ARTIST

Artist as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Artist and 2008 — sum to $1,865,183. 1,542 itemized contributions and 400 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Artist hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Artist is a self-reported title, not a guild membership file. Four hundred donors and 1,542 lines in 2008 matched that word. Visual, performing, and commercial artists can share the four letters on a form. Named galleries typed as employer sit elsewhere. PAINTER, MUSICIAN, ACTOR, ACTRESS, PERFORMER, and named studios or galleries sit in other keys. This page is the stored string ARTIST.

8.5% of the Artist roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $21,874,468 ($21.9 million). The 2008 slice of $1,865,183 is about 8.5% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 91.5% ($20,009,285). Treating 2008 as the Artist FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $21,874,468 as the denominator for the 8.5% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $21,874,468.

Questions

How much did Artist donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,865,183 in itemized individual contributions for the Artist grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,542 contributions and 400 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $21,874,468 all-cycle figure.

What share of Artist FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $21,874,468. The 2008 cell of $1,865,183 is about 8.5% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 91.5% ($20,009,285) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Artist hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed Artist donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Artist. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $1,865,183 from 400 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Artist 2008 join?

Open Artist 2008 for the cycle overlay, Artist for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.