Entrepreneur political contributions from Texas

Entrepreneur and Texas as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation ENTREPRENEUR and donor state TX produce $3,201,868, 5,078 contributions, and 459 donors. The occupation hub is $39,863,198, 76,659 contributions, and 4,799 donors. Texas’s dollar share is about 8.0%; contribution share about 6.6% (5,078 of 76,659); donor share about 9.6% (459 of 4,799). Four hundred fifty-nine Texas donors are about 9.6% of 4,799 national donors; 5,078 contributions are about 6.6% of 76,659 national rows; dollars are about 8.0% of $39,863,198.

OWNER, BUSINESS OWNER, and FOUNDER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Entrepreneur total. Do not stack ENTREPRENEUR with OWNER or BUSINESS OWNER into a single Texas professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

459 Texas donors produced 5,078 contributions, about 11.1 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 16.0 rows per donor nationally (76,659 contributions from 4,799 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Texas cell is about $631, against about $520 nationwide. Texas’s about 8.0% share of $39,863,198 from 459 people is a sizable slice of a 4,799-donor occupation, not a startup census.

ENTREPRENEUR as a self-described title

ENTREPRENEUR is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a company formation, a founder role, or revenue. One word on the form is the filter. The $39,863,198 national total is ENTREPRENEUR only. 4,799 donors produced 76,659 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 76,659 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Texas (TX). Four thousand seven hundred ninety-nine national donors make ENTREPRENEUR a mid-size occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state TX.

Texas as the reported donor state

459 Texas donors produced 5,078 contributions totaling $3,201,868. Donor state TX is the address on the record, not proof of a Texas license, and not a limit to Texas candidates. TX is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Texas entity, and not a map of which campaigns received the $3,201,868.

The Texas campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to TX. This join is only ENTREPRENEUR. The Entrepreneur occupation hub without Texas still holds about 92.0% of the $39,863,198. Texas’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to TX. ENTREPRENEUR is only this filter.

What the Entrepreneur–Texas join is not

This page does not count startups, merge owner dollars, or claim that Entrepreneur-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. ENTREPRENEUR is not BUSINESS OWNER even when filers meant a one-person shop.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. ENTREPRENEUR is not a small-business registry. Donor state TX is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Entity names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Entrepreneur filter

Subtract the Texas dollars on this page from the national ENTREPRENEUR occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded ENTREPRENEUR in every other state combined. That remainder ($36,661,330) 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 459 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 5,078 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $3,201,868 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Texas dollars, or only the ENTREPRENEUR national total, drops a key. Four hundred fifty-nine donors producing 5,078 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $3,201,868 headline.

Related tables

Entrepreneur donations holds the $39,863,198 national occupation total. Texas 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. Georgia has a separate Entrepreneur occupation-state tie; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Entrepreneur donors in Texas given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation ENTREPRENEUR and state Texas total $3,201,868, from 5,078 contributions and 459 donors. Nationwide, ENTREPRENEUR-coded receipts are $39,863,198 from 76,659 contributions and 4,799 donors. Texas is about 8.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Entrepreneur the same as Business Owner?

No. This hub is the string ENTREPRENEUR. BUSINESS OWNER and OWNER are other occupation buckets if those strings exist. State is TX. The 459 Texas donors used occupation ENTREPRENEUR and state TX. Filers who wrote OWNER or FOUNDER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Entrepreneur FEC money is from Texas?

About 8.0% of the $39,863,198 occupation total is in this Texas join ($3,201,868). Texas also accounts for about 6.6% of contributions (5,078 of 76,659) and about 9.6% of donors (459 of 4,799). About 8.0% of dollars from 459 of 4,799 donors and 5,078 of 76,659 contributions.

Does this money go to Texas candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Texas. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $3,201,868 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to TX; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.