Business political contributions from Kansas

Business-coded contributions from Kansas addresses

Occupation BUSINESS and donor state KS produce $474,902, 261 contributions, and 14 donors. The occupation hub is $18,619,893, 38,349 contributions, and 2,172 donors. Kansas’s dollar share is about 2.6%; contribution share about 0.7% (261 of 38,349); donor share about 0.6% (14 of 2,172). This page is the intersection of those two FEC.gov fields, not a restatement of the Business hub and not a restatement of all Kansas occupations.

BUSINESS OWNER, BUSINESS EXECUTIVE, and BUSINESSMAN, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack BUSINESS with those strings into a single Kansas professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs. The FEC file stores the occupation exactly as entered. A longer or shorter variant is a different key.

14 Kansas donors produced 261 contributions, about 18.6 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 17.7 rows per donor nationally (38,349 contributions from 2,172 donors). Donor concentration in Kansas is the distinctive feature of this cell: 0.7% of national BUSINESS contributions against a 2.6% dollar share. The arithmetic mean gift in this Kansas cell is about $1,820, against about $486 nationwide. A high row count can be many small itemized gifts from the same people across cycles.

The one-word BUSINESS occupation key

BUSINESS is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a license, an employer, or a payroll title. The $18,619,893 national total is BUSINESS only. 2,172 donors produced 38,349 contributions in that occupation bucket. BUSINESS is a one-word commercial self-description, not a NAICS employer code. Nearby labels BUSINESS OWNER, BUSINESS EXECUTIVE, and BUSINESSMAN remain outside this occupation total even when one person has used more than one string.

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 Kansas (KS). 38,349 national contributions make BUSINESS a published occupation bucket; this tie locates the Kansas overlap. Independent expenditures and unitemized gifts are omitted. Committee identifiers on the itemized line are the recipient keys in the underlying file, but this packet does not publish a recipient breakdown.

Kansas as the state on the itemized record

14 Kansas donors produced 261 contributions totaling $474,902. Donor state KS is the address on the record, not proof of a Kansas license, and not a limit to Kansas candidates. KS is the address on the itemized record, not a map of which campaigns received the $474,902. Out-of-state committees can receive itemized gifts from KS-coded donors.

The Kansas campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to KS. This join is only BUSINESS. The Business occupation hub without Kansas still holds about 97.4% of the $18,619,893 (remainder $18,144,991). Kansas’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to KS. BUSINESS is only this filter. Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger; this page does not claim donations funded awards.

Firm counts and NAICS codes are not in the join

A 2.6% dollar share in Kansas does not rank the state as more or less political than others. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Correlation is not causation. This page does not name donors, does not invent committees, and does not treat 14 unique donors as a census of firms. BUSINESS is not interchangeable with BUSINESS OWNER, BUSINESS EXECUTIVE, and BUSINESSMAN.

Quote $474,902, 261 contributions, and 14 donors for Business in Kansas, against $18,619,893 nationwide, source FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts stay outside the itemized aggregate. Cycle stacking can raise line counts without raising unique people. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Keep both sides of the join—Business and Kansas—whenever the dollars are quoted.

Kansas Business dollars next to gift and donor counts

A complete claim names Business and Kansas (KS), then $474,902, 261 contributions, 14 donors, and 2.6% of $18,619,893, source FEC.gov. Remainder outside Kansas: $18,144,991. Mean gift $1,820 is $474,902 divided by 261 lines in this state cell. Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL.

Subtract the Kansas 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 ($18,144,991) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. A unique-donor count of 14 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. Keeping dollars, contribution count, and donor count on the same page is the point of the join.

Commercial occupation pages and Kansas finance

Business donations holds the $18,619,893 national occupation total. Kansas 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. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. This tie page quotes packet facts only. Generic business labeling strings that differ by even one word live on other hubs.

Questions

How much have Business donors in Kansas given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation BUSINESS and state Kansas total $474,902, from 261 contributions and 14 donors. Nationwide, BUSINESS-coded receipts are $18,619,893 from 38,349 contributions and 2,172 donors. Kansas is about 2.6% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this include business owners who wrote a longer title?

No. The FEC file does not verify licenses, employers, or headcount. Occupation is the string BUSINESS and state is KS. 14 donors are not a census of firms. BUSINESS OWNER, BUSINESS EXECUTIVE, and BUSINESSMAN, if stored separately, sit in other hubs. Do not add those cells to Business. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

What share of Business FEC money is from Kansas?

About 2.6% of the $18,619,893 occupation total is in this Kansas join ($474,902). Kansas also accounts for about 0.7% of contributions (261 of 38,349) and about 0.6% of donors (14 of 2,172). Remainder outside Kansas: $18,144,991. Occupation labels are filer-entered; FEC.gov is the source for the join.

Is this a Kansas business-registration list?

Not as a published split. Donor state is Kansas. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $474,902 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open Kansas campaign finance for every occupation coded to KS; open Business donations for every state in the bucket. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins.