Principal political contributions from Virginia

PRINCIPAL × Virginia

Occupation PRINCIPAL plus contributor state Virginia yields $3,871,880. That is about 9% of $43,606,592 nationally. Virginia’s 7,117 contributions are about 7% of 96,709. Its 537 donors are about 8% of 7,007. The shares cluster. Virginia is a solid minority piece of a mid-size, multi-meaning label, not a two-donor outlier.

Average itemized gift in the Virginia join is about $544 ($3,871,880 / 7,117). The FEC does not split school principals from consulting principals. Both uses of the word, if typed that way, sit in this bucket. Managing director and director are separate occupation pages.

Seven thousand one hundred seventeen Virginia PRINCIPAL gifts are about 7% of 96,709 nationally. Five hundred thirty-seven of 7,007 donors is about 8%. Dollars ($3,871,880 of $43,606,592) are about 9%. DC’s PRINCIPAL join is a separate address filter. School and firm meanings stay unsplit. VA on the receipt is the whole geography.

PRINCIPAL nationwide

Seven thousand seven donors used PRINCIPAL on itemized receipts totaling $43,606,592 across 96,709 gifts. Ambiguity is the point of leaving the string un-split: the table reports what filers wrote, not a recode into education versus finance.

Most PRINCIPAL dollars sit outside Virginia ($43,606,592 minus $3,871,880). The District of Columbia has a separate PRINCIPAL join on the same national denominator. The two capital-area pages are different address filters; they are not a combined metro total.

Five hundred thirty-seven Virginia donors

Five hundred thirty-seven Virginia donors produced 7,117 PRINCIPAL-tagged contributions totaling $3,871,880. Repeat itemization is present. The Virginia campaign-finance hub places this title beside lobbyist, director, and other VA occupations so an ambiguous word is sized against the rest of the state’s itemized giving.

A Northern Virginia address with occupation PRINCIPAL enters the $3,871,880. A DC workplace with a Maryland home address does not, unless the receipt lists VA. Donor state is not commuting geography.

Commuting still decides geography. VA on the receipt is the ticket. The occupation hub (7,007 donors, 96,709 gifts) shows the label’s spread. This join is Virginia’s 537 of those donors and $3,871,880 of those dollars. Recipients of the gifts are not in the two-column filter.

What the word does not identify

PRINCIPAL does not tell you whether the donor runs a school, a fund, or a partnership. The join does not say Virginia principals funded Virginia candidates. Occupation is not causation. $3,871,880 is labeled itemized giving under two fields.

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

Parent tables

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

One word, two jobs, one Virginia filter

Virginia PRINCIPAL at $3,871,880 from 537 donors and 7,117 gifts is about 9% of $43,606,592 nationally. Average gift about $544. DC’s PRINCIPAL join is $3,622,191 from 366 donors on the same denominator. Two capital-area address filters, no combined metro total, no split between school leaders and firm partners.

DIRECTOR and MANAGING DIRECTOR are other executive-ish strings. PRINCIPAL is the ambiguous one. A Virginia school leader who wrote administrator and a consulting principal who wrote partner are both absent. A person who wrote PRINCIPAL is in the 537 keys regardless of institution.

Five hundred thirty-seven Virginia donors, 7,117 gifts, $3,871,880, about 9% of $43,606,592. DC’s PRINCIPAL join is the other capital-area address filter. School principals and firm principals share the word as typed. DIRECTOR and MANAGING DIRECTOR are other pages. Commuting decides VA versus DC versus MD. Recipients of the $3,871,880 are still a committee-level question.

Questions

How much did Virginia Principal donors give in FEC filings?

Donors listing occupation PRINCIPAL with a Virginia address reported $3,871,880 in itemized individual contributions, from 537 donors and 7,117 receipts. That is about 9% of the $43,606,592 recorded nationally under PRINCIPAL. The total mixes every use of the word as typed; it is not a list of school principals.

Does PRINCIPAL mean a school principal?

Sometimes, as filed, and sometimes not. FEC occupation is free text. The same string covers school leaders and firm principals if that is what donors or clerks wrote. Nationally PRINCIPAL is $43,606,592 from 7,007 donors. This Virginia join does not split those meanings.

How does Virginia compare with the national Principal total?

Virginia is about 9% of dollars ($3,871,880 of $43,606,592), about 7% of contributions (7,117 of 96,709), and about 8% of donors (537 of 7,007). Average itemized gift in the Virginia join is about $544. Most PRINCIPAL money is attributed to other states.

Did these contributions go to Virginia candidates?

The join filters donor state and occupation, not recipient. A Virginia-addressed PRINCIPAL can give to any FEC committee. Tracing the $3,871,880 from 537 donors and 7,117 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.