427,766 into $12,573,762. Dropping the occupation turns this cell into the year hub, which this packet does not quantify.

Internal paths: /occupations/private-equity/ for the occupation running total, /election-cycles/2010/ for the year without this title, /occupations/ for neighboring strings, /ties/ for other joins. PRIVATE EQUITY is an industry-style occupation string. Venture capitalist is a neighboring title with its own cycle cells.

Repeat the join in one line for researchers: occupation PRIVATE EQUITY ∩ cycle 2010 = $427,766 itemized individual contributions, 252 receipts, 130 donors, 3.4% of $12,573,762. Neighbors remain private equity partner, PE, venture capital, and investor. Unpublished split: buyout versus growth versus venture-style private equity. Not recoded into a PEI ranking, a Form ADV private-fund census, or an LP directory. Source remains FEC.gov. PRIVATE EQUITY is an industry-style occupation string. Venture capitalist is a neighboring title with its own cycle cells.

Questions

What did occupation PRIVATE EQUITY itemize in 2010?

Filers who listed Private Equity itemized $427,766 in FEC individual contributions in 2010, from 252 receipts and 130 donors. That is 3.4% of $12,573,762 under PRIVATE EQUITY. Private equity partner, PE, venture capital, and investor are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Do committee filings sit inside Private Equity 2010 money?

No. $427,766 is individual contributions tagged Private Equity in 2010. Private-equity association PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $427,766 would blend FEC tables. See Private Equity donations or the 2010 election cycle hub for committee names. Private Equity in 2010 is $427,766 on 252 receipts from 130 donors.

Does this page merge neighboring occupation strings?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses PRIVATE EQUITY. Private equity partner, PE, venture capital, and investor are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a PEI ranking, a Form ADV private-fund census, or an LP directory. Cite $427,766 for this title in 2010 on 252 receipts from 130 donors.

What join produces $427,766?

Private Equity donations ($12.6 million for the string) and the 2010 election cycle. The overlap is $427,766 from 252 receipts and 130 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Private Equity in 2010.