Dentist political contributions from Illinois

Dentist and Illinois as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation DENTIST and donor state IL produce $1,528,155, 5,086 contributions, and 396 donors. The occupation hub is $36,685,531, 143,346 contributions, and 10,521 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 4.2%; contribution share about 3.5% (5,086 of 143,346); donor share about 3.8% (396 of 10,521). Three hundred ninety-six Illinois donors are about 3.8% of 10,521 national donors; 5,086 contributions are about 3.5% of 143,346 national rows; dollars are about 4.2% of $36,685,531.

ORTHODONTIST, ORAL SURGEON, DDS, and DMD, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Dentist total. Do not stack DENTIST with ORTHODONTIST or DDS into a single Illinois professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

396 Illinois donors produced 5,086 contributions, about 12.8 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 13.6 rows per donor nationally (143,346 contributions from 10,521 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Illinois cell is about $300, against about $256 nationwide. Illinois’s about 4.2% share of $36,685,531 is a many-person professional slice, not a handful of large checks.

DENTIST as a common clinical string

DENTIST is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a dental license in Illinois or any other state. The words on the form are the filter. The $36,685,531 national total is DENTIST only. 10,521 donors produced 143,346 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 143,346 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois (IL). Ten thousand five hundred twenty-one national donors make this a many-person bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state IL.

Illinois on the state side

396 Illinois donors produced 5,086 contributions totaling $1,528,155. 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 dental license, and not a map of which campaigns received the $1,528,155.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only DENTIST. The Dentist occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 95.8% of the $36,685,531. Illinois’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to IL. DENTIST is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count licensed dentists, merge orthodontist dollars, or claim that Dentist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. DENTIST is not ORTHODONTIST and not PHYSICIAN even when filers meant a clinical practice.

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

Three numbers, two fields, one Dentist filter

Subtract the Illinois dollars on this page from the national DENTIST occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded DENTIST in every other state combined. That remainder ($35,157,376) 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 396 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 5,086 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,528,155 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 DENTIST national total, drops a key. Three hundred ninety-six donors producing 5,086 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,528,155 headline.

Related tables

Dentist donations holds the $36,685,531 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. ORTHODONTIST is a different occupation hub if that string exists.

Questions

How much have Dentist donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DENTIST and state Illinois total $1,528,155, from 5,086 contributions and 396 donors. Nationwide, DENTIST-coded receipts are $36,685,531 from 143,346 contributions and 10,521 donors. Illinois is about 4.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Illinois dentists?

The FEC file does not verify licenses. Occupation is the string DENTIST and state is IL. Filers who wrote DDS or ORTHODONTIST may sit in another bucket. The 396 Illinois donors used occupation DENTIST and state IL. Filers who wrote ORTHODONTIST or DDS may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Dentist FEC money is from Illinois?

About 4.2% of the $36,685,531 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($1,528,155). Illinois also accounts for about 3.5% of contributions (5,086 of 143,346) and about 3.8% of donors (396 of 10,521). About 4.2% of dollars from 396 of 10,521 donors and 5,086 of 143,346 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 $1,528,155 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.