Artist political contributions from Illinois

Artist and Illinois as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation ARTIST and donor state IL produce $1,514,820, 7,594 contributions, and 177 donors. The occupation hub is $47,114,394, 243,498 contributions, and 6,429 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 3.2%; contribution share about 3.1% (7,594 of 243,498); donor share about 2.8% (177 of 6,429). One hundred seventy-seven Illinois donors are about 2.8% of 6,429 national donors; 7,594 contributions are about 3.1% of 243,498 national rows; dollars are about 3.2% of $47,114,394.

MUSICIAN, PAINTER, WRITER, and ACTOR, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Artist total. Do not stack ARTIST with MUSICIAN or WRITER into a single Illinois professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

177 Illinois donors produced 7,594 contributions, about 42.9 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 Illinois cell is about $199, against about $193 nationwide. Illinois’s about 3.2% share of $47,114,394 from 177 people is a high-repeat slice of a contribution-heavy occupation (243,498 national rows).

ARTIST as a creative-title string

ARTIST is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a gallery, a union card, or a medium. One word on the form is the filter. 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 Illinois (IL). Two hundred forty-three thousand four hundred ninety-eight national contributions make ARTIST a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state IL.

Illinois on the state side

177 Illinois donors produced 7,594 contributions totaling $1,514,820. Donor state IL is the address on the record, not proof of a Illinois license, and not a limit to Illinois candidates. IL is the address on the itemized record, not proof of an Illinois studio, and not a map of which campaigns received the $1,514,820.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only ARTIST. The Artist occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 96.8% of the $47,114,394. Illinois’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to IL. ARTIST is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count working artists, merge musician dollars, or claim that Artist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. ARTIST is not MUSICIAN even when one person used both titles on different forms.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. ARTIST is not a guild extract. Donor state IL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Medium and gallery names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Artist filter

Subtract the Illinois 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 ($45,599,574) 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 177 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 7,594 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,514,820 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Illinois dollars, or only the ARTIST national total, drops a key. One hundred seventy-seven donors producing 7,594 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,514,820 headline.

Related tables

Artist donations holds the $47,114,394 national occupation total. Illinois 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. Illinois Marketing and Illinois Dentist are different occupation-state ties.

Questions

How much have Artist donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation ARTIST and state Illinois total $1,514,820, from 7,594 contributions and 177 donors. Nationwide, ARTIST-coded receipts are $47,114,394 from 243,498 contributions and 6,429 donors. Illinois is about 3.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this include Illinois musicians?

No. This hub is the string ARTIST. MUSICIAN is a different occupation bucket if that string exists. State is IL. The 177 Illinois donors used occupation ARTIST and state IL. Filers who wrote MUSICIAN or PAINTER 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 Illinois?

About 3.2% of the $47,114,394 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($1,514,820). Illinois also accounts for about 3.1% of contributions (7,594 of 243,498) and about 2.8% of donors (177 of 6,429). About 3.2% of dollars from 177 of 6,429 donors. One hundred seventy-seven people produced 7,594 rows.

Does this money go to Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Illinois. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,514,820 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to IL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.