Businessman political contributions from Georgia

Reading the Businessman–Georgia overlap

Occupation BUSINESSMAN and donor state GA together produce $3,253,269, 1,583 contributions, and 77 donors. The occupation hub without a state cut is $34,277,492, 34,660 contributions, and 3,044 donors. Georgia’s dollar share is about 9%; contribution share about 5% (1,583 of 34,660); donor share about 3% (77 of 3,044).

A 9% dollar share from 3% of the donors means the Georgia-coded Businessman receipts are concentrated: fewer people, a larger slice of the labeled money. Seventy-seven donors producing 1,583 contributions also means heavy repeat itemization inside the state slice. None of that identifies the people or the committees.

Seventy-seven Georgia donors produced 1,583 contributions, about 21 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 11 rows per donor nationally (34,660 contributions from 3,044 donors). The Georgia slice is repeat-heavy and dollar-heavy relative to its 3% donor share. The $3,253,269 is still an aggregate: this page does not show whether a few of the 77 account for most of the money.

Businessman as a gendered, generic FEC string

BUSINESSMAN is filer-entered. It is not a NAICS code and it is not the same bucket as BUSINESS, which is a separate occupation hub. Filers who wrote OWNER, ENTREPRENEUR, CEO, or SELF EMPLOYED sit elsewhere. The national counts—3,044 donors, 34,660 contributions, $34,277,492—cover only this word.

The label does not record gender beyond the word chosen, does not record firm size, and does not record industry. Using it as a proxy for Georgia’s business community would be a category error. This tie only locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Georgia.

Georgia as the state filter

Seventy-seven Georgia donors produced 1,583 contributions totaling $3,253,269. That is a small donor count relative to the occupation’s 3,044 people nationwide. Other Georgia occupations are outside this join. Other states’ Businessman-coded receipts make up the gap between $3,253,269 and $34,277,492.

Donor state GA is the address on the contribution record. It is not proof of a Georgia business license or of gifts to Georgia candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

Georgia’s state hub is not a businessman hub. The Businessman occupation hub is not a Georgia hub—about 91% of the $34,277,492 sits outside this join. Those complements are the reason to keep a relationship page instead of restating either list. Nearby strings such as BUSINESS, OWNER, and CEO remain in other occupation tables.

Boundaries of the join

This page does not rank Georgia against other states on entrepreneurship or political spending, and it does not claim that Businessman-coded money caused any electoral result. Two columns matched. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates are the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Gendered occupation language on FEC forms is a filing artifact. BUSINESSMAN does not record the donor’s gender beyond the word chosen, and it does not record firm size or NAICS industry. Using 77 people as a proxy for Georgia’s business community over-reads six numbers. Itemized individual contributions only; unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted.

Why this Businessman page is not a restatement of Georgia

Subtract the Georgia 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 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 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 Georgia 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 FEC pages

Businessman donations holds the $34,277,492 national occupation total. Georgia campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to GA. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields.

Questions

How much have Businessman donors in Georgia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Businessman and state Georgia total $3,253,269, from 1,583 contributions and 77 donors. Nationwide, Businessman-coded receipts are $34,277,492 from 34,660 contributions and 3,044 donors. Georgia is about 9% of those dollars.

Why only 77 Georgia donors for $3.3 million?

The state side of the join is 77 donors, 1,583 contributions, and $3,253,269. That is about 3% of the occupation’s 3,044 donors and about 9% of its $34,277,492. A small donor count with a larger dollar share means concentration. This page does not name the 77 people.

Is Businessman the same as Business in FEC data?

No. BUSINESSMAN and BUSINESS are different occupation strings. This join uses BUSINESSMAN only. A Virginia Business tie, for example, is a different label and a different state. Filers choose the words on the receipt.

Does this money go to Georgia federal candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Georgia. Recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This page does not split the $3,253,269 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.