Physicist political contributions from California

Physicist and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation PHYSICIST and donor state CA produce $5,533,615, 8,537 contributions, and 236 donors. The occupation hub is $9,957,534, 35,002 contributions, and 996 donors. Dollar share (55.6%) and contribution share (24.4%) diverge by more than ten points. California Physicist-coded receipts are not a miniature of the national mix. California holds more than half of Physicist-coded dollars with about a quarter of the rows.

Physicist is a scientific title as typed, not a lab roster. Nearby strings — SCIENTIST, RESEARCHER, PROFESSOR, and ENGINEER — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $5,533,615 or $9,957,534. Lawrence Livermore, SLAC, and campus physics groups are not named in these six numbers.

Two hundred thirty-six California donors produced 8,537 contributions, about 36.2 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 35.1 rows per donor nationally (35,002 contributions from 996 donors). Mean dollars per donor in this California cell are about $23,448, versus about $9,998 across the occupation. Those ratios are arithmetic on the six packet numbers, not a gift-size ranking of influence.

Physicist as a national occupation grouping

PHYSICIST is filer-entered. The FEC file does not verify a PhD, a lab badge, or a university appointment. The national grouping is 996 donors, 35,002 contributions, and $9,957,534.

35,002 contributions from 996 donors shows repeat itemization nationwide. California’s 8,537 contributions from 236 donors is the CA-coded piece. This page does not split those rows by cycle, employer, or recipient committee. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California.

California on the state side

Two hundred thirty-six California donors produced 8,537 contributions totaling $5,533,615. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California professional license, and not a limit to California candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only PHYSICIST. Subtract $5,533,615 from $9,957,534 and $4,423,919 remains coded Physicist in every other state combined (26,465 contributions, 760 donors). That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties.

What the Physicist–California join is not

This page does not measure physicist output, does not rank firms, and does not claim that Physicist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Not a national-lab headcount, not an APS membership roll, and not a DOE contractor census.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names, license numbers, and employer strings are not in these six numbers. Donor state CA is not recipient geography.

Three numbers, two fields, one Physicist filter

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 $5,533,615, 8,537 contributions, and 236 donors on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the Physicist national total, drops a key.

Physicist donations holds the $9,957,534 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. Nearby occupation strings remain separate keys.

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. Lawrence Livermore, SLAC, and campus physics groups are not named in these six numbers.

Related tables

Physicist donations holds the $9,957,534 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.

Questions

How much have Physicist donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Physicist and state California total $5,533,615, from 8,537 contributions and 236 donors. Nationwide, Physicist-coded receipts are $9,957,534 from 35,002 contributions and 996 donors. California is 55.6% of those dollars.

Are these national-lab or university physicists?

Occupation is PHYSICIST and state is CA. Employer is a different FEC field and is not on this join. Scientist, Researcher, and Professor are other occupation strings. This page does not recode them into PHYSICIST. This join reports 236 California donors and $5,533,615 in itemized receipts.

What share of Physicist FEC money is from California?

55.6% of the $9,957,534 occupation total is in this California join ($5,533,615). California also accounts for 24.4% of contributions (8,537 of 35,002) and 23.7% of donors (236 of 996). Those three shares are computed from the packet facts only.

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 $5,533,615 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions; occupation labels are filer-entered.