Software political contributions from Idaho

Software and Idaho as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation SOFTWARE and donor state ID produce $113,861, 84 contributions, and 5 donors. The occupation hub is $7,732,451, 22,932 contributions, and 845 donors. Idaho’s dollar share is about 1.5%; contribution share about 0.4% (84 of 22,932); donor share about 0.6% (5 of 845). Five Idaho donors are about 0.6% of 845 national donors; 84 contributions are about 0.4% of 22,932 national rows; dollars are about 1.5% of $7,732,451.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, PROGRAMMER, and SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Software total. Do not stack SOFTWARE with SOFTWARE ENGINEER or PROGRAMMER into a single Idaho professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

5 Idaho donors produced 84 contributions, about 16.8 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 27.1 rows per donor nationally (22,932 contributions from 845 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Idaho cell is about $1,355, against about $337 nationwide. Idaho’s about 1.5% share of $7,732,451 from five people is a thin-headcount slice, distinct from the California Software cell in this slice.

SOFTWARE as a one-word occupation bucket

SOFTWARE is a filer-entered string. A single word on Schedule A is a coarse filter. It does not identify a product, a stack, or an Idaho employer. The $7,732,451 national total is SOFTWARE only. 845 donors produced 22,932 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 22,932 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Idaho (ID). Eight hundred forty-five national donors make SOFTWARE a mid-size bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state ID.

Idaho on the state side

5 Idaho donors produced 84 contributions totaling $113,861. Donor state ID is the address on the record, not proof of a Idaho license, and not a limit to Idaho candidates. ID is the address on the itemized record, not proof of an Idaho software shop, and not a map of which campaigns received the $113,861.

The Idaho campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to ID. This join is only SOFTWARE. The Software occupation hub without Idaho still holds about 98.5% of the $7,732,451. Idaho’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to ID. SOFTWARE is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not measure tech payroll, add the California Software cell, or claim that Software-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. SOFTWARE is not PROGRAMMER even when filers meant a coding job. The California Software join is a different pair with different state totals.

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

Three numbers, two fields, one Idaho Software filter

Subtract the Idaho dollars on this page from the national SOFTWARE occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded SOFTWARE in every other state combined. That remainder ($7,618,590) 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 5 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 84 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $113,861 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Idaho dollars, or only the SOFTWARE national total, drops a key. Five donors producing 84 contributions totaling $113,861 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Software donations holds the $7,732,451 national occupation total. Idaho 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. California has a separate Software occupation-state tie; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Software donors in Idaho given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SOFTWARE and state Idaho total $113,861, from 84 contributions and 5 donors. Nationwide, SOFTWARE-coded receipts are $7,732,451 from 22,932 contributions and 845 donors. Idaho is about 1.5% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is this the same as California Software donations?

No. This join is SOFTWARE and state ID. The California cell is a different pair. Five Idaho donors produced 84 gifts totaling $113,861. The 5 Idaho donors used occupation SOFTWARE and state ID. Filers who wrote SOFTWARE ENGINEER or PROGRAMMER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Software FEC money is from Idaho?

About 1.5% of the $7,732,451 occupation total is in this Idaho join ($113,861). Idaho also accounts for about 0.4% of contributions (84 of 22,932) and about 0.6% of donors (5 of 845). About 1.5% of dollars from 5 of 845 donors and 84 of 22,932 contributions.

Does this money go to Idaho candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Idaho. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $113,861 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to ID; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.