Philanthropist political contributions from Colorado

The Philanthropist–Colorado intersection

Occupation PHILANTHROPIST and donor state CO match on $3,219,904, 184 contributions, and 26 donors. The occupation table without a state filter is $36,654,588, 21,462 contributions, and 761 donors. Colorado’s share of dollars is about 9%; of contributions, about 0.9% (184 of 21,462); of donors, about 3% (26 of 761).

The gap between dollar share and contribution share is the story of this join: a small number of Colorado-coded rows carrying a much larger share of the labeled money. Twenty-six donors and 184 gifts produced $3,219,904. That concentration is visible in the aggregates. It is not a ranking of generosity and not a list of family foundations.

Twenty-six Colorado donors produced 184 contributions, about seven itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 28 rows per donor nationally (21,462 contributions from 761 donors). The Colorado slice is dollar-heavy (about 9% of $36,654,588) and contribution-light (under 1% of rows). That combination is what a two-key table is for: a national occupation list would hide the dollar concentration; a Colorado list would hide the occupation tag.

Philanthropist on FEC occupation lines

PHILANTHROPIST is a self-description. Filers who wrote RETIRED, INVESTOR, HOMEMAKER, or NOT EMPLOYED are in other hubs even if they also give to charities. The national bucket—761 donors, 21,462 contributions, $36,654,588—is the labeled set, not a count of people who run grant programs.

Campaign contributions reported to the FEC are political receipts, not 501(c)(3) grants. This page does not mix those legal categories. It only reports how much of the Philanthropist occupation total is also coded to Colorado.

Colorado on the donor-state side

Twenty-six Colorado donors produced 184 contributions totaling $3,219,904. Other Colorado occupations are outside this join. Other states account for the remaining Philanthropist-coded dollars up to $36,654,588.

Donor state CO is the address on the itemized record. It does not prove Colorado residency at election time or that the $3,219,904 went to Colorado candidates. Recipient committee is a different field.

Colorado’s campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded CO. This join is 26 people inside that hub. The Philanthropist occupation hub without Colorado still holds about 91% of the $36,654,588. Foundation 990s, donor-advised funds, and charitable grants are not FEC individual contributions and never enter these totals.

What not to infer from 26 donors

This join does not measure Colorado’s nonprofit sector, does not score donors as more civic-minded than others, and does not claim causation between a title and electoral outcomes. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping relationship.

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

Political contributions remain political contributions even when the occupation box says PHILANTHROPIST. Mixing them with charity statistics would confuse two legal regimes. The join also does not say the 26 donors live in Colorado year-round or that the $3,219,904 supported Colorado races. Address and recipient are different fields. Correlation is not causation.

Three numbers, two fields, one Philanthropist filter

Subtract the Colorado dollars on this page from the national Philanthropist occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Philanthropist 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 Colorado dollars, or only the Philanthropist 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.

Hubs for each side

Philanthropist donations holds the $36,654,588 national occupation total and the 761-donor count. Colorado campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to CO. All occupations and all FEC ties place this pair next to other occupation-state intersections.

Questions

How much have Philanthropist donors in Colorado contributed?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Philanthropist and state Colorado total $3,219,904, from 184 contributions and 26 donors. Nationwide, Philanthropist-coded receipts are $36,654,588 from 21,462 contributions and 761 donors. Colorado is about 9% of those dollars.

Are FEC philanthropist donations the same as charity?

No. These figures are itemized individual political contributions to FEC-filing committees. They are not grants from private foundations. The occupation string PHILANTHROPIST is what the filer typed. The $3,219,904 Colorado join is campaign-finance data, not Form 990 data.

Why so few contributions relative to the dollars?

Colorado’s 184 contributions are about 0.9% of the occupation’s 21,462 gifts, while $3,219,904 is about 9% of $36,654,588. Larger average itemized amounts in the Colorado slice explain the arithmetic. This page does not publish per-donor amounts or names.

Does this include only Colorado statewide candidates?

No. Donor state is Colorado. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $3,219,904 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.