Candidate political contributions from Missouri

Eleven Missouri donors inside the CANDIDATE occupation

Occupation CANDIDATE and donor state MO produce $1,218,476, 161 contributions, and 11 donors. The occupation hub is $16,508,299, 7,075 contributions, and 409 donors. Missouri’s dollar share is about 7.4% ($1,218,476 of $16,508,299). Its contribution share is about 2.3% (161 of 7,075). Its donor share is about 2.7% (11 of 409).

Eleven people produced a larger slice of dollars than of contributions. That pattern matches large mean gifts, including possible self-contributions to a donor’s own committee when the occupation box reads CANDIDATE.

The Pennsylvania Candidate join reports $1,443,873 from 19 donors. Those rows used donor state PA. They are not inside $1,218,476. The two cells share an occupation slug and must stay separate.

CANDIDATE is not a certified ballot list

People running for office sometimes type CANDIDATE when they contribute to their committees or to others. Other filers use the word without appearing on a ballot. FEC individual-contribution aggregates do not confirm candidacy. Four hundred nine national donors used the string. Missing a Missouri candidate who typed ATTORNEY or FARMER is expected.

Seven thousand seventy-five contributions from 409 donors nationwide is about 17 itemized gifts per donor. Missouri’s 161 contributions from 11 donors is about 15 gifts per donor. Receipt frequency is similar; gift size is not.

Mean gift size among eleven people

Dividing $1,218,476 by 161 contributions yields about $7,568 per gift. Dividing by 11 donors yields about $110,771 per donor. Nationally, $16,508,299 divided by 7,075 contributions is about $2,333 per gift. Missouri’s mean is more than three times the national occupation mean. With eleven unique donors, a few large itemized receipts dominate the cell.

Donor state MO is the address on the receipt. Recipients need not be Missouri committees. Self-contributions, if they carry this occupation string and MO as donor state, sit in the $1,218,476; the aggregate does not isolate them.

Eleven Missouri donors produced 161 contributions, about 15 itemized gifts per person, close to the national 17. Frequency is not distinctive. Amount is: about $7,568 per gift versus about $2,333 nationally, and about $110,771 per donor. With n=11, a few large itemized receipts—including possible self-contributions—can be most of $1,218,476.

Do not treat this as Missouri’s candidate directory

This page is not a list of people who ran for federal office in Missouri. It is itemized individual receipts whose occupation field matched CANDIDATE and whose donor state matched MO. Including someone who never ran is possible. Excluding someone who did run is likely if they typed another occupation.

Coverage is itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov. Unitemized money and independent expenditures are out of scope. The 7.4% share is a table split, not causation, and not a measure of Missouri race costs.

Pennsylvania’s Candidate join ($1,443,873, 19 donors) is the sibling cell. Missouri’s 7.4% dollar share and Pennsylvania’s 8.7% share are shares of the same $16,508,299 occupation. They are not shares of those states’ statewide hubs, and they are not ballot counts.

Occupation hub, state hub, Pennsylvania counterpart

Candidate donations carries the $16,508,299 national occupation total. Missouri campaign finance carries all MO-coded itemized individual activity. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the Missouri and Pennsylvania Candidate joins as separate cells so $1,218,476 is not added to $1,443,873.

The occupation hub still holds $15,289,823 outside Missouri ($16,508,299 minus $1,218,476). Use Candidate donations for that remainder. This page is the CANDIDATE × MO overlap only, not a Missouri candidate directory.

Eleven donors are not Missouri’s ballot

Four hundred nine national CANDIDATE donors is a small occupation. Eleven Missouri donors are 2.7% of that list. $1,218,476 is 7.4% of the occupation’s dollars. Both figures can be true while almost every Missouri federal candidate typed some other occupation on their receipts.

Pennsylvania’s sibling cell does not complete a two-state candidate map. Each join is a donor-state filter on the same occupation string. Recipients can be anywhere.

Questions

How much have Candidate occupation donors in Missouri given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Candidate and state Missouri total $1,218,476, from 161 contributions and 11 donors. Nationwide, Candidate-coded receipts are $16,508,299 from 7,075 contributions and 409 donors. Missouri is about 7.4% of those dollars.

Does Candidate mean people who ran for office in Missouri?

CANDIDATE is the occupation text as entered on itemized filings. FEC aggregates do not verify ballot status. The 11 Missouri donors and 409 national donors are people whose records used that label, not a certified candidate list.

Are Missouri and Pennsylvania Candidate dollars the same pool?

No. This join is donor state MO only. The Pennsylvania Candidate join has its own $1,443,873 from 19 donors. Adding the two cells mixes donor-state codes and is not a combined candidate total.

Is this money given to Missouri candidates?

Not necessarily. MO is the donor state on the contribution. The $1,218,476 can be received by any FEC-filing committee, including a donor’s own committee. This page does not break receipts by office.