Director political contributions from Texas

How the DIRECTOR–Texas intersection is built

Each FEC individual contribution can carry an occupation and a contributor state. Filtering to DIRECTOR and Texas yields $7,907,430. That is about 9% of the occupation’s $88,429,618 national total, about 8% of its 330,088 contributions (27,028), and about 7% of its 16,313 donors (1,191). The three percentages sit close together, which is the opposite of a rare title dominated by a few filers in one state.

DIRECTOR is a broad job word. Boards, nonprofits, film, IT, and corporate staff all use it. The join does not split those meanings. It only shows how much money, how many receipts, and how many unique donors in Texas used this exact string. Related titles such as managing director or executive director live on other occupation pages and are excluded from both the national and Texas DIRECTOR totals.

The national DIRECTOR occupation

Filers writing DIRECTOR reported $88,429,618 across 330,088 itemized contributions from 16,313 donors. High contribution counts relative to donor counts mean many people gave more than once, which is typical for itemized FEC traffic over multiple cycles and committees. The occupation index is the place to compare DIRECTOR with neighboring labels rather than assuming they were merged.

Because the national pool is large, no single state is likely to own the series the way a specialized title might. Texas’s $7,907,430 is one regional cut. Remaining DIRECTOR dollars ($88,429,618 minus $7,907,430) sit in other states and are not described here.

Texas donors under this title

Inside Texas, 1,191 donors produced 27,028 DIRECTOR-tagged receipts totaling $7,907,430. Dividing dollars by contributions gives an average itemized gift of about $293 — a high-volume, moderate-size pattern, not a handful of seven-figure checks. Dividing by donors implies many repeat receipts per person, consistent with 27,028 gifts from 1,191 people.

The Texas campaign-finance hub aggregates every occupation attributed to Texas addresses. DIRECTOR is one line in that mix. Reading the state page beside this join shows whether the title is a large or small part of Texas itemized giving overall, without treating the occupation as a proxy for an industry.

Because DIRECTOR is so generic, year-to-year spelling drift can move people in and out of the bucket without any change in their job. A donor who wrote director of operations on one receipt and DIRECTOR on another is split across occupation pages. The 1,191 Texas donor keys are unique within this exact string, not unique humans across all titles. That is a labeling limit, not a defect in the dollar total.

Limits of a generic occupation join

The string DIRECTOR does not identify an employer, a sector, or a level of seniority. Two Texas donors with the same occupation label may have nothing else in common. Address state is the state on the receipt, not necessarily the location of the company or the committee. The join does not say that Texas directors funded Texas candidates, and it does not say occupation caused the contributions.

Committees type what they receive. Misspellings, abbreviations, and extra words create parallel buckets. This page uses the exact DIRECTOR aggregate supplied in the packet. For a fuller picture, scan the occupations list for variants, then use other occupation–state ties to see how the same title behaves outside Texas.

Where to go next in the FEC tables

Open the DIRECTOR occupation page for the $88,429,618 national series, the Texas state page for all occupations in TX, the occupations index for sibling titles, and the ties index for other occupation–state joins. All figures here are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels remain filer-entered.

How Texas DIRECTOR sits among other Texas occupations

The Texas campaign-finance hub is the right place to keep $7,907,430 in proportion. DIRECTOR is a common title, so it can look large in isolation and still be one line among bankers, owners, realtors, and ranchers who also file from Texas. The occupation page for DIRECTOR ($88,429,618) is the right place to keep Texas in proportion nationally: 1,191 of 16,313 donors and 27,028 of 330,088 gifts. Neither hub replaces the join; each answers a different question.

Itemized FEC receipts also carry employer and committee fields that this aggregate does not roll up. Two Texas donors tagged DIRECTOR may give to opposite parties, to the same leadership PAC, or only to a single local committee. The $7,907,430 figure is silent on that split. Researchers who need committee names should drop from this page to receipts, then return to the occupation and state hubs for context.

Questions

How much have Texas Director donors given according to the FEC?

Donors in Texas listing occupation DIRECTOR reported $7,907,430 in itemized individual contributions, from 1,191 donors and 27,028 receipts. That is about 9% of the $88,429,618 recorded nationally under the same occupation string. The total is a join of occupation and donor state, not a directory of every Texas board or film director.

Does DIRECTOR mean corporate board director?

Not necessarily. FEC occupation is free text. DIRECTOR can mean a board seat, a program director, a creative director, or another job that uses the word. The 16,313 national donors and 1,191 Texas donors are grouped only by that string. Employer and title detail, when present, live on individual receipts, not in this aggregate.

Is Texas a large share of Director political contributions?

Texas is about 9% of DIRECTOR dollars ($7,907,430 of $88,429,618), about 8% of contributions (27,028 of 330,088), and about 7% of donors (1,191 of 16,313). Those shares are similar, which suggests the Texas slice resembles the national mix in scale rather than a few outliers carrying the state.

Are these contributions to Texas candidates?

The join filters on donor state, not recipient state or office. A Texas-addressed DIRECTOR can give to a committee anywhere the FEC records the receipt. This page does not map dollars to Texas races or claim that occupation funded a particular campaign.