Business political contributions from California

The Business–California intersection

Occupation BUSINESS and donor state CA produce $3,043,536, 7,999 contributions, and 359 donors. The occupation hub is $18,619,893, 38,349 contributions, and 2,172 donors. California’s dollar share is about 16.3%; contribution share about 20.9% (7,999 of 38,349); donor share about 16.5% (359 of 2,172). Three hundred fifty-nine California donors are about 16.5% of 2,172 national donors; 7,999 contributions are about 20.9% of 38,349 national rows; dollars are about 16.3% of $18,619,893.

BUSINESS OWNER, BUSINESSMAN, and BUSINESSWOMAN, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Business total. Do not stack BUSINESS with BUSINESS OWNER or BUSINESSMAN into a single California professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

359 California donors produced 7,999 contributions, about 22.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 17.7 rows per donor nationally (38,349 contributions from 2,172 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this California cell is about $380, against about $486 nationwide. California’s about 16.3% dollar share tracks its about 16.5% donor share — a proportional slice of a coarse one-word occupation.

BUSINESS as a one-word occupation bucket

BUSINESS is a filer-entered string. A single word on Schedule A is a coarse filter. It does not identify an industry, a firm size, or a California employer. The $18,619,893 national total is BUSINESS only. 2,172 donors produced 38,349 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 38,349 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California (CA). Two thousand one hundred seventy-two national donors make BUSINESS a many-person occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CA.

California on the state side

359 California donors produced 7,999 contributions totaling $3,043,536. 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 business license, and not a map of which campaigns received the $3,043,536.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only BUSINESS. The Business occupation hub without California still holds about 83.7% of the $18,619,893. California’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CA. BUSINESS is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count firms, merge BUSINESS OWNER dollars, or claim that Business-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. BUSINESS is not BUSINESS OWNER even when filers meant a one-person shop. Author and Analyst in California are different occupation-state pairs.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. BUSINESS is not a small-business registry. Donor state CA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. NAICS codes are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Business filter

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national BUSINESS occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded BUSINESS in every other state combined. That remainder ($15,576,357) 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 359 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 7,999 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $3,043,536 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 BUSINESS national total, drops a key. Three hundred fifty-nine donors producing 7,999 contributions totaling $3,043,536 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Business donations holds the $18,619,893 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. Author and Analyst in California are different occupation-state ties.

Questions

How much have Business donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation BUSINESS and state California total $3,043,536, from 7,999 contributions and 359 donors. Nationwide, BUSINESS-coded receipts are $18,619,893 from 38,349 contributions and 2,172 donors. California is about 16.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Business the same as Business Owner?

No. This hub is the one-word string BUSINESS. BUSINESS OWNER is a different occupation bucket if that string exists. State is CA. Three hundred fifty-nine donors produced 7,999 gifts. The 359 California donors used occupation BUSINESS and state CA. Filers who wrote BUSINESS OWNER or BUSINESSMAN may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Business FEC money is from California?

About 16.3% of the $18,619,893 occupation total is in this California join ($3,043,536). California also accounts for about 20.9% of contributions (7,999 of 38,349) and about 16.5% of donors (359 of 2,172). About 16.3% of dollars from 359 of 2,172 donors and 7,999 of 38,349 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 $3,043,536 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.