State of California and the 2010 FEC election cycle

State of California crossed with 2010

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — State of California and 2010 — sum to $349,373. 385 itemized contributions and 136 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables. This page joins the employer grouping State of California to cycle 2010; it is not a restatement of either hub alone.

Neither the State of California hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. 136 unique donors and 385 lines in 2010 sit under the stored string STATE OF CALIFORNIA. CALIFORNIA, STATE OF CA, CALIFORNIA STATE, and CA STATE GOVERNMENT stay on their own keys if filers used them. Federal-to-state grants or other California USAspending rows are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

4.3% of the State of California roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $8,112,855 ($8.1 million). The 2010 slice of $349,373 is about 4.3% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.7%, or $7,763,482. Treating 2010 as the State of California FEC story would ignore that remainder. Quote $349,373 when the sentence is about 2010. Quote $8,112,855 when the sentence is about the grouping across cycles. Do not add those two dollar figures; the first is already inside the second.

Treat $8,112,855 as the denominator for the 4.3% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $8,112,855. 4.3% is $349,373 divided by $8,112,855. Rounding to $349,373 and $8.1 million does not create extra facts. Use exact integers in a table. Use the rounded forms only as headlines of those same integers.

385 contributions from 136 donors

Dividing $349,373 by 385 contributions yields about $907 per itemized gift. Dividing by 136 donors yields about $2,569 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.8. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for State Of California 2010 holds the rows.

136 unique donors are contributor identities, not a census of employees, members, or officeholders. People who list the institution as employer or occupation can include staff, affiliates, and others who reused the string. Unitemized gifts never appear in $349,373. State-office campaigns never enter this cell. A later amendment can restate a large transfer while most of the 385 small lines stay put. After quarterly filings, reread the live overlay. If that hub and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer or occupation for that window. State of California is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer grouping filter and State of California to drop the year. FEC cycle 2010 covers 2009–2010. A gift dated in the odd year and a gift dated in the even year can share the $349,373 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday.

That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 385 contributions, the 136 unique donors, and the 4.3% share of $8,112,855. Comparing State of California in 2010 to another grouping requires that other grouping’s cycle hub. This packet has one grouping and one cycle.

Limits of the State of California × 2010 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $349,373. Federal-to-state grants or other California USAspending rows are different datasets. Sharing an employer or occupation string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. Correlation between a stored string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 136 donors, and 385 contributions.

CALIFORNIA, STATE OF CA, CALIFORNIA STATE, and CA STATE GOVERNMENT are other keys if stored separately. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The key is filer-entered employer text — not a California state-employee census, not a state-budget line, and not a California PAC. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. A ranking of industries for 2010 is a different page — the 2010 election-cycle index — not a homemade sort of this file.

Citing State of California and 2010 together

Start with $349,373, then State Of California 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: State of California, 2010, $349,373, 385 contributions, 136 donors, 4.3% of $8,112,855, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 4.3% share, the 136 donors count, and the $907 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling string and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control. Do not print a 2010 share of US politics from $349,373. The denominator for 4.3% is $8,112,855, the State of California grouping in this extract, not every itemized dollar on FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did State of California donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $349,373 in itemized individual contributions for the State of California grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 385 contributions and 136 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $8,112,855 all-cycle figure. Cite FEC.gov for the State of California × 2010 join.

What share of State of California FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,112,855. The 2010 cell of $349,373 is about 4.3% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.7% ($7,763,482) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the State of California hub holds other cycles.

Is this State of California’s PAC or an official account?

No. $349,373 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to State of California. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup. The key is not a California state-employee census, not a state-budget line, and not a California PAC. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where is the overlay for the State of California 2010 join?

Open State Of California 2010 for the cycle overlay, State Of California for the grouping hub, and the 2010 election cycle for the year without this filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.