Business Owner political contributions from Illinois

Business Owner and Illinois as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation BUSINESS OWNER and donor state IL produce $2,693,721, 6,273 contributions, and 422 donors. The occupation hub is $82,755,159, 221,498 contributions, and 13,449 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 3.3%; contribution share about 2.8% (6,273 of 221,498); donor share about 3.1% (422 of 13,449). Four hundred twenty-two Illinois donors are about 3.1% of 13,449 national donors; 6,273 contributions are about 2.8% of 221,498 national rows; dollars are about 3.3% of $82,755,159.

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

422 Illinois donors produced 6,273 contributions, about 14.9 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 16.5 rows per donor nationally (221,498 contributions from 13,449 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Illinois cell is about $429, against about $374 nationwide. Illinois’s about 3.3% dollar share from 422 people sits near Michigan’s share of the same occupation, but the contribution counts (6,273 versus 7,195) are different cells.

BUSINESS OWNER as a filer-entered pair of words

BUSINESS OWNER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify an Illinois entity filing, a sales-tax account, or employee count. The $82,755,159 national total is BUSINESS OWNER only. 13,449 donors produced 221,498 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 221,498 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois (IL). Two hundred twenty-one thousand four hundred ninety-eight national contributions make BUSINESS OWNER a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state IL.

Illinois as the reported donor state

422 Illinois donors produced 6,273 contributions totaling $2,693,721. Donor state IL is the address on the record, not proof of a Illinois license, and not a limit to Illinois candidates. IL is the address on the itemized record, not proof of an Illinois shop, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,693,721.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only BUSINESS OWNER. The Business Owner occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 96.7% of the $82,755,159. Illinois’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to IL. BUSINESS OWNER is only this filter.

What the Business Owner–Illinois join is not

This page does not count licensed businesses, add Michigan Business Owner dollars, or claim that Business Owner-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. BUSINESS OWNER is not OWNER even when filers meant the same shop. This cell is not the Michigan Business Owner pair.

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

Three numbers, two fields, one Illinois Business Owner filter

Subtract the Illinois dollars on this page from the national BUSINESS OWNER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded BUSINESS OWNER in every other state combined. That remainder ($80,061,438) 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 422 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 6,273 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,693,721 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Illinois dollars, or only the BUSINESS OWNER national total, drops a key. Four hundred twenty-two donors producing 6,273 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,693,721 headline.

Related tables

Business Owner donations holds the $82,755,159 national occupation total. Illinois 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. Michigan has a separate Business Owner occupation-state tie in this same slice; those 7,195 contributions are a different pair.

Questions

How much have Business Owner donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation BUSINESS OWNER and state Illinois total $2,693,721, from 6,273 contributions and 422 donors. Nationwide, BUSINESS OWNER-coded receipts are $82,755,159 from 221,498 contributions and 13,449 donors. Illinois is about 3.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is this the same as the Michigan Business Owner page?

No. This join is BUSINESS OWNER and state IL. The Michigan cell is a different pair. Four hundred twenty-two Illinois donors produced 6,273 gifts totaling $2,693,721. The 422 Illinois donors used occupation BUSINESS OWNER and state IL. Filers who wrote OWNER or ENTREPRENEUR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Business Owner FEC money is from Illinois?

About 3.3% of the $82,755,159 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($2,693,721). Illinois also accounts for about 2.8% of contributions (6,273 of 221,498) and about 3.1% of donors (422 of 13,449). About 3.3% of dollars from 422 of 13,449 donors and 6,273 of 221,498 contributions.

Does this money go to Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Illinois. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,693,721 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to IL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.