Business political contributions from Washington

Business and Washington as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation BUSINESS and donor state WA produce $1,121,526, 1,333 contributions, and 57 donors. The occupation hub is $18,619,893, 38,349 contributions, and 2,172 donors. Washington’s dollar share is about 6.0%; contribution share about 3.5% (1,333 of 38,349); donor share about 2.6% (57 of 2,172). Fifty-seven Washington donors are about 2.6% of 2,172 national donors; 1,333 contributions are about 3.5% of 38,349 national rows; dollars are about 6.0% of $18,619,893.

BUSINESS OWNER, BUSINESSMAN, and ENTREPRENEUR, 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 Washington professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

57 Washington donors produced 1,333 contributions, about 23.4 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 Washington cell is about $841, against about $486 nationwide. Washington’s about 6.0% dollar share from 57 people is a concentrated slice of a 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 a company, a NAICS code, or an owner share. 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 Washington (WA). Two thousand one hundred seventy-two national donors make this a modest occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state WA.

Washington on the state side

57 Washington donors produced 1,333 contributions totaling $1,121,526. 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 company, and not a map of which campaigns received the $1,121,526.

The Washington campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to WA. This join is only BUSINESS. The Business occupation hub without Washington still holds about 94.0% of the $18,619,893. Washington’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to WA. BUSINESS is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count businesses, merge BUSINESSMAN 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 BUSINESSMAN even when filers meant a one-person shop.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. BUSINESS is not a NAICS extract. Donor state WA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Entity names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Business filter

Subtract the Washington 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 ($17,498,367) 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 57 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 1,333 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,121,526 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 BUSINESS national total, drops a key. Fifty-seven donors producing 1,333 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,121,526 headline.

Related tables

Business donations holds the $18,619,893 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. Washington Architect and Washington Developer are different occupation-state ties.

Questions

How much have Business donors in Washington given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation BUSINESS and state Washington total $1,121,526, from 1,333 contributions and 57 donors. Nationwide, BUSINESS-coded receipts are $18,619,893 from 38,349 contributions and 2,172 donors. Washington is about 6.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Business the same as Businessman or Business Owner?

No. This hub is the one-word string BUSINESS. BUSINESSMAN and BUSINESS OWNER sit in other buckets. State is WA. The 57 Washington donors used occupation BUSINESS and state WA. Filers who wrote BUSINESS OWNER or ENTREPRENEUR 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 Washington?

About 6.0% of the $18,619,893 occupation total is in this Washington join ($1,121,526). Washington also accounts for about 3.5% of contributions (1,333 of 38,349) and about 2.6% of donors (57 of 2,172). About 6.0% of dollars from 57 of 2,172 donors. Fifty-seven people produced 1,333 rows.

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 $1,121,526 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.