Designer political contributions from California

Designer and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation DESIGNER and donor state CA produce $6,150,265, 31,225 contributions, and 1,025 donors. The occupation hub is $18,568,646, 112,150 contributions, and 3,473 donors. The three shares are 33.1% of dollars, 27.8% of contributions, and 29.5% of donors. Keep all three; quoting only $6,150,265 drops the row and donor keys. California holds about a third of Designer-coded dollars on a high-row occupation.

Designer is a short creative title, not a discipline recode. Nearby strings — GRAPHIC DESIGNER, INTERIOR DESIGNER, FASHION DESIGNER, and UX DESIGNER — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $6,150,265 or $18,568,646. A one-word DESIGNER stamp absorbs many specialties that other filers spelled out.

One thousand twenty-five California donors produced 31,225 contributions, about 30.5 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 32.3 rows per donor nationally (112,150 contributions from 3,473 donors). Mean dollars per donor in this California cell are about $6,000, versus about $5,347 across the occupation. Those ratios are arithmetic on the six packet numbers, not a gift-size ranking of influence.

Designer as a national occupation grouping

DESIGNER is filer-entered. The FEC file does not verify AIGA membership or a California contractor license for interior work. The national grouping is 3,473 donors, 112,150 contributions, and $18,568,646.

112,150 contributions from 3,473 donors shows repeat itemization nationwide. California’s 31,225 contributions from 1,025 donors is the CA-coded piece. This page does not split those rows by cycle, employer, or recipient committee. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California.

California on the state side

One thousand twenty-five California donors produced 31,225 contributions totaling $6,150,265. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California professional license, and not a limit to California candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only DESIGNER. Subtract $6,150,265 from $18,568,646 and $12,418,381 remains coded Designer in every other state combined (80,925 contributions, 2,448 donors). That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties.

What the Designer–California join is not

This page does not measure designer output, does not rank firms, and does not claim that Designer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Not a design-studio census, not a CalArts alumni roll, and not a union-local headcount.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names, license numbers, and employer strings are not in these six numbers. Donor state CA is not recipient geography.

Three numbers, two fields, one Designer filter

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping $6,150,265, 31,225 contributions, and 1,025 donors on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the Designer national total, drops a key.

Designer donations holds the $18,568,646 national occupation total. California 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. Nearby occupation strings remain separate keys.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered. A one-word DESIGNER stamp absorbs many specialties that other filers spelled out.

Related tables

Designer donations holds the $18,568,646 national occupation total. California 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.

Questions

How much have Designer donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Designer and state California total $6,150,265, from 31,225 contributions and 1,025 donors. Nationwide, Designer-coded receipts are $18,568,646 from 112,150 contributions and 3,473 donors. California is 33.1% of those dollars.

Does Designer mean graphic, fashion, or product design?

The stored string is DESIGNER with no specialty. Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Fashion Designer, and UX Designer are other occupation keys if filers used those words. This join does not recode them into DESIGNER. This join reports 1,025 California donors and $6,150,265 in itemized receipts.

What share of Designer FEC money is from California?

33.1% of the $18,568,646 occupation total is in this California join ($6,150,265). California also accounts for 27.8% of contributions (31,225 of 112,150) and 29.5% of donors (1,025 of 3,473). Those three shares are computed from the packet facts only.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $6,150,265 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions; occupation labels are filer-entered.