Business Owner political contributions from Michigan

Business Owner and Michigan as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation BUSINESS OWNER and donor state MI produce $2,709,590, 7,195 contributions, and 436 donors. The occupation hub is $82,755,159, 221,498 contributions, and 13,449 donors. Michigan’s dollar share is about 3.3%; contribution share about 3.2% (7,195 of 221,498); donor share about 3.2% (436 of 13,449). Four hundred thirty-six Michigan donors are about 3.2% of 13,449 national donors; 7,195 contributions are about 3.2% of 221,498 national rows; dollars are about 3.3% of $82,755,159.

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

436 Michigan donors produced 7,195 contributions, about 16.5 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 Michigan cell is about $377, against about $374 nationwide. Michigan’s about 3.3% share of $82,755,159 tracks the national mix on dollars, rows, and people rather than a thin high-mean cell.

BUSINESS OWNER as a two-word title

BUSINESS OWNER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a Michigan entity filing, employee count, or revenue. Two words on the form are the filter. 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 Michigan (MI). Thirteen thousand four hundred forty-nine national donors make BUSINESS OWNER a many-person bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state MI.

Michigan as the donor-state code

436 Michigan donors produced 7,195 contributions totaling $2,709,590. Donor state MI is the address on the record, not proof of a Michigan license, and not a limit to Michigan candidates. MI is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Michigan shop, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,709,590.

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

What the Business Owner–Michigan join is not

This page does not count licensed businesses, merge entrepreneur 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 ENTREPRENEUR even when filers meant a one-person shop. This cell is not the Illinois Business Owner pair.

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

Three numbers, two fields, one Business Owner filter

Subtract the Michigan 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 ($80,045,569) 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 436 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 7,195 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,709,590 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Michigan dollars, or only the BUSINESS OWNER national total, drops a key. Four hundred thirty-six donors producing 7,195 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,709,590 headline.

Related tables

Business Owner donations holds the $82,755,159 national occupation total. Michigan 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. Illinois has a separate Business Owner occupation-state tie in this same slice; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Business Owner donors in Michigan given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation BUSINESS OWNER and state Michigan total $2,709,590, from 7,195 contributions and 436 donors. Nationwide, BUSINESS OWNER-coded receipts are $82,755,159 from 221,498 contributions and 13,449 donors. Michigan is about 3.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is this the same as the Illinois Business Owner page?

No. This join is BUSINESS OWNER and state MI. The Illinois cell is a different pair. Four hundred thirty-six Michigan donors produced 7,195 gifts totaling $2,709,590. The 436 Michigan donors used occupation BUSINESS OWNER and state MI. Filers who wrote OWNER or SMALL BUSINESS OWNER 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 Michigan?

About 3.3% of the $82,755,159 occupation total is in this Michigan join ($2,709,590). Michigan also accounts for about 3.2% of contributions (7,195 of 221,498) and about 3.2% of donors (436 of 13,449). About 3.3% of dollars from 436 of 13,449 donors and 7,195 of 221,498 contributions.

Does this money go to Michigan candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Michigan. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,709,590 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to MI; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.