Photographer itemized gifts from Montana

Reading $260,904 as Photographer in Montana

Where donor state MT meets occupation PHOTOGRAPHER, itemized individual contributions sum to $260,904 across 3,417 lines and 23 donor keys. The occupation aggregate without a state screen is $14,417,201 from 64,876 contributions and 1,809 donors. Montana is 1.8% of that occupation book; $14,156,297 was filed under other states. The arithmetic uses only packet facts. Montana’s Photographer cell is a high-dollar slice from only 23 donor keys; that concentration is arithmetic on the packet, not a studio census.

This URL is a relationship page. Section one states the relationship. Later sections unpack the occupation side, the state side, the gift math, and the caveats. It is not a restatement of Photographer donations across states, and it is not a restatement of Montana campaign finance across occupations.

Sibling titles next to Photographer

Photojournalist, Photographer/Owner, Videographer, and Artist are neighboring occupation strings. They are not parents of PHOTOGRAPHER and they are not folded into $260,904. A searcher who needs those titles should open those occupation hubs, not rescale 1.8%. All occupations lists the neighboring keys.

PHOTOGRAPHER is the occupation string as typed. Photojournalist is a different key if those words appear. Freelance versus staff work is unpublished. Filer-entered labels are noisy. Spelling variants, abbreviations, and extra words create extra rows. This page cites one row: PHOTOGRAPHER in Montana for $260,904.

Reading 3,417 contributions as a line count

Line count 3,417 and donor count 23 answer different questions. How many itemized receipts carried PHOTOGRAPHER and state MT? 3,417. How many donor keys those receipts grouped to? 23. How many dollars? $260,904. Pair counts with dollars. A small donor file can still hold a large dollar total if a few keys dominate; this packet does not prove that pattern, and it does not disprove it.

Use Montana campaign finance for the full occupation mix in that state. Use this tie for Photographer inside Montana. Independent expenditures remain out of scope. Source: FEC.gov.

Dollar share is not a worker-count share

$260,904 ÷ $14,417,201 = 1.8%. $14,156,297 ÷ $14,417,201 = the complement. Those identities use the packet’s state cell and occupation total only. They do not use 23 except as a separate donor-key count. Do not convert 23 into a percentage of an unpublished national donor file and then treat that percentage as dollars.

A 1.8% dollar share means other states still hold $14,156,297 under the same occupation string. That is a description of this table, not a claim that Photographer was quiet or loud in Montana politics. Other states are not itemized on this page except as that remainder.

What this join does not prove

This page does not rank Montana as more or less Photographer-driven than other states, does not call the cell a wave, and does not treat itemized gifts as a proxy for professional opinion. Two columns matched. The occupation of the donor is not a verified job. A PHOTOGRAPHER occupation code does not mean the money supported only people in that trade. Amended reports can move either number.

Independent expenditures and non-individual tables are omitted. See Montana campaign finance, Photographer donations, all occupations, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Dollar figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Itemized coverage and what stays outside

Itemized coverage means receipts that met the FEC itemization threshold and carried this occupation string. $260,904 is that subset for Montana. It is not total political spending by people who hold similar jobs, and it is not total Montana receipts.

PHOTOGRAPHER is the occupation string as typed. Photojournalist is a different key if those words appear. Freelance versus staff work is unpublished. Keep Photographer and Montana in the same sentence as $260,904. Dropping either noun misstates the denominator.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Photographer, donor state Montana (MT), $260,904 itemized, 3,417 contributions, 23 donors, 1.8% of $14,417,201 from 1,809 national donors. PHOTOGRAPHER is the occupation string as typed. Photojournalist is a different key if those words appear. Freelance versus staff work is unpublished. Photojournalist, Photographer/Owner, Videographer, and Artist stay on other occupation pages. The Montana campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Open /occupations/photographer/ (Photographer donations) for the occupation hub, /states/MT/ (Montana campaign finance) for the state hub, /occupations/ (All occupations) for neighboring titles, and /ties/ (All FEC ties) for other occupation-state joins.

Questions

How much have Photographer donors in Montana given?

The join records $260,904 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Photographer and donor state Montana, from 3,417 contributions and 23 donors. The occupation’s national total is $14,417,201, so Montana is 1.8% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every photographer who donated from Montana?

No. The 23 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to PHOTOGRAPHER and state MT. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $260,904 on 3,417 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What share of Photographer occupation money is from Montana?

1.8%: $260,904 of $14,417,201. The remaining $14,156,297 sits in other states on the occupation hub. That share is $260,904 divided by $14,417,201, not a ranking of civic engagement. Other states’ amounts are not in this packet except as that remainder. Donor share is 1.3%.

Does this money go to Montana candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Montana (MT). Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $260,904 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open Montana campaign finance for every occupation coded to MT. Source: FEC.gov.