Volunteer donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Volunteer × 2008

VOLUNTEER plus cycle 2008 equals $915,355. 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. Retired, activist, community volunteer, and unpaid intern are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a nonprofit staff census, a volunteer-hours log, or an unpaid-labor survey. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Volunteer donations at /occupations/volunteer/ 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 $915,355 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Volunteer in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $915,355. Campaign volunteer versus charity volunteer versus board volunteer is unpublished for Volunteer in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

VOLUNTEER as typed, not a hours roster

$12.8 million ($12,821,205) belongs to the exact string VOLUNTEER across harvested cycles. It is not a nonprofit staff census, a volunteer-hours log, or an unpaid-labor survey. People who wrote nearby wording — retired, activist, community volunteer, and unpaid intern — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 7.1% of that title bucket. Share of VOLUNTEER is not share of all 2008 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $915,355. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $12,821,205. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Volunteer 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 $915,355.

859 volunteer receipts in a presidential year

387 donors and 859 receipts — about 2.2 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $1,066; mean per donor about $2,365. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 387 donors makes this a modest occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 859 is a line count, not 387 one-time gifts; about two lines per donor, which is consistent with repeat gifts inside the same two-year window. Campaign volunteer versus charity volunteer versus board volunteer is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by VOLUNTEER. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $915,355.

Self-reported volunteer versus committee staff

Cite $915,355 as Volunteer in 2008. Cite $12,821,205 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add the nonprofit’s own committee filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $915,355 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 7.1%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode VOLUNTEER 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 volunteer money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation VOLUNTEER, election cycle 2008, $915,355 in itemized individual contributions, 859 receipts, and 387 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $1,066 per line and $2,365 per donor in the cell. If the live Volunteer donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 859 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Volunteer donations rolls every cycle into one VOLUNTEER running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Volunteer × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 859 receipts and $915,355. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did volunteer filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed Volunteer itemized $915,355 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 859 receipts and 387 donors. That is 7.1% of $12,821,205 under VOLUNTEER. Retired, activist, community volunteer, and unpaid intern are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this count a nonprofit’s PAC spending?

No. $915,355 is individual contributions tagged Volunteer in 2008. The nonprofit’s own committee filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $915,355 would blend FEC tables. See Volunteer donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. Volunteer in 2008 is $915,355 on 859 receipts from 387 donors.

Are volunteer labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses VOLUNTEER. Retired, activist, community volunteer, and unpaid intern are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a nonprofit staff census, a volunteer-hours log, or an unpaid-labor survey. Cite $915,355 for this title in 2008 on 859 receipts from 387 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Volunteer donations ($12.8 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $915,355 from 859 receipts and 387 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Volunteer in 2008.