Public Relations political contributions from District of Columbia

Public Relations and D.C. as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation PUBLIC RELATIONS and donor state DC produce $747,379, 1,400 contributions, and 74 donors. The occupation hub is $8,958,749, 33,552 contributions, and 1,549 donors. District of Columbia’s dollar share is about 8.3%; contribution share about 4.2% (1,400 of 33,552); donor share about 4.8% (74 of 1,549). Dollar share (about 8.3%) runs ahead of donor share (about 4.8%) and contribution share (about 4.2%). D.C. Public Relations money is more concentrated per donor than the national mix.

Seventy-four D.C. donors produced 1,400 contributions. COMMUNICATIONS and PUBLIC AFFAIRS, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this total. Do not stack PUBLIC RELATIONS with COMMUNICATIONS or PUBLIC AFFAIRS into a single District of Columbia professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

74 District of Columbia donors produced 1,400 contributions, about 18.9 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 21.7 rows per donor nationally (33,552 contributions from 1,549 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this District of Columbia cell is about $534, against about $267 nationwide. The District’s about 8.3% dollar share of $8,958,749 is a heavier-dollar slice, not a claim that D.C. PR shops directed the money.

PUBLIC RELATIONS as a trade label

PUBLIC RELATIONS is a filer-entered string. PRESS SECRETARY, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, and LOBBYIST, if used, sit in other hubs. The $8,958,749 national total is PUBLIC RELATIONS only. 1,549 donors produced 33,552 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 33,552 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to District of Columbia (DC). The District’s large dollar share relative to donor share is a geographic fact in the file, not a motive.

District of Columbia on the state side

74 District of Columbia donors produced 1,400 contributions totaling $747,379. Donor state DC is the address on the record, not proof of a District of Columbia license, and not a limit to District of Columbia candidates. DC is the FEC donor-state code for the District. It is not Maryland or Virginia, and it is not proof of a D.C. business license.

The District of Columbia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to DC. This join is only PUBLIC RELATIONS. The Public Relations occupation hub without District of Columbia still holds about 91.7% of the $8,958,749. The District campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to DC. PUBLIC RELATIONS is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not rank K Street firms, measure billings, or claim that Public Relations-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. A D.C. address plus a PR title is not a lobbying registration.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. PUBLIC RELATIONS is not a PRSA roster. Donor state DC is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Public Relations filter

Subtract the District of Columbia dollars on this page from the national PUBLIC RELATIONS occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded PUBLIC RELATIONS in every other state combined. That remainder ($8,211,370) 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 74 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 1,400 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $747,379 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the District of Columbia dollars, or only the PUBLIC RELATIONS national total, drops a key. D.C.’s dollar share running ahead of its donor share is the fact to keep next to the $747,379 headline.

Related tables

Public Relations donations holds the $8,958,749 national occupation total. District of Columbia 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. Donor state DC is the District of Columbia in FEC bulk data, not a 51st state.

Questions

How much have Public Relations donors in D.C. given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation PUBLIC RELATIONS and state District of Columbia total $747,379, from 1,400 contributions and 74 donors. Nationwide, PUBLIC RELATIONS-coded receipts are $8,958,749 from 33,552 contributions and 1,549 donors. District of Columbia is about 8.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these registered D.C. lobbyists?

The FEC file does not verify LDA registrations. Occupation is the string PUBLIC RELATIONS and state is DC. The 74 District of Columbia donors used occupation PUBLIC RELATIONS and state DC. Filers who wrote LOBBYIST or PUBLIC AFFAIRS may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Public Relations FEC money is from D.C.?

About 8.3% of the $8,958,749 occupation total is in this District of Columbia join ($747,379). District of Columbia also accounts for about 4.2% of contributions (1,400 of 33,552) and about 4.8% of donors (74 of 1,549). Dollar share (about 8.3%) runs ahead of donor share (about 4.8%).

Does this money go to D.C. candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is District of Columbia. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $747,379 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the District hub for every occupation coded to DC; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.