Author political contributions from California

The Author–California intersection

Occupation AUTHOR and donor state CA produce $2,818,463, 5,043 contributions, and 232 donors. The occupation hub is $19,237,050, 53,599 contributions, and 1,158 donors. California’s dollar share is about 14.7%; contribution share about 9.4% (5,043 of 53,599); donor share about 20.0% (232 of 1,158). Two hundred thirty-two California donors are about 20.0% of 1,158 national donors; 5,043 contributions are about 9.4% of 53,599 national rows; dollars are about 14.7% of $19,237,050.

WRITER, NOVELIST, and AUTHOR/WRITER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Author total. Do not stack AUTHOR with WRITER or NOVELIST into a single California professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

232 California donors produced 5,043 contributions, about 21.7 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 46.3 rows per donor nationally (53,599 contributions from 1,158 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this California cell is about $559, against about $359 nationwide. California’s about 20.0% donor share runs ahead of its about 9.4% contribution share — a lower-repeat slice of the national AUTHOR bucket.

AUTHOR as a craft-title string

AUTHOR is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a book contract, a ISBN, or a California publisher. One word on the form is the filter. The $19,237,050 national total is AUTHOR only. 1,158 donors produced 53,599 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 53,599 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California (CA). One thousand one hundred fifty-eight national donors make this a mid-size occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CA.

California as donor state

232 California donors produced 5,043 contributions totaling $2,818,463. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California license, and not a limit to California candidates. CA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a California publisher, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,818,463.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only AUTHOR. The Author occupation hub without California still holds about 85.3% of the $19,237,050. California’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CA. AUTHOR is only this filter.

What not to infer from Author plus California

This page does not count published books, merge WRITER dollars, or claim that Author-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. AUTHOR is not WRITER even when one person used both titles. Musician and Business in California are different occupation-state pairs.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. AUTHOR is not a publishers-marketplace census. Donor state CA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Titles and ISBNs are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Author filter

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national AUTHOR occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded AUTHOR in every other state combined. That remainder ($16,418,587) 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 232 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 5,043 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,818,463 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the AUTHOR national total, drops a key. Two hundred thirty-two donors producing 5,043 contributions totaling $2,818,463 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Author donations holds the $19,237,050 national occupation total. California 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. Musician and Business in California are different occupation-state ties.

Questions

How much have Author donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation AUTHOR and state California total $2,818,463, from 5,043 contributions and 232 donors. Nationwide, AUTHOR-coded receipts are $19,237,050 from 53,599 contributions and 1,158 donors. California is about 14.7% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this include California writers?

No. This hub is the string AUTHOR. WRITER is a different occupation bucket if that string exists. State is CA. Two hundred thirty-two donors produced 5,043 gifts totaling $2,818,463. The 232 California donors used occupation AUTHOR and state CA. Filers who wrote WRITER or NOVELIST may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Author FEC money is from California?

About 14.7% of the $19,237,050 occupation total is in this California join ($2,818,463). California also accounts for about 9.4% of contributions (5,043 of 53,599) and about 20.0% of donors (232 of 1,158). About 14.7% of dollars from 232 of 1,158 donors and 5,043 of 53,599 contributions.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,818,463 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.