Director political contributions from Illinois

Director and Illinois as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation DIRECTOR and donor state IL produce $3,539,823, 16,128 contributions, and 764 donors. The occupation hub is $88,429,618, 330,088 contributions, and 16,313 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 4.0%; contribution share about 4.9% (16,128 of 330,088); donor share about 4.7% (764 of 16,313). Seven hundred sixty-four Illinois donors are about 4.7% of 16,313 national donors; 16,128 contributions are about 4.9% of 330,088 national rows; dollars are about 4.0% of $88,429,618.

MANAGING DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, and ART DIRECTOR, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Director total. Do not stack DIRECTOR with MANAGING DIRECTOR or EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR into a single Illinois professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

764 Illinois donors produced 16,128 contributions, about 21.1 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 20.2 rows per donor nationally (330,088 contributions from 16,313 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Illinois cell is about $219, against about $268 nationwide. Illinois’s about 4.0% share of $88,429,618 from 16,128 rows is a high-repeat slice of a 330,088-row occupation, not a handful of large checks.

DIRECTOR as a one-word title bucket

DIRECTOR is a filer-entered string. A single word on Schedule A is a coarse filter. It does not identify a nonprofit board, a film credit, or a corporate officer. The $88,429,618 national total is DIRECTOR only. 16,313 donors produced 330,088 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 330,088 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois (IL). Three hundred thirty thousand eighty-eight national contributions make DIRECTOR a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state IL.

Illinois on the address field

764 Illinois donors produced 16,128 contributions totaling $3,539,823. 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 employer, and not a map of which campaigns received the $3,539,823.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only DIRECTOR. The Director occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 96.0% of the $88,429,618. Illinois’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to IL. DIRECTOR is only this filter.

What the Director–Illinois join is not

This page does not count board seats, merge managing-director dollars, or claim that Director-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. DIRECTOR is not MANAGING DIRECTOR even when filers meant a more specific title.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. DIRECTOR is not a director-title census. Donor state IL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Director filter

Subtract the Illinois dollars on this page from the national DIRECTOR occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded DIRECTOR in every other state combined. That remainder ($84,889,795) 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 764 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 16,128 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $3,539,823 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 DIRECTOR national total, drops a key. Seven hundred sixty-four donors producing 16,128 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $3,539,823 headline.

Related tables

Director donations holds the $88,429,618 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. Florida and Michigan have Director occupation-state ties; those cells are other pairs.

Questions

How much have Director donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DIRECTOR and state Illinois total $3,539,823, from 16,128 contributions and 764 donors. Nationwide, DIRECTOR-coded receipts are $88,429,618 from 330,088 contributions and 16,313 donors. Illinois is about 4.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Director the same as Managing Director?

No. This hub is the occupation string DIRECTOR, not MANAGING DIRECTOR. State is IL. Seven hundred sixty-four Illinois donors used DIRECTOR. The 764 Illinois donors used occupation DIRECTOR and state IL. Filers who wrote MANAGING DIRECTOR or EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Director FEC money is from Illinois?

About 4.0% of the $88,429,618 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($3,539,823). Illinois also accounts for about 4.9% of contributions (16,128 of 330,088) and about 4.7% of donors (764 of 16,313). About 4.0% of dollars from 764 of 16,313 donors and 16,128 of 330,088 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 $3,539,823 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.