Marketing political contributions from Pennsylvania

How Marketing in Pennsylvania sits inside the national label

Occupation MARKETING and donor state PA produce $2,677,843, 4,467 contributions, and 161 donors. The occupation hub is $29,904,769, 133,163 contributions, and 5,619 donors. Pennsylvania’s dollar share is about 9%; contribution share about 3% (4,467 of 133,163); donor share about 3% (161 of 5,619).

About 9% of the dollars from about 3% of the donors is a concentration pattern: a small Pennsylvania-coded group carrying a larger slice of the labeled money. Contrast that with the Pennsylvania Plumber join, where the state holds about 59% of that other occupation’s dollars and about 49% of its donors. Same state filter, different occupation strings, different shapes.

One hundred sixty-one Pennsylvania donors produced 4,467 contributions, about 28 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 24 rows per donor nationally (133,163 contributions from 5,619 donors). Pennsylvania’s about 9% dollar share of $29,904,769 from about 3% of donors is the concentration signal. Repeat itemization and dollar concentration can travel together; this page still does not name the 161 people.

Marketing as a filer-entered occupation

MARKETING can mean a CMO, a coordinator, a consultant, or a retiree who kept the word. MARKETING DIRECTOR, ADVERTISING, and COMMUNICATIONS are other strings if filers used them. The $29,904,769 national total is MARKETING only. Five thousand six hundred nineteen donors produced 133,163 contributions.

Communications is a different occupation hub with its own national total. A North Carolina Communications tie exists as a separate packet. Do not fold Communications into Marketing Pennsylvania figures.

Pennsylvania as the state side

One hundred sixty-one Pennsylvania donors produced 4,467 contributions totaling $2,677,843. Donor state PA is the address on the record, not proof of work at a Pennsylvania agency, and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates.

The Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to PA. This join is only MARKETING. Plumber is the other Pennsylvania occupation tie in this slice of packets; its facts are not these facts.

Pennsylvania’s state hub is not a marketing hub. Plumber is another PA occupation tie with a very different shape. The Marketing occupation hub without Pennsylvania still holds about 91% of the $29,904,769. New Jersey has a parallel Marketing tie; do not add the state-side dollars into a regional advertising total.

Limits of the match

This page does not measure ad spend, does not rank agencies, and does not claim that Marketing-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

MARKETING is not an ad-spend census and not a CMO roster. COMMUNICATIONS and ADVERTISING, if used, sit elsewhere. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. Donor state PA is not recipient geography. Correlation is not causation.

Using the Marketing and Pennsylvania hubs without mixing them

Subtract the Pennsylvania dollars on this page from the national Marketing occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Marketing in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Pennsylvania dollars, or only the Marketing national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Where to go next

Marketing donations holds the $29,904,769 national occupation total. Pennsylvania campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields.

Questions

How much have Marketing donors in Pennsylvania given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Marketing and state Pennsylvania total $2,677,843, from 4,467 contributions and 161 donors. Nationwide, Marketing-coded receipts are $29,904,769 from 133,163 contributions and 5,619 donors. Pennsylvania is about 9% of those dollars.

Why so few Pennsylvania Marketing donors relative to the dollars?

The state side is 161 donors and $2,677,843, about 3% of the occupation’s 5,619 donors and about 9% of its $29,904,769. A smaller share of people carrying a larger share of dollars means concentration in the Pennsylvania-coded slice. This page does not name those 161 donors.

Is Marketing the same as Communications in FEC data?

No. MARKETING and COMMUNICATIONS are different occupation strings. This join uses MARKETING only. Communications has its own national total and its own state ties. Filers choose the words on the receipt.

Does this money go to Pennsylvania candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Pennsylvania. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,677,843 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.