Physicist contributions to Spirit of Democracy America

Forty-four receipts, a high mean

44 contributions totaling $2,274,391 produce mean $51,691. Sparse counts with large means are dominated by sizable itemized gifts. The packet has no median and no unique-donor count.

22.8% of Physicist itemized dollars landed here. $7,683,143 (77.2%) went to other federal committees that stored PHYSICIST.

Links: Physicist occupation hub, Spirit of Democracy America committee page, All occupations, All FEC ties. Scientist and professor are other keys.

Keep Physicist → Spirit of Democracy America (C00521211): $2,274,391 in 44 receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties indexes other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

PHYSICIST as typed

The occupation-wide total is $9,957,534. Physics professor, astrophysicist, and scientist can exist as other strings. They are not inside $9,957,534 unless stored as PHYSICIST. Lab employer is a different FEC field.

A filer can list Physicist and never appear in $2,274,391. A filer can list another occupation on C00521211 and sit outside this join.

Quote Physicist for the occupation-wide $9,957,534 and quote SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY AMERICA (C00521211) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $2,274,391 across 44 itemized receipts, 22.8% of the occupation book, mean $51,691. Remainder $7,683,143 (77.2%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $2,274,391 to $9,957,534. Do not treat 44 as unique donors.

C00521211 as Spirit of Democracy America

SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY AMERICA received $2,274,391 from this occupation key. That is not the committee’s total from all occupations. Other titles on C00521211 sit outside the join.

Independent expenditures are excluded. Cycle year is not in the packet. Cite FEC.gov for the live committee file. Committee spending is a different schedule from this occupation slice of receipts.

Amended Schedule A filings move $2,274,391 and $9,957,534. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. This /ties/ page is a join snapshot, not a substitute for the occupation hub or the committee file on FEC.gov. Coverage stops at itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee. Unitemized gifts never enter either integer.

What 22.8 percent does not mean

22.8% is this committee’s share of Physicist itemized dollars, not the share of physicists who give, and not a partisan score for a science title. Inverting the percentage needs the committee’s all-occupation total, which is not here.

Grant politics, lab budgets, and motive are not fields. The join is two FEC labels. Correlation is not causation.

Keep Physicist → Spirit of Democracy America (C00521211): $2,274,391 in 44 receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties indexes other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

Citation

FEC.gov: occupation Physicist $9,957,534; Physicist to C00521211 $2,274,391 in 44 contributions; mean $51,691. Not independent expenditures.

All FEC ties indexes sibling pages. Do not add the two dollar totals. Later bulk files override this snapshot.

Quote Physicist for the occupation-wide $9,957,534 and quote SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY AMERICA (C00521211) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $2,274,391 across 44 itemized receipts, 22.8% of the occupation book, mean $51,691. Remainder $7,683,143 (77.2%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $2,274,391 to $9,957,534. Do not treat 44 as unique donors.

Questions

How much did physicists give to Spirit of Democracy America?

$2,274,391 in 44 itemized contributions to C00521211, 22.8% of Physicist’s $9,957,534 occupation total. Mean $51,691 is total divided by receipt count. Unique donors are unpublished. Independent expenditures are excluded. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Are national-lab employees included?

Only if the occupation line stored Physicist and the recipient was C00521211. Employer is a different FEC field. Lab names are not in this packet. Scientists who listed Scientist sit outside this occupation key. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Why is the average about $52,000?

Because $2,274,391 is spread across 44 receipts. Mean $51,691 is arithmetic. Large itemized gifts raise the mean. The packet has no median. Cite dollars and count together rather than the mean alone. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Is $2.3 million the committee’s total fundraising?

No. $2,274,391 is the Physicist occupation slice only. Other occupations on C00521211 sit on the committee overlay. Independent expenditures are outside the source note. The live FEC committee file is the committee-wide view. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.