Writer political contributions from Illinois

Writer and Illinois as a small slice of a large literary book

Occupation WRITER and donor state IL produce $2,004,644, 6,780 contributions, and 244 donors. The occupation hub is $80,210,868, 312,329 contributions, and 8,768 donors. Dollar, contribution, and donor shares cluster within a few points (2.5%, 2.2%, 2.8%). Illinois tracks the national Writer mix rather than concentrating one of the three measures. Illinois Writer is a low-twos slice of an $80 million literary title.

Writer is a one-word literary title as typed. Nearby strings — AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, SCREENWRITER, and FREELANCE WRITER — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $2,004,644 or $80,210,868. This Illinois join is a different state filter from the Washington Writer tie; do not add the two state totals on this page.

244 Illinois donors produced 6,780 contributions, about 27.8 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 35.6 rows per donor nationally (312,329 contributions from 8,768 donors). Mean dollars per donor in this Illinois cell are about $8,216, versus about $9,148 across the occupation. Those ratios are arithmetic on the six packet numbers, not a gift-size ranking of influence.

WRITER as a stored title with no genre split

WRITER is filer-entered. The FEC file does not verify bylines, union cards, or an Illinois business license. The national grouping is 8,768 donors, 312,329 contributions, and $80,210,868.

312,329 contributions from 8,768 donors shows repeat itemization nationwide. Illinois’s 6,780 contributions from 244 donors is the IL-coded piece. This page does not split those rows by cycle, employer, or recipient committee. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois.

Two hundred forty-four Illinois Writer donors

244 Illinois donors produced 6,780 contributions totaling $2,004,644. Donor state IL is the address on the record, not proof of a Illinois professional license, and not a limit to Illinois candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only WRITER. Subtract $2,004,644 from $80,210,868 and $78,206,224 remains coded Writer in every other state combined (305,549 contributions, 8,524 donors). That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties.

A low-twos dollar slice of an $80 million Writer book

This page does not measure writer output, does not rank firms, and does not claim that Writer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Not an Illinois press-association roster, not a WGA membership roll, and not a publishing-credit file.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names, license numbers, and employer strings are not in these six numbers. Donor state IL is not recipient geography.

Literary titles that stay unmerged

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping $2,004,644, 6,780 contributions, and 244 donors on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Illinois dollars, or only the Writer national total, drops a key.

Writer donations holds the $80,210,868 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. AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, SCREENWRITER, is a different occupation string if a filer used it.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered. This Illinois join is a different state filter from the Washington Writer tie; do not add the two state totals on this page.

Related FEC tables for Writer and Illinois

Writer donations holds the $80,210,868 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.

Questions

How much have Writer donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Writer and state Illinois total $2,004,644, from 6,780 contributions and 244 donors. Nationwide, Writer-coded receipts are $80,210,868 from 312,329 contributions and 8,768 donors. Illinois is 2.5% of those dollars.

Does Writer include journalists and authors in Illinois?

This join uses the string WRITER only. Author, Journalist, and Screenwriter are other occupation keys if filers used those words. Illinois’s donors sit in that undifferentiated bucket. This Illinois join is a different state filter from the Washington Writer tie. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov.

What share of Writer FEC money is from Illinois?

2.5% of the $80,210,868 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($2,004,644). Illinois also accounts for 2.2% of contributions (6,780 of 312,329) and 2.8% of donors (244 of 8,768). Those three shares are computed from the packet facts only.

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 $2,004,644 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source.