Author contributions to Planned Parenthood Votes

Few receipts, large mean

269 contributions totaling $4,006,000 produce mean $14,892. That shape is unlike a 20,000-line connected PAC. A small number of large itemized gifts can dominate the join. Mean is arithmetic. The packet has no median and no unique-donor count.

20.8% of Author’s $19,237,050 landed here. $15,231,050 went to other federal committees that received the Author string—candidate committees, party committees, and other PACs.

Links: Author occupation hub, Planned Parenthood Votes committee page, All occupations, All FEC ties. Writer, novelist, and journalist are other occupation keys if present.

Keep Author → Planned Parenthood Votes (C00489799): $4,006,000 in 269 receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties is the index for other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

AUTHOR as typed

Author totals $19,237,050 across all committees. Self-reported titles do not certify published books, advances, or guild membership. Writer and freelance writer can exist as other keys and are not inside $19,237,050 unless stored as AUTHOR.

A filer can list Author and give only to candidates, never appearing in $4,006,000. A filer can list another occupation and still appear on C00489799. This page keeps the two-key overlap.

Quote Author for the occupation-wide $19,237,050 and quote PLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTES (C00489799) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $4,006,000 across 269 itemized receipts, 20.8% of the occupation book, mean $14,892. Remainder $15,231,050 (79.2%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $4,006,000 to $19,237,050. Do not treat 269 as unique donors.

C00489799 as Planned Parenthood Votes

PLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTES is the recipient name. $4,006,000 is the Author occupation slice, not the committee’s total from all occupations and not Planned Parenthood’s organizational budget. Other occupations on C00489799 sit outside this join.

The source note excludes independent expenditures. Committee spending on ads is a different FEC schedule. This join is itemized individual contributions only. Cycle year is not in the packet.

Amended Schedule A filings move $4,006,000 and $19,237,050. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. This /ties/ page is a join snapshot, not a substitute for the occupation hub or the committee file on FEC.gov. Coverage stops at itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee. Unitemized gifts never enter either integer.

What the join will not claim

Do not treat authors as a bloc because $4,006,000 is large relative to 269. Do not treat 20.8% as the share of authors who give to this committee. The denominator is occupation-wide itemized dollars.

Issue advocacy, clinic operations, and 501(c) budgets are not FEC occupation totals. This page names two FEC labels. Motive is not a field.

Keep Author → Planned Parenthood Votes (C00489799): $4,006,000 in 269 receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties is the index for other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

Citation

FEC.gov: occupation Author $19,237,050; Author to C00489799 $4,006,000 in 269 contributions; mean $14,892. Not independent expenditures. Not a guild recode.

All FEC ties indexes other occupation-committee pages. Live hubs are Author and the C00489799 overlay. This prose is a snapshot.

Quote Author for the occupation-wide $19,237,050 and quote PLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTES (C00489799) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $4,006,000 across 269 itemized receipts, 20.8% of the occupation book, mean $14,892. Remainder $15,231,050 (79.2%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $4,006,000 to $19,237,050. Do not treat 269 as unique donors.

Questions

How much did Author filers give to Planned Parenthood Votes?

$4,006,000 in 269 itemized contributions to C00489799, 20.8% of Author’s $19,237,050 occupation total. Mean $14,892 is high because the receipt count is low. Unique donors are unpublished. Independent expenditures are excluded. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Is this Planned Parenthood’s total political spending?

No. $4,006,000 is itemized individual contributions from occupation Author to committee C00489799. Other occupations, other Planned Parenthood committees, and independent expenditures sit outside this join. The committee overlay is the PAC-side view. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Why is the average almost $15,000?

Because $4,006,000 is divided by only 269 receipts. Mean $14,892 is arithmetic. Large itemized gifts raise the mean. The packet has no median. Cite the dollar total and the count together rather than the mean alone. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Are writers and journalists in the Author total?

Only if the occupation line stored Author. Writer and journalist are other keys unless FEC stored them as AUTHOR. This page does not recode literary titles. Use All occupations to compare neighboring strings. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.