Scientist donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Scientist × 2012

SCIENTIST plus cycle 2012 equals $1,788,391. Research scientist, chemist, physicist, and biologist are other keys. This page does not build a STEM total from those rows.

Parent hubs: Scientist donations and the 2012 election cycle. All FEC ties stores the one-word science cell as its own occupation-year pair.

The occupation hub for Scientist lists $26.8 million ($26,806,625) under the exact string SCIENTIST. 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 Scientist in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.8 million. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

One word covering many labs

$26.8 million ($26,806,625) under SCIENTIST is a pile of identical strings. It is not NIH funding, not NSF awards, and not a count of Ph.D.s. People who wrote their discipline instead of Scientist are outside the occupation total.

The 2012 slice is 6.7% of that one-word bucket. Other cycle amounts are not in the packet.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,788,391. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $26,806,625. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Scientist 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 $1,788,391. If a later harvest revises 3,102 or 1,111, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($26,806,625) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

3,102 Scientist receipts in 2012

1,111 donors produced 3,102 receipts — about 2.8 lines per donor, a higher receipts-per-donor ratio than many professional keys in this slice. Mean per receipt about $577; mean per donor about $1,610. A high line count can still hide large checks. No median.

Repeat itemizations to several committees inflate 3,102 faster than 1,111. That is a filing pattern, not a claim about scientific consensus.

3,102 is a receipt count. 1,111 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 $1.8 million.

Do not upgrade the word to a sector

Cite $1,788,391 as Scientist in 2012. Cite $26,806,625 as the SCIENTIST occupation total. Do not call either figure research-agency spending. USAspending is a different dataset and is not in this packet.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations lists discipline-specific titles as other rows.

Dividing $1,788,391 by 3,102 receipts yields about $577 per line. Dividing by 1,111 donors yields about $1,610 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 degree or agency census

Scientist does not mean Ph.D., federal lab, or peer-reviewed publication. It means the occupation box said SCIENTIST. Filers who wrote chemist or engineer are outside $1.8 million.

No ranking of disciplines, no party split, no claim that research caused the gifts. 3,102 receipts and 1,111 donors are the volume facts.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode SCIENTIST 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 scientists donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Scientist itemized $1,788,391 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 3,102 receipts and 1,111 donors. That cell is 6.7% of $26,806,625 under SCIENTIST. Chemist, physicist, and research scientist are other keys when those words appear on the form.

Does this include federal research grants?

No. This page is FEC.gov individual contributions, not USAspending.gov awards. $1.8 million is political money tagged Scientist in 2012. Federal research obligations are a different dataset and are not in this packet. Do not add grant dollars to $1,788,391.

Why are there more receipts than donors?

1,111 donors produced 3,102 itemized lines, about 2.8 receipts per donor. Repeat gifts and memo entries add rows. The donor count is distinct people in this occupation-cycle cell, not a census of U.S. scientists. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Scientist in 2012 is $1,788,391 on 3,102 receipts from 1,111 donors.

What two tables does this page join?

Scientist donations ($26.8 million for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $1,788,391 from 3,102 receipts. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Scientist in 2012 is $1,788,391 on 3,102 receipts from 1,111 donors.