Geologist political contributions from Texas

GEOLOGIST and Texas in one filter

Occupation GEOLOGIST plus contributor state Texas sums to $5,529,475. That is about 59% of $9,308,121 nationally. Texas’s 8,673 contributions are about 35% of 24,898. Its 501 donors are about 38% of 1,311. Dollar share exceeds activity share: Texas geologist-labeled receipts are larger, on average, than the national mix for this string.

Average itemized gift in the Texas join is about $638 ($5,529,475 / 8,673). Petroleum geologist, geophysicist, and engineer are not merged in. This page is the exact GEOLOGIST bucket.

Eight thousand six hundred seventy-three Texas GEOLOGIST gifts are 35% of 24,898 nationally, while $5,529,475 is 59% of $9,308,121. Write both percentages. A majority of dollars from a minority of receipts is the join’s shape. The other 810 of 1,311 donors still hold 41% of the occupation’s money.

A smaller national occupation

One thousand three hundred eleven donors used GEOLOGIST on itemized receipts totaling $9,308,121 across 24,898 gifts. Compared with teacher or lawyer, the series is compact. A single large state can therefore hold a majority of dollars without holding a majority of receipts.

The non-Texas remainder is $9,308,121 minus $5,529,475, from 1,311 minus 501 donors. Geology as an occupation string is not exclusively Texas even when Texas dominates the money column.

Five hundred one Texas donors

Five hundred one Texas donors produced 8,673 GEOLOGIST-tagged contributions totaling $5,529,475. Repeat itemization is visible. The Texas campaign-finance hub places this scientific title beside energy-adjacent strings such as rancher and banker so GEOLOGIST is not treated as all Texas resource-sector giving.

Address state is not workplace basin. A geologist who works Texas plays and lives in another state will not appear here. A Texas address with this occupation will. The join does not map oil fields or academic departments.

The remaining 41% of occupation dollars ($9,308,121 minus $5,529,475) and 810 of 1,311 donors sit outside Texas. Geology as an FEC occupation is not a Texas-only label. This join is the Texas-address majority of a small national series, reported without a causal story about oil and gas policy.

Limits of a science-title join

These figures are federal individual contributions, not industry PACs and not a finding that energy policy caused the gifts. The table does not identify employers as operators, service companies, or universities. Recipient committees are outside the two-field filter.

Self-reported titles fragment earth-science jobs. Use the occupations index for neighboring labels and the ties index for other occupation–state cells. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related records

See Geologist donations for the $9,308,121 national total, Texas campaign finance for all TX occupations, the occupations index for related scientific titles, and all FEC ties for other joins.

Earth-science titles and energy projections

Texas GEOLOGIST at $5,529,475 from 501 donors is about 59% of $9,308,121 nationally but only about 35% of 24,898 gifts. Dollar majority, activity minority. Average gift about $638 is higher than the occupation’s implied national mix, which is how a state can own the money column without owning the receipt column.

Petroleum geologist, geophysicist, and engineer would change the story if merged. They are not merged. People who work Texas basins and wrote those other titles are absent from the 501 keys. People who wrote GEOLOGIST and a Texas address are present even if they work in academia or environmental consulting. The string does not encode industry.

A 59% dollar share from 38% of donors is the whole point of publishing GEOLOGIST × Texas as a join. The occupation hub would bury 501 Texas keys inside 1,311. The Texas hub would bury GEOLOGIST inside BANKER, RANCHER, and OWNER. Only the intersection shows $5,529,475 on 8,673 gifts with a majority-dollar, minority-headcount split. That split is not an energy-policy finding.

Questions

How much have Texas geologist donors given in FEC filings?

Donors listing occupation GEOLOGIST with a Texas address reported $5,529,475 in itemized individual contributions, from 501 donors and 8,673 receipts. That is about 59% of the $9,308,121 recorded nationally under GEOLOGIST. The join is not a census of Texas geologists or a total of energy-PAC spending.

Is most Geologist political money from Texas?

Texas is about 59% of GEOLOGIST dollars ($5,529,475 of $9,308,121) but about 35% of contributions (8,673 of 24,898) and about 38% of donors (501 of 1,311). That is a majority of dollars and a minority of people and receipts. Other states still hold about 41% of the occupation total.

Are petroleum geologists counted separately?

If the occupation field says PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST or another variant, those receipts are not in this join. This page uses GEOLOGIST only: $9,308,121 nationally from 1,311 donors and $5,529,475 in Texas from 501 donors. Check the occupations index for sibling strings.

Did these contributions go to Texas candidates?

Unknown here. The filter is donor state Texas plus occupation GEOLOGIST, not recipient office. Texas-addressed donors can give to any FEC committee. Committee receipts are required to trace the $5,529,475 from 8,673 gifts The packet totals for this join remain the occupation–state filter described above, with no extra dollar figures beyond those facts.