Investments political contributions from North Carolina

A dollar-heavy occupation–state cell

Matching the occupation string INVESTMENTS to contributor state North Carolina yields $7,361,980. Divide by the national occupation total of $45,362,830 and the state is about 16% of dollars. Divide 299 North Carolina contributions by 31,959 national contributions and the state is under 1% of receipts. Divide 55 donors by 3,656 and the state is about 2% of people. Dollars and activity counts tell different stories; the join is built so both are visible at once.

Average itemized gift in the North Carolina slice is about $24,622 ($7,361,980 / 299). That is the arithmetic of few receipts carrying large amounts, not a typical small-dollar occupation. The figure is an average of itemized gifts in this filter; it is not a typical household contribution and not a prediction of the next receipt.

INVESTMENTS as a national occupation string

Filers who wrote INVESTMENTS reported $45,362,830 across 31,959 contributions from 3,656 donors. The word is vague on purpose as filed: it can mean a job in an investment firm, a self-description of managing personal capital, or a clerk’s shorthand. Neighboring labels — investor, investment banker, investment advisor — are separate occupation pages and are not folded into these totals.

Compared with occupations that have hundreds of thousands of receipts, INVESTMENTS is already a thinner national series (31,959 gifts). North Carolina’s 299 receipts are a thin slice of that thinner series, which is why a 16% dollar share can sit on so few lines.

North Carolina’s 55 donors

Fifty-five unique donors in North Carolina produced 299 INVESTMENTS-tagged receipts totaling $7,361,980. Repeat giving is present (299 gifts / 55 people) but the dollar mass still rests on large itemized amounts. The North Carolina campaign-finance hub places this occupation beside every other NC string so a large average gift is not mistaken for the state’s overall giving pattern.

Contributor state is the address on the FEC record. A donor who invests nationally can still be coded NC. The join does not locate the assets, the fund, or the committee. It locates the occupation word and the state field.

INVESTMENTS remains a shorthand. It does not name a broker-dealer, a family office, or a retired person managing a portfolio. Neighboring strings (investor, investment advisor) would change both the national $45,362,830 and this North Carolina cut if they were merged. This site does not merge them. Researchers who want a custom finance bucket can add occupation pages; they should not assume this join already did.

What this join refuses to claim

Occupation did not cause the contributions, and the contributions did not fund a documented investment in North Carolina public policy. Those are stories the receipts do not tell. The table says 55 people using this label and an NC address accounted for $7,361,980 in itemized federal individual contributions.

Self-reported titles drift. The same person might appear under investor in another filing. This page does not deduplicate across occupation strings. Use the occupations index and other ties pages to see how nearby labels behave, including INVESTMENTS in other states.

FEC pages for context

Read Investments donations for the $45,362,830 national total, North Carolina campaign finance for all NC occupations, the occupations index for variant finance titles, and all FEC ties for other occupation–state cells. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Comparing INVESTMENTS state cells without ranking them

North Carolina’s INVESTMENTS join is the high-average cell: $7,361,980 from 55 donors and 299 gifts, about $24,622 per itemized receipt. Texas’s INVESTMENTS join on the same $45,362,830 national total is high-volume: $7,079,664 from 928 donors and 8,335 gifts. Illinois is another high-average, low-volume cell. Three states, one occupation string, three shapes. The ties index exists so those shapes can sit next to each other without a league table.

Fifty-five North Carolina donors producing 299 receipts means the typical person in this filter gave more than once, but the dollar story is still check size. A single additional large gift would move the $7,361,980 more than a dozen small ones. That sensitivity is why rare, high-dollar occupation–state cells should be read with the donor count in the same sentence as the dollars.

Questions

How much did North Carolina Investments donors give in FEC data?

Donors listing occupation INVESTMENTS with a North Carolina address reported $7,361,980 in itemized individual contributions, from 55 donors and 299 receipts. That is about 16% of the occupation’s national $45,362,830 but under 1% of its 31,959 contributions. The join is a high-dollar, low-volume slice, not a roster of every NC investor.

Why so few contributions for so much money?

North Carolina has 299 of 31,959 INVESTMENTS contributions and $7,361,980 of $45,362,830. Average itemized gift in the join is about $24,622. A small number of large receipts raises the dollar share far above the receipt share. That is a property of the filter, not evidence of a typical gift size for people who work in investments.

Is INVESTMENTS the same as investor or investment advisor?

No. This aggregate uses the exact string INVESTMENTS: $45,362,830 nationally from 3,656 donors and $7,361,980 in North Carolina from 55 donors. Investor, investment advisor, and similar titles have their own occupation pages. This join does not add those labels.

Do these dollars support North Carolina candidates?

Unknown from this table. The join filters donor state and occupation, not recipient. An NC-addressed donor can give to any FEC committee. Committee-level receipts are required to see where the $7,361,980 went, including whether any of it supported North Carolina candidates.