Orthodontist political contributions from Tennessee

Orthodontist and Tennessee as a second-state specialty join

55 Tennessee donors produced 638 contributions totaling $172,185. That is 3.1% of the $5,538,928 Orthodontist occupation total. Correlation is not causation: occupation does not cause the gifts, and Tennessee as donor state does not cause recipient geography.

Rows per donor in the Tennessee cell average 11.6, versus about 9.0 nationally for ORTHODONTIST. Repeat itemization can lift the contribution count without lifting unique donors. Unitemized gifts under the FEC itemization threshold never enter either total.

This relationship is a bookkeeping join on two fields from FEC.gov. It is not a Tennessee Board of Dentistry extract, an AAO chapter roll, or a braces-clinic census. Tennessee dental licenses are not matched to this FEC string.

ORTHODONTIST as a national specialty string, Tennessee slice

Filers typed ORTHODONTIST. The FEC does not rewrite that text into a standard occupational taxonomy. Tennessee dental licenses are not matched to this FEC string. Nationwide, 1,761 donors produced 15,876 contributions totaling $5,538,928.

Keep Orthodontist on its own Tennessee page. Mixing it with a sibling string would double-count some people and miss others, and this packet has no counts for those other strings. The Tennessee cell is only the ORTHODONTIST × TN overlap: $172,185, 638 contributions, 55 donors.

Fifty-five Tennessee Orthodontist donors

Mean Tennessee Orthodontist itemized dollars per donor are $3,131, versus $3,145 nationally for the occupation. That gap is a ratio of packet totals, not a finding about Tennessee wages or Orthodontist compensation.

Fifty-five Tennessee donors produced 638 itemized rows inside a 1,761-donor national Orthodontist bucket. Unique-donor counts can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. Treat 55 as an aggregate, not a person-level audit.

A Tennessee address is not a Board of Dentistry match

Tennessee dental licenses are not matched to this FEC string. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other FEC tables. They are not added into $172,185. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not name committees or donors.

Read the three Tennessee counts as one cell: $172,185 dollars, 638 contributions, 55 donors. Read the three national Orthodontist counts as the other: $5,538,928, 15,876, 1,761. Percentages (3.1% of dollars, 4.0% of rows, 3.1% of donors) are ratios of those six integers. No election cycle is named in these aggregates, so the totals are the LobbyVault FEC extract window rather than a single even-year cycle. Fifty-five Tennessee donors produced 638 itemized rows inside a 1,761-donor national Orthodontist bucket.

Orthodontist dollars still coded outside Tennessee

Subtract the Tennessee dollars on this page from the national Orthodontist occupation total and the difference is $5,366,743 still coded Orthodontist in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. Orthodontist donations holds the unlabeled-by-state total; Tennessee campaign finance holds every occupation with this state code; all occupations and all FEC ties 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 Tennessee dollars, or only the Orthodontist 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. Tn dental-specialty overlap is the unit: ORTHODONTIST × TN = $172,185.

Related tables for Orthodontist and Tennessee

Orthodontist donations holds the $5,538,928 national occupation total and the 1,761-donor count. Tennessee campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to TN. All occupations and all FEC ties place this pair among other occupation-state intersections. None of those hubs is a substitute for quoting $172,185, 638 contributions, and 55 donors together.

Questions

How much have Orthodontist donors in Tennessee contributed?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Orthodontist and state Tennessee total $172,185, from 638 contributions and 55 donors. Nationwide, Orthodontist-coded receipts are $5,538,928 from 15,876 contributions and 1,761 donors. Tennessee is 3.1% of those dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Are these licensed Tennessee orthodontists?

The FEC file does not verify licenses or registrations. Occupation is ORTHODONTIST and state is TN. The 55 Tennessee donors produced $172,185 across 638 contributions. Tennessee dental licenses are not matched to this FEC string. This is not a Tennessee Board of Dentistry extract, an AAO chapter roll, or a braces-clinic census.

What share of Orthodontist FEC money is from Tennessee?

Tennessee holds 3.1% of the $5,538,928 occupation total ($172,185). Tennessee also accounts for 4.0% of contributions (638 of 15,876) and 3.1% of donors (55 of 1,761). ORTHODONTIST is a filer-entered string. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Sibling labels are other hubs.

Is this money only for Tennessee dental-board politics?

No. Donor state is Tennessee. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $172,185 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. The 638 contributions and 55 donors are the ORTHODONTIST-and-TN overlap only. FEC.gov is the source.