Founder political contributions from Colorado

Founder and Colorado as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation FOUNDER and donor state CO produce $991,685, 423 contributions, and 42 donors. The occupation hub is $62,143,456, 18,800 contributions, and 1,729 donors. Colorado’s dollar share is about 1.6%; contribution share about 2.2% (423 of 18,800); donor share about 2.4% (42 of 1,729). Forty-two Colorado donors are about 2.4% of 1,729 national donors; 423 contributions are about 2.3% of 18,800 national rows; dollars are about 1.6% of $62,143,456.

CO-FOUNDER, CEO, and ENTREPRENEUR, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Founder total. Do not stack FOUNDER with CO-FOUNDER or ENTREPRENEUR into a single Colorado professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

42 Colorado donors produced 423 contributions, about 10.1 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 10.9 rows per donor nationally (18,800 contributions from 1,729 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Colorado cell is about $2,344, against about $3,306 nationwide. Colorado’s about 1.6% dollar share from 42 people is a modest slice of a $62,143,456 occupation with a large mean nationally.

FOUNDER as a one-word title

FOUNDER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a company, a cap table, or a founding date. The word on the form is the filter. The $62,143,456 national total is FOUNDER only. 1,729 donors produced 18,800 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 18,800 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Colorado (CO). One thousand seven hundred twenty-nine national donors make this a modest occupation sitting on a large dollar book. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CO.

Colorado on the state side

42 Colorado donors produced 423 contributions totaling $991,685. Donor state CO is the address on the record, not proof of a Colorado license, and not a limit to Colorado candidates. CO is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Colorado startup, and not a map of which campaigns received the $991,685.

The Colorado campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CO. This join is only FOUNDER. The Founder occupation hub without Colorado still holds about 98.4% of the $62,143,456. Colorado’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CO. FOUNDER is only this filter.

What the join is not

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

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

Three numbers, two fields, one Founder filter

Subtract the Colorado dollars on this page from the national FOUNDER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded FOUNDER in every other state combined. That remainder ($61,151,771) 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 42 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 423 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $991,685 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Colorado dollars, or only the FOUNDER national total, drops a key. Forty-two donors producing 423 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $991,685 headline.

Related tables

Founder donations holds the $62,143,456 national occupation total. Colorado 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. Colorado Businessman is a different occupation-state tie.

Questions

How much have Founder donors in Colorado given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation FOUNDER and state Colorado total $991,685, from 423 contributions and 42 donors. Nationwide, FOUNDER-coded receipts are $62,143,456 from 18,800 contributions and 1,729 donors. Colorado is about 1.6% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count Colorado startups?

No. Occupation is the string FOUNDER and state is CO. The FEC file does not verify companies. CO-FOUNDER is a different hub. The 42 Colorado donors used occupation FOUNDER and state CO. Filers who wrote CO-FOUNDER or CEO may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Founder FEC money is from Colorado?

About 1.6% of the $62,143,456 occupation total is in this Colorado join ($991,685). Colorado also accounts for about 2.2% of contributions (423 of 18,800) and about 2.4% of donors (42 of 1,729). About 1.6% of dollars from 42 of 1,729 donors and 423 of 18,800 contributions.

Does this money go to Colorado candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Colorado. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $991,685 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CO; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.