ARTIST occupation money in FEC itemizations

Many lines from a modest record set

243,498 itemizations from 6,429 donors is about 38 contributions per donor record, among the highest repeat rates in this harvest. $47,114,394 divided by lines is about $193 per contribution. Divided by donors, the mean is about $7,328 per donor record.

High frequency plus a four-digit mean per donor can appear when records give many times, including to multiple committees. The packet does not name recipients. It only supplies $47,114,394, 243,498 contributions, and 6,429 donors.

Painter, musician, actor, and performer are other strings if donors used those words. This page is ARTIST only.

Self-reporting in creative work

The FEC does not verify gallery shows or union cards. Visual artists, musicians who typed ARTIST, and people who make art part time may all appear. Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word.

A person who listed ARTIST on some gifts and WRITER or SELF-EMPLOYED on others appears in multiple occupation totals. Occupation is per transaction.

What the dollars do not measure

$47,114,394 is not arts-endowment appropriations and not entertainment-industry PAC spending. Industry pages use employer categories. Occupation and industry will not match dollar for dollar.

6,429 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-artist census. Party is not in the occupation column. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $47.1 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Using the hub

Open the ARTIST occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to compare ARTIST with WRITER without merging them. Cite FEC.gov itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts are omitted. Harvested facts have no cycle year. Live filters may change displayed sums. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $47.1 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Limits

These three numbers do not measure cultural-sector employment or grant-making. They are occupation-string totals on itemized individual receipts. Do not treat the mean of about $7,328 per donor record as typical artist income allocated to politics.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep ARTIST on its own line with its own dollar, contribution, and donor facts. The occupations index is the inventory of neighboring strings. Industry pages remain an employer-side cut and should not be added to this occupation total. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so $47.1 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $47.1 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

ARTIST frequency beside WRITER, not inside it

ARTIST is $47.1 million on 243,498 itemizations from 6,429 donor records. About 38 itemizations per donor record is among the highest repeat rates in this harvest. Mean line size is about $193; mean dollars per donor record are about $7,328. WRITER is a separate creative-title key. Musician, actor, and painter are other strings unless they normalized to ARTIST.

Union cards and gallery records are not matched. 6,429 is not an artist census. Arts-endowment appropriations and entertainment PACs are different federal records. Industry pages will not equal $47,114,394. Cite the three ARTIST facts as an occupation-string total on itemized Form 3/3X receipts indexed from FEC.gov bulk data. The ARTIST hub is useful when the question is how often a creative-title string appears on itemized lines, not when the question is cultural-sector employment. Six thousand four hundred twenty-nine donor records produced 243,498 itemizations. That ratio is the file’s warning against treating each line as a new person. Open the occupation page to see committees. Keep WRITER on its own row. Compact dollars for this string are $47.1 million.

Questions

How much have ARTIST donors given in FEC records?

Occupation ARTIST is attached to $47,114,394 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 243,498 contributions and 6,429 donor records. WRITER is a separate string. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Why are there so many artist contributions per donor?

243,498 itemizations from 6,429 donors implies about 38 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $193. The packet does not split causes. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Is WRITER included in ARTIST?

No. WRITER has its own occupation page. This page covers ARTIST only: $47,114,394, 243,498 contributions, and 6,429 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Does ARTIST include musicians and actors?

Only if they typed ARTIST. Donors who wrote musician or actor are in other strings unless those texts normalized to ARTIST. The matching contribution count is 243,498 and the matching donor-record count is 6,429. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.