Student political contributions from Illinois

Student and Illinois as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation STUDENT and donor state IL produce $4,582,935, 11,823 contributions, and 549 donors. The occupation hub is $142,935,090, 226,355 contributions, and 12,200 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 3.2%; contribution share about 5.2% (11,823 of 226,355); donor share about 4.5% (549 of 12,200). Five hundred forty-nine Illinois donors are about 4.5% of 12,200 national donors; 11,823 contributions are about 5.2% of 226,355 national rows; dollars are about 3.2% of $142,935,090.

GRADUATE STUDENT, COLLEGE STUDENT, and LAW STUDENT, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Student total. Do not stack STUDENT with GRADUATE STUDENT or COLLEGE STUDENT into a single Illinois professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

549 Illinois donors produced 11,823 contributions, about 21.5 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 18.6 rows per donor nationally (226,355 contributions from 12,200 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Illinois cell is about $388, against about $631 nationwide. Illinois’s about 5.2% contribution share from 549 people is a high-frequency slice of a 226,355-row occupation.

STUDENT as a status-title string

STUDENT is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify enrollment, a campus, or a degree program. The $142,935,090 national total is STUDENT only. 12,200 donors produced 226,355 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 226,355 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois (IL). Twelve thousand two hundred national donors make STUDENT a high-volume occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state IL.

Illinois on the state side

549 Illinois donors produced 11,823 contributions totaling $4,582,935. Donor state IL is the address on the record, not proof of a Illinois license, and not a limit to Illinois candidates. IL is the address on the itemized record, not proof of an Illinois campus, and not a map of which campaigns received the $4,582,935.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only STUDENT. The Student occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 96.8% of the $142,935,090. Illinois’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to IL. STUDENT is only this filter.

What the Student join is not

This page does not count enrolled students, merge graduate-student dollars, or claim that Student-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. STUDENT is not GRADUATE STUDENT even when filers meant the same program.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. STUDENT is not a campus enrollment file. Donor state IL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. School names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Student filter

Subtract the Illinois dollars on this page from the national STUDENT occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded STUDENT in every other state combined. That remainder ($138,352,155) 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 549 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 11,823 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $4,582,935 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Illinois dollars, or only the STUDENT national total, drops a key. Five hundred forty-nine donors producing 11,823 contributions totaling $4,582,935 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Student donations holds the $142,935,090 national occupation total. Illinois 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. GRADUATE STUDENT is a different occupation hub if that string exists.

Questions

How much have Student donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation STUDENT and state Illinois total $4,582,935, from 11,823 contributions and 549 donors. Nationwide, STUDENT-coded receipts are $142,935,090 from 226,355 contributions and 12,200 donors. Illinois is about 3.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count Illinois college enrollment?

No. The FEC file does not verify campuses. Occupation is STUDENT and state is IL. The 549 Illinois donors used occupation STUDENT and state IL. Filers who wrote GRADUATE STUDENT or LAW STUDENT may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Student FEC money is from Illinois?

About 3.2% of the $142,935,090 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($4,582,935). Illinois also accounts for about 5.2% of contributions (11,823 of 226,355) and about 4.5% of donors (549 of 12,200). About 3.2% of dollars from 549 of 12,200 donors and 11,823 of 226,355 contributions.

Does this money go to Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Illinois. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $4,582,935 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to IL.