Artist occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Artist receipts isolated to 2008

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation ARTIST and the 2008 election cycle. The intersection is $4,089,360 ($4.1 million), 4,210 contributions, and 1,848 donors. 8.7% of Artist occupation dollars ($47,114,394) fall in 2008.

2008 is an even-year federal cycle labeled 2008 on FEC.gov, a presidential-year window in itemized receipts. This page does not add later cycles into the 2008 dollars. ARTIST is a broad self-description. Painter, musician, actor, and graphic artist are other keys when those words appear. This page does not build an arts-sector total from those rows and does not count works sold.

$47,114,394 is the Artist all-cycle total

On the occupation side, $47,114,394 is the Artist total across cycles. Sibling labels (MUSICIAN, ACTOR, PAINTER, and GRAPHIC ARTIST) stay on other pages. Artist is not a union local roster, an NEA grant total, or a medium census.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $47,114,394. The Artist donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $4,089,360 is a slice of. Dividing $4,089,360 by 4,210 receipts yields about $971 per line; dividing by 1,848 donors yields about $2,213 per person. Those ratios are arithmetic, not medians.

2008 cycle dollars versus the Artist occupation total

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Artist. $4,089,360 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

4,210 contributions from 1,848 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. About 2.3 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $971; mean per donor about $2,213. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $4,089,360. Three numbers define the Artist × 2008 cell: dollars $4,089,360, contribution rows 4,210, unique donors 1,848. Share of occupation dollars is 8.7% of $47,114,394.

Public-record limits for Artist in 2008

Matching Artist with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Artist donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a union local roster, an NEA grant total, or a medium census.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. ARTIST is a broad self-description. Painter, musician, actor, and graphic artist are other keys when those words appear. This page does not build an arts-sector total from those rows and does not count works sold. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $4,089,360 funded USAspending obligations. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Artist donations hub is $47,114,394; the 2008 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Artist and 2008 tables

Artist donations holds the $47,114,394 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Artist. All occupations places ARTIST beside other titles without merging sibling strings (MUSICIAN, ACTOR, PAINTER, and GRAPHIC ARTIST). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $4,089,360 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Artist dollars ($47,114,394). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $4,089,360, 4,210 contributions, 1,848 donors, 8.7% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use. Keep ARTIST as the occupation key and 2008 as the cycle key when joining files. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if a later extract disagrees with $4,089,360.

Artist 2008 versus other LobbyVault cuts

Occupation-by-state joins for Artist are different pages and different dollars. This tie is occupation-by-cycle. $4,089,360 is not a state total and not a committee total.

All FEC ties is the inventory for those other pairs. All occupations is the inventory for titles. Neither page should be summed into $4,089,360.

Questions

How much did Artist-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Artist grouping’s 2008 cell is $4,089,360 in itemized individual contributions, from 4,210 contributions and 1,848 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $47,114,394 all-cycle occupation total.

Does Artist on an FEC form mean visual artist?

Not necessarily. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. ARTIST can cover many self-descriptions and is not a medium census. The 2008 cycle filter on Artist is $4,089,360, 4,210 contributions, and 1,848 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $47,114,394. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Artist FEC money fell in 2008?

About 8.7%. $4,089,360 divided by $47,114,394 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 91.3% ($43,025,034) on the occupation hub. See the Artist occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Artist 2008 money fund federal awards?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $4,089,360 is itemized receipts tagged ARTIST in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.