Realtor donations in the 2010 FEC cycle

Realtor dollars in a 2010 midterm

Occupation equals REALTOR and cycle equals 2010: the overlap is $1,889,503, 3.8% of $49,791,079. Real estate agent, broker, and realtor associate are other keys if those words were used. This page does not recode them into one housing-industry total.

A midterm cell that is a low-single-digit share of a large occupation bucket can still be a substantial disclosure number. $1.9 million is the number to quote for this join. Parent hubs: Realtor donations and the 2010 election cycle.

The occupation hub for Realtor lists $49.8 million ($49,791,079) under the exact string REALTOR. The 2010 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2010, 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 Realtor in 2010 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.9 million. The occupation page and the 2010 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

A large occupation string

$49.8 million ($49,791,079) under REALTOR is among the larger occupation buckets in this extract, because the word is widely used on forms, not because this page counted MLS listings. National association PACs are not this total.

The 2010 slice is 3.8% of that bucket. Other cycle amounts are not in the packet, so this page does not draw a cycle chart.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,889,503. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $49,791,079. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Realtor donations and the live 2010 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

1,436 Realtor donors in 2010

1,436 donors and 2,495 receipts — about 1.7 lines per donor — describe a relatively broad cell compared with title strings that have a few hundred donors. Mean per receipt about $757; mean per donor about $1,316. No median is provided.

Broad donor counts still include repeat itemizations. 2,495 is not 1,436 one-time gifts. Joint fundraising memos can add lines without adding people.

2,495 is a receipt count. 1,436 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 $1.9 million.

Keep trade groups out of the individual total

Quote $1,889,503 as individual contributions tagged Realtor in 2010. Do not add a realtor association PAC to that figure; PAC files are a different table. Do not add $1,889,503 to $49,791,079.

Source: FEC.gov. All occupations and All FEC ties hold the neighboring keys and joins.

Dividing $1,889,503 by 2,495 receipts yields about $757 per line. Dividing by 1,436 donors yields about $1,316 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.

Trademark versus disclosure string

LobbyVault does not verify National Association of Realtors membership. Filers who wrote real estate agent are outside $1.9 million; filers who wrote Realtor are in it. The public record is the string.

No ranking of housing markets, no claim about mortgage policy, no party split. 1,436 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2010.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode REALTOR 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 Realtors donate in 2010?

Filers who listed Realtor itemized $1,889,503 in FEC individual contributions in 2010, from 2,495 receipts and 1,436 donors. That is 3.8% of $49,791,079 harvested under REALTOR. Real estate agent is a different occupation key when that is the form text.

Does this total include the National Association of Realtors PAC?

No. $1.9 million is individual contributions with occupation Realtor. Association PACs file as committees, not as this occupation string. Mixing PAC independent spending with $1,889,503 would blend two FEC tables this join does not blend. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Realtor in 2010 is $1,889,503 on 2,495 receipts from 1,436 donors.

Is Realtor the same as real estate agent in FEC data?

Only when the typed characters match. This join uses REALTOR. Agent, broker, and realtor associate split to other pages if those words were entered. LobbyVault does not recode housing-job titles into one industry total. Cite $1,889,503 for this key in 2010.

What two tables does this page join?

The Realtor donations occupation hub ($49.8 million for the string) and the 2010 election cycle hub. The overlapping cell is $1,889,503 from 2,495 receipts and 1,436 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle overlaps. All occupations lists other labels.