Businessman political contributions from California

Businessman and California as a large dollar join

Occupation BUSINESSMAN and donor state CA together sum to $12,138,579, 4,929 contributions, and 429 donors. The occupation hub is $34,277,492, 34,660 contributions, and 3,044 donors. California’s share of dollars is 35.4%; of contributions, 14.2% (4,929 of 34,660); of donors, 14.1% (429 of 3,044).

429 California donors produced 4,929 contributions totaling $12,138,579. That is 35.4% of the $34,277,492 Businessman occupation total. The leftover $22,138,913 is Businessman-coded money from every other state combined on this extract.

California’s $12,138,579 is 35.4% of the $34,277,492 Businessman occupation total. The remainder $22,138,913 is Businessman-coded money from every other state combined. Do not add Entrepreneur or Business Owner California cells to this figure. Those are other strings and other pages.

BUSINESSMAN as a generic owner-operator string

BUSINESSMAN is a catch-all owner-operator word. BUSINESS OWNER, ENTREPRENEUR, and BUSINESSWOMAN are different strings if filers used them; those rows are not inside $34,277,492. Gendered and ungendered variants do not merge in this extract.

Nationally, 3,044 donors produced 34,660 contributions totaling $34,277,492. California’s 429 donors and 4,929 contributions are 14.1% of donors and 14.2% of rows against 35.4% of dollars. A dollar share above the donor share means larger average itemized amounts in this California cell, not a verified firm size.

Four hundred twenty-nine California donors

429 California donors produced 4,929 contributions totaling $12,138,579. Donor state CA is the address on the contribution record, not proof of a California workplace, and not a limit to California candidates.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only BUSINESSMAN. BUSINESS OWNER, ENTREPRENEUR, and BUSINESSWOMAN are other occupation strings if filers used them; they are not this page even when they share the CA state code.

Businessman donations without California still holds the remainder of the $34,277,492 occupation total. A California directory of workplaces would need employment data this FEC join does not contain.

About a third of occupation dollars, not a license roll

This page does not measure a California Secretary of State business-entity census, and it does not claim that Businessman-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation.

BUSINESSMAN fragments against BUSINESS OWNER, ENTREPRENEUR, and BUSINESSWOMAN. Those strings, if used, never enter the $34,277,492 or the $12,138,579. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. The join does not allocate the California dollars by recipient office or by in-state versus out-of-state committees.

Generic business titles that stay unmerged

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national Businessman occupation total and the difference is $22,138,913 still coded Businessman in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. Businessman donations holds the unlabeled-by-state total; California campaign finance holds every occupation with this state code; all occupations and all FEC ties place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the Businessman national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related tables for Businessman and California

Businessman donations holds the $34,277,492 national occupation total and the 3,044-donor count. California campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to CA. All occupations and all FEC ties place this pair among other occupation-state intersections.

Questions

How much have Businessman donors in California contributed?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Businessman and state California total $12,138,579, from 4,929 contributions and 429 donors. Nationwide, Businessman-coded receipts are $34,277,492 from 34,660 contributions and 3,044 donors. California is 35.4% of those dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Does Businessman include Business Owner and Entrepreneur?

Only if the filer typed BUSINESSMAN. BUSINESS OWNER and ENTREPRENEUR are other occupation hubs with other national totals. This join’s 429 California donors and $12,138,579 are the BUSINESSMAN-and-CA overlap. Labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Businessman FEC money is from California?

California holds 35.4% of the $34,277,492 occupation total ($12,138,579). California also accounts for 14.2% of contributions (4,929 of 34,660) and 14.1% of donors (429 of 3,044). BUSINESSMAN is a filer-entered string. Unitemized gifts are omitted.

Is this money for California races only?

No. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $12,138,579 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. The 4,929 contributions and 429 donors are the BUSINESSMAN-and-CA overlap only. FEC.gov is the source.