Artist occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Artist as occupation, 2012 as cycle

Two keys define this page. One is the occupation string ARTIST. The other is the 2012 federal election cycle. The match is $3,834,400, built from 4,002 contributions and 1,491 unique donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Four thousand gifts from 1,491 donors implies repeat giving inside the 2012 window. A presidential-year cell at 8.1% of the occupation stack is a chapter, not a grant roster.

Average contribution is about $958; average per donor is about $2,572. Those means are arithmetic on the 2012 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. About 2.7 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio, not a headcount of unique humans behind every spelling variant.

ARTIST is a one-word creative title

ARTIST on an FEC line is not a discipline code. Visual art, performance, and other uses collapse into the same bucket. WRITER is a separate occupation key in this slice. Students, hobbyists, and household-occupation users can sit among the donor IDs.

$47,114,394 is every cycle combined for ARTIST. $3,834,400 in 2012 is about 8.1% of that stack. Other windows hold about 91.9% ($43,279,994). A cycle cell at 8.1% is a chapter, not the occupation’s full FEC history. WRITER, MUSICIAN, and ACTOR are other occupation pages if stored separately. Combining them without naming each source total mixes keys.

1,491 donors and 4,002 gifts in 2012

1,491 unique donors against 4,002 contributions implies some repeat giving inside the 2012 window. Primaries, generals, and multiple committees all add rows. One person can appear more than once if addresses or names vary. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $3,834,400.

A title on a form is not an employment verification. People using a household occupation, a retired title, or a short status word can all land in the same cell. LobbyVault does not recode ARTIST into a NAICS industry or a licensing roster. Recipients of the campaign gifts live on the occupation hub and the 2012 cycle hub.

About 8.1% of a $47.1 million occupation stack

8.1% is $3,834,400 divided by $47,114,394. Reading only 2012 understates the parent occupation book. Reading only the parent hides that this cycle’s share is 8.1%. The leftover outside 2012 is $43,279,994. Those other-cycle dollars are not itemized on this relationship page.

Presidential-year and midterm windows are different FEC two-year clocks. This page cites cycle 2012 only. A later or earlier cell for the same occupation string is a different join even when the occupation total $47,114,394 is shared.

What an Artist–2012 join cannot claim

National Endowment for the Arts awards and museum contracts live in USAspending. This join has no grant identifiers. Ranking creative occupations as more political is not a claim these facts support.

The page does not identify employers, does not convert occupation text into a corporate gift, and does not link FEC receipts to USAspending obligations. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. Correlation between a job title and a cycle total is not causation. Cite $3,834,400, 4,002 contributions, and 1,491 donors for Artist in 2012. Cite $47,114,394 for the all-cycle occupation grouping. Name FEC.gov.

Related Artist and 2012 tables

Artist donations is the occupation hub behind $47,114,394. The 2012 election cycle page is the cycle census across occupations. All occupations lists other strings. All FEC ties collects other occupation-cycle pairs from the same two fields. Live hubs override this snapshot. If a hub disagrees with $3,834,400, 4,002 gifts, or 1,491 donor IDs, the hub and FEC.gov control.

Keep the occupation string ARTIST attached to $3,834,400 whenever the sentence also names cycle 2012. Keep 4,002 contributions and 1,491 donors in the same citation so readers can see whether Artist in 2012 is a high-volume stack or a concentrated roster. The all-cycle occupation total $47,114,394 answers a different question: every window combined, not this two-year clock. Unitemized receipts, independent expenditures, and state-office campaigns sit outside this extract. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

Questions

How much did Artist-labeled donors give in 2012?

The Artist grouping’s 2012 cell is $3,834,400 in itemized individual contributions, from 4,002 contributions and 1,491 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 mean a specific discipline?

No. This cell is the self-reported string ARTIST matched to cycle 2012. WRITER, MUSICIAN, and ACTOR are other keys if stored separately. The FEC does not verify that the title matches a license or payroll. See the Artist occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings.

What share of Artist FEC money fell in 2012?

About 8.1%. $3,834,400 divided by $47,114,394 is the 2012 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 91.9% ($43,279,994) on the occupation hub. See the Artist occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings.

Do these donations fund federal arts grants?

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. $3,834,400 is itemized receipts tagged ARTIST in 2012, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Unitemized gifts never enter this cell. FEC.gov is the source.