Chief of Staff political contributions from District of Columbia

Building the Chief of Staff–District of Columbia tie

Occupation CHIEF OF STAFF and donor state DC match on $3,127,279, 4,628 contributions, and 136 donors. The occupation hub without a state filter is $6,890,531, 14,901 contributions, and 786 donors. The District’s share of dollars is about 45%; of contributions, about 31% (4,628 of 14,901); of donors, about 17% (136 of 786).

Almost half the labeled dollars sit in one jurisdiction that holds about one-sixth of the labeled donors. That mismatch is why the join exists: a national occupation list would hide the District concentration; a DC state list would hide that these receipts are tagged Chief of Staff rather than Government Affairs or another title.

One hundred thirty-six District donors produced 4,628 contributions, about 34 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 19 rows per donor nationally (14,901 contributions from 786 donors). Combined with the District’s about 45% share of the $6,890,531, the DC filter is where much of this title’s itemized money and repeat filing sits. That still does not identify offices or employers.

Chief of Staff as a title, not a verified office

CHIEF OF STAFF can mean a congressional office, an executive-branch role, a corporate title, a nonprofit post, or a former job kept on the form. The FEC file does not confirm employer. Seven hundred eighty-six donors and $6,890,531 nationwide are the labeled bucket, not 786 sitting chiefs of staff.

Related strings such as COS, CHIEF OF STAFF RETIRED, or DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, if used, would sit in other occupation buckets. This page does not merge them.

District of Columbia on the state side

One hundred thirty-six DC donors produced 4,628 contributions totaling $3,127,279. Government Affairs, Economist, and Senior Vice President are other DC occupation ties with different donor counts. Those people are not in this join unless they also used CHIEF OF STAFF.

Donor state DC is the address on the itemized record. It does not prove current federal employment or that the $3,127,279 went to District-related committees. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The District hub is not a chief-of-staff hub. Government Affairs, Economist, and Senior Vice President DC ties are other occupation filters. The Chief of Staff occupation hub without DC still holds about 55% of the $6,890,531. Collapsing those pages into a single “Hill money” figure invents a category the two columns do not support.

Limits

This join does not identify Hatch Act questions, does not name offices, and does not claim that Chief of Staff-coded gifts purchased policy. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping match. Correlation is not causation.

Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC receipts are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Labels are filer-entered.

CHIEF OF STAFF can be governmental or private. The FEC occupation box does not flag Hatch Act status, chamber, or whether the role is current. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts, PAC receipts, and independent expenditures are omitted. Recipient geography is not donor-state geography. Correlation is not causation.

Reading Chief of Staff and District of Columbia as two keys

Subtract the District of Columbia dollars on this page from the national Chief of Staff occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Chief of Staff 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 District of Columbia dollars, or only the Chief of Staff 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.

Where each dimension lives

Chief of Staff donations holds the $6,890,531 national occupation total and the 786-donor count. District of Columbia campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to DC. All occupations and all FEC ties place this pair among other occupation-state intersections.

Questions

How much have Chief of Staff donors in DC given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Chief of Staff and state District of Columbia total $3,127,279, from 4,628 contributions and 136 donors. Nationwide, Chief of Staff-coded receipts are $6,890,531 from 14,901 contributions and 786 donors. The District is about 45% of those dollars.

Are these White House or congressional chiefs of staff?

The occupation field is the string CHIEF OF STAFF as entered on itemized filings. FEC aggregates do not verify employer or whether the role is governmental. The 136 DC donors used that pair of labels. They are not an official staff roster.

What share of Chief of Staff FEC money is from the District?

About 45% of the $6,890,531 occupation total is in this DC join ($3,127,279). The District also accounts for about 31% of contributions (4,628 of 14,901) and about 17% of donors (136 of 786). Those percentages describe two FEC columns overlapping.

Does this money stay in District of Columbia races?

Not necessarily. Donor state is DC. Recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This page does not allocate the $3,127,279 by office or recipient geography.