CFO political contributions from California

CFO and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation CFO and donor state CA produce $5,638,185, 14,811 contributions, and 910 donors. The occupation hub is $36,233,003, 78,219 contributions, and 6,214 donors. The three shares are 15.6% of dollars, 18.9% of contributions, and 14.6% of donors. Keep all three; quoting only $5,638,185 drops the row and donor keys. California CFO-coded receipts sit in the mid-teens of a large officer-title bucket.

CFO is a three-letter officer abbreviation, not a spelled-out title recode. Nearby strings — CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, FINANCE, CONTROLLER, and TREASURER — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $5,638,185 or $36,233,003. CFO and CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER can split the same people if they typed both strings across filings.

Nine hundred ten California donors produced 14,811 contributions, about 16.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 12.6 rows per donor nationally (78,219 contributions from 6,214 donors). Mean dollars per donor in this California cell are about $6,196, versus about $5,831 across the occupation. Those ratios are arithmetic on the six packet numbers, not a gift-size ranking of influence.

CFO as a national occupation grouping

CFO is filer-entered. The FEC file does not verify that the donor is a sitting chief financial officer. The national grouping is 6,214 donors, 78,219 contributions, and $36,233,003.

78,219 contributions from 6,214 donors shows repeat itemization nationwide. California’s 14,811 contributions from 910 donors is the CA-coded piece. This page does not split those rows by cycle, employer, or recipient committee. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California.

California on the state side

Nine hundred ten California donors produced 14,811 contributions totaling $5,638,185. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California professional license, and not a limit to California candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only CFO. Subtract $5,638,185 from $36,233,003 and $30,594,818 remains coded CFO in every other state combined (63,408 contributions, 5,304 donors). That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties.

What the CFO–California join is not

This page does not measure cfo output, does not rank firms, and does not claim that CFO-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Not a public-company 10-K officer list, not a CPA roster, and not a Fortune ranking.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names, license numbers, and employer strings are not in these six numbers. Donor state CA is not recipient geography.

Three numbers, two fields, one CFO filter

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 $5,638,185, 14,811 contributions, and 910 donors on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the CFO national total, drops a key.

CFO donations holds the $36,233,003 national occupation total. California 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. Nearby occupation strings remain separate keys.

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. CFO and CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER can split the same people if they typed both strings across filings.

Related tables

CFO donations holds the $36,233,003 national occupation total. California 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.

Questions

How much have CFO donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation CFO and state California total $5,638,185, from 14,811 contributions and 910 donors. Nationwide, CFO-coded receipts are $36,233,003 from 78,219 contributions and 6,214 donors. California is 15.6% of those dollars.

Is CFO the same as Chief Financial Officer?

This join uses the abbreviation CFO as stored. Filers who spelled Chief Financial Officer may sit in a different occupation bucket. Controller and Treasurer are other keys. The FEC file does not confirm a current C-suite seat. This join reports 910 California donors and $5,638,185 in itemized receipts.

What share of CFO FEC money is from California?

15.6% of the $36,233,003 occupation total is in this California join ($5,638,185). California also accounts for 18.9% of contributions (14,811 of 78,219) and 14.6% of donors (910 of 6,214). Those three shares are computed from the packet facts only.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $5,638,185 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions; occupation labels are filer-entered.