Principal political contributions from the District of Columbia

PRINCIPAL and DC as a two-field filter

Occupation PRINCIPAL plus contributor state DC equals $3,622,191. That is about 8% of $43,606,592 nationally. DC’s 5,325 contributions are about 6% of 96,709. Its 366 donors are about 5% of 7,007. Dollar share sits a little above activity share, so DC principal-labeled receipts run slightly larger, on average, than the national mix for this string.

Average itemized gift in the DC join is about $680 ($3,622,191 / 5,325). School principal and firm principal remain unsplit. Managing director, partner, and director are separate occupation pages and are not inside the $3,622,191.

Five thousand three hundred twenty-five DC PRINCIPAL gifts are about 6% of 96,709 nationally. Three hundred sixty-six of 7,007 donors is about 5%. Dollars ($3,622,191 of $43,606,592) are about 8%. Dollar share above headcount share is a mild tilt. Virginia-coded principals are on the Virginia tie. This page is DC only.

PRINCIPAL nationwide

Seven thousand seven donors used PRINCIPAL on itemized receipts totaling $43,606,592 across 96,709 gifts. The word is a collision of education and professional-services English. This site leaves the collision visible instead of recoding it.

Virginia’s PRINCIPAL join uses the same $43,606,592 denominator. DC and Virginia are not a combined capital-area total. A person appears in this join only if the receipt lists DC. A Virginia-coded receipt belongs on the Virginia tie.

Three hundred sixty-six DC donors

Three hundred sixty-six DC donors produced 5,325 PRINCIPAL-tagged contributions totaling $3,622,191. Repeat itemization is present. The District of Columbia campaign-finance hub places PRINCIPAL beside lawyer, lobbyist, and other DC occupations so an ambiguous title is sized against the rest of the city’s itemized giving.

A DC address with occupation PRINCIPAL enters the $3,622,191 even if the school or firm sits in Maryland. A DC workplace with a Virginia home address does not, unless the receipt lists DC. The join follows the state field.

Virginia-coded principals are on the Virginia tie, not here. Adding the two joins is a research choice and still would not be a metro de-duplication. This page reports DC only: 366 donors, 5,325 gifts, $3,622,191. Committee identity is the next table.

What not to read into the title

PRINCIPAL does not identify the institution. The join does not say DC principals funded DC candidates. Occupation is not causation. $3,622,191 is labeled itemized individual giving.

Use the occupations index for partner and director variants, the Virginia PRINCIPAL tie for the other capital-area cell, and the ties index for other joins. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Parent hubs

See Principal donations for the $43,606,592 national total, District of Columbia campaign finance for all DC occupations, the occupations index for related titles, and all FEC ties for other occupation–state cells.

The District cut of an ambiguous title

DC PRINCIPAL at $3,622,191 from 366 donors and 5,325 gifts is about 8% of $43,606,592 nationally. Average gift about $680, a bit above Virginia’s PRINCIPAL average (about $544) on the same occupation total. Dollar share (8%) leads donor share (5%). DC receipts under this word run slightly larger than the national mix.

School and firm meanings remain unsplit. LAWYER, LOBBYIST, and GOVERNMENT RELATIONS are other DC ties with clearer ordinary-language jobs. PRINCIPAL is the collision title. Do not treat 366 donors as a count of DC school leaders or of consulting partners.

Three hundred sixty-six DC donors, 5,325 gifts, $3,622,191, about 8% of $43,606,592 and about 5% of 7,007 donors. Average gift about $680. Virginia’s PRINCIPAL join is a separate address filter, not a metro pair to add blindly. School versus firm meanings stay unsplit. LAWYER and LOBBYIST are clearer DC titles on other pages. This join is the ambiguous word with a DC state code.

Questions

How much did DC Principal donors contribute according to the FEC?

Donors listing occupation PRINCIPAL with a District of Columbia address reported $3,622,191 in itemized individual contributions, from 366 donors and 5,325 receipts. That is about 8% of the $43,606,592 recorded nationally under PRINCIPAL. The total is not a list of DC school principals or firm partners.

Are DC and Virginia Principal totals the same people?

They are different address-state filters. DC is $3,622,191 from 366 donors; Virginia has a separate PRINCIPAL join. The national occupation is $43,606,592 from 7,007 donors. A receipt is in this page only if contributor state is DC. The two ties are not a de-duplicated metro total.

Does PRINCIPAL mean a school principal in DC?

Only if that is what the filer typed, and the aggregate cannot tell. FEC occupation is free text. Firm principals and school principals share this string when they both write PRINCIPAL. Nationally PRINCIPAL is $43,606,592 from 7,007 donors; this DC join is $3,622,191 from 366 donors.

Did these contributions go to District of Columbia races?

The join filters donor state and occupation, not recipient. A DC-addressed PRINCIPAL can give to any FEC committee. Tracing the $3,622,191 from 5,325 receipts requires committee-level receipts The packet totals for this join remain the occupation–state filter described above, with no extra dollar figures beyond those facts.