Business Owner political contributions from North Carolina

Business Owner and North Carolina as an FEC join

Occupation BUSINESS OWNER and state NC produce $9,182,288, 3,955 contributions, and 355 donors. The occupation nationwide is $82,755,159, 221,498 contributions, and 13,449 donors. North Carolina’s dollar share is about 11%. Contribution share is about 2% (3,955 of 221,498). Donor share is about 3% (355 of 13,449).

Dollars concentrate more than people: about one-ninth of the occupation’s money from about one-thirty-eighth of its donors. That gap is the relationship. It does not prove North Carolina business owners give at a different rate than the 13,449-person national label; it describes this filter.

Business Owner–North Carolina is a thin-row slice of a thick occupation: $9,182,288 of $82,755,159 (about 11%), 3,955 of 221,498 contributions (about 2%), 355 of 13,449 donors (about 3%). About one-ninth of the money from about one-thirty-eighth of the people. Two hundred twenty-one thousand contributions from 13,449 donors is the national pattern. North Carolina’s 3,955 from 355 is a small piece of that volume carrying $9,182,288. BUSINESS OWNER is a broad title, not a firm-size code and not a corporate contribution. FOUNDER and CHAIRMAN are other pages. Donor state NC is not recipient geography. The Business Owner hub holds $82,755,159. The North Carolina hub holds every occupation in the state. Independent expenditures are excluded.

Business Owner as a broad national label

BUSINESS OWNER is filer-entered and can cover many firm sizes and sectors. Founder and chairman are separate occupation pages. This grouping is 13,449 donors, 221,498 contributions, and $82,755,159.

Two hundred twenty-one thousand contributions from 13,449 donors shows heavy repeat itemization nationwide. North Carolina’s 3,955 contributions from 355 donors is a thin row slice of that volume carrying $9,182,288.

North Carolina donor-state receipts

The NC side is $9,182,288 from 3,955 contributions and 355 donors. Donor state is the address on the record. Recipients may be committees anywhere, not only North Carolina federal candidates.

North Carolina campaign finance overall includes every occupation coded to NC. This tie isolates Business Owner. Other NC occupation joins, if present, have different contribution counts.

What an 11% dollar share does not mean

North Carolina holding about 11% of Business Owner-coded dollars does not show that small business as a class funded a party, and it does not treat individual gifts as corporate treasury spending or as federal awards. Occupation plus state is not causation.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov. Independent expenditures are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Occupation hub, state hub, and other ties

Business Owner donations holds the $82,755,159 national total. North Carolina campaign finance holds all NC-coded itemized individual receipts. All occupations and all FEC ties place this dollar-heavy, row-light join next to high-volume occupation-state pages without mixing their 221,498 national rows into these 3,955 North Carolina contributions.

Three hundred fifty-five North Carolina Business Owner-coded donors are 3% of 13,449. Their 3,955 contributions are 2% of 221,498. Their $9,182,288 is 11% of $82,755,159. Dollars lead people and rows by a wide margin.

North Carolina Business Owner as a thin-row, larger-dollar slice

Three thousand nine hundred fifty-five contributions from 355 donors totaling $9,182,288 is a small piece of 221,498 contributions from 13,449 donors totaling $82,755,159. About 2% of rows and about 11% of dollars is the join. BUSINESS OWNER remains a broad, filer-entered title, not a NAICS extract and not a corporate treasury total.

Donor state NC is not recipient geography. Business Owner donations and North Carolina campaign finance are the parent hubs. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other Business Owner-state joins against $82,755,159. Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov. Independent expenditures excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Questions

How much have Business Owner donors in North Carolina given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Business Owner and state North Carolina total $9,182,288, from 3,955 contributions and 355 donors. Nationwide, Business Owner-coded receipts are $82,755,159 from 221,498 contributions and 13,449 donors. North Carolina is about 11% of those dollars.

Are these small-business owners?

The occupation field is BUSINESS OWNER as entered. FEC aggregates do not encode firm size or NAICS. The 355 North Carolina donors used that label. Founder and chairman are different occupation pages. The North Carolina join is $9,182,288 from 3,955 contributions and 355 donors.

Why is North Carolina’s donor share so much smaller than its dollar share?

North Carolina holds about 3% of Business Owner-coded donors (355 of 13,449) and about 2% of contributions (3,955 of 221,498), versus about 11% of dollars ($9,182,288 of $82,755,159). The join is dollar-concentrated relative to headcount. The page does not name those 355 donors.

Does this include company PAC contributions from North Carolina?

No. The $9,182,288 is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and donor state. PAC and corporate receipts are not in this join or in the $82,755,159 occupation total. The North Carolina join is $9,182,288 from 3,955 contributions and 355 donors.