Social Worker political contributions from Maryland

How SOCIAL WORKER and Maryland meet on FEC filings

Two columns have to agree before a dollar lands here. The occupation field must read SOCIAL WORKER (or a string LobbyVault grouped to that slug), and the donor state must be MD. Rows that match both sum to $1,721,935, 9,637 contributions, and 139 unique donors. Drop the state filter and the occupation is $16,549,179, 159,789 contributions, and 3,156 donors. Drop the occupation filter and Maryland’s statewide hub mixes every title.

Maryland’s dollar share is about 10.4% ($1,721,935 of $16,549,179). Its contribution share is about 6.0% (9,637 of 159,789). Its donor share is about 4.4% (139 of 3,156). Dollars outrun headcount: a smaller slice of the national donor list produced a larger slice of the national dollar pile.

That gap can come from larger itemized gifts, more repeat giving among the 139 Maryland donors, or both. The aggregates do not split those mechanisms. They only locate the intersection.

What the national Social Worker occupation total holds

SOCIAL WORKER is a filer-entered title on FEC.gov individual receipts. It is not a state board of social work census, not an NASW membership file, and not a merge of SOCIAL WORKER, LCSW, CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER, or CASEWORKER unless those strings were grouped into this slug. The packet does not claim that merge. The national figures—3,156 donors, 159,789 contributions, $16,549,179—are the labeled grouping only.

One hundred fifty-nine thousand seven hundred eighty-nine contributions from 3,156 donors is a thick receipt pattern: about 51 itemized gifts per donor nationwide if you divide evenly. Maryland’s 9,637 contributions from 139 donors is about 69 gifts per donor. That ratio is arithmetic on the two counts. It is not a typical check size and not proof that Maryland filers are more politically active as a profession.

Maryland’s donor-state slice inside the occupation

The MD filter on this occupation yields $1,721,935 from 9,637 contributions and 139 donors. Donor state is the address on the itemized record. Recipients can be committees anywhere. This join does not assign the $1,721,935 to Maryland House, Senate, or presidential committees, and it does not split party.

Maryland’s state hub mixes physicians, lawyers, federal employees, and every other occupation that used MD as donor state. This page holds only SOCIAL WORKER. Neighboring occupation-state ties—Government Relations donors in Maryland, for example—are separate joins with their own facts.

Nine thousand six hundred thirty-seven Maryland contributions are 6.0% of the occupation’s 159,789 lines. That is more of the receipt pile than the 4.4% donor share, and less than the 10.4% dollar share. The three percentages do not have to match. When they diverge, the table is saying the Maryland cell is not a scaled-down copy of the national occupation.

Average gift size is a ratio, not a typical check

Dividing $1,721,935 by 9,637 contributions produces about $179 per gift in the Maryland cell. Dividing by 139 donors produces about $12,388 per donor. Nationally, $16,549,179 divided by 159,789 contributions is about $104 per gift. The Maryland cell’s higher mean gift sits beside a higher gifts-per-donor count. Neither figure is a median, and neither is a contribution limit.

Itemized individual receipts exclude unitemized money. Independent expenditures, PAC filings, and super PAC spending are outside these totals unless an individual receipt itself carries this occupation string.

About $179 per Maryland gift versus about $104 nationally is a comparison of means only. A committee that itemizes many small SOCIAL WORKER receipts in other states will pull the national mean down. Maryland’s 139 donors are not required to look like that mix. The join does not publish a median or a party split.

What the 10.4% share does not mean

Maryland’s share of Social Worker-coded dollars is a table split, not evidence that Maryland caused social-work giving or that the profession funded a particular outcome. Occupation and state are reported together on receipts. Correlation of the two fields is the join. Causation is not.

Coverage is itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. For the national occupation table use Social Worker donations. For all Maryland occupations use Maryland campaign finance. Other occupation-state pairs live under All FEC ties.

Researchers who want committee names should leave this relationship page for the occupation hub and the Maryland state hub. The $1,721,935 figure is the intersection only. It does not replace either hub, and it does not convert occupation text into a licensed-workforce estimate for Maryland.

Questions

How much have Social Worker donors in Maryland given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Social Worker and state Maryland total $1,721,935, from 9,637 contributions and 139 donors. Nationwide, Social Worker-coded receipts are $16,549,179 from 159,789 contributions and 3,156 donors. Maryland is about 10.4% of those dollars.

Does Social Worker mean licensed Maryland social workers?

The occupation string is SOCIAL WORKER as entered on itemized filings. FEC aggregates do not verify licenses, employers, or job duties. The 139 Maryland donors and 3,156 national donors are people whose records used that label, not a count of board-certified clinicians.

What share of Social Worker contributions come from Maryland?

About 6.0% of Social Worker-coded contributions (9,637 of 159,789) and about 4.4% of Social Worker-coded donors (139 of 3,156) are in this Maryland join, alongside about 10.4% of the dollars ($1,721,935 of $16,549,179). The dollar share exceeds the donor share.

Is this money given to Maryland candidates?

Not necessarily. MD is the donor state on the contribution. The $1,721,935 can be received by any FEC-filing committee. This page does not break receipts by office or by in-state versus out-of-state committees.