Artist donors and dollars in the 2010 cycle

The join key behind $1.3 million in 2010

The packet facts for this join are occupation ARTIST, occupation total $47,114,394, cycle 2010, cycle total $1,297,144, 1,457 contributions, and 703 donors. 2.8% is $1,297,144 as a share of $47,114,394. No other dollar, year, or headcount belongs on this page.

Internal links stay inside that inventory: Artist donations for the occupation hub, 2010 election cycle for the cycle hub, all occupations for peer strings, and all FEC ties for other joins. Those pages do not add receipts to federal awards and do not convert occupation strings into NAICS codes.

Reading $47.1 million without flattening 2010

The occupation-wide total for ARTIST on this extract is $47,114,394 ($47.1 million). That figure includes every indexed cycle for the same string, not only 2010. $1,297,144 is the 2010 slice (2.8%). ARTIST is the exact occupation string. MUSICIAN, ACTOR, WRITER, PAINTER, and ARTIST/EDUCATOR remain other keys. This join is not a union roster and not a creative-economy census.

Party, office, and recipient committee are not in this packet’s occupation facts. $47,114,394 is dollars on the string, not dollars to a party. If you need recipient mix, use the occupation hub’s committee tables rather than reading a party into $1,297,144. This join’s facts stop at occupation, cycle, dollars, rows, and donors.

2010 itemized lines for the Artist string

The 2010 value is the FEC two-year election cycle that closes on the 2010 federal election calendar. It is a reporting window on individual contribution records, not a single Election Day total and not a count of offices on the ballot. Receipts dated inside that cycle window stay here; receipts dated in another even-year cycle sit on that other join. Inside that window, Artist accounts for $1,297,144 on 1,457 contributions from 703 donors.

Cycle hubs change when bulk files are reloaded. Occupation hubs change when strings are re-aggregated. This join inherits both refresh paths. After a reload, confirm $1,297,144, 1,457, and 703 on 2010 election cycle and Artist donations before quoting the snapshot.

Using $1,845 per donor without inventing a typical gift

1,457 contributions and 703 donors describe different units. A row is an itemized receipt line. A donor is a unique person inside this occupation–cycle filter as LobbyVault matches names. 1,457 divided by 703 is the mean lines per donor in this cell; $1,297,144 divided by 703 is about $1,845 per donor; $1,297,144 divided by 1,457 is about $890 per line. Means are not medians. Large gifts pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median.

$890 per line is a check on scale, not a legal limit. Federal contribution limits vary by recipient and year and are not a field in this packet. Do not infer a limit from $890 or $1,845. Cite the FEC limit tables if you need that rule; they are outside these facts.

A complete citation names occupation ARTIST, cycle 2010, dollars $1,297,144, contribution lines 1,457, and unique donors 703. Omitting the occupation string makes the cycle look occupation-wide. Omitting the cycle makes the occupation hub look like a single-year figure. Omitting the donor count invites a reader to treat 1,457 as people. Keep all five tokens.

Where to go next from this occupation–cycle cell

This page is not a claim that donations fund federal spending. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets. The join here is occupation × cycle inside FEC.gov only. It is not a ranking of occupations, not medical or political advice, and not a statement that Artist as a profession acted in concert in 2010.

Use all FEC ties to move to another occupation–cycle pair without treating this cell as a baseline rank. Use all occupations to see other strings. Use Artist donations and 2010 election cycle for the unjoined hubs. Quote $1,297,144 with 2010 and ARTIST attached every time.

Artist donations is the all-cycle table for this string. 2010 election cycle is the all-occupation table for 2010. All occupations is the string inventory. All FEC ties is the join inventory. None of those pages authorizes adding $1,297,144 to a USAspending obligation total or ranking Artist as more influential than another title.

Questions

What did people listing Artist disclose in 2010?

Itemized individual contributions with occupation ARTIST total $1,297,144 in the 2010 FEC cycle. LobbyVault counts 1,457 contributions and 703 unique donors in that cell. The occupation-wide total for the same string on this extract is $47,114,394, so 2010 is 2.8% of that roll-up. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.

Is this page the same as the Artist occupation hub?

No. $1,297,144 is the 2010 slice only. The occupation hub still shows $47,114,394 across the extract. This page is a join: occupation string plus even-year cycle. It is not a restatement of Artist donations and not a restatement of 2010 election cycle. Adding other cycles here would invent dollars the packet does not list.

Does each contribution equal one Artist donor?

The join lists 703 unique donors and 1,457 contribution lines for ARTIST in 2010. A person can give more than once, so lines exceed donors. About $1,845 per donor and $890 per line are means from $1,297,144, not medians and not typical gifts. Name matching can split or merge people. This is not a job-census headcount.

Can I treat Artist as a NAICS or BLS group?

No. The filter is the exact occupation string ARTIST as filers typed it. Nearby titles stay on other keys listed under all occupations. The string is not a NAICS code, not a BLS occupation, and not a PAC. See Artist donations for this key’s all-cycle table and all FEC ties for other joins. Cite FEC.gov.