Student political contributions from Washington

Student and Washington as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation STUDENT and donor state WA produce $3,115,433, 6,233 contributions, and 220 donors. The occupation hub is $142,935,090, 226,355 contributions, and 12,200 donors. Washington’s dollar share is about 2.2%; contribution share about 2.8% (6,233 of 226,355); donor share about 1.8% (220 of 12,200). Two hundred twenty Washington donors are about 1.8% of 12,200 national donors; 6,233 contributions are about 2.8% of 226,355 national rows; dollars are about 2.2% of $142,935,090.

GRADUATE STUDENT, COLLEGE STUDENT, and STUDENT/UNEMPLOYED, 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 Washington professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

220 Washington donors produced 6,233 contributions, about 28.3 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 Washington cell is about $500, against about $631 nationwide. Washington’s about 2.2% share of $142,935,090 sits inside a very large occupation (12,200 donors, 226,355 contributions).

STUDENT as a status-title string

STUDENT is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify enrollment, a campus, or a Washington school. One word on the form is the filter. 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 Washington (WA). Two hundred twenty-six thousand three hundred fifty-five national contributions make STUDENT a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state WA.

Washington as donor state

220 Washington donors produced 6,233 contributions totaling $3,115,433. Donor state WA is the address on the record, not proof of a Washington license, and not a limit to Washington candidates. WA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Washington campus, and not a map of which campaigns received the $3,115,433.

The Washington campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to WA. This join is only STUDENT. The Student occupation hub without Washington still holds about 97.8% of the $142,935,090. Washington’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to WA. STUDENT is only this filter.

What the 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 a degree program. A unique-donor count of 220 is not a campus directory.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. STUDENT is not an enrollment census. Donor state WA 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 Washington 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 ($139,819,657) 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 220 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 6,233 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $3,115,433 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Washington dollars, or only the STUDENT national total, drops a key. Two hundred twenty donors producing 6,233 contributions totaling $3,115,433 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Student donations holds the $142,935,090 national occupation total. Washington 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 Washington given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation STUDENT and state Washington total $3,115,433, from 6,233 contributions and 220 donors. Nationwide, STUDENT-coded receipts are $142,935,090 from 226,355 contributions and 12,200 donors. Washington is about 2.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count Washington college enrollment?

No. Occupation is the string STUDENT and state is WA. Two hundred twenty donors are not an enrollment file. Filers who wrote GRADUATE STUDENT may sit in another bucket. The 220 Washington donors used occupation STUDENT and state WA. Filers who wrote GRADUATE STUDENT or COLLEGE 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 Washington?

About 2.2% of the $142,935,090 occupation total is in this Washington join ($3,115,433). Washington also accounts for about 2.8% of contributions (6,233 of 226,355) and about 1.8% of donors (220 of 12,200). About 2.2% of dollars from 220 of 12,200 donors and 6,233 of 226,355 contributions.

Does this money go to Washington candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Washington. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $3,115,433 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to WA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.