Self Employed political contributions from Shreveport, LA

How Self Employed meets Shreveport

This page is a join. One dimension is contributor city Shreveport, LA. The other is occupation/employer grouping Self Employed (stored as SELF EMPLOYED). $16,850 is the intersection — dollars on receipts that carry both labels. $41,792,825 is the city bucket before the employer filter, built from 95,746 itemized lines. The harvested donor count inside the intersection is 15 donors, not a census of everyone in Shreveport who ever worked in a related trade.

LobbyVault does not add a third table and does not route these dollars through USAspending. A Form 3 itemization is not a federal award. Open the Shreveport, LA city hub for the unfiltered city book, the Self Employed industry hub for the grouping outside this city filter, Louisiana campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Each of those pages answers a different question. This one answers only the intersection.

22 contributions from 15 donors produced $16,850. Repeat gifts add receipts; 15 donors is the headcount in this extract for the join, not a Census of Self Employed workers in Shreveport. Arithmetic mean per receipt is about $766; per donor, about $1,123. Those means are division of packet facts, not typical salaries and not medians.

What the Shreveport city book holds

Shreveport indexes $41,792,825 ($41.8 million rounded) on 95,746 itemized individual contributions. City labels are filer-entered. A suburb that types a different city never enters $41,792,825. Joint-fundraising and committee addresses that happen to list Shreveport can sit in the same bucket as residents. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for the city as a whole, so this page does not invent one from 95,746.

Louisiana campaign-finance pages cover the state, which is a larger geography than Shreveport. Do not treat $41,792,825 as the LA state total. Unitemized federal gifts never carry a published city in this roll-up, so they never enter $41,792,825. State-office campaigns in Louisiana file under state law and sit outside these FEC individual-contribution aggregates.

The Self Employed slice inside Shreveport

Inside Shreveport, receipts tagged Self Employed total $16,850 on 22 lines from 15 donors. That is under 0.1% of $41,792,825. About $766 per receipt is $16,850 divided by 22. About $1,123 per harvested donor is $16,850 divided by 15. Those ratios describe shape. They are not medians, not typical household gifts, and not salaries.

Self Employed is a filer-entered employer string, not a NAICS sector and not every affiliate, predecessor name, or related partnership. Other spellings of the same organization are other keys and are omitted from $16,850. A donor in Shreveport who stored a different employer never enters this join. A donor outside Shreveport who stored SELF EMPLOYED belongs on the industry hub, not here.

What this join is not

It is not a ranking of Shreveport neighborhoods. It is not a safety comparison. It is not proof that Self Employed money funded a federal contract, grant, or loan. Campaign contributions and USAspending awards are different disclosure systems even when they mention the same city. This packet has no award dollars, so this page prints none.

It is not Self Employed nationwide unless the industry hub — a different page — is cited separately. It is not a PAC independent-expenditure total. Motive is not a field. Party split is not a field in this packet. Missing fields stay missing. Correlation is not causation: two filer-entered fields meeting is not evidence that Self Employed controls Shreveport politics.

How to cite the Shreveport × Self Employed facts

Citation template: employer name Self Employed, contributor city Shreveport, LA, $16,850 on 22 itemized individual contributions from 15 donors, against a city-wide $41,792,825 on 95,746 contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.

Then send the reader to the live Shreveport, LA hub, the Self Employed industry page, Louisiana campaign finance, and All FEC ties. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live hubs control. Do not add $16,850 to $41,792,825; the first number is already inside the second.

Using the Shreveport and Self Employed hubs together

The Shreveport, LA hub is the unfiltered city index: $41,792,825 on 95,746 lines. The Self Employed hub is the grouping without this city's filter. Louisiana campaign finance is the state roll-up, a larger geography than Shreveport. All FEC ties is the inventory of other two-table pages. Use all four links. None of them turns $16,850 into a federal award.

If you need names, open the live city and industry hubs rather than reverse-engineering 15 donors from this snapshot. If you need cycle cuts of Shreveport, those are city-cycle joins, not this file. If you need Self Employed in a single even-year window, those are industry-cycle joins. This file stays on one city and one employer string: Shreveport and Self Employed, $16,850, 22 receipts, 15 donors.

Questions

How much did Self Employed donors in Shreveport contribute?

Itemized individual contributions tagged Self Employed and Shreveport, LA total $16,850 across 22 receipts from 15 donors on FEC.gov aggregates indexed here. That join is under 0.1% of Shreveport's $41,792,825 city-wide book. It is not a PAC total. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is $16,850 all Self Employed money nationwide?

No. $16,850 is only the Shreveport, LA filter on stored string SELF EMPLOYED. Other cities that stored the same string belong on the industry hub, not in this join. 22 receipts and 15 donors are likewise city-filtered. Do not treat the slice as a national total.

Why can receipts (22) exceed donors (15)?

Repeat itemized gifts from the same person add lines without adding people. 22 contributions and 15 donors are both packet facts for Self Employed in Shreveport. The per-receipt mean about $766 and per-donor mean about $1,123 are arithmetic only. They are not medians.

Are Self Employed gifts in Shreveport the same as federal awards?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different disclosure systems. $16,850 is a contribution total. This packet has no obligation dollars. Sharing the city name does not move money from one statute to the other.