Private investor donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Private investor × 2012

PRIVATE INVESTOR plus cycle 2012 equals $1,561,160. Investor, investments, and real estate investor are other keys. This page does not build a capital-owner total from those rows.

15.1% of the occupation total in one presidential cycle is arithmetic on two packet dollars. It is not a claim that private investors only give in presidential years. Parent hubs: Private Investor donations and the 2012 election cycle.

The occupation hub for Private Investor lists $10.3 million ($10,334,178) under the exact string PRIVATE INVESTOR. The 2012 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2012, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Private Investor in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.6 million. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

A compact two-word title

$10.3 million ($10,334,178) is modest next to the one-word Investments bucket. The extra word private keeps this key smaller. People who wrote investor without private, or retired, are other rows if those strings exist.

The 2012 slice is 15.1% of that compact bucket. High share, smaller denominator — not a rank among finance jobs.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,561,160. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $10,334,178. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Private Investor donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $1,561,160. If a later harvest revises 679 or 262, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($10,334,178) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

262 private-investor donors

262 donors and 679 receipts — about 2.6 lines per donor. Mean per donor about $5,959; mean per receipt about $2,299. A 262-donor file is small enough that a few large itemized gifts can dominate $1.6 million. No median.

Repeat gifts to several committees inflate the receipt count faster than the donor count. 679 is a line count, not 262 one-time gifts.

679 is a receipt count. 262 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.6 million.

Private is part of the key

Cite $1,561,160 as Private Investor in 2012. Cite $10,334,178 as this two-word occupation total. Do not drop private and cite investor, and do not add Investments dollars to this cell.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations lists neighboring investor strings.

Dividing $1,561,160 by 679 receipts yields about $2,299 per line. Dividing by 262 donors yields about $5,959 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

Not a 13F or accredited-investor census

Private Investor does not mean SEC accredited status, a family office, or a 13F filing. It means the occupation box said PRIVATE INVESTOR. Filers who wrote investor or investments are outside $1.6 million.

No party split, no ranking of wealth, no claim about carried interest. 679 receipts and 262 donors are the volume facts.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode PRIVATE INVESTOR into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did private investors donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Private Investor itemized $1,561,160 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 679 receipts and 262 donors. That cell is 15.1% of $10,334,178 under PRIVATE INVESTOR. Investor and investments are other keys when those are the words on the form.

Why is the 2012 share of the occupation total relatively high?

15.1% is $1,561,160 divided by $10,334,178. The occupation bucket is relatively compact, so one presidential cycle can be a large fraction of it. That is arithmetic, not a motive. Other cycle amounts are not in this packet.

Does this include investor PACs or Super PACs?

No. $1.6 million is individual contributions tagged Private Investor. PAC independent expenditures are a different FEC file. See Private Investor donations or the 2012 election cycle for committee names. Party is not a field in this packet. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Private Investor in 2012 is $1,561,160 on 679 receipts from 262 donors.

What two tables does this page join?

Private Investor donations ($10.3 million for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $1,561,160 from 262 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring investor titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Private Investor in 2012 is $1,561,160 on 679 receipts from 262 donors.