Businessman political contributions from Colorado

Businessman and Colorado as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation BUSINESSMAN and donor state CO produce $1,341,924, 803 contributions, and 39 donors. The occupation hub is $34,277,492, 34,660 contributions, and 3,044 donors. Colorado’s dollar share is about 3.9%; contribution share about 2.3% (803 of 34,660); donor share about 1.3% (39 of 3,044). Thirty-nine Colorado donors are about 1.3% of 3,044 national donors; 803 contributions are about 2.3% of 34,660 national rows; dollars are about 3.9% of $34,277,492.

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

39 Colorado donors produced 803 contributions, about 20.6 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 11.4 rows per donor nationally (34,660 contributions from 3,044 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Colorado cell is about $1,671, against about $989 nationwide. Colorado’s about 3.9% dollar share from 39 people is a concentrated slice of a mid-volume occupation.

BUSINESSMAN as a gendered occupation string

BUSINESSMAN is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a company, a NAICS code, or an owner share. The word on the form is the filter. The $34,277,492 national total is BUSINESSMAN only. 3,044 donors produced 34,660 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 34,660 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Colorado (CO). Three thousand forty-four national donors make this a modest occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CO.

Colorado on the state side

39 Colorado donors produced 803 contributions totaling $1,341,924. Donor state CO is the address on the record, not proof of a Colorado license, and not a limit to Colorado candidates. CO is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Colorado company, and not a map of which campaigns received the $1,341,924.

The Colorado campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CO. This join is only BUSINESSMAN. The Businessman occupation hub without Colorado still holds about 96.1% of the $34,277,492. Colorado’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CO. BUSINESSMAN is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count businesses, merge entrepreneur dollars, or claim that Businessman-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. BUSINESSMAN is not ENTREPRENEUR and not BUSINESS even when filers meant a one-person shop.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. BUSINESSMAN is not a small-business registry. Donor state CO is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Entity names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Businessman filter

Subtract the Colorado dollars on this page from the national BUSINESSMAN occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded BUSINESSMAN in every other state combined. That remainder ($32,935,568) 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 39 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 803 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,341,924 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Colorado dollars, or only the BUSINESSMAN national total, drops a key. Thirty-nine donors producing 803 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,341,924 headline.

Related tables

Businessman donations holds the $34,277,492 national occupation total. Colorado 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. Colorado also has a Founder occupation-state tie with different facts.

Questions

How much have Businessman donors in Colorado given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation BUSINESSMAN and state Colorado total $1,341,924, from 803 contributions and 39 donors. Nationwide, BUSINESSMAN-coded receipts are $34,277,492 from 34,660 contributions and 3,044 donors. Colorado is about 3.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this include business owners of any gender?

This hub is the string BUSINESSMAN. BUSINESS OWNER and BUSINESSWOMAN, if used, sit in other buckets. State is CO. The 39 Colorado donors used occupation BUSINESSMAN and state CO. Filers who wrote BUSINESS OWNER or ENTREPRENEUR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Businessman FEC money is from Colorado?

About 3.9% of the $34,277,492 occupation total is in this Colorado join ($1,341,924). Colorado also accounts for about 2.3% of contributions (803 of 34,660) and about 1.3% of donors (39 of 3,044). About 3.9% of dollars from 39 of 3,044 donors. Thirty-nine people produced 803 rows.

Does this money go to Colorado candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Colorado. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,341,924 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CO; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.