Finance political contributions from Massachusetts

How Finance in Massachusetts is sliced from the national table

Keep rows where occupation is FINANCE and state is MA: $3,207,622, 3,351 contributions, 321 donors. Drop the state filter and the occupation hub is $63,396,379, 88,566 contributions, and 7,237 donors. Massachusetts’s dollar share is about 5%; contribution share about 4% (3,351 of 88,566); donor share about 4% (321 of 7,237).

Those shares cluster. The Massachusetts Finance join is not a handful of outsized gifts dominating a tiny donor list; 321 people and 3,351 rows sit in proportion to the dollars. Connecticut has a separate Finance tie with its own packet facts. Do not add state joins together and call the sum New England Finance—other states remain inside the $63,396,379 national occupation total.

Three hundred twenty-one Massachusetts donors produced 3,351 contributions, about 10 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 12 rows per donor nationally (88,566 contributions from 7,237 donors). The Massachusetts slice tracks the national FINANCE mix on that ratio as well as on dollar share (about 5% of $63,396,379). A proportional join is still a join: neither hub, read alone, is this overlap.

The FINANCE string versus nearby titles

Massachusetts also has occupation-state ties for Investment Manager, Economist, Scientist, and Artist. Those use different occupation strings. A Boston filer who wrote INVESTMENT MANAGER is not in this $3,207,622. The national Finance total of $63,396,379 is likewise only the FINANCE label, not the whole of financial-services giving.

Seven thousand two hundred thirty-seven donors nationwide produced 88,566 Finance-coded contributions. This page does not break those repeats by cycle. It locates the Massachusetts overlap.

Massachusetts as donor state

Three hundred twenty-one Massachusetts donors produced 3,351 contributions totaling $3,207,622. Donor state MA is the address on the record, not a Boston office-location census and not a limit to Massachusetts candidates.

The Massachusetts campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to the state. This join is only FINANCE. Other MA occupation ties are separate pages with separate facts.

Massachusetts itemized individual activity is not a finance-only table. Scientist, Artist, Economist, and Investment Manager MA ties are other filters on the same state code. The Finance occupation hub without MA still holds about 95% of the $63,396,379. Stacking Massachusetts occupation-state dollar figures would mix labels and would still omit other states.

Caveats

Matching FINANCE and MA does not mean the donor works in Massachusetts finance or that the gift funded a Massachusetts race. Two FEC columns. Correlation is not causation. The join does not measure the mutual-fund industry or university endowments.

Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized receipts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source; occupation labels are filer-entered.

FINANCE on a receipt is not a FINRA registration and not an SEC adviser census. The $3,207,622 does not measure mutual-fund assets or university endowments. Recipient committee, cycle, and employer are outside this pair of columns. Itemized individual contributions only. FEC.gov is the source.

What the Finance–Massachusetts remainder is

Subtract the Massachusetts dollars on this page from the national Finance occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Finance 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 Massachusetts dollars, or only the Finance 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

Finance donations holds the $63,396,379 national occupation total. Massachusetts campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs built from the same two fields.

Questions

How much have Finance donors in Massachusetts given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Finance and state Massachusetts total $3,207,622, from 3,351 contributions and 321 donors. Nationwide, Finance-coded receipts are $63,396,379 from 88,566 contributions and 7,237 donors. Massachusetts is about 5% of those dollars.

Can I add Massachusetts and Connecticut Finance totals?

You can read each join on its own facts. Massachusetts is $3,207,622 (3,351 contributions, 321 donors); Connecticut is a separate Finance tie. Adding them is not a complete regional total, because other states remain inside the $63,396,379 national Finance occupation figure.

Does this include investment managers in Massachusetts?

Only if they typed FINANCE. Investment Manager is a different occupation string with its own Massachusetts tie. This page’s 321 donors and $3,207,622 are the FINANCE-and-MA overlap only.

Is this money for Massachusetts candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Massachusetts. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $3,207,622 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.