Volunteer political contributions from California

The Volunteer × California join

LobbyVault stores FEC occupation strings separately from donor states. Crossing them for Volunteer and California yields $2,589,272. That is 15,132 itemized lines and 181 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Occupation strings can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping VOLUNTEER. Related titles, abbreviations, and employer names are not added. The 181 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce. Community volunteer, activist, unpaid intern, and retired sit elsewhere.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the state and you see $12,821,205. Drop the string and you see the entire California hub. This page holds both filters at once. VOLUNTEER is the occupation string on the form, not a verified unpaid-hours total. Community volunteer is a longer neighboring label.

The occupation string VOLUNTEER

A national figure of $12,821,205 can swallow a single state if the join is skipped. California is $2,589,272, 20.2%. The leftover $10,231,933 belongs on other state pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$12,821,205 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related title and not a sector total. 20.2% describes California inside Volunteer, nothing else. This join does not recode VOLUNTEER into a nonprofit staff census, a volunteer-hours log, or an unpaid-labor survey.

Volume: 15,132 lines, 181 identities

Packet arithmetic: $2,589,272 ÷ 15,132 ≈ $171 per contribution; $2,589,272 ÷ 181 ≈ $14,305 per donor; 15,132 ÷ 181 ≈ 83.6 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. Community volunteer, activist, unpaid intern, and retired are other keys and would change the means if merged.

The donor-state CA field

Remove Volunteer and the California hub still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is VOLUNTEER in CA: $2,589,272, 15,132 contributions, 181 donors.

Donor state CA is an address on the itemized line. It is not proof of a California professional license and not a claim that the money stayed in California races. Campaign volunteer versus charity volunteer versus board volunteer is unpublished.

Where to go next from Volunteer in California

Start with $2,589,272, then Volunteer donations for the national occupation total, then California campaign finance if the occupation filter needs to come off. All occupations lists community volunteer, activist, unpaid intern, and retired as separate titles. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Do not invent donor names on this page. The individual-contribution cell remains $2,589,272 on 15,132 receipts from 181 donors. VOLUNTEER is the occupation string on the form, not a verified unpaid-hours total. Community volunteer is a longer neighboring label.

Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The occupation and state hubs remain the places for one-sided totals. This tie page quotes packet facts only. Independent expenditures stay outside the cell. Filer-entered occupation strings are not payroll titles. Readers who need a person-level roster will not find names on this page. USAspending.gov is a different ledger from FEC.gov individual contributions.

All occupations and All FEC ties remain the indexes for sibling joins. Cite the source note exactly as copied from the packet. Do not convert a contribution count into a unique-person census. Dollar figures first, then the two keys that produced them. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL. Unitemized gifts are outside the itemized aggregate quoted here.

Nearby job titles belong on their own occupation hubs if stored as other strings. A mean gift is dollars divided by itemized lines, not a typical check. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Repeat the join in one line: occupation VOLUNTEER ∩ state CA = $2,589,272, 15,132 receipts, 181 donors, 20.2% of $12,821,205. Neighbors remain community volunteer, activist, unpaid intern, and retired. Source remains FEC.gov.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged Volunteer in California?

FEC.gov itemized individual contribution aggregates show $2,589,272 from occupation Volunteer with donor state CA. That join covers 15,132 contributions from 181 donors. Nationwide the occupation totals $12,821,205, so California is about 20.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

How much of the $12,821,205 Volunteer bucket is CA?

About 20.2% of the $12,821,205 Volunteer grouping is coded to California: $2,589,272. Contribution share is about 32.2% (15,132 of 46,977). Donor share is about 13.3% (181 of 1,361). The remainder $10,231,933 is other states.

Is Volunteer the same as community volunteer?

No. 181 is the unique-donor count in this occupation–state cell as aggregated from itemized FEC lines, not a labor-market census. Mean gift in the cell is about $171 across 15,132 contributions. Community volunteer, activist, unpaid intern, and retired, if stored separately, are other keys. This join is VOLUNTEER only.

Why is there a Volunteer × California page?

Volunteer donations carry the $12,821,205 occupation total. California campaign finance is the state hub. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the VOLUNTEER × CA intersection only.