Artist political contributions from Washington

The Artist–Washington intersection

Occupation ARTIST and donor state WA produce $1,056,921, 6,006 contributions, and 199 donors. The occupation hub is $47,114,394, 243,498 contributions, and 6,429 donors. Washington’s dollar share is about 2.2%; contribution share about 2.5% (6,006 of 243,498); donor share about 3.1% (199 of 6,429). One hundred ninety-nine Washington donors are 3.1% of 6,429 national ARTIST donors, the largest Artist headcount share among the Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Washington cells in this slice. Contributions (6,006 of 243,498) are about 2.5%.

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

199 Washington donors produced 6,006 contributions, about 30.2 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 Washington cell is about $176, against about $193 nationwide. Washington’s mean gift is about $176, near the national Artist mean of about $193. About 30.2 rows per donor here versus about 37.9 nationally.

ARTIST receipts with a Washington address

ARTIST is a filer-entered string. The file stores donor state WA. That is Washington state, not Washington, D.C. The occupation string is ARTIST. 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 Washington (WA). This page locates the Washington overlap. It does not name studios among the 199 Washington donors.

Washington as donor state

199 Washington donors produced 6,006 contributions totaling $1,056,921. Donor state WA is the address on the record, not proof of a Washington license, and not a limit to Washington candidates. WA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Washington studio and not a limit to Washington candidates. Seattle and the rest of the state share the same code. DC is a different state code.

The Washington campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to WA. This join is only ARTIST. The Artist occupation hub without Washington still holds about 97.8% of the $47,114,394. Washington’s state hub includes every occupation coded to WA. ARTIST is only this filter.

What not to infer from Artist plus Washington

This page does not treat WA as Washington, D.C., merge Painter dollars, or claim that Artist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. WA is Washington state. ARTIST is not PAINTER. Those two facts stay separate from the dollar headline.

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 WA 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 Washington 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 ($46,057,473) 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 199 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 6,006 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,056,921 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Washington dollars, or only the ARTIST national total, drops a key. One hundred ninety-nine donors producing 6,006 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,056,921 headline.

Related tables

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

Questions

How much have Artist donors in Washington given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation ARTIST and state Washington total $1,056,921, from 6,006 contributions and 199 donors. Nationwide, ARTIST-coded receipts are $47,114,394 from 243,498 contributions and 6,429 donors. Washington is about 2.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Washington on this page the District of Columbia?

No. Donor state is WA, Washington state. Occupation is ARTIST. One hundred ninety-nine donors used that pair. The 199 Washington donors used occupation ARTIST and state WA. 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 Washington?

About 2.2% of the $47,114,394 occupation total is in this Washington join ($1,056,921). Washington also accounts for about 2.5% of contributions (6,006 of 243,498) and about 3.1% of donors (199 of 6,429). About 2.2% of dollars from 199 of 6,429 donors and 6,006 of 243,498 contributions.

Does this money go to Washington candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Washington. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,056,921 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to WA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.