Photographer political contributions from California

Photographer and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation PHOTOGRAPHER and donor state CA produce $4,023,062, 15,646 contributions, and 336 donors. The occupation hub is $14,417,201, 64,876 contributions, and 1,809 donors. California’s dollar share is about 27.9%; contribution share about 24.1% (15,646 of 64,876); donor share about 18.6% (336 of 1,809). Three hundred thirty-six California donors are about 18.6% of 1,809 national donors; 15,646 contributions are about 24.1% of 64,876 national rows; dollars are about 27.9% of $14,417,201.

PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOJOURNALIST, and ARTIST, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Photographer total. Do not stack PHOTOGRAPHER with PHOTOGRAPHY or PHOTOJOURNALIST into a single California professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

336 California donors produced 15,646 contributions, about 46.6 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 35.9 rows per donor nationally (64,876 contributions from 1,809 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this California cell is about $257, against about $222 nationwide. California’s about 27.9% dollar share from 336 people is a geographically heavy slice of a 1,809-donor occupation.

PHOTOGRAPHER as a craft-title string

PHOTOGRAPHER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a studio, a union card, or a client list. The $14,417,201 national total is PHOTOGRAPHER only. 1,809 donors produced 64,876 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 64,876 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California (CA). One thousand eight hundred nine national donors make PHOTOGRAPHER a mid-volume occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CA.

California on the state side

336 California donors produced 15,646 contributions totaling $4,023,062. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California license, and not a limit to California candidates. CA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a California studio, and not a map of which campaigns received the $4,023,062.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only PHOTOGRAPHER. The Photographer occupation hub without California still holds about 72.1% of the $14,417,201. California’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CA. PHOTOGRAPHER is only this filter.

What the Photographer join is not

This page does not count studios, merge Artist dollars, or claim that Photographer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. PHOTOGRAPHER is not PHOTOGRAPHY even when filers meant the same craft.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. PHOTOGRAPHER is not a guild extract. Donor state CA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Studio names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Photographer filter

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national PHOTOGRAPHER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded PHOTOGRAPHER in every other state combined. That remainder ($10,394,139) 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 of 336 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 15,646 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $4,023,062 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the PHOTOGRAPHER national total, drops a key. Three hundred thirty-six donors producing 15,646 contributions totaling $4,023,062 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Photographer donations holds the $14,417,201 national occupation total. California 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. ARTIST is a different occupation hub if that string exists.

Questions

How much have Photographer donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation PHOTOGRAPHER and state California total $4,023,062, from 15,646 contributions and 336 donors. Nationwide, PHOTOGRAPHER-coded receipts are $14,417,201 from 64,876 contributions and 1,809 donors. California is about 27.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count California photo studios?

No. The FEC file does not verify studios. Occupation is PHOTOGRAPHER and state is CA. The 336 California donors used occupation PHOTOGRAPHER and state CA. Filers who wrote PHOTOGRAPHY or ARTIST may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Photographer FEC money is from California?

About 27.9% of the $14,417,201 occupation total is in this California join ($4,023,062). California also accounts for about 24.1% of contributions (15,646 of 64,876) and about 18.6% of donors (336 of 1,809). About 27.9% of dollars from 336 of 1,809 donors and 15,646 of 64,876 contributions.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $4,023,062 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CA.