Creative Director political contributions from Illinois

Thirty-five Illinois donors, about one-fifth of Creative Director dollars

Occupation CREATIVE DIRECTOR and donor state IL produce $1,150,795, 902 contributions, and 35 donors. The occupation hub is $5,970,821, 19,519 contributions, and 636 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 19.3% ($1,150,795 of $5,970,821). Its contribution share is about 4.6% (902 of 19,519). Its donor share is about 5.5% (35 of 636).

Dollar share is several times donor share. Thirty-five people produced roughly one fifth of occupation dollars while making up about one eighteenth of occupation donors. That is concentration by amount, not by unique-person count.

DIRECTOR, ART DIRECTOR, and INTERIOR DESIGNER are other keys. They are not inside $5,970,821 unless grouped here. This packet does not claim that grouping. Interior Designer donors in Illinois is a separate join.

A title used in agencies, in-house brands, and freelance work

CREATIVE DIRECTOR is typed on the receipt. FEC.gov does not verify an agency job, a film credit, or an employer. Six hundred thirty-six national donors used the string. People who typed DIRECTOR only sit in another occupation total if that string is a separate slug.

Nineteen thousand five hundred nineteen contributions from 636 donors nationwide is about 31 itemized gifts per donor. Illinois’s 902 contributions from 35 donors is about 26 gifts per donor. Receipt frequency is similar; gift size is not. The dollar gap is in itemized amounts.

Illinois cell averages

Dividing $1,150,795 by 902 contributions yields about $1,276 per gift. Dividing by 35 donors yields about $32,880 per donor. Nationally, $5,970,821 divided by 19,519 contributions is about $306 per gift. The Illinois mean is about four times the national occupation mean. A few large itemized gifts among 35 people can produce that gap.

Donor state IL is the address on the receipt. Recipients need not be Illinois committees. Producer donors in Illinois is a neighboring occupation join with 51 donors and $979,481; those facts are not inside CREATIVE DIRECTOR.

Thirty-five Illinois donors produced 902 contributions, about 26 itemized gifts per person, versus about 31 nationally. Frequency is slightly lower. Amount carries the 19.3% dollar share: about $1,276 per gift versus about $306 nationally. That is a mean-gift cell, not a high-volume cell.

What 19.3% does not mean

Illinois’s share of Creative Director-coded dollars is a table split. It is not evidence that Chicago’s advertising market caused the gifts, that creative directors as a class funded a party, or that thirty-five people represent Illinois’s creative workforce. Occupation and state travel together on receipts. Causation is not in the join.

Coverage is itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov. Unitemized money and independent expenditures are out of scope. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

PRODUCER donors in Illinois ($979,481, 51 donors) and Interior Designer donors in Illinois ($1,182,344, 85 donors) share a donor state. None of the three titles contains the others. A filer who typed DIRECTOR only is in another occupation if that string is a separate slug.

Occupation hub versus this concentrated Illinois cell

Creative Director donations carries the $5,970,821 national occupation total. Illinois campaign finance carries all IL-coded itemized individual activity. All occupations and All FEC ties place this 35-donor cell beside Interior Designer and Producer Illinois joins without merging their dollar figures.

The occupation hub still holds $4,820,026 outside Illinois ($5,970,821 minus $1,150,795). Roughly four-fifths of Creative Director-coded dollars sit in other states. Thirty-five Illinois donors can dominate this occupation’s Illinois cell without dominating Illinois statewide giving.

Nineteen percent from thirty-five people

Six hundred thirty-six national Creative Director donors is a modest occupation. Thirty-five Illinois donors can therefore hold 19.3% of dollars without being a large unique-person list. $1,150,795 from 902 contributions is the actual cell. It is not Chicago’s advertising census.

Keep PRODUCER and INTERIOR DESIGNER in their Illinois files. This page’s job is CREATIVE DIRECTOR × IL, including the gap between the 5.5% donor share and the 19.3% dollar share.

Questions

How much have Creative Director donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Creative Director and state Illinois total $1,150,795, from 902 contributions and 35 donors. Nationwide, Creative Director-coded receipts are $5,970,821 from 19,519 contributions and 636 donors. Illinois is about 19.3% of those dollars.

Does Creative Director mean advertising executives in Chicago?

CREATIVE DIRECTOR is the occupation text as entered on itemized filings. FEC aggregates do not verify employer or industry. The 35 Illinois donors and 636 national donors are people whose records used that title, not an agency headcount.

How can 35 donors be 19% of the occupation’s dollars?

Thirty-five donors produced $1,150,795, about 19.3% of $5,970,821, while making up about 5.5% of 636 national donors. Average gift in the cell is about $1,276 versus about $306 nationally. The share describes concentration in the table.

Is this money given to Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. IL is the donor state on the contribution. The $1,150,795 can be received by any FEC-filing committee. This page does not break receipts by office or by in-state versus out-of-state committees.