Artist political contributions from Pennsylvania

The Artist–Pennsylvania intersection

Occupation ARTIST and donor state PA produce $1,347,134, 6,210 contributions, and 190 donors. The occupation hub is $47,114,394, 243,498 contributions, and 6,429 donors. Pennsylvania’s dollar share is about 2.9%; contribution share about 2.6% (6,210 of 243,498); donor share about 3.0% (190 of 6,429). One hundred ninety Pennsylvania donors are 3.0% of 6,429 national ARTIST donors. Dollars ($1,347,134 of $47,114,394) sit near 2.9%; contributions (6,210 of 243,498) near 2.6%.

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

190 Pennsylvania donors produced 6,210 contributions, about 32.7 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 Pennsylvania cell is about $217, against about $193 nationwide. Pennsylvania’s share of $47,114,394 is an address-coded slice, not a ranking of Philadelphia galleries. Mean gift here is about $217, against about $193 nationwide.

ARTIST as a catch-all creative string

ARTIST is a filer-entered string. Visual art, performing art, and commercial art are unpublished. The file stores ARTIST, not a medium or a NAICS code. 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 Pennsylvania (PA). This page locates the Pennsylvania overlap. It does not name studios or count guild members among the 190 Pennsylvania donors.

Pennsylvania as donor state

190 Pennsylvania donors produced 6,210 contributions totaling $1,347,134. Donor state PA is the address on the record, not proof of a Pennsylvania license, and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. PA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Pennsylvania studio and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. A donor can exhibit elsewhere and still file PA.

The Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to PA. This join is only ARTIST. The Artist occupation hub without Pennsylvania still holds about 97.1% of the $47,114,394. Pennsylvania’s state hub includes every occupation coded to PA. ARTIST is only this filter.

What not to infer from Artist plus Pennsylvania

This page does not merge Painter dollars, count union members, or claim that Artist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. ARTIST does not record medium, gallery representation, or whether the filer also used MUSICIAN on other receipts.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. ARTIST is not an arts-union or grants roster. Donor state PA 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 Pennsylvania 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 ($45,767,260) 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 190 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 6,210 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,347,134 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Pennsylvania dollars, or only the ARTIST national total, drops a key. One hundred ninety donors producing 6,210 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,347,134 headline.

Related tables

Artist donations holds the $47,114,394 national occupation total. Pennsylvania 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. Connecticut, New Jersey, and Washington have separate Artist occupation-state ties; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Artist donors in Pennsylvania given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation ARTIST and state Pennsylvania total $1,347,134, from 6,210 contributions and 190 donors. Nationwide, ARTIST-coded receipts are $47,114,394 from 243,498 contributions and 6,429 donors. Pennsylvania is about 2.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Artist include musicians and painters?

Only if the filer typed ARTIST. MUSICIAN and PAINTER are other occupation keys. One hundred ninety Pennsylvania donors used ARTIST plus PA. The 190 Pennsylvania donors used occupation ARTIST and state PA. 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 Pennsylvania?

About 2.9% of the $47,114,394 occupation total is in this Pennsylvania join ($1,347,134). Pennsylvania also accounts for about 2.6% of contributions (6,210 of 243,498) and about 3.0% of donors (190 of 6,429). About 2.9% of dollars from 190 of 6,429 donors and 6,210 of 243,498 contributions.

Does this money go to Pennsylvania candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Pennsylvania. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,347,134 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to PA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.