Filmmaker political contributions from California

Filmmaker and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation FILMMAKER and donor state CA produce $2,082,590, 9,660 contributions, and 314 donors. The occupation hub is $5,442,487, 22,735 contributions, and 765 donors. California’s dollar share is about 38.3%; contribution share about 42.5% (9,660 of 22,735); donor share about 41.0% (314 of 765). Three hundred fourteen California donors are about 41.0% of 765 national donors; 9,660 contributions are about 42.5% of 22,735 national rows; dollars are about 38.3% of $5,442,487.

DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, and WRITER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Filmmaker total. Do not stack FILMMAKER with DIRECTOR or PRODUCER into a single California professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

314 California donors produced 9,660 contributions, about 30.8 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 29.7 rows per donor nationally (22,735 contributions from 765 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this California cell is about $216, against about $239 nationwide. California’s about 38.3% dollar share from 9,660 rows is a high-repeat slice of a 765-donor occupation, not a DGA or PGA membership roll.

FILMMAKER as a self-described craft string

FILMMAKER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a credit, a union card, or a production company. The word on the form is the filter. The $5,442,487 national total is FILMMAKER only. 765 donors produced 22,735 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 22,735 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California (CA). Seven hundred sixty-five national donors make FILMMAKER a small occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CA.

California as the Filmmaker donor-state code

314 California donors produced 9,660 contributions totaling $2,082,590. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California license, and not a limit to California candidates. CA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Los Angeles production, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,082,590.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only FILMMAKER. The Filmmaker occupation hub without California still holds about 61.7% of the $5,442,487. California’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CA. FILMMAKER is only this filter.

What the Filmmaker–California join is not

This page does not count guild members, merge Director dollars, or claim that Filmmaker-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. FILMMAKER is not DIRECTOR even when filers meant a motion-picture job.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FILMMAKER is not a film-credit census. Donor state CA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Studio names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Filmmaker filter

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national FILMMAKER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded FILMMAKER in every other state combined. That remainder ($3,359,897) 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 314 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 9,660 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,082,590 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the FILMMAKER national total, drops a key. Three hundred fourteen donors producing 9,660 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,082,590 headline.

Related tables

Filmmaker donations holds the $5,442,487 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. California Interior Designer and California Board Member cells in this slice are other occupation strings.

Questions

How much have Filmmaker donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation FILMMAKER and state California total $2,082,590, from 9,660 contributions and 314 donors. Nationwide, FILMMAKER-coded receipts are $5,442,487 from 22,735 contributions and 765 donors. California is about 38.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Filmmaker the same as Director on FEC forms?

No. FILMMAKER is the stored string. DIRECTOR is a different occupation hub. Three hundred fourteen California donors used FILMMAKER. The 314 California donors used occupation FILMMAKER and state CA. Filers who wrote DIRECTOR or PRODUCER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Filmmaker FEC money is from California?

About 38.3% of the $5,442,487 occupation total is in this California join ($2,082,590). California also accounts for about 42.5% of contributions (9,660 of 22,735) and about 41.0% of donors (314 of 765). About 38.3% of dollars from 314 of 765 donors and 9,660 of 22,735 contributions.

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 $2,082,590 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.