Private Investor donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Private Investor as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation PRIVATE INVESTOR and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $1,403,081, 750 contributions, and 343 donors. 2008 is a capital-source title cell, not an accreditation file. The occupation hub rolls every cycle that used this spelling. The 2008 election-cycle hub rolls every occupation that filed that cycle. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

Private Investor is a two-word capital-source title as typed. Nearby strings — INVESTOR, PRIVATE EQUITY, ANGEL INVESTOR, and INVESTMENTS — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $1,403,081 or $10,334,178. Angel Investor, if stored, is another key and is not folded into PRIVATE INVESTOR here.

2008’s dollar share is 13.6% ($1,403,081 of $10,334,178). 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 $1,403,081.

The Private Investor string across cycles

Under the exact label PRIVATE INVESTOR, harvested individual contributions sum to $10.3 million ($10,334,178). The 2008 cell is 13.6% of that occupation total. The FEC file does not verify net worth, accreditation, or a fund commitment. 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.

Private Investor is not a Form D roster and not a brokerage AUM census. Open Private Investor donations for the $10,334,178 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.

2008 receipts and donors

Inside the 2008 cell, 750 itemized contributions map to 343 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 $1,871; dollars per donor average about $4,091. Averages hide large and small lines sitting in the same total.

Presidential-year volume can mix primary, general, and other receipts dated to 2008. This packet does not split $1,403,081 by those stages or by party. The 2008 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the Private Investor row. 343 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2008, not a turnout figure.

How to read the two dollar columns

Keep $1,403,081 attached to 2008 and $10,334,178 attached to the occupation string. Adding them would double-count the 2008 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 $1,403,081 with both nouns: Private Investor and 2008.

What the Private Investor–2008 join does not claim

Occupation labels are filer-entered. Private Investor is not a Form D roster and not a brokerage AUM census. A person who wrote a nearby title is not in $1.4 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 accredited-investor file, not a 13F, and not a family-office directory. Use All occupations to compare other labels; use All FEC ties for other joins. 750 receipts and 343 donors are the volume facts for this join.

Questions

How much did private investors donate in 2008?

Filers who wrote Private Investor on FEC individual contribution records itemized $1,403,081 in the 2008 cycle, across 750 receipts from 343 donors. That cell is 13.6% of $10,334,178 harvested under the same exact occupation string. Nearby spellings are counted on other occupation pages.

Is Private Investor the same as Investor?

No. PRIVATE INVESTOR and INVESTOR are different occupation strings. Private Equity and Investments are other keys. This page does not merge those stamps into one investor total or confirm that the filer is a full-time capital allocator. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Private Investor in 2008 is $1,403,081 on 750 receipts from 343 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 $10.3 million for this string across cycles. The cycle hub holds every occupation that filed in 2008. This page reports only the overlapping cell, $1.4 million, so the two dimensions are not restated as one table.

Does the 2008 Private Investor total include PACs or party committees?

$1,403,081 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 Private Investor donations hub or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee-level rows.