Volunteer political contributions from Illinois

Volunteer and Illinois as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation VOLUNTEER and donor state IL produce $795,976, 2,104 contributions, and 69 donors. The occupation hub is $12,821,205, 46,977 contributions, and 1,361 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 6.2%; contribution share about 4.5% (2,104 of 46,977); donor share about 5.1% (69 of 1,361). Sixty-nine Illinois donors produced 2,104 contributions — about 30 itemized rows per donor, a high repeat-gift pattern for a small unique-donor count.

Nationally, VOLUNTEER is contribution-heavy: 46,977 contributions from 1,361 donors. Illinois’s contribution share (about 4.5%) sits near its donor share (about 5.1%). Do not stack VOLUNTEER with RETIRED or NOT EMPLOYED into a single Illinois professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

69 Illinois donors produced 2,104 contributions, about 30.5 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 34.5 rows per donor nationally (46,977 contributions from 1,361 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Illinois cell is about $378, against about $273 nationwide. The Illinois cell is a high-frequency slice of a high-frequency occupation, not a handful of large checks.

VOLUNTEER as an occupation string, not a job

VOLUNTEER is a filer-entered string. RETIRED, HOMEMAKER, and NOT EMPLOYED, if used, sit in other hubs. VOLUNTEER is this string only. The $12,821,205 national total is VOLUNTEER only. 1,361 donors produced 46,977 contributions in that occupation bucket.

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 Illinois (IL). A volunteer label does not identify the organization, the hours, or whether the donor later took a paid role.

Illinois on the state side

69 Illinois donors produced 2,104 contributions totaling $795,976. 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 Illinois charity registration, and not a map of which campaigns received the $795,976.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only VOLUNTEER. The Volunteer occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 93.8% of the $12,821,205. Illinois’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to IL. VOLUNTEER is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not measure unpaid hours, rank nonprofits, or claim that Volunteer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. People who volunteer for campaigns sometimes type VOLUNTEER as occupation. That habit is a label, not a payroll finding.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. VOLUNTEER is not a volunteer-hours extract. Donor state IL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Organization names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Volunteer filter

Subtract the Illinois 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 ($12,025,229) 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 69 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 2,104 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $795,976 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 VOLUNTEER national total, drops a key. Sixty-nine unique donors against 2,104 contributions is the Illinois fact to keep next to the $795,976 headline.

Related tables

Volunteer donations holds the $12,821,205 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. VOLUNTEER is unpaid-work-as-typed, not a BLS employment category.

Questions

How much have Volunteer donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation VOLUNTEER and state Illinois total $795,976, from 2,104 contributions and 69 donors. Nationwide, VOLUNTEER-coded receipts are $12,821,205 from 46,977 contributions and 1,361 donors. Illinois is about 6.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Volunteer mean campaign volunteers?

The FEC file does not say where the person volunteered. Occupation is the string VOLUNTEER and state is IL. The 69 Illinois donors used occupation VOLUNTEER and state IL. Filers who wrote RETIRED or NOT EMPLOYED may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Volunteer FEC money is from Illinois?

About 6.2% of the $12,821,205 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($795,976). Illinois also accounts for about 4.5% of contributions (2,104 of 46,977) and about 5.1% of donors (69 of 1,361). Sixty-nine donors produced 2,104 itemized rows in this Illinois cell.

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 $795,976 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to IL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.