Developer political contributions from Virginia

The Developer–Virginia join

Occupation DEVELOPER and donor state VA produce $2,183,788, 1,149 contributions, and 109 donors. The occupation hub is $33,583,908, 36,924 contributions, and 3,717 donors. Virginia’s dollar share is about 7%; contribution share about 3% (1,149 of 36,924); donor share about 3% (109 of 3,717).

About 7% of the dollars from about 3% of the donors means the Virginia-coded Developer receipts are somewhat concentrated. One hundred nine people and 1,149 rows produced $2,183,788. Software Developer is a different occupation string with a Washington-state tie in this packet slice. Do not add those pages.

One hundred nine Virginia donors produced 1,149 contributions, about 11 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 10 rows per donor nationally (36,924 contributions from 3,717 donors). Virginia holds about 7% of the $33,583,908 with about 3% of donors. The string itself is ambiguous—property or software—so concentration in dollars should not be read as a housing-market finding.

Developer as an ambiguous FEC string

DEVELOPER can be a real-estate developer, a software developer who skipped the adjective, or another use of the word. REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER and SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, if used, sit in other hubs. The $33,583,908 national total is this short label only.

Three thousand seven hundred seventeen donors produced 36,924 contributions. This page locates the Virginia overlap. It does not classify the 109 Virginia donors as property versus code.

Virginia as donor state

One hundred nine Virginia donors produced 1,149 contributions totaling $2,183,788. Donor state VA is the address on the record, not proof of a Virginia contractor license or a Northern Virginia tech job, and not a limit to Virginia candidates.

The Virginia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to VA. Realtor is a separate Virginia occupation tie that uses a different occupation string. Real-estate-adjacent labels remain separate unless a filer used both strings.

Virginia’s state hub includes Realtor, Analyst, and Auto Dealer ties. DEVELOPER is only this filter. The Developer occupation hub without Virginia still holds about 93% of the $33,583,908. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER is a different hub with a Washington-state tie.

What the relationship excludes

This page does not measure housing starts or software employment, does not rank developers, and does not claim that Developer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Because the string is ambiguous, treating the $2,183,788 as a single industry would over-read the data.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

DEVELOPER does not split real estate from software. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. Building permits and GitHub stars are not FEC fields. Donor state VA is not recipient geography. Correlation is not causation.

Three numbers, two fields, one Developer filter

Subtract the Virginia dollars on this page from the national Developer occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Developer in every other state combined. That remainder 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 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 all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Virginia dollars, or only the Developer national total, drops a key.

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.

Related hubs

Developer donations holds the $33,583,908 national occupation total. Virginia 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 Developer donors in Virginia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Developer and state Virginia total $2,183,788, from 1,149 contributions and 109 donors. Nationwide, Developer-coded receipts are $33,583,908 from 36,924 contributions and 3,717 donors. Virginia is about 7% of those dollars.

Does Developer mean real estate or software?

The FEC file does not split the string. DEVELOPER is what the filer typed. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER is a different occupation hub. This join’s 109 Virginia donors and $2,183,788 are DEVELOPER-and-VA only. The page does not classify those 109 people.

Is this the same as Realtor donors in Virginia?

No. REALTOR is a different occupation string with its own Virginia tie. This page’s $2,183,788 is DEVELOPER only. Filers who used both labels on different receipts could appear in both hubs; this page does not deduplicate across strings.

Does this money go to Virginia candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Virginia. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,183,788 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.