Scientist political contributions from Maryland

Scientist and Maryland as a two-column match

Occupation SCIENTIST and donor state MD produce $1,834,508, 14,906 contributions, and 279 donors. The occupation hub is $26,806,625, 166,337 contributions, and 4,567 donors. Maryland’s dollar share is about 7%; contribution share about 9% (14,906 of 166,337); donor share about 6% (279 of 4,567).

Contribution share (about 9%) runs a little ahead of dollar share (about 7%). The Maryland-coded Scientist slice is more numerous in rows relative to the national mix than it is heavy in dollars. Massachusetts’s Scientist join has a different mix of dollars, donors, and rows than Maryland. Same occupation string, different state filters. Neither page ranks labs.

Two hundred seventy-nine Maryland donors produced 14,906 contributions, about 53 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 36 rows per donor nationally (166,337 contributions from 4,567 donors). Maryland holds about 7% of the $26,806,625 and about 9% of contributions—row-heavy relative to dollars. Massachusetts’s Scientist tie has a different mix; neither page is a lab ranking.

The SCIENTIST occupation string

SCIENTIST is generic. RESEARCHER, BIOLOGIST, PHYSICIST, and ENGINEER, if used, sit in other hubs. The $26,806,625 national total is this word only. Four thousand five hundred sixty-seven donors produced 166,337 contributions.

This page locates the Maryland overlap. It does not verify NIH, FDA, Johns Hopkins, or contractor employment.

Maryland as donor state

Two hundred seventy-nine Maryland donors produced 14,906 contributions totaling $1,834,508. Donor state MD is the address on the record, not proof of a Bethesda or Baltimore lab job, and not a limit to Maryland candidates.

The Maryland campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MD. This join is only SCIENTIST.

Maryland’s campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded MD. This join is only SCIENTIST. The Scientist occupation hub without Maryland still holds about 93% of the $26,806,625. NIH and FDA employment are not FEC occupation fields.

What the join does not claim

This page does not measure research funding, patents, or whether Scientist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Comparing Maryland with Massachusetts Scientist slices is valid only as two packets with their own facts—not as a ranking of science quality or political weight.

Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized receipts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

SCIENTIST does not record agency, degree, or discipline. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. Research grants are a different data system. Donor state MD is not recipient geography. Correlation is not causation.

Maryland’s $1,834,508 is the SCIENTIST-and-MD overlap only, not a statewide research-payroll total and not an agency personnel list.

Three numbers, two fields, one Scientist filter

Subtract the Maryland dollars on this page from the national Scientist occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Scientist in every other state combined. That remainder 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 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Maryland dollars, or only the Scientist national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related hubs

Scientist donations holds the $26,806,625 national occupation total. Maryland 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.

Questions

How much have Scientist donors in Maryland given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Scientist and state Maryland total $1,834,508, from 14,906 contributions and 279 donors. Nationwide, Scientist-coded receipts are $26,806,625 from 166,337 contributions and 4,567 donors. Maryland is about 7% of those dollars.

Are these NIH or FDA scientists?

The FEC file does not verify employer. Occupation is SCIENTIST and state is MD. The 279 Maryland donors used that pair of labels. That is not an agency personnel extract.

How does Maryland compare with Massachusetts Scientist donors?

Maryland’s join is $1,834,508 from 279 donors and 14,906 contributions. Massachusetts has a separate Scientist tie with its own donor and dollar counts. Both cut the same $26,806,625 occupation total. They are not a ranking of research clusters.

Does this money go to Maryland candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Maryland. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,834,508 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.