Creative Director political contributions from Maryland

Creative Director and Maryland as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation CREATIVE DIRECTOR and donor state MD produce $124,585, 100 contributions, and 6 donors. The occupation hub is $5,970,821, 19,519 contributions, and 636 donors. Maryland’s dollar share is about 2.1%; contribution share about 0.5% (100 of 19,519); donor share about 0.9% (6 of 636). Six Maryland donors are about 0.9% of 636 national donors; 100 contributions are about 0.5% of 19,519 national rows; dollars are about 2.1% of $5,970,821.

ART DIRECTOR, GRAPHIC DESIGNER, and FILMMAKER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this total. Do not stack CREATIVE DIRECTOR with ART DIRECTOR or GRAPHIC DESIGNER into a single Maryland professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

6 Maryland donors produced 100 contributions, about 16.7 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 30.7 rows per donor nationally (19,519 contributions from 636 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Maryland cell is about $1,246, against about $306 nationwide. Maryland’s about 2.1% dollar share from 100 rows is a larger-mean, few-donor slice of a mid-volume title.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR as an advertising-title string

CREATIVE DIRECTOR is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a shop, a book, or a campaign creative role. Six hundred thirty-six national donors produced 19,519 contributions totaling $5,970,821. The $5,970,821 national total is CREATIVE DIRECTOR only. 636 donors produced 19,519 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 19,519 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Maryland (MD). This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state MD.

Maryland on the state side

6 Maryland donors produced 100 contributions totaling $124,585. Donor state MD is the address on the record, not proof of a Maryland license, and not a limit to Maryland candidates. MD is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Maryland agency, and not a map of which campaigns received the $124,585.

The Maryland campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MD. This join is only CREATIVE DIRECTOR. The Creative Director occupation hub without Maryland still holds about 97.9% of the $5,970,821. Maryland’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to MD. CREATIVE DIRECTOR is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not rank agencies, merge designer strings, or claim that Creative Director-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. CREATIVE DIRECTOR is not GRAPHIC DESIGNER even when one studio used both titles.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. CREATIVE DIRECTOR is not an agency-staff extract. Donor state MD is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Agency names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Creative Director filter

Subtract the Maryland dollars on this page from the national CREATIVE DIRECTOR occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded CREATIVE DIRECTOR in every other state combined. That remainder ($5,846,236) 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 6 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 100 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $124,585 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Maryland dollars, or only the CREATIVE DIRECTOR national total, drops a key. Six donors producing 100 contributions totaling $124,585 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Creative Director donations holds the $5,970,821 national occupation total. Maryland 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. Maryland Actress and Maryland Filmmaker are different occupation-state ties.

Questions

How much have Creative Director donors in Maryland given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation CREATIVE DIRECTOR and state Maryland total $124,585, from 100 contributions and 6 donors. Nationwide, CREATIVE DIRECTOR-coded receipts are $5,970,821 from 19,519 contributions and 636 donors. Maryland is about 2.1% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this include graphic designers?

No. This hub is the string CREATIVE DIRECTOR. GRAPHIC DESIGNER is a different occupation bucket if that string exists. State is MD. The 6 Maryland donors used occupation CREATIVE DIRECTOR and state MD. Filers who wrote ART DIRECTOR or GRAPHIC DESIGNER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Creative Director FEC money is from Maryland?

About 2.1% of the $5,970,821 occupation total is in this Maryland join ($124,585). Maryland also accounts for about 0.5% of contributions (100 of 19,519) and about 0.9% of donors (6 of 636). About 2.1% of dollars from 6 of 636 donors. Six people produced 100 rows.

Does this money go to Maryland candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Maryland. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $124,585 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to MD; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.