Venture Capitalist and the 2012 election cycle on FEC.gov

The relationship: Venture Capitalist receipts inside 2012

The headline number is $1,494,399 ($1.5 million) for Venture Capitalist in 2012. Share of the occupation extract: 8.9% of $16,760,854. Contribution rows: 485. Unique donors: 232. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered, so spelling, punctuation, and job-title fashion all split people across keys.

A join is not a causal story. 485 lines in 2012 do not prove that Venture Capitalist as a labor category moved a race. They prove that this many itemized receipts carried this string in this cycle window. Open Venture Capitalist donations for the all-cycle occupation table, 2012 election cycle for the cycle table, all occupations for sibling strings, and all FEC ties for other two-dimension pages.

$16,760,854 is the all-cycle Venture Capitalist figure

The occupation-wide total for VENTURE CAPITALIST on this extract is $16,760,854 ($16.8 million). That figure includes every indexed cycle for the same string, not only 2012. $1,494,399 is the 2012 slice (8.9%). VENTURE CAPITALIST is the filer-typed string, not a firm roster and not a NAICS finance code. LobbyVault does not fold VC, VENTURE CAPITAL, VENTURE CAPITALIST / PARTNER, or INVESTOR into this key. A person who used a different label in another year sits on that other occupation total.

Sibling titles are not in $16,760,854 unless the filer typed VENTURE CAPITALIST exactly. That is why all occupations exists: so a reader can see neighboring strings without folding them into Venture Capitalist. Folding them here would invent a cluster the FEC field does not contain. Keep $16,760,854 attached to this string only.

Cycle 2012 as a filter on Venture Capitalist receipts

The 2012 value is the FEC two-year election cycle that closes on the 2012 federal election calendar. It is a reporting window on individual contribution records, not a single Election Day total and not a count of offices on the ballot. Receipts dated inside that cycle window stay here; receipts dated in another even-year cycle sit on that other join. Inside that window, Venture Capitalist accounts for $1,494,399 on 485 contributions from 232 donors.

Amended filings can move a receipt across a cycle boundary or change an occupation string. If FEC.gov later shows a different 2012 total for VENTURE CAPITALIST, the live hubs win. This JSON is a packet snapshot. Rewrite the cycle sentence when the extract moves; do not average old and new cells.

How to cite the 2012 donor and line counts

485 contributions and 232 donors describe different units. A row is an itemized receipt line. A donor is a unique person inside this occupation–cycle filter as LobbyVault matches names. 485 divided by 232 is the mean lines per donor in this cell; $1,494,399 divided by 232 is about $6,441 per donor; $1,494,399 divided by 485 is about $3,081 per line. Means are not medians. Large gifts pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median.

If a later extract changes only the unique-donor count, keep $1,494,399 and 485 unless those moved too. The three measures can move independently when matching rules change. This page will not invent a fourth measure such as households or zip clusters.

A complete citation names occupation VENTURE CAPITALIST, cycle 2012, dollars $1,494,399, contribution lines 485, and unique donors 232. Omitting the occupation string makes the cycle look occupation-wide. Omitting the cycle makes the occupation hub look like a single-year figure. Omitting the donor count invites a reader to treat 485 as people. Keep all five tokens.

How to cite the join without overclaiming

This page is not a claim that donations fund federal spending. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets. The join here is occupation × cycle inside FEC.gov only. It is not a ranking of occupations, not medical or political advice, and not a statement that Venture Capitalist as a profession acted in concert in 2012.

Do not recode VENTURE CAPITALIST into an industry, a union, a PAC, or a NAICS sector on the strength of this page. Industry joins are other packets. PAC joins are other packets. This one stops at occupation and cycle. $1,494,399, 485, 232, $16,760,854, and 2012 are the usable figures.

Questions

How much Venture Capitalist money shows up in 2012 on FEC.gov?

Itemized individual contributions with occupation VENTURE CAPITALIST total $1,494,399 in the 2012 FEC cycle. LobbyVault counts 485 contributions and 232 unique donors in that cell. The occupation-wide total for the same string on this extract is $16,760,854, so 2012 is 8.9% of that roll-up. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.

How does $1,494,399 relate to $16,760,854?

No. $1,494,399 is the 2012 slice only. The occupation hub still shows $16,760,854 across the extract. This page is a join: occupation string plus even-year cycle. It is not a restatement of Venture Capitalist donations and not a restatement of 2012 election cycle. Adding other cycles here would invent dollars the packet does not list.

What do 232 donors and 485 lines mean?

The join lists 232 unique donors and 485 contribution lines for VENTURE CAPITALIST in 2012. A person can give more than once, so lines exceed donors. About $6,441 per donor and $3,081 per line are means from $1,494,399, not medians and not typical gifts. Name matching can split or merge people. This is not a job-census headcount.

Is VENTURE CAPITALIST a recoded occupation category?

No. The filter is the exact occupation string VENTURE CAPITALIST as filers typed it. Nearby titles stay on other keys listed under all occupations. The string is not a NAICS code, not a BLS occupation, and not a PAC. See Venture Capitalist donations for this key’s all-cycle table and all FEC ties for other joins. Cite FEC.gov.