Principal political contributions from California

Principal and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation PRINCIPAL and donor state CA produce $5,011,265, 16,369 contributions, and 786 donors. The occupation hub is $43,606,592, 96,709 contributions, and 7,007 donors. The three shares are 11.5% of dollars, 16.9% of contributions, and 11.2% of donors. Keep all three; quoting only $5,011,265 drops the row and donor keys. California Principal contribution rows outrun the dollar share on a large ambiguous title.

Principal is a one-word status title covering school and firm uses. Nearby strings — SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, MANAGING PRINCIPAL, and PARTNER — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $5,011,265 or $43,606,592. One word covers a school office and a firm letterhead unless the filer added a modifier.

Seven hundred eighty-six California donors produced 16,369 contributions, about 20.8 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 13.8 rows per donor nationally (96,709 contributions from 7,007 donors). Mean dollars per donor in this California cell are about $6,376, versus about $6,223 across the occupation. Those ratios are arithmetic on the six packet numbers, not a gift-size ranking of influence.

Principal as a national occupation grouping

PRINCIPAL is filer-entered. The FEC file does not verify a school credential, a PE title, or a firm partnership. The national grouping is 7,007 donors, 96,709 contributions, and $43,606,592.

96,709 contributions from 7,007 donors shows repeat itemization nationwide. California’s 16,369 contributions from 786 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

Seven hundred eighty-six California donors produced 16,369 contributions totaling $5,011,265. 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 PRINCIPAL. Subtract $5,011,265 from $43,606,592 and $38,595,327 remains coded Principal in every other state combined (80,340 contributions, 6,221 donors). That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties.

What the Principal–California join is not

This page does not measure principal output, does not rank firms, and does not claim that Principal-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Not a California CDE school-leader file, not a PE principal roster, and not an architecture-firm partnership 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 Principal 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 $5,011,265, 16,369 contributions, and 786 donors on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the Principal national total, drops a key.

Principal donations holds the $43,606,592 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. One word covers a school office and a firm letterhead unless the filer added a modifier.

Related tables

Principal donations holds the $43,606,592 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 Principal donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Principal and state California total $5,011,265, from 16,369 contributions and 786 donors. Nationwide, Principal-coded receipts are $43,606,592 from 96,709 contributions and 7,007 donors. California is 11.5% of those dollars.

Does Principal mean a school leader or a firm partner?

The stored string is PRINCIPAL with no workplace. School Principal, Principal Engineer, and Managing Principal are other keys if filers spelled them out. This page does not split K-12, consulting, and investment uses. This join reports 786 California donors and $5,011,265 in itemized receipts.

What share of Principal FEC money is from California?

11.5% of the $43,606,592 occupation total is in this California join ($5,011,265). California also accounts for 16.9% of contributions (16,369 of 96,709) and 11.2% of donors (786 of 7,007). 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 $5,011,265 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.