Principal political contributions from Illinois

Principal and Illinois as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation PRINCIPAL and donor state IL produce $2,227,842, 9,672 contributions, and 353 donors. The occupation hub is $43,606,592, 96,709 contributions, and 7,007 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 5.1%; contribution share about 10.0% (9,672 of 96,709); donor share about 5.0% (353 of 7,007). Three hundred fifty-three Illinois donors are about 5.0% of 7,007 national donors; 9,672 contributions are about 10.0% of 96,709 national rows; dollars are about 5.1% of $43,606,592.

SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, MANAGING PRINCIPAL, and PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Principal total. Do not stack PRINCIPAL with SCHOOL PRINCIPAL or MANAGING PRINCIPAL into a single Illinois professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

353 Illinois donors produced 9,672 contributions, about 27.4 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 13.8 rows per donor nationally (96,709 contributions from 7,007 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Illinois cell is about $230, against about $451 nationwide. Illinois’s about 10.0% contribution share from 9,672 rows runs ahead of the 5.1% dollar share — a smaller-mean, high-repeat slice.

PRINCIPAL as an ambiguous title string

PRINCIPAL is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not distinguish a school building, a law-firm partner, or an engineering rank. One word on the form is the filter. The $43,606,592 national total is PRINCIPAL only. 7,007 donors produced 96,709 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 96,709 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois (IL). Seven thousand seven national donors make PRINCIPAL a mid-size occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state IL.

Illinois on the state side of Principal

353 Illinois donors produced 9,672 contributions totaling $2,227,842. Donor state IL is the address on the record, not proof of a Illinois license, and not a limit to Illinois candidates. IL is the address on the itemized record, not proof of an Illinois firm, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,227,842.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only PRINCIPAL. The Principal occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 94.9% of the $43,606,592. Illinois’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to IL. PRINCIPAL is only this filter.

What the Principal–Illinois join is not

This page does not count school principals, merge partner dollars, or claim that Principal-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. PRINCIPAL is not SCHOOL PRINCIPAL even when filers meant a building administrator. This cell is not the Massachusetts Principal pair.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. PRINCIPAL is not a partner or school-leader census. Donor state IL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Principal filter

Subtract the Illinois dollars on this page from the national PRINCIPAL occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded PRINCIPAL in every other state combined. That remainder ($41,378,750) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 353 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 9,672 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,227,842 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Illinois dollars, or only the PRINCIPAL national total, drops a key. Three hundred fifty-three donors producing 9,672 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,227,842 headline.

Related tables

Principal donations holds the $43,606,592 national occupation total. Illinois 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. Massachusetts has a separate Principal occupation-state tie in this same slice; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Principal donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation PRINCIPAL and state Illinois total $2,227,842, from 9,672 contributions and 353 donors. Nationwide, PRINCIPAL-coded receipts are $43,606,592 from 96,709 contributions and 7,007 donors. Illinois is about 5.1% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these Illinois school principals?

Not necessarily. This hub is the string PRINCIPAL, which can mean a firm title or a school title. State is IL. Filers who wrote SCHOOL PRINCIPAL may sit in another bucket. The 353 Illinois donors used occupation PRINCIPAL and state IL. Filers who wrote SCHOOL PRINCIPAL or MANAGING PRINCIPAL may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Principal FEC money is from Illinois?

About 5.1% of the $43,606,592 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($2,227,842). Illinois also accounts for about 10.0% of contributions (9,672 of 96,709) and about 5.0% of donors (353 of 7,007). About 5.1% of dollars from 353 of 7,007 donors and 9,672 of 96,709 contributions.

Does this money go to Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Illinois. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,227,842 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to IL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.