Business Owner political contributions from Texas

Joining BUSINESS OWNER to Texas

The occupation page for BUSINESS OWNER ($82,755,159) does not say how much of that money is Texas-addressed. The Texas page does not isolate this title from every other occupation. The intersection does: $6,678,884 from 1,133 donors and 18,769 receipts. That is about 8% of occupation dollars, about 8% of 221,498 contributions, and about 8% of 13,449 donors. When the three percentages agree, the state slice looks like a scaled piece of the national mix rather than an outlier cell.

Average itemized gift in Texas is about $356 ($6,678,884 / 18,769). Owner, CEO, entrepreneur, and president are nearby strings with their own occupation pages. They are not added into BUSINESS OWNER nationally or in Texas.

A large, generic national label

Thirteen thousand four hundred forty-nine donors used BUSINESS OWNER on itemized receipts totaling $82,755,159 across 221,498 gifts. The phrase is a catch-all for people who describe themselves as owning a business without naming the industry. The FEC does not map it to NAICS codes or firm size.

Repeat giving is built into 221,498 contributions from 13,449 people. Texas’s 18,769 gifts from 1,133 donors follow that structure. Remaining occupation dollars ($82,755,159 minus $6,678,884) sit in other states; Texas is not the occupation’s headquarters in this table.

Texas owners in the itemized file

One thousand one hundred thirty-three Texas donors produced the $6,678,884. That is a wide donor base for a single occupation–state cell, consistent with a common title. The Texas campaign-finance hub puts BUSINESS OWNER next to banker, realtor, and other TX strings so this line can be sized against the rest of the state’s itemized giving.

Contributor state is an address field. A business owned in Texas by someone who files from another state will not appear here. A Texas address with this occupation string will, even if the company operates elsewhere. The join does not geocode storefronts.

Repeat itemization (18,769 gifts from 1,133 people) means the $6,678,884 includes many successive receipts from the same keys. That is normal FEC structure. It is not evidence of a coordinated owner bloc. Committee-level receipts are required before anyone can talk about who received the money.

What ownership on a receipt does not prove

Listing BUSINESS OWNER does not verify incorporation, employees, or revenue. It does not mean the contribution came from business accounts; FEC individual receipts are personal contributions as reported. The join does not claim Texas small business as a bloc funded a ticket.

Self-reported titles fragment. The same person might appear as owner on one receipt and BUSINESS OWNER on another. This page uses only the BUSINESS OWNER aggregate: $82,755,159 nationally and $6,678,884 in Texas.

Hubs and other occupation–state ties

See Business Owner donations for the national $82,755,159, Texas campaign finance for all TX occupations, the occupations index for owner and entrepreneur variants, and all FEC ties for other joins. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Ownership language versus firm counts

Texas BUSINESS OWNER at $6,678,884 from 1,133 donors is about 8% of a $82,755,159 national label. That is a large-state share of a catch-all title, not a census of Texas firms. Employer identification numbers, SOS filings, and small-business counts live in other systems. FEC occupation text does not join to them.

Florida’s BUSINESS OWNER join ($5,343,762 from 1,020 donors) sits on the same national denominator and a similar 6–8% share. The two cells are siblings: wide donor bases, moderate average gifts (about $356 in Texas), no concentration spike. ENTREPRENEUR in Florida is a different string and a different shape (higher average, fewer people). Do not stack owner-like titles into a homemade Texas business total on this page.

Keep the 8% Texas share attached to all three counts: $6,678,884, 18,769 gifts, and 1,133 donors. Dropping any one of those numbers makes a catch-all title look either more concentrated or more typical than the filter is. The national BUSINESS OWNER series remains $82,755,159 from 13,449 donors after this state cut is taken out.

Questions

How much did Texas Business Owner donors give in FEC data?

Donors listing occupation BUSINESS OWNER with a Texas address reported $6,678,884 in itemized individual contributions, from 1,133 donors and 18,769 receipts. That is about 8% of the $82,755,159 recorded nationally under the same string. The total is not a count of Texas firms or a PAC of owners.

Is Texas a large share of Business Owner contributions?

Texas is about 8% of dollars ($6,678,884 of $82,755,159), about 8% of contributions (18,769 of 221,498), and about 8% of donors (1,133 of 13,449). The shares align. Most BUSINESS OWNER money is attributed to other states.

Are entrepreneur and owner included?

Only the exact string BUSINESS OWNER is in this join. Nationally that is $82,755,159 from 13,449 donors. Entrepreneur, owner, and similar titles have separate occupation pages. This Texas page ($6,678,884 from 1,133 donors) does not merge them.

Did the money go to Texas candidates?

The join filters donor state and occupation, not recipient. A Texas-addressed BUSINESS OWNER can give to any FEC committee. Tracing the $6,678,884 from 1,133 donors and 18,769 receipts to races requires committee-level receipts. Those figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates with filer-entered occupation labels.