Teacher political contributions from California

Teacher and California as two FEC filters

Occupation TEACHER and state CA produce $18,836,666, 182,162 contributions, and 3,436 donors. The occupation nationwide is $92,518,340, 831,593 contributions, and 18,758 donors. California’s dollar share is about 20%. Contribution share is about 22% (182,162 of 831,593). Donor share is about 18% (3,436 of 18,758).

One hundred eighty-two thousand California contributions is a high row count relative to 3,436 donors. Teacher-coded itemization in this state filter is frequent. That pattern can reflect many modest itemized gifts rather than a few large ones; this page does not publish an average, only the joined totals.

Teacher–California is a high-row join: 182,162 contributions from 3,436 donors totaling $18,836,666, inside 831,593 contributions from 18,758 donors totaling $92,518,340. About 18% of people, about 22% of rows, about 20% of dollars. The contribution-to-donor pattern is frequent itemization, nationally and in California. That does not make 182,162 a headcount of California teachers. It makes 3,436 the people side and 182,162 the row side. Union independent expenditures are a different FEC category and are not in $18,836,666. Professor or educator, if typed that way, are other occupation pages. Donor state CA is not recipient geography. The Teacher hub holds $92,518,340. The California hub holds every occupation coded to CA.

Teacher as a high-volume national occupation

TEACHER is the string filers entered. Professor, educator, or retired teacher, if used, are other buckets. Nationally this label covers 18,758 donors, 831,593 contributions, and $92,518,340. The contribution count is large compared with many other occupations in this slice.

Eight hundred thirty-one thousand contributions from 18,758 donors means repeated itemization at national scale. California’s 182,162 contributions from 3,436 donors is the CA-coded share, not a count of California credential holders.

California donor-state activity in the occupation

The CA side is $18,836,666 from 182,162 contributions and 3,436 donors. Donor state is the address on the contribution. Recipients may be committees anywhere, including national party committees and out-of-state races.

California campaign finance overall includes Student, Writer, and Lawyer. This tie isolates Teacher. Teacher joins in other states are separate filters against the same $92,518,340 occupation total.

What the join is not

Matching Teacher with California does not measure union independent expenditures, school-board politics, or whether teachers caused an electoral result. Occupation plus state is not causation. It is also not a ranking of states by education quality.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov. Independent expenditures and unitemized gifts are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Linked occupation and state pages

Teacher donations holds the $92,518,340 national total and the 831,593-contribution count. California campaign finance holds all CA-coded itemized individual receipts. All occupations and all FEC ties place this pair beside other Teacher-state joins without merging their row counts.

Three thousand four hundred thirty-six California Teacher-coded donors are 18% of 18,758. Their 182,162 contributions are 22% of 831,593. Their $18,836,666 is 20% of $92,518,340. Rows slightly lead dollars, which slightly lead people.

Teacher California as high-row itemization

One hundred eighty-two thousand one hundred sixty-two contributions from 3,436 donors is frequent itemization inside the CA filter, matching the national occupation’s 831,593 contributions from 18,758 donors in kind. Contribution count is not a credential count. The $18,836,666 is itemized individual giving tagged TEACHER and CA, not a union independent-expenditure total.

The Teacher occupation hub holds $92,518,340. California campaign finance holds all CA-coded itemized individual receipts. All occupations and all FEC ties list Teacher joins in other states separately so 182,162 California rows are not merged with those other filters. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are outside these figures. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Questions

How much have Teacher donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Teacher and state California total $18,836,666, from 182,162 contributions and 3,436 donors. Nationwide, Teacher-coded receipts are $92,518,340 from 831,593 contributions and 18,758 donors. California is about 20% of those dollars.

Is this California teachers’ union PAC spending?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and donor state. Union PAC and independent-expenditure totals are not in the $18,836,666 or the $92,518,340 occupation figure used here. The California join is $18,836,666 from 182,162 contributions and 3,436 donors.

Why are there 182,162 California Teacher contributions?

The California join includes 182,162 itemized contributions from 3,436 donors totaling $18,836,666. A high contribution-to-donor ratio means many repeat itemized gifts inside the CA filter. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee.

Are these K-12 teachers only?

The occupation field is TEACHER as entered. FEC aggregates do not encode grade level or public versus private employment. The 3,436 California donors used that label. Other education titles sit on other occupation pages. The California join is $18,836,666 from 182,162 contributions and 3,436 donors.