Principal political contributions from Massachusetts

Principal and Massachusetts as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation PRINCIPAL and donor state MA produce $2,101,948, 3,749 contributions, and 234 donors. The occupation hub is $43,606,592, 96,709 contributions, and 7,007 donors. Massachusetts’s dollar share is about 4.8%; contribution share about 3.9% (3,749 of 96,709); donor share about 3.3% (234 of 7,007). Two hundred thirty-four Massachusetts donors are about 3.3% of 7,007 national donors; 3,749 contributions are about 3.9% of 96,709 national rows; dollars are about 4.8% of $43,606,592.

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

234 Massachusetts donors produced 3,749 contributions, about 16.0 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 Massachusetts cell is about $561, against about $451 nationwide. Massachusetts’s about 4.8% dollar share from 3,749 rows is a larger-mean slice than Illinois’s 9,672-row Principal cell of the same occupation.

PRINCIPAL as a Boston-area title string

PRINCIPAL is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not distinguish a school building, a law-firm partner, or a consulting 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 Massachusetts (MA). Ninety-six thousand seven hundred nine national contributions make PRINCIPAL a mid-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state MA.

Massachusetts as the reported address

234 Massachusetts donors produced 3,749 contributions totaling $2,101,948. Donor state MA is the address on the record, not proof of a Massachusetts license, and not a limit to Massachusetts candidates. MA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Massachusetts firm, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,101,948.

The Massachusetts campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MA. This join is only PRINCIPAL. The Principal occupation hub without Massachusetts still holds about 95.2% of the $43,606,592. Massachusetts’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to MA. PRINCIPAL is only this filter.

What the Principal–Massachusetts join is not

This page does not count school principals, add Illinois Principal 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 GENERAL PARTNER even when filers meant a firm title. This cell is not the Illinois Principal pair.

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

Three numbers, two fields, one Massachusetts Principal filter

Subtract the Massachusetts 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 ($41,504,644) 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 234 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 3,749 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,101,948 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Massachusetts dollars, or only the PRINCIPAL national total, drops a key. Two hundred thirty-four donors producing 3,749 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,101,948 headline.

Related tables

Principal donations holds the $43,606,592 national occupation total. Massachusetts 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. Illinois has a separate Principal occupation-state tie in this same slice; those 9,672 contributions are a different pair.

Questions

How much have Principal donors in Massachusetts given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation PRINCIPAL and state Massachusetts total $2,101,948, from 3,749 contributions and 234 donors. Nationwide, PRINCIPAL-coded receipts are $43,606,592 from 96,709 contributions and 7,007 donors. Massachusetts is about 4.8% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is this the same as the Illinois Principal page?

No. This join is PRINCIPAL and state MA. The Illinois cell is a different pair. Two hundred thirty-four Massachusetts donors produced 3,749 gifts totaling $2,101,948. The 234 Massachusetts donors used occupation PRINCIPAL and state MA. 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 Massachusetts?

About 4.8% of the $43,606,592 occupation total is in this Massachusetts join ($2,101,948). Massachusetts also accounts for about 3.9% of contributions (3,749 of 96,709) and about 3.3% of donors (234 of 7,007). About 4.8% of dollars from 234 of 7,007 donors and 3,749 of 96,709 contributions.

Does this money go to Massachusetts candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Massachusetts. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,101,948 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to MA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.