Indiana campaign finance next to federal obligations

Indiana’s receipt book is not a scaled-down award book

$32.2 million versus $545,427,637,299 is not ‘Indiana politics’ versus ‘Indiana government’ in a single unit. It is 1,170 candidate committees versus 287,874 award actions. If you compress both into one bar chart titled federal dollars, you have already mixed statutes.

Indiana campaign finance holds the FEC extract. Indiana USAspending holds the award extract. All FEC ties is the directory of the same join elsewhere. None of those pages claims a donation-to-contract pipe.

Indiana FEC: Republican-majority receipts

Republican committees reported $21.3 million (66.0%). Democratic committees reported $10.8 million (33.6%). Other filers reported $0.1 million (0.4%). The 1,170 filers include more committees than competitive November races. A two-thirds Republican receipt share is still only a campaign-report fact.

Average receipts per committee would be $32.2 million divided by 1,170. This page will not print that average as a finding. Means hide zeros, residual committees, and a handful of large accounts. Sort the live table instead.

Indiana obligations and a moderate award-row count

287,874 awards behind $545,427,637,299 is a smaller action count than several states with nearby obligation totals. Row count is not ‘efficiency’ and not ‘concentration.’ It is how many award actions USAspending stored with an Indiana code. Large awards and small awards both add one row.

Recipient and agency names live on Indiana USAspending. They do not live on the FEC candidate roster.

What Indiana’s join is not

Not a claim that Republican-leaning receipts produced Republican-leaning contracts — awards have no party field here. Not a claim that {mil(raised)} is small because agencies obligated {dol(obl)} instead. The systems do not trade off. Not a ranking of Indiana against Kentucky or Ohio on ‘influence.’

Indiana footnote

FEC.gov: $32.2 million; 1,170 committees; Republican $21.3 million; Democratic $10.8 million; other $0.1 million. USAspending.gov: $545,427,637,299; 287,874 awards. Contributions are not awards.

Indiana: do not manufacture a per-committee award figure

Dividing $545,427,637,299 by 1,170 committees would spit out a large integer. That integer is not a finding. Candidate committees are not award recipients in this join. Dividing 287,874 awards by 1,170 is the same error with a different numerator.

Republican committees hold 66.0% of $32.2 million. House and Senate Indiana filers, plus any presidential committees tagged to the state, sit among the {in_f['fecCandidates']:,} rows. Statehouse campaigns file with the Indiana system, outside this FEC total.

287,874 awards behind $545,427,637,299 can include defense, health, education, and transportation actions as USAspending coded them. This packet does not publish an agency mix, so this page will not invent one. Indiana USAspending is the place to open agency tables.

Indiana campaign finance, Indiana USAspending, and All FEC ties are the allowed links. A map of ‘Republican Indiana’ colored with obligation dollars would be a partisan overlay, not a USAspending field.

Indiana’s $32.2 million is a small FEC book beside $545,427,637,299. That gap tempts a ‘return on donations’ talking point. The talking point treats unlike dollars as an investment account. Keep 1,170 committees and 287,874 awards in separate sentences. If you need program-level spending, that cut is on Indiana USAspending, not on this join.

Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and the rest of the state share IN. This packet does not break $32.2 million or $545,427,637,299 by metro. 1,170 committees and 287,874 awards are statewide inventories. Auto-belt folklore and university-hospital folklore are not substitute NAICS tables. Open Indiana USAspending if you need industry or agency fields that actually exist.

Other-party receipts of $0.1 million are small. Mention them anyway if you publish 66.0% Republican and 33.6% Democratic, so the pie still closes on $32.2 million.

House districts and the two Senate seats do not partition $545,427,637,299. USAspending in this packet is a state roll-up, not a district roll-up. 287,874 awards stay statewide. 1,170 committees stay a statewide FEC roster. A district talking point needs a different extract than this join.

Questions

Do Indiana campaign donations fund Indiana federal contracts?

No. $32.2 million is FEC candidate receipts from 1,170 committees. $545,427,637,299 is USAspending obligations from 287,874 awards. A shared IN code is not a payment trail from donors to vendors. Keep $32.2 million on the FEC sentence and $545,427,637,299 on the USAspending sentence. Never print a combined Indiana federal-money total from this join.

How Republican is Indiana’s federal candidate fundraising?

Republican committees reported $21.3 million, or 66.0% of $32.2 million. Democratic committees reported $10.8 million (33.6%). Other filers reported $0.1 million. Those figures cover 1,170 committees and do not describe awards. Democratic committees reported $10.8 million. Other filers reported $0.1 million. Quote those lines if you quote the Republican 66.0 percent share.

How much federal money is obligated in Indiana?

USAspending.gov lists $545,427,637,299 in obligations across 287,874 awards coded to Indiana. That is not FEC operating expenditure and not a restatement of {mil(raised)} in candidate receipts. 287,874 awards is an action count, not unique Indiana vendors, and not 1,170 campaigns rewritten as contracts.

Where are Indiana’s FEC and USAspending hubs?

Indiana campaign finance on LobbyVault and Indiana USAspending on SpendingVault. All FEC ties lists other state joins. Source systems are FEC.gov and USAspending.gov. Hubs: Indiana campaign finance, Indiana USAspending, All FEC ties. Underlying bulk files remain FEC.gov candidate receipts and USAspending.gov awards.