Venture Capitalist donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Venture Capitalist × 2008

VENTURE CAPITALIST plus cycle 2008 equals $911,034. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2008. Investor, private equity, venture partner, and VC are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an NVCA member census, a fund-formation roster, or a limited-partner roll. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Venture Capitalist donations at /occupations/venture-capitalist/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $911,034 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Venture Capitalist in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $911,034. Partner versus associate versus limited partner is unpublished for Venture Capitalist in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

The VENTURE CAPITALIST string, not a fund census

$16.8 million ($16,760,854) belongs to the exact string VENTURE CAPITALIST across harvested cycles. It is not an NVCA member census, a fund-formation roster, or a limited-partner roll. People who wrote nearby wording — investor, private equity, venture partner, and VC — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 5.4% of that title bucket. Share of VENTURE CAPITALIST is not share of all 2008 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $911,034. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $16,760,854. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Venture Capitalist donations and the live 2008 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 $911,034.

473 venture-capitalist receipts in a presidential year

272 donors and 473 receipts — about 1.7 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $1,926; mean per donor about $3,349. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 272 donors makes this a modest occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 473 is a line count, not 272 one-time gifts; receipts sit close to the donor count, so many people in the cell appear on a small number of lines. Partner versus associate versus limited partner is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by VENTURE CAPITALIST. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $911,034.

Occupation versus industry PACs

Cite $911,034 as Venture Capitalist in 2008. Cite $16,760,854 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add trade-association and leadership PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $911,034 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 5.4%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode VENTURE CAPITALIST into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite venture-capitalist money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation VENTURE CAPITALIST, election cycle 2008, $911,034 in itemized individual contributions, 473 receipts, and 272 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $1,926 per line and $3,349 per donor in the cell. If the live Venture Capitalist donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 473 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Venture Capitalist donations rolls every cycle into one VENTURE CAPITALIST running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Venture Capitalist × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 473 receipts and $911,034. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did venture capitalist filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Venture Capitalist itemized $911,034 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 473 receipts and 272 donors. That is 5.4% of $16,760,854 under VENTURE CAPITALIST. Investor, private equity, venture partner, and VC are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include venture-industry PACs?

No. $911,034 is individual contributions tagged Venture Capitalist in 2008. Trade-association and leadership PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $911,034 would blend FEC tables. See Venture Capitalist donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Venture Capitalist in 2008 is $911,034 on 473 receipts from 272 donors.

Are venture capitalist labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses VENTURE CAPITALIST. Investor, private equity, venture partner, and VC are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an NVCA member census, a fund-formation roster, or a limited-partner roll. Cite $911,034 for this title in 2008 on 473 receipts from 272 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Venture Capitalist donations ($16.8 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $911,034 from 473 receipts and 272 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Venture Capitalist in 2008.