State Of Ohio contributions received by DOLAN FOR OHIO

A public-employer string meeting a candidate committee

STATE OF OHIO is the grouped employer key. DOLAN FOR OHIO is committee C00790386. This page reports itemized individual gifts that carried both labels. The $7,990,250 figure is the intersection. It is not a contribution from the State of Ohio as a government, not a use of public funds, and not independent-expenditure spending.

Public-employer strings are common on FEC forms. Filers who work for a state agency, university, or office often type STATE OF OHIO instead of a department name. People who listed OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, ODNR, or a city government sit in other buckets if stored that way. The candidate committee is a separate federal account.

One hundred sixty-eight contributions totaling $7,990,250 is a modest line count against a nearly $8 million cell. Public payroll size is not the contribution count.

Eighty-one percent of the State of Ohio grouping

The STATE OF OHIO grouping shows $9,902,902 in itemized individual money. The Dolan for Ohio cell is $7,990,250, or about 81% of that total. About 19% of the labeled money went to other committees. Those leftover dollars are on the industry hub.

A high share toward one candidate committee does not prove a statewide coordinated program. It shows how receipts coded STATE OF OHIO lined up against C00790386. Other Ohio candidate committees can appear on the industry hub without appearing in these 168 rows.

DOLAN FOR OHIO as the receiving campaign

Committee C00790386 received $7,990,250 from STATE OF OHIO-coded receipts across 168 contributions. Dividing dollars by gifts gives about $47,561 per contribution. That mean is pulled by large itemized amounts; it is not a typical state-employee paycheck deduction. The packet does not name donors or split the 168 lines by cycle.

DOLAN FOR OHIO also received money from other employers. Those receipts are on the committee overlay. Independent expenditures for or against the candidate, if filed by others, are outside this join.

Government employer text is not government spending

STATE OF OHIO on an FEC form is an employer label. It is not an appropriation, a grant, or a USAspending obligation. This join does not claim that campaign gifts funded federal awards to Ohio, or that Ohio’s federal awards funded Dolan for Ohio. FEC and USAspending remain separate ledgers.

Correlation between a state-employer string and a Senate or statewide federal committee is a reporting pattern. Causation of election outcomes is not in the 168 lines. Hatch Act and state ethics rules are legal topics outside this aggregate.

Hubs that keep the state string and the campaign apart

The State Of Ohio industry page keeps the $9,902,902 grouping and its other recipients. The DOLAN FOR OHIO page keeps C00790386. All industries ranks other public-employer keys (other states, cities, agencies). All FEC ties lists neighboring employer-committee cells so this 81% overlap is not mistaken for the State of Ohio’s budget.

Public-employer strings attract Hatch Act questions that this aggregate cannot answer. The 168 lines are itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to STATE OF OHIO. That is not a finding of on-the-clock solicitation or of a lawful personal gift. About $47,561 per contribution is $7,990,250 divided by 168 — far above a typical payroll deduction, which is a scale check, not an ethics conclusion.

How to cite a government-employer string without citing the government

The contributor in these 168 rows is not the State of Ohio. The employer label is STATE OF OHIO. Quoting '$7,990,250 from the State of Ohio' inverts the FEC column. The accurate sentence is $7,990,250 in itemized individual contributions coded to that employer string and received by DOLAN FOR OHIO (C00790386), about 81% of $9,902,902.

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, city governments, and named agencies are other keys if stored separately. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures in the same race, if filed by others, are omitted. USAspending awards to Ohio entities are a different ledger. Use the industry hub for the leftover 19% and the committee overlay for employers other than STATE OF OHIO.

Questions

How much did State of Ohio-coded donors give Dolan for Ohio?

FEC.gov aggregates show $7,990,250 in itemized individual contributions grouped to STATE OF OHIO and received by DOLAN FOR OHIO (C00790386). That join covers 168 contributions. The employer grouping across all committees is $9,902,902. These figures are not independent expenditures and not public funds.

What share of State of Ohio FEC money went to this committee?

About 81% of the $9,902,902 STATE OF OHIO total is in this join: $7,990,250 to C00790386. The remaining share went to other committees. A high percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a state-government contribution.

Did the State of Ohio donate $7.99 million?

No. The total is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to STATE OF OHIO. Governments do not appear here as the contributor. FEC filers enter the employer string. This page does not verify that donors were state employees or that anyone directed the gifts.

Does this include Ohio State University or city employees?

Only if the grouped employer text is STATE OF OHIO. University, city, and agency names are other keys if stored separately. This page does not merge those strings into the $7,990,250. Figures are limited to the labeled join.