Artist donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

Artist as a key, 2014 as a cycle

The overlap of ARTIST and 2014 is $1,835,260. Painter, musician, actor, and graphic artist are other keys. This page does not build an arts-sector total from those rows.

A midterm slice that is 3.9% of a $47.1 million occupation bucket is a share of harvested dollars, not a measure of gallery sales or of all 2014 giving. Parent hubs: Artist donations and the 2014 election cycle.

The occupation hub for Artist lists $47.1 million ($47,114,394) under the exact string ARTIST. The 2014 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2014, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Artist in 2014 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.8 million. The occupation page and the 2014 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

A large creative bucket

$47,114,394 under ARTIST is large because the word is short and widely used, not because FEC counted works sold. People who wrote visual artist or recording artist split away when extra words appear.

The 2014 remainder after this cell is other cycles in the occupation total, not listed here. This ties page does not invent those yearly amounts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,835,260. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $47,114,394. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Artist donations and the live 2014 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $1,835,260. If a later harvest revises 1,801 or 732, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($47,114,394) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

2014 Artist volume

732 donors and 1,801 receipts — about 2.5 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $1,019; mean per donor about $2,507. With 732 donors, a few large itemized gifts can lift the mean. No median is provided.

Midterm calendars still mix House, Senate, and leftover presidential receipts. This packet does not split $1.8 million by office.

1,801 is a receipt count. 732 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.8 million.

Cite art as a string, not a sector

Quote $1,835,260 as Artist in 2014. Quote $47,114,394 as the ARTIST occupation total. Do not add them. Do not call either figure NEA funding or arts-PAC spending.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations and All FEC ties for neighboring keys.

Dividing $1,835,260 by 1,801 receipts yields about $1,019 per line. Dividing by 732 donors yields about $2,507 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

Not a union or medium census

Artist does not mean union member, represented by a gallery, or full-time. It means the form said ARTIST. Filers who wrote musician or actor are outside $1.8 million.

No ranking of creative jobs, no party split, no claim about cultural influence. The join is 1,801 receipts, 732 donors, $1,835,260.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode ARTIST into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did artists donate in 2014?

Filers who listed Artist itemized $1,835,260 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, from 1,801 receipts and 732 donors. That is 3.9% of $47,114,394 harvested under ARTIST. Musician, actor, and painter are other occupation keys when those words appear on the form.

Why is the Artist occupation total much larger than the 2014 cell?

The occupation total ($47.1 million) sums matching receipts across harvested cycles. The 2014 cell is one midterm ($1.8 million). 3.9% is those two harvested sums divided. This packet does not list the other cycle amounts, so this page does not chart them.

Does Artist on an FEC form mean visual artist?

Not necessarily. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. ARTIST can cover many self-descriptions. This join does not verify medium, union status, or sales. It reports $1,835,260 for that string in 2014. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Artist in 2014 is $1,835,260 on 1,801 receipts from 732 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Artist donations ($47.1 million for the string) and the 2014 election cycle. The overlap is $1,835,260 from 1,801 receipts. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle joins. Neither hub is copied in full here. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Artist in 2014 is $1,835,260 on 1,801 receipts from 732 donors.