Volunteer political contributions from Connecticut

Volunteer-coded receipts with Connecticut addresses

Occupation VOLUNTEER and donor state CT produce $524,082, 615 contributions, and 57 donors. The occupation hub is $12,821,205, 46,977 contributions, and 1,361 donors. Connecticut’s dollar share is about 4.1%; contribution share about 1.3% (615 of 46,977); donor share about 4.2% (57 of 1,361). This page is the intersection of those two FEC.gov fields, not a restatement of the Volunteer hub and not a restatement of all Connecticut occupations.

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER, RETIRED, and NONE, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack VOLUNTEER with those strings into a single Connecticut professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs. The FEC file stores the occupation exactly as entered. A longer or shorter variant is a different key.

The arithmetic mean gift in this Connecticut cell is about $852 ($524,082 divided by 615 lines), against about $273 nationwide ($12,821,205 divided by 46,977). 57 Connecticut donors produced 615 contributions, about 10.8 itemized rows per donor, versus about 34.5 nationally. A mean is not a median and not a typical check. Skew from a few large itemized gifts can move $852 without changing the unique-donor count of 57.

VOLUNTEER as an unpaid self-description

VOLUNTEER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a license, an employer, or a payroll title. The $12,821,205 national total is VOLUNTEER only. 1,361 donors produced 46,977 contributions in that occupation bucket. VOLUNTEER is an unpaid-work self-description, not an hours-served census or nonprofit staffing table. Nearby labels COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER, RETIRED, and NONE remain outside this occupation total even when one person has used more than one string.

This page does not split those 46,977 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Connecticut (CT). 46,977 national contributions make VOLUNTEER a published occupation bucket; this tie locates the Connecticut overlap. Independent expenditures and unitemized gifts are omitted. Committee identifiers on the itemized line are the recipient keys in the underlying file, but this packet does not publish a recipient breakdown.

Connecticut donor state on the itemized line

57 Connecticut donors produced 615 contributions totaling $524,082. Donor state CT is the address on the record, not proof of a Connecticut license, and not a limit to Connecticut candidates. CT is the address on the itemized record, not a map of which campaigns received the $524,082. Out-of-state committees can receive itemized gifts from CT-coded donors.

The Connecticut campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CT. This join is only VOLUNTEER. The Volunteer occupation hub without Connecticut still holds about 95.9% of the $12,821,205 (remainder $12,297,123). Connecticut’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CT. VOLUNTEER is only this filter. Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger; this page does not claim donations funded awards.

Hours volunteered are not in the FEC join

A 4.1% dollar share in Connecticut does not rank the state as more or less political than others. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Correlation is not causation. This page does not name donors, does not invent committees, and does not treat 57 unique donors as an hours-served census or nonprofit staffing table. VOLUNTEER is not interchangeable with COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER, RETIRED, and NONE.

Quote $524,082, 615 contributions, and 57 donors for Volunteer in Connecticut, against $12,821,205 nationwide, source FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts stay outside the itemized aggregate. Cycle stacking can raise line counts without raising unique people. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Keep both sides of the join—Volunteer and Connecticut—whenever the dollars are quoted.

Connecticut Volunteer dollars, lines, and donors

A complete claim names Volunteer and Connecticut (CT), then $524,082, 615 contributions, 57 donors, and 4.1% of $12,821,205, source FEC.gov. Remainder outside Connecticut: $12,297,123. Mean gift $852 is $524,082 divided by 615 lines in this state cell. Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL.

Subtract the Connecticut dollars on this page from the national VOLUNTEER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded VOLUNTEER in every other state combined. That remainder ($12,297,123) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. A unique-donor count of 57 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. Keeping dollars, contribution count, and donor count on the same page is the point of the join.

Volunteer occupation hub and Connecticut totals

Volunteer donations holds the $12,821,205 national occupation total. Connecticut 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. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. This tie page quotes packet facts only.

Questions

How much have Volunteer donors in Connecticut given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation VOLUNTEER and state Connecticut total $524,082, from 615 contributions and 57 donors. Nationwide, VOLUNTEER-coded receipts are $12,821,205 from 46,977 contributions and 1,361 donors. Connecticut is about 4.1% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Volunteer mean unpaid work on the FEC form?

No. The FEC file does not verify licenses, employers, or headcount. Occupation is the string VOLUNTEER and state is CT. 57 donors are not an hours-served census or nonprofit staffing table. COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER, RETIRED, and NONE, if stored separately, sit in other hubs. Do not add those cells to Volunteer. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

What share of Volunteer FEC money is from Connecticut?

About 4.1% of the $12,821,205 occupation total is in this Connecticut join ($524,082). Connecticut also accounts for about 1.3% of contributions (615 of 46,977) and about 4.2% of donors (57 of 1,361). Remainder outside Connecticut: $12,297,123. Occupation labels are filer-entered; FEC.gov is the source for the join.

Is COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER included here?

Not as a published split. Donor state is Connecticut. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $524,082 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open Connecticut campaign finance for every occupation coded to CT; open Volunteer donations for every state in the bucket. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins.