Founder political contributions from Florida

Founder and Florida as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation FOUNDER and donor state FL produce $2,440,223, 1,019 contributions, and 123 donors. The occupation hub is $62,143,456, 18,800 contributions, and 1,729 donors. Florida’s dollar share is about 3.9%; contribution share about 5.4% (1,019 of 18,800); donor share about 7.1% (123 of 1,729). The shares do not line up: more of the people than of the dollars sit in Florida. That pattern is a larger donor count against a smaller slice of the $62,143,456 bucket.

One hundred twenty-three Florida donors produced 1,019 contributions. Contrast PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, a separate hub that should not be added to this Founder total. Do not stack FOUNDER with PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER or CO-FOUNDER into a single Florida professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

123 Florida donors produced 1,019 contributions, about 8.3 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 Florida cell is about $2,395, against about $3,306 nationwide. Florida’s about 3.9% share of dollars with about 7.1% of donors is a broader, smaller-check slice of a large occupation label, not a handful of maxed-out gifts.

FOUNDER as a high-dollar occupation label

FOUNDER is a filer-entered string. CO-FOUNDER, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, and FOUNDER/CEO, if used, sit in other hubs. 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 Florida (FL). Sixty-two million dollars nationwide is FOUNDER only. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state FL.

Florida on the state side

123 Florida donors produced 1,019 contributions totaling $2,440,223. Donor state FL is the address on the record, not proof of a Florida license, and not a limit to Florida candidates. FL is the address on the itemized record. It is not proof the donor incorporated in Florida, and it is not a map of which campaigns received the $2,440,223.

The Florida campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to FL. This join is only FOUNDER. The Founder occupation hub without Florida still holds about 96.1% of the $62,143,456. Florida’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to FL. FOUNDER is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count startups, rank accelerators, or claim that Founder-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. A founder title on Schedule A is not equity ownership and not a cap table.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FOUNDER is not a company-formation extract. Donor state FL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names and incorporation states are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Founder filter

Subtract the Florida 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 ($59,703,233) 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 123 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 1,019 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,440,223 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Florida dollars, or only the FOUNDER national total, drops a key. Florida’s higher donor share than dollar share is the fact to keep next to the $2,440,223 headline.

Related tables

Founder donations holds the $62,143,456 national occupation total. Florida 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. PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, if present as a hub, is a different occupation string and a different tie.

Questions

How much have Founder donors in Florida given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation FOUNDER and state Florida total $2,440,223, from 1,019 contributions and 123 donors. Nationwide, FOUNDER-coded receipts are $62,143,456 from 18,800 contributions and 1,729 donors. Florida is about 3.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these Florida startup founders?

The FEC file does not verify incorporation, cap tables, or company stage. Occupation is the string FOUNDER and state is FL. The 123 Florida donors used occupation FOUNDER and state FL. Filers who wrote CO-FOUNDER or PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER 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 Florida?

About 3.9% of the $62,143,456 occupation total is in this Florida join ($2,440,223). Florida also accounts for about 5.4% of contributions (1,019 of 18,800) and about 7.1% of donors (123 of 1,729). Donor share (about 7.1%) runs ahead of dollar share (about 3.9%).

Does this money go to Florida candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Florida. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,440,223 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to FL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.