Venture Capital political contributions in the 2012 FEC cycle

The Venture Capital × 2012 intersection

Venture Capital in 2012 is $2,297,255 on 437 itemized lines from 214 people in the unique-donor roll-up. 2012 holds 14.2% of all-cycle Venture Capital dollars ($2,297,255 of $16,170,796). That is a material cycle share, still a minority of the occupation total. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, grouped by self-reported occupation and election cycle, are the source.

437 contributions from 214 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. Unique-donor count collapses multiple gifts by the same person inside this occupation-cycle pair. It does not verify that those 214 people still used that title after 2012.

This page is not a restatement of the Venture Capital hub or of the 2012 cycle hub. The occupation hub is every cycle. The cycle hub is every occupation. The tie is the intersection: $2,297,255.

The Venture Capital occupation hub behind $16,170,796

Filers who typed venture capital produced the all-cycle occupation total of $16,170,796. VENTURE CAPITAL is the occupation string. PRIVATE EQUITY is a different page. The join is not a fund’s committed capital and not a limited-partner list. Firm PACs stay in committee totals, not this occupation filter. The occupation is not a VC AUM figure, an NVCA membership roll, or a merge with PRIVATE EQUITY.

2012 as the cycle side of the Venture Capital join

The 2012 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Venture Capital. $2,297,255 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2012. It is not a 2010 or 2014 midterm-year filter.

437 contributions from 214 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,297,255, 437, and 214 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,297,255. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,297,255. Three numbers define the Venture Capital × 2012 cell: dollars $2,297,255, contribution rows 437, unique donors 214. Share of occupation dollars is 14.2% of $16,170,796.

Caveats on VENTURE CAPITAL in 2012

Matching Venture Capital with 2012 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Venture Capital donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a VC AUM figure, an NVCA membership roll, or a merge with PRIVATE EQUITY.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. VENTURE CAPITAL is the occupation string. PRIVATE EQUITY is a different page. The join is not a fund’s committed capital and not a limited-partner list. Firm PACs stay in committee totals, not this occupation filter. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Venture Capital donations hub is $16,170,796; the 2012 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Venture Capital and 2012 pages

Venture Capital donations holds the $16,170,796 occupation total. The 2012 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Venture Capital. All occupations places VENTURE CAPITAL beside other titles without merging sibling strings (PRIVATE EQUITY, INVESTOR, and VENTURE CAPITALIST). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,297,255 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Venture Capital dollars ($16,170,796). Use the 2012 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,297,255, 437 contributions, 214 donors, 14.2% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Venture Capital donations, the 2012 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties. Keep VENTURE CAPITAL as the occupation key and 2012 as the cycle key when joining files. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if a later extract disagrees with $2,297,255.

How $2,297,255 sits under $16,170,796

Subtract $2,297,255 from $16,170,796 and the residual is other even-year cycles for the same occupation string, not a different title. 14.2% in 2012 leaves the rest of Venture Capital dollars outside this page.

Do not treat the residual as a named year. This packet only publishes 2012 as the cycle dimension. The occupation hub is the place for the full $16,170,796 series. Sibling strings (PRIVATE EQUITY, INVESTOR, and VENTURE CAPITALIST) remain outside $2,297,255. Independent expenditures remain outside $2,297,255.

Questions

How much did Venture Capital donors give in 2012?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation VENTURE CAPITAL in the 2012 cycle total $2,297,255, from 437 contributions and 214 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Venture Capital-coded receipts are $16,170,796. 2012 is 14.2% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Venture Capital 2012 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,297,255 or in the $16,170,796 occupation figure used here. VENTURE CAPITAL and PRIVATE EQUITY are separate filer-entered occupation strings. The 2012 join is $2,297,255 from 437 contributions and 214 donors.

Is this the same as Private Equity?

No. VENTURE CAPITAL and PRIVATE EQUITY are separate filer-entered occupation strings. The 2012 cycle filter on Venture Capital is $2,297,255, 437 contributions, and 214 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $16,170,796. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 437 Venture Capital contributions and 214 donors in 2012?

The 2012 join includes 437 itemized contributions from 214 donors totaling $2,297,255. 437 contributions from 214 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.