Retail political contributions from North Carolina

Retail and North Carolina as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation RETAIL and donor state NC produce $255,977, 1,202 contributions, and 38 donors. The occupation hub is $5,030,135, 41,084 contributions, and 1,213 donors. North Carolina’s dollar share is about 5.1%; contribution share about 2.9% (1,202 of 41,084); donor share about 3.1% (38 of 1,213). Thirty-eight North Carolina donors produced about 32 itemized rows per donor totaling $255,977. Contribution share about 2.9% sits near donor share about 3.1%.

RETAIL SALES, RETAIL MANAGER, and STORE OWNER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this total. Do not stack RETAIL with RETAIL SALES or STORE OWNER into a single North Carolina professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

38 North Carolina donors produced 1,202 contributions, about 31.6 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 33.9 rows per donor nationally (41,084 contributions from 1,213 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this North Carolina cell is about $213, against about $122 nationwide. North Carolina’s about 5.1% share of $5,030,135 is a high-repeat slice of a 41,084-row occupation.

RETAIL as a one-word occupation bucket

RETAIL is a filer-entered string. A single word on Schedule A is a coarse filter. It does not identify a chain, a store, or a role. The $5,030,135 national total is RETAIL only. 1,213 donors produced 41,084 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 41,084 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to North Carolina (NC). Forty-one thousand eighty-four national contributions make RETAIL a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state NC.

North Carolina on the state side

38 North Carolina donors produced 1,202 contributions totaling $255,977. Donor state NC is the address on the record, not proof of a North Carolina license, and not a limit to North Carolina candidates. NC is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a North Carolina retailer, and not a map of which campaigns received the $255,977.

The North Carolina campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to NC. This join is only RETAIL. The Retail occupation hub without North Carolina still holds about 94.9% of the $5,030,135. North Carolina’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to NC. RETAIL is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not measure store sales, rank chains, or claim that Retail-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. RETAIL is not RETAIL SALES even when filers meant a sales floor.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. RETAIL is not a NAICS retail extract. Donor state NC is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Retail filter

Subtract the North Carolina dollars on this page from the national RETAIL occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded RETAIL in every other state combined. That remainder ($4,774,158) 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 38 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 1,202 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $255,977 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the North Carolina dollars, or only the RETAIL national total, drops a key. Thirty-eight donors producing 1,202 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $255,977 headline.

Related tables

Retail donations holds the $5,030,135 national occupation total. North Carolina 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. PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER is a different North Carolina occupation tie with different facts.

Questions

How much have Retail donors in North Carolina given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation RETAIL and state North Carolina total $255,977, from 1,202 contributions and 38 donors. Nationwide, RETAIL-coded receipts are $5,030,135 from 41,084 contributions and 1,213 donors. North Carolina is about 5.1% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Retail an industry code?

No. This hub is the occupation string RETAIL, not a NAICS sector. State is NC. Filers who wrote RETAIL SALES may sit in another bucket. The 38 North Carolina donors used occupation RETAIL and state NC. Filers who wrote RETAIL SALES or RETAIL MANAGER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Retail FEC money is from North Carolina?

About 5.1% of the $5,030,135 occupation total is in this North Carolina join ($255,977). North Carolina also accounts for about 2.9% of contributions (1,202 of 41,084) and about 3.1% of donors (38 of 1,213). About 5.1% of dollars from 38 of 1,213 donors. Thirty-eight people produced 1,202 rows.

Does this money go to North Carolina candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is North Carolina. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $255,977 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to NC; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.