Private Investor and the 2014 election cycle on FEC.gov

The relationship: Private Investor receipts inside 2014

The headline number is $1,189,893 ($1.2 million) for Private Investor in 2014. Share of the occupation extract: 11.5% of $10,334,178. Contribution rows: 383. Unique donors: 130. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered, so spelling, punctuation, and job-title fashion all split people across keys.

A join is not a causal story. 383 lines in 2014 do not prove that Private Investor as a labor category moved a race. They prove that this many itemized receipts carried this string in this cycle window. Open Private Investor donations for the all-cycle occupation table, 2014 election cycle for the cycle table, all occupations for sibling strings, and all FEC ties for other two-dimension pages.

$10,334,178 is the all-cycle Private Investor figure

The occupation-wide total for PRIVATE INVESTOR on this extract is $10,334,178 ($10.3 million). That figure includes every indexed cycle for the same string, not only 2014. $1,189,893 is the 2014 slice (11.5%). PRIVATE INVESTOR is the two-word string. INVESTOR, VENTURE CAPITALIST, RETIRED, and PRIVATE EQUITY remain other keys. The join does not infer investable assets or a fund from the title.

Sibling titles are not in $10,334,178 unless the filer typed PRIVATE INVESTOR exactly. That is why all occupations exists: so a reader can see neighboring strings without folding them into Private Investor. Folding them here would invent a cluster the FEC field does not contain. Keep $10,334,178 attached to this string only.

Cycle 2014 as a filter on Private Investor receipts

The 2014 value is the FEC two-year election cycle that closes on the 2014 federal election calendar. It is a reporting window on individual contribution records, not a single Election Day total and not a count of offices on the ballot. Receipts dated inside that cycle window stay here; receipts dated in another even-year cycle sit on that other join. Inside that window, Private Investor accounts for $1,189,893 on 383 contributions from 130 donors.

Amended filings can move a receipt across a cycle boundary or change an occupation string. If FEC.gov later shows a different 2014 total for PRIVATE INVESTOR, the live hubs win. This JSON is a packet snapshot. Rewrite the cycle sentence when the extract moves; do not average old and new cells.

How to cite the 2014 donor and line counts

383 contributions and 130 donors describe different units. A row is an itemized receipt line. A donor is a unique person inside this occupation–cycle filter as LobbyVault matches names. 383 divided by 130 is the mean lines per donor in this cell; $1,189,893 divided by 130 is about $9,153 per donor; $1,189,893 divided by 383 is about $3,107 per line. Means are not medians. Large gifts pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median.

If a later extract changes only the unique-donor count, keep $1,189,893 and 383 unless those moved too. The three measures can move independently when matching rules change. This page will not invent a fourth measure such as households or zip clusters.

A complete citation names occupation PRIVATE INVESTOR, cycle 2014, dollars $1,189,893, contribution lines 383, and unique donors 130. Omitting the occupation string makes the cycle look occupation-wide. Omitting the cycle makes the occupation hub look like a single-year figure. Omitting the donor count invites a reader to treat 383 as people. Keep all five tokens.

How to cite the join without overclaiming

This page is not a claim that donations fund federal spending. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets. The join here is occupation × cycle inside FEC.gov only. It is not a ranking of occupations, not medical or political advice, and not a statement that Private Investor as a profession acted in concert in 2014.

Do not recode PRIVATE INVESTOR into an industry, a union, a PAC, or a NAICS sector on the strength of this page. Industry joins are other packets. PAC joins are other packets. This one stops at occupation and cycle. $1,189,893, 383, 130, $10,334,178, and 2014 are the usable figures.

Questions

How much Private Investor money shows up in 2014 on FEC.gov?

Itemized individual contributions with occupation PRIVATE INVESTOR total $1,189,893 in the 2014 FEC cycle. LobbyVault counts 383 contributions and 130 unique donors in that cell. The occupation-wide total for the same string on this extract is $10,334,178, so 2014 is 11.5% of that roll-up. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.

How does $1,189,893 relate to $10,334,178?

No. $1,189,893 is the 2014 slice only. The occupation hub still shows $10,334,178 across the extract. This page is a join: occupation string plus even-year cycle. It is not a restatement of Private Investor donations and not a restatement of 2014 election cycle. Adding other cycles here would invent dollars the packet does not list.

What do 130 donors and 383 lines mean?

The join lists 130 unique donors and 383 contribution lines for PRIVATE INVESTOR in 2014. A person can give more than once, so lines exceed donors. About $9,153 per donor and $3,107 per line are means from $1,189,893, not medians and not typical gifts. Name matching can split or merge people. This is not a job-census headcount.

Is PRIVATE INVESTOR a recoded occupation category?

No. The filter is the exact occupation string PRIVATE INVESTOR as filers typed it. Nearby titles stay on other keys listed under all occupations. The string is not a NAICS code, not a BLS occupation, and not a PAC. See Private Investor donations for this key’s all-cycle table and all FEC ties for other joins. Cite FEC.gov.