CPA political contributions from Illinois

The CPA–Illinois intersection

Occupation CPA and donor state IL produce $1,445,865, 4,996 contributions, and 401 donors. The occupation hub is $44,519,078, 167,600 contributions, and 10,766 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 3.2%; contribution share about 3.0% (4,996 of 167,600); donor share about 3.7% (401 of 10,766). Four hundred one Illinois donors are 3.7% of 10,766 national CPA donors. Dollars ($1,445,865 of $44,519,078) and contributions (4,996 of 167,600) sit near 3.2% and 3.0%.

ACCOUNTANT, CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, and AUDITOR, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack CPA with ACCOUNTANT or AUDITOR into a single Illinois professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

401 Illinois donors produced 4,996 contributions, about 12.5 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 15.6 rows per donor nationally (167,600 contributions from 10,766 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Illinois cell is about $289, against about $266 nationwide. Illinois’s share of $44,519,078 is a Midwest address slice of a large credential label, not a ranking of Chicago accounting firms. Mean gift here is about $289, against about $266 nationwide.

CPA as a credential-style occupation string

CPA is a filer-entered string. The three-letter abbreviation is what the filer typed. The file does not confirm an active CPA license, a peer-review status, or an AICPA membership. The $44,519,078 national total is CPA only. 10,766 donors produced 167,600 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 167,600 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois (IL). This page locates the Illinois overlap. It does not merge CPA with ACCOUNTANT even when the same person might use both strings on different receipts.

Illinois as donor state

401 Illinois donors produced 4,996 contributions totaling $1,445,865. Donor state IL is the address on the record, not proof of a Illinois license, and not a limit to Illinois candidates. IL is the address on the itemized record, not proof of an Illinois CPA license and not a limit to Illinois candidates. Suburban and downstate addresses share the same two-letter code.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only CPA. The CPA occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 96.8% of the $44,519,078. Illinois’s state hub includes every occupation coded to IL. CPA is only this filter.

What not to infer from CPA plus Illinois

This page does not merge Accountant dollars, count licensed CPAs, or claim that CPA-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. CPA is not ACCOUNTANT even when filers meant the same desk. Those two Illinois cells stay separate.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. CPA is not an Illinois Board of Examiners extract. Donor state IL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one CPA filter

Subtract the Illinois dollars on this page from the national CPA occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded CPA in every other state combined. That remainder ($43,073,213) 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 401 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 4,996 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,445,865 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Illinois dollars, or only the CPA national total, drops a key. Four hundred one donors producing 4,996 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,445,865 headline.

Related tables

Cpa donations holds the $44,519,078 national occupation total. Illinois 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. The Illinois Accountant occupation-state tie is a different packet and is not added here.

Questions

How much have CPA donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation CPA and state Illinois total $1,445,865, from 4,996 contributions and 401 donors. Nationwide, CPA-coded receipts are $44,519,078 from 167,600 contributions and 10,766 donors. Illinois is about 3.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is CPA the same as Accountant on FEC forms?

No. CPA and ACCOUNTANT are different stored strings. This join is CPA and state IL only. Four hundred one Illinois donors used that pair. The 401 Illinois donors used occupation CPA and state IL. Filers who wrote ACCOUNTANT or CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of CPA FEC money is from Illinois?

About 3.2% of the $44,519,078 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($1,445,865). Illinois also accounts for about 3.0% of contributions (4,996 of 167,600) and about 3.7% of donors (401 of 10,766). About 3.2% of dollars from 401 of 10,766 donors and 4,996 of 167,600 contributions.

Does this money go to Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Illinois. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,445,865 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to IL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.