Investments political contributions from Texas

INVESTMENTS and Texas as a two-field filter

This page keeps FEC individual contributions where occupation is INVESTMENTS and contributor state is Texas. The result is $7,079,664. Against $45,362,830 nationally, Texas is about 16% of dollars. Against 31,959 contributions, Texas’s 8,335 receipts are about 26%. Against 3,656 donors, 928 Texas donors are about 25%. Receipt and donor shares exceed the dollar share, so Texas is volume-heavy inside this label: more of the people and gifts, a slightly smaller fraction of the money than those headcounts might suggest.

Average itemized gift in Texas is about $849 ($7,079,664 / 8,335). That sits well below some other INVESTMENTS state joins that rest on a few large checks. Same occupation string, different state shape. The ties index is the place to hold those shapes next to each other without treating either as a ranking of influence.

The INVESTMENTS occupation nationwide

The string INVESTMENTS covers $45,362,830, 31,959 itemized contributions, and 3,656 donors. It is a short, ambiguous occupation word. Investor, investment banker, and investment advisor are not included. LobbyVault leaves those as separate occupation pages so spelling and shorthand stay visible.

Three thousand six hundred fifty-six donors producing 31,959 gifts means repeat itemization is common. Texas’s 928 donors producing 8,335 gifts is the same pattern at state scale. The aggregate does not identify funds, broker-dealers, or personal portfolios.

Texas activity under the label

Nearly one in four INVESTMENTS donors (928 of 3,656) and about one in four contributions (8,335 of 31,959) carry a Texas address, while about one in six dollars do. Texas is therefore a major activity center for this string even though most occupation dollars ($45,362,830 minus $7,079,664) still sit elsewhere.

The Texas campaign-finance hub lists every occupation attributed to TX. INVESTMENTS is one finance-related line among many. Reading the state page beside this join keeps $7,079,664 from being treated as Texas finance giving as a whole.

The Texas hub also contains BANKER, BUSINESS OWNER, and other finance-adjacent strings. Stacking those dollar totals would double-count anyone who used different titles across receipts and would still miss people who wrote investor. Keep INVESTMENTS as $7,079,664 in Texas and $45,362,830 nationally, then open other occupation pages if the question is broader than this string.

Caveats on shorthand titles

INVESTMENTS is not a regulated job classification. A donor might type it instead of retired, owner, or a firm title. The FEC does not correct that choice. This join reports the string as filed for Texas addresses.

Donor state is not recipient state. Texas INVESTMENTS dollars can support committees anywhere. Occupation is not a causal story about energy, real estate, or markets. $7,079,664 is labeled itemized giving, nothing more.

Parent hubs and other ties

See Investments donations for the $45,362,830 national total, Texas campaign finance for all TX occupations, the occupations index for nearby finance strings, and all FEC ties for other occupation–state joins. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

High activity, not the largest average gift

Texas INVESTMENTS is the busy cell of this occupation string: 928 of 3,656 donors and 8,335 of 31,959 contributions, against $7,079,664 of $45,362,830. About one in four people and receipts, about one in six dollars. That is the opposite of North Carolina’s few-check pattern on the same label. Average gift about $849 is still larger than mass occupations such as teacher, and still far smaller than the $24,622 North Carolina INVESTMENTS average.

Energy, real estate, and independent wealth all get projected onto Texas finance labels. The receipts do not support those projections. INVESTMENTS is a word. The 928 Texas donors may include people who would look like owners, oil operators, or retirees on a different form. This join does not recode them.

Questions

How much did Texas Investments donors report to the FEC?

Donors listing occupation INVESTMENTS with a Texas address reported $7,079,664 in itemized individual contributions, from 928 donors and 8,335 receipts. That is about 16% of the occupation’s national $45,362,830 and about 26% of its 31,959 contributions. The figures are a join, not a census of Texas investment professionals.

Is Texas a large share of Investments contributions?

Texas is about 25% of INVESTMENTS donors (928 of 3,656) and about 26% of contributions (8,335 of 31,959), versus about 16% of dollars ($7,079,664 of $45,362,830). Activity share exceeds dollar share. Average itemized gift in the Texas join is about $849.

Does INVESTMENTS include investment advisors?

Not automatically. This aggregate is the exact occupation string INVESTMENTS ($45,362,830 nationally, $7,079,664 in Texas from 928 donors). Investment advisor and similar titles have separate pages. Combining them would be a researcher’s merge, not this join.

Are these gifts to Texas federal candidates?

The table does not map recipients. It filters contributor state Texas and occupation INVESTMENTS. A Texas-addressed donor can give to any FEC-registered committee. Use committee receipts to see where the $7,079,664 went. Those figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates with filer-entered occupation labels.