Scientist political contributions from Colorado

Scientist is one axis; Colorado is the other

An occupation-state page is not a restatement of Scientist and not a restatement of Colorado. It is the cell where they meet: $527,996, 4,133 contributions, 110 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state are the source note.

On the occupation side, Scientist is the exact string SCIENTIST. On the state side, CO is the address on the itemized record, not a map of which campaigns received $527,996. Academic versus industry versus government science work is unpublished.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $26,806,625 is the national Scientist bucket. The Colorado hub is every grouping in that state. The join is $527,996. Colorado SCIENTIST is a generic title. Research scientist is a longer neighboring label. Lab affiliations are not in this packet.

Colorado is not the whole Scientist story

Scientist across all states is $26,806,625. Scientist in Colorado is $527,996 — 2.0%. The gap is $26,278,629. Closing that gap would require other state joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the Colorado overlay still sees $527,996 for this string, not $26,806,625. A reader who only opens the occupation hub still needs the state filter to recover $527,996.

What 110 unique donors are not

110 unique donors are not a census of Scientist. They are the identities attached to 4,133 itemized rows that summed to $527,996. Mean gift $128; mean per donor $4,800; about 37.6 rows each.

Household reuse of a title string is common on FEC forms. That does not add extra occupations into $527,996; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have.

Self-reported fields and missing tables

Missing from this packet: party split, employer list, recipient committees, median gift, and academic versus industry versus government science work. Those omissions are why the page is a join brief rather than a full filing dump.

What remains is enough for a clean citation: Scientist × Colorado = $527,996 on 4,133 receipts from 110 donors, 2.0% of $26,806,625. Source: FEC.gov. Colorado SCIENTIST is a generic title. Research scientist is a longer neighboring label. Lab affiliations are not in this packet.

Two filters, one URL

Two filters produced this URL: occupation SCIENTIST and donor state CO. The product is $527,996. One filter is not enough. That is why Scientist donations and Colorado campaign finance remain parent links rather than substitutes.

All FEC ties is the index if the next question is a different occupation-state pair. All occupations is the index if the next question is a neighboring title such as research scientist, research, chemist, and physicist.

Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The occupation and state hubs remain the places for one-sided totals. This tie page quotes packet facts only. Independent expenditures stay outside the cell. Filer-entered occupation strings are not payroll titles. Readers who need a person-level roster will not find names on this page. USAspending.gov is a different ledger from FEC.gov individual contributions.

All occupations and All FEC ties remain the indexes for sibling joins. Cite the source note exactly as copied from the packet. Do not convert a contribution count into a unique-person census. Dollar figures first, then the two keys that produced them. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL. Unitemized gifts are outside the itemized aggregate quoted here.

Nearby job titles belong on their own occupation hubs if stored as other strings. A mean gift is dollars divided by itemized lines, not a typical check. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Repeat the join in one line: occupation SCIENTIST ∩ state CO = $527,996, 4,133 receipts, 110 donors, 2.0% of $26,806,625. Neighbors remain research scientist, research, chemist, and physicist. Source remains FEC.gov.

Open /occupations/scientist/ (Scientist donations) for the occupation hub, /states/CO/ (Colorado campaign finance) for the state hub, /occupations/ (All occupations) for neighboring titles, and /ties/ (All FEC ties) for other occupation-state joins.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged Scientist in Colorado?

FEC.gov itemized individual contribution aggregates show $527,996 from occupation Scientist with donor state CO. That join covers 4,133 contributions from 110 donors. Nationwide the occupation totals $26,806,625, so Colorado is about 2.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

How much of the $26,806,625 Scientist bucket is CO?

About 2.0% of the $26,806,625 Scientist grouping is coded to Colorado: $527,996. Contribution share is about 2.5% (4,133 of 166,337). Donor share is about 2.4% (110 of 4,567). The remainder $26,278,629 is other states.

Is Scientist the same as research scientist?

No. 110 is the unique-donor count in this occupation–state cell as aggregated from itemized FEC lines, not a labor-market census. Mean gift in the cell is about $128 across 4,133 contributions. Research scientist, research, chemist, and physicist , if stored separately, are other keys. This join is SCIENTIST only.

Why is there a Scientist × Colorado page?

Scientist donations carry the $26,806,625 occupation total. Colorado campaign finance is the state hub. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the SCIENTIST × CO intersection only.