Venture Capital money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Venture Capital as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation VENTURE CAPITAL and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $980,918, 512 contributions, and 269 donors. VENTURE CAPITAL in 2008 is an industry phrase, not always a person’s job title. Filers still typed it on receipts. The occupation hub is $16,170,796 across every cycle in the aggregate. The 2008 cycle hub mixes every other occupation that used that year. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

2008’s dollar share is 6.1% ($980,918 of $16,170,796). The remainder, $15,189,878, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. Hundreds of donor keys and hundreds of lines is a mid-scale finance-phrase cell with a higher mean than many workplace titles. 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 $980,918.

The VENTURE CAPITAL phrase across every cycle

$16,170,796 is the occupation-side denominator. It is not limited to 2008. Venture Capitalist, Investor, and Private Equity are other occupation keys if stored separately. Adding those keys to $16,170,796 would be a researcher-built recode, not this table. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts.

Open Venture Capital donations for the $16,170,796 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.

269 donors and a four-figure mean gift

Dividing $980,918 by 512 contributions yields about $1,916 per gift. Dividing by 269 donors yields about $3,647 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 1.9 (512 ÷ 269). Those ratios describe this string in 2008, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

269 is a donor-key count inside the occupation × cycle aggregate, not a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2008. Repeat itemization, couples filing separately, and people who used the string on some receipts but not others all move the 269 figure. The cycle hub still holds every other occupation’s 2008 receipts beside this cell. Venture Capitalist (person) and Venture Capital (industry) are distinct strings if stored separately. This join uses the industry phrase.

What Venture Capital dollars in 2008 are not

A 6.1% share of Venture Capital-coded dollars from 2008 does not mean the occupation caused those gifts, and it does not mean people with that title funded a policy outcome. Occupation and cycle are reported together. The overlap is descriptive. Independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and unitemized gifts are out of scope.

Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger. This join does not claim that 2008 donations funded contracts or grants. Quote $980,918 as itemized individual receipts tagged VENTURE CAPITAL in 2008, source FEC.gov, and stop there.

How to cite Venture Capital × 2008

A complete claim names Venture Capital and 2008, then $980,918, 512 contributions, 269 donors, and 6.1% of $16,170,796, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 269 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Venture Capital and 2008—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $1,916 and mean per donor $3,647 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a licensing board.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Investor as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $15,189,878 outside 2008. Most of the $16,170,796 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. Venture Capitalist, Investor, and Private Equity are other occupation keys if stored separately. Those titles are not parents of VENTURE CAPITAL on this page. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 1.9. That ratio is 512 divided by 269, not a measure of turnout.

Questions

How much did Venture Capital-tagged donors give in 2008?

The join records $980,918 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Venture Capital in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 512 contributions and 269 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $16,170,796, so 2008 is 6.1% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every venture capital who donated in 2008?

No. The 269 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to VENTURE CAPITAL in 2008. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $980,918 on 512 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What share of Venture Capital occupation money is the 2008 cycle?

6.1%: $980,918 of $16,170,796. The remaining $15,189,878 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. That share is $980,918 divided by $16,170,796, not a ranking of civic engagement and not a peak-year list. Other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that remainder.

Where are the live Venture Capital and 2008 tables?

Venture Capital donations carries the $16,170,796 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places Venture Capital beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Venture Capital × 2008 intersection only.