Artist political contributions from Connecticut

The Artist–Connecticut intersection

Occupation ARTIST and donor state CT produce $1,300,782, 10,034 contributions, and 164 donors. The occupation hub is $47,114,394, 243,498 contributions, and 6,429 donors. Connecticut’s dollar share is about 2.8%; contribution share about 4.1% (10,034 of 243,498); donor share about 2.6% (164 of 6,429). One hundred sixty-four Connecticut donors are 2.6% of 6,429 national ARTIST donors. Contribution share (10,034 of 243,498) is about 4.1%, ahead of the 2.8% dollar share of $47,114,394.

PAINTER, MUSICIAN, and SCULPTOR, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack ARTIST with PAINTER or MUSICIAN into a single Connecticut professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

164 Connecticut donors produced 10,034 contributions, about 61.2 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 37.9 rows per donor nationally (243,498 contributions from 6,429 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Connecticut cell is about $130, against about $193 nationwide. Connecticut’s row-heavy pattern (10,034 gifts from 164 people) is the distinctive fact of this cell. Mean gift here is about $130, below the national Artist mean of about $193.

ARTIST receipts with a Connecticut address

ARTIST is a filer-entered string. Repeat itemization can inflate contribution counts without inflating unique donors. The file stores both figures; this page keeps them together. The $47,114,394 national total is ARTIST only. 6,429 donors produced 243,498 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 243,498 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Connecticut (CT). This page locates the Connecticut overlap. It does not name galleries among the 164 Connecticut donors.

Connecticut as donor state

164 Connecticut donors produced 10,034 contributions totaling $1,300,782. Donor state CT is the address on the record, not proof of a Connecticut license, and not a limit to Connecticut candidates. CT is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Connecticut studio and not a limit to Connecticut candidates. New York art-market adjacency is unpublished.

The Connecticut campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CT. This join is only ARTIST. The Artist occupation hub without Connecticut still holds about 97.2% of the $47,114,394. Connecticut’s state hub includes every occupation coded to CT. ARTIST is only this filter.

What not to infer from Artist plus Connecticut

This page does not treat 10,034 rows as 10,034 people, merge Painter dollars, or claim that Artist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. A unique-donor count of 164 is not a person-level audit. Many small itemized rows can sit under one donor key.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. ARTIST is not an arts-union roster. Donor state CT is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Studio names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Artist filter

Subtract the Connecticut dollars on this page from the national ARTIST occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded ARTIST in every other state combined. That remainder ($45,813,612) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 164 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 10,034 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,300,782 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Connecticut dollars, or only the ARTIST national total, drops a key. One hundred sixty-four donors producing 10,034 contributions is the row-heavy fact to keep next to the $1,300,782 headline.

Related tables

Artist donations holds the $47,114,394 national occupation total. Connecticut campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. Pennsylvania’s Artist join has more dollars from fewer rows per donor; do not add those cells.

Questions

How much have Artist donors in Connecticut given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation ARTIST and state Connecticut total $1,300,782, from 10,034 contributions and 164 donors. Nationwide, ARTIST-coded receipts are $47,114,394 from 243,498 contributions and 6,429 donors. Connecticut is about 2.8% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Do 10,034 contributions mean 10,034 Connecticut artists?

No. The unique-donor count is 164. Contribution count can include many small itemized rows per person. Occupation is ARTIST and state is CT. The 164 Connecticut donors used occupation ARTIST and state CT. Filers who wrote PAINTER or MUSICIAN may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Artist FEC money is from Connecticut?

About 2.8% of the $47,114,394 occupation total is in this Connecticut join ($1,300,782). Connecticut also accounts for about 4.1% of contributions (10,034 of 243,498) and about 2.6% of donors (164 of 6,429). About 2.8% of dollars and about 4.1% of contributions from 164 of 6,429 donors.

Does this money go to Connecticut candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Connecticut. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,300,782 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CT; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.