Counselor political contributions from Minnesota

Counselor and Minnesota as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation COUNSELOR and donor state MN produce $340,592, 982 contributions, and 13 donors. The occupation hub is $5,001,105, 48,327 contributions, and 1,013 donors. Minnesota’s dollar share is about 6.8%; contribution share about 2.0% (982 of 48,327); donor share about 1.3% (13 of 1,013). Dollar share (about 6.8%) runs far ahead of donor share (about 1.3%). Thirteen people produced 982 itemized rows totaling $340,592 — about 76 rows per donor.

ATTORNEY, THERAPIST, and GUIDANCE COUNSELOR, if used, sit in other hubs. Stacking them with COUNSELOR invents a combined professional total the file does not publish. Do not stack COUNSELOR with ATTORNEY or THERAPIST into a single Minnesota professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

13 Minnesota donors produced 982 contributions, about 75.5 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 47.7 rows per donor nationally (48,327 contributions from 1,013 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Minnesota cell is about $347, against about $103 nationwide. Minnesota’s about 6.8% share of $5,001,105 is a high-frequency, few-donor slice, not a statewide counseling census.

COUNSELOR as an ambiguous title string

COUNSELOR is a filer-entered string. The word can mean school counselor, camp counselor, legal counselor, or a self-description. The FEC file does not disambiguate. The $5,001,105 national total is COUNSELOR only. 1,013 donors produced 48,327 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 48,327 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Minnesota (MN). Forty-eight thousand three hundred twenty-seven national contributions make COUNSELOR a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state MN.

Minnesota on the state side

13 Minnesota donors produced 982 contributions totaling $340,592. Donor state MN is the address on the record, not proof of a Minnesota license, and not a limit to Minnesota candidates. MN is the address on the itemized record. Thirteen unique donors is not a Minnesota licensing-board roster.

The Minnesota campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MN. This join is only COUNSELOR. The Counselor occupation hub without Minnesota still holds about 93.2% of the $5,001,105. Minnesota’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to MN. COUNSELOR is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not verify counseling licenses, merge attorney strings, or claim that Counselor-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. COUNSELOR is not ATTORNEY even when a filer meant legal counsel.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. COUNSELOR is not a licensing-board extract. Donor state MN is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. License numbers are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Counselor filter

Subtract the Minnesota dollars on this page from the national COUNSELOR occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded COUNSELOR in every other state combined. That remainder ($4,660,513) 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 of 13 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 982 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $340,592 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Minnesota dollars, or only the COUNSELOR national total, drops a key. Thirteen donors holding about 6.8% of the occupation dollars is the fact to keep next to the $340,592 headline.

Related tables

Counselor donations holds the $5,001,105 national occupation total. Minnesota 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. ATTORNEY is a different occupation hub if that string exists.

Questions

How much have Counselor donors in Minnesota given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation COUNSELOR and state Minnesota total $340,592, from 982 contributions and 13 donors. Nationwide, COUNSELOR-coded receipts are $5,001,105 from 48,327 contributions and 1,013 donors. Minnesota is about 6.8% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Minnesota counselors?

The FEC file does not verify licenses. Occupation is the string COUNSELOR and state is MN. The 13 Minnesota donors used occupation COUNSELOR and state MN. Filers who wrote ATTORNEY or GUIDANCE COUNSELOR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Counselor FEC money is from Minnesota?

About 6.8% of the $5,001,105 occupation total is in this Minnesota join ($340,592). Minnesota also accounts for about 2.0% of contributions (982 of 48,327) and about 1.3% of donors (13 of 1,013). About 6.8% of dollars from 13 of 1,013 donors. That is a concentrated cell.

Does this money go to Minnesota candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Minnesota. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $340,592 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to MN; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.