Communications contributions received by ACTBLUE

Two keys, one cell: Communications and ACTBLUE

The relationship is a text match plus a committee ID. Communications is the occupation string. C00401224 is ACTBLUE. Together they equal $1,218,962 from 20,675 contributions. That is the headline number.

COMMUNICATIONS is a department-style stamp, not a phone-company NAICS total. Public Relations is a neighboring function string, not a parent of this cell.

Why $1,218,962 is not $6,851,742

$1,218,962 cannot equal $6,851,742 unless every stored Communications dollar went to C00401224. Here the share is 17.8%, so $5,632,780 sits elsewhere. That is expected on a two-dimension page.

Canonical path /ties/communications-to-actblue/ is the explanation URL. Overlay /committees/C00401224/ points at the committee page.

How 20,675 receipts produced $1,218,962

$1,218,962 / 20,675 ≈ $59. That identity is the volume signature of this cell. High line counts with small means are common on conduit-style individual receipt files; this packet does not classify committee type beyond ID C00401224 and name ACTBLUE.

Cite FEC.gov for the live committee file if the overlay disagrees.

Volume signature for Communications × ACTBLUE: $1,218,962 on 20,675 lines, mean $59, 17.8% of the $6,851,742 occupation book. $5,632,780 (82.2%) remains with other committees that stored COMMUNICATIONS. Those other recipients are not named here because they are not in the packet. Repeat itemization can raise 20,675 without a published person count. Do not treat the line count as a workforce census or as unique donors. Cycle year is unpublished, so $1,218,962 is not assigned to a single election night.

Itemized individual receipts only

Missing from the packet: unique donor counts, party split, unitemized totals, independent expenditures, cycle year, and any USAspending figure. Present: $1,218,962, 20,675 contributions, $6,851,742 occupation total, committee C00401224, string COMMUNICATIONS.

Self-reported fields create split spellings. Researchers who need a profession-level view must inspect neighboring keys on the occupation index rather than assume $6,851,742 is complete.

This join is self-reported department-word occupation. It is not a telecom NAICS rollup, Public Relations as a sibling key, or a company PAC. Neighboring occupation strings—Public relations, communications director, and public affairs—stay off $1,218,962 unless the stored text was exactly COMMUNICATIONS. FEC itemized individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets. Sharing a geography or a famous name does not merge the ledgers. Quote $1,218,962 as receipts tagged COMMUNICATIONS and attributed to C00401224, source FEC.gov, and stop there. Motive, party split, and employer names are not packet fields.

Snapshot versus live overlay

JSON copy is written once from a packet. Hubs can refresh. If the live committee overlay shows a different Communications total than $1,218,962, use the live overlay and FEC.gov. The canonical path for this explanation is /ties/communications-to-actblue/.

The body facts remain: COMMUNICATIONS × C00401224 = $1,218,962, 20,675 contributions, 17.8% of $6,851,742. No other dollars are authorized.

Authorized dollars for this join are $1,218,962 in itemized individual contributions, not independent expenditures and not federal awards. The occupation hub total $6,851,742 is every harvested committee for COMMUNICATIONS, not a restatement of C00401224. Contribution count 20,675 should be cited with the dollar cell so the mean $59 is visible. Unique donors are unpublished. FEC.gov is the originating public record. This /ties/communications-to-actblue/ path explains the occupation × committee overlap only.

Sibling strings beside COMMUNICATIONS

Public relations, communications director, and public affairs remain other occupation pages. Do not add those pages into $1,218,962 or $6,851,742. Exact string COMMUNICATIONS is the occupation key. Exact ID C00401224 is the committee key.

This page is an occupation × committee join, not a donor biography. Unique donors are unpublished. Names are not in the facts and are not invented here.

Keep Communications × C00401224 on /ties/communications-to-actblue/ so the occupation hub and the ACTBLUE overlay can stay general. Mixing $1,218,962 into either hub’s headline would hide the join. Overlay /committees/C00401224/ is the committee table. The occupation hub still holds $5,632,780 outside this committee. All occupations lists sibling titles without summing them into this cell. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Use those indexes to move, not to add dollar figures.

The occupation string COMMUNICATIONS is filer-entered. FEC.gov does not recode it into a license class. Neighboring titles remain other occupation hubs.

Committee C00401224 is the recipient key. Other committees that received the same occupation string sit in the remainder $5,632,780, not on this dollar line.

20,675 is a contribution count, not a unique-donor count. Unique donors are unpublished in this packet and are not invented here.

Unitemized gifts never enter $1,218,962. Independent expenditures and USAspending awards are outside the source note.

Questions

How much did Communications-coded donors give to ACTBLUE?

FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions show $1,218,962 grouped to occupation Communications and received by ACTBLUE (C00401224). That join covers 20,675 contributions. The occupation total across all committees is $6,851,742, so this cell is 17.8%. These figures are not independent expenditures.

What share of Communications FEC individual money went to ACTBLUE?

17.8% of the $6,851,742 Communications grouping is in this join: $1,218,962 to C00401224. The remaining $5,632,780 went to other committees. A share that large or small describes occupation–committee overlap, not corporate giving and not a unique-donor census. Occupation labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized individual receipts.

Does this include a company PAC or independent expenditures?

No. The source is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee. Company PAC documents and independent expenditures are other FEC categories. Use the ACTBLUE committee hub for receipt types outside this occupation filter. The cell is $1,218,962 on 20,675 lines.

Where are the live Communications and ACTBLUE tables?

Communications carries the $6,851,742 occupation total. ACTBLUE is committee C00401224. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Communications × C00401224 intersection only. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Occupation labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized individual receipts.