Investments political contributions from Illinois

The Illinois cell inside INVESTMENTS

Occupation INVESTMENTS plus contributor state Illinois equals $5,636,773. That is about 12% of $45,362,830 nationally. Illinois’s 903 contributions are about 3% of 31,959. Its 99 donors are about 3% of 3,656. As with some other states under this label, dollars outrun activity: a modest number of itemized gifts carry a double-digit share of the occupation’s money.

Average itemized gift in Illinois is about $6,242 ($5,636,773 / 903). That average sits between the small-dollar mass of common occupations and the extreme few-check cells elsewhere. It is an arithmetic mean of this filter, not a typical gift for everyone who works in finance in Illinois.

INVESTMENTS as a national string

Filers writing INVESTMENTS reported $45,362,830 across 31,959 contributions from 3,656 donors. The word does not name a firm, a Series license, or a fund. Investor and investment advisor remain separate occupation pages.

Illinois is one state cut. Other INVESTMENTS joins — including high-volume Texas and high-average North Carolina — use the same national denominator of $45,362,830. Comparing those ties shows how one occupation string changes shape by state without implying that one state is more important.

Ninety-nine Illinois donors

Ninety-nine unique donors produced 903 INVESTMENTS-tagged receipts totaling $5,636,773. Repeat itemization is present (903 gifts / 99 people) but the dollar mass still depends on relatively large checks. The Illinois campaign-finance hub places this string beside every other IL occupation so a finance shorthand is not treated as Chicago market giving as a whole.

Contributor state is the address on the receipt. A donor associated with Illinois markets who files from another state is absent. An Illinois address with this occupation string is enough to enter the $5,636,773.

Repeat itemization (903 gifts / 99 people) is present but the dollar mass is still check size. Removing one large receipt would move Illinois’s share of $45,362,830 more than removing many small ones. That is the nature of a low-volume, high-dollar join. Report 99, 903, and $5,636,773 together.

What the join is not

These dollars are not a measure of assets under management, not exchange volume, and not a claim that INVESTMENTS funded Illinois candidates. Occupation did not cause the gifts. The table reports 99 people, 903 receipts, and $5,636,773 under two FEC fields.

Self-reported titles split related work. Use the occupations index for neighboring finance labels and the ties index for INVESTMENTS in other states. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Parent hubs

See Investments donations for the $45,362,830 national total, Illinois campaign finance for all IL occupations, the occupations index for variant titles, and all FEC ties for other occupation–state joins.

Chicago-area finance language versus this string

Illinois INVESTMENTS at $5,636,773 from 99 donors and 903 gifts is about 12% of dollars and about 3% of activity on the $45,362,830 national label. Average gift about $6,242 sits between Texas volume and North Carolina’s even larger average. Three INVESTMENTS ties, one occupation page. None of them is a map of the Chicago exchanges or of Illinois registered advisers.

Investment advisor is a different occupation string with its own Pennsylvania-heavy concentration cell. Investor would be another page. Illinois donors who used those words are absent from the 99 keys here. Merging finance shorthand would change both the national 3,656-donor count and this $5,636,773.

Ninety-nine Illinois donors and 903 gifts producing $5,636,773 will move when a single large receipt is added or removed in a later aggregate refresh. That sensitivity is normal for a 3% activity share sitting on a 12% dollar share. It is a reason to keep donor count in the lede, not a reason to invent a Chicago-finance narrative the two columns do not support.

Questions

How much did Illinois Investments donors give in FEC data?

Donors listing occupation INVESTMENTS with an Illinois address reported $5,636,773 in itemized individual contributions, from 99 donors and 903 receipts. That is about 12% of the occupation’s national $45,362,830 but about 3% of its 31,959 contributions. The join is not a roster of Illinois investment professionals.

Why are there so few contributions relative to the dollars?

Illinois has 903 of 31,959 INVESTMENTS contributions and $5,636,773 of $45,362,830. Average itemized gift in the join is about $6,242. Fewer, larger receipts raise dollar share above receipt share. That is the shape of this filter, not a typical contribution size for the state’s finance workforce.

Is INVESTMENTS merged with investor?

No. The aggregate is the exact string INVESTMENTS: $45,362,830 nationally from 3,656 donors and $5,636,773 in Illinois from 99 donors. Investor and investment advisor have separate occupation pages and are not folded into this join.

Did the money go to Illinois candidates?

The join does not map recipients. It filters donor state Illinois and occupation INVESTMENTS. An Illinois-addressed donor can give to any FEC committee. Committee receipts are required to trace the $5,636,773 from 903 gifts. Those figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates with filer-entered occupation labels.