Venture Capitalist political contributions from Illinois

VENTURE CAPITALIST joined to Illinois donor state

Occupation VENTURE CAPITALIST and donor state IL produce $1,134,746, 201 contributions, and 36 donors. The occupation hub is $16,760,854, 7,026 contributions, and 991 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 6.8% ($1,134,746 of $16,760,854). Its contribution share is about 2.9% (201 of 7,026). Its donor share is about 3.6% (36 of 991).

Dollar share exceeds both contribution share and donor share. Thirty-six people produced a larger slice of dollars than of itemized lines, which is consistent with larger mean gifts in the Illinois cell than in the national mix.

INVESTOR, VENTURE CAPITAL, and PRIVATE EQUITY are other keys if stored separately. They are not inside $16,760,854 unless grouped here. This packet does not claim that grouping.

A fund-world title without a Form ADV check

VENTURE CAPITALIST is typed on the receipt. FEC.gov does not verify that the filer is a general partner, an associate at a VC firm, or an angel who used the phrase. Nine hundred ninety-one national donors used the string. People who typed INVESTOR sit in another occupation total if that string is a separate slug.

Seven thousand twenty-six contributions from 991 donors nationwide is about 7 itemized gifts per donor. Illinois’s 201 contributions from 36 donors is about 6 gifts per donor. Receipt frequency is similar. The Illinois cell is not contribution-heavy; it is dollar-heavier than its line count would suggest.

Thirty-six Illinois donors and mean gift size

Dividing $1,134,746 by 201 contributions yields about $5,646 per gift. Dividing by 36 donors yields about $31,521 per donor. Nationally, $16,760,854 divided by 7,026 contributions is about $2,385 per gift. The Illinois mean is more than double the national occupation mean.

Donor state IL is the address on the receipt. Recipients need not be Illinois committees. Portfolio Manager donors in Illinois is a neighboring finance-title join with 91 donors and $1,648,272; those facts are not inside VENTURE CAPITALIST.

Thirty-six Illinois donors produced 201 contributions, about 6 itemized gifts per person, close to the national 7. Frequency is not distinctive. Amount is: about $5,646 per gift versus about $2,385 nationally. The 6.8% dollar share above the 3.6% donor share is that mean-gift premium, not a claim about Chicago venture activity.

What 6.8% of Venture Capitalist dollars is not

Illinois’s share is a table split. It is not evidence that Illinois caused venture giving, that VCs as a class funded a party, or that campaign receipts measure startup funding. Individual FEC gifts are personal itemized receipts. They are not fund capital calls and not USAspending awards.

Coverage is itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov. Unitemized money and independent expenditures are out of scope. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Correlation of title and Illinois address is not causation.

PORTFOLIO MANAGER donors in Illinois ($1,648,272, 91 donors) share a donor state and a different finance title. $1,134,746 is VENTURE CAPITALIST × IL. Individual campaign receipts are not capital calls, not fund commitments, and not USAspending vendor awards.

Occupation hub, state hub, neighboring Illinois finance titles

Venture Capitalist donations carries the $16,760,854 national occupation total. Illinois campaign finance carries all IL-coded itemized individual activity. All occupations and All FEC ties keep VENTURE CAPITALIST separate from PORTFOLIO MANAGER and INVESTMENT ANALYST so $1,134,746 is not treated as a combined capital-markets sector.

The occupation hub still holds $15,626,108 outside Illinois ($16,760,854 minus $1,134,746). Use Venture Capitalist donations for that remainder. This page isolates the overlap. It does not measure Illinois startups or limited partners.

Personal receipts, not fund capital

Thirty-six Illinois donors and 201 contributions produced $1,134,746. Those are itemized individual gifts. They are not a venture fund’s political budget and not a capital call. FEC individual files stay personal even when the occupation string names a fund-world job.

The occupation hub still holds $15,626,108 outside Illinois. Portfolio Manager’s Illinois join remains a different title. Use both finance pages without adding them into a capital-markets sector.

Questions

How much have Venture Capitalist donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Venture Capitalist and state Illinois total $1,134,746, from 201 contributions and 36 donors. Nationwide, Venture Capitalist-coded receipts are $16,760,854 from 7,026 contributions and 991 donors. Illinois is about 6.8% of those dollars.

Does Venture Capitalist mean partners at Illinois VC firms?

VENTURE CAPITALIST is the occupation text as entered on itemized filings. FEC aggregates do not verify fund affiliation. The 36 Illinois donors and 991 national donors are people whose records used that title, not a count of general partners.

Are these campaign gifts the same as venture investments?

No. The $1,134,746 is itemized individual contributions on FEC.gov. It is not capital deployed into startups and not a limited-partner commitment. Sharing an occupation label does not join campaign receipts to investment activity.

Is this money given to Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. IL is the donor state on the contribution. The $1,134,746 can be received by any FEC-filing committee. This page does not break receipts by office or by in-state versus out-of-state committees.