Do North Dakota campaign donations fund federal awards in the state?

No. FEC receipts of $4.8 million and USAspending obligations of $243,044,668,180 are joined only by the ND state code. 124 candidate committees and 150,516 awards are different filers on different forms. Donations do not become obligations on this page.

How much has USAspending recorded for North Dakota?

USAspending.gov lists $243,044,668,180 in obligations across 150,516 awards coded to North Dakota. That is a commitment aggregate, not an outlay clock and not FEC operating expenditure. North Dakota federal spending holds the agency rows. Original filings remain on the source sites.

How Republican is North Dakota’s federal candidate fundraising?

Republican committees reported $3.9 million, or 81.9% of $4.8 million. Democratic committees reported $317,808 (6.6%). Other filers reported $552,604. Those percentages describe 124 committees, not USAspending recipients. Party labels travel with the candidate file only.

Where do I open North Dakota’s two tables?

North Dakota federal spending on SpendingVault is the USAspending hub. North Dakota FEC totals on LobbyVault is the candidate-receipt hub. All spending ties lists sibling state joins. Keep each total on its own source sentence. Original filings remain on the source sites.

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North Dakota federal obligations beside FEC fundraising

North Dakota’s USAspending.gov extract shows $243,044,668,180 in federal obligations across 150,516 awards. Federal candidate committees tagged to the state reported $4.8 million on FEC.gov, with Republican committees holding 81.9% of that book. The party share describes filers, not vendors. The obligation total describes agencies, not campaigns.

Key figures

North Dakota USAspending: $243,044,668,180 across 150,516 awards.
North Dakota FEC receipts: $4.8 million from 124 committees.
Republican committees reported 81.9% of receipts — not of awards.
ND geography joins the files. Donations do not fund awards here.

ND is a join key, not an energy-PAC pipeline

SpendingVault indexes $243,044,668,180 in North Dakota obligations. LobbyVault indexes $4.8 million in North Dakota candidate receipts. Oil, agriculture, and water-project stories are reasons a researcher might open both tables. They are not fields in this packet and they do not connect a contribution to an award ID. The relationship is the ND abbreviation shared by 150,516 award actions and 124 candidate committees.

$243.0 billion in commitments is not a restatement of $4.8 million in receipts. Obligations are agency promises to pay. Receipts are campaign-committee bookings. Adding them invents a North Dakota federal-money headline no source published. All spending ties does not hide a plus sign under this slug.

Open North Dakota federal spending for the award table and North Dakota FEC totals for the candidate table. Keep each dollar on the sentence that names its statute. Energy and agriculture talking points are not packet NAICS and do not create a contribution-to-award map. A researcher who wants both pictures keeps two tabs: North Dakota federal spending for $243,044,668,180, and North Dakota FEC totals for $4.8 million.

A large award book with a modest filing roster

150,516 award actions sit beside 124 candidate committees. Those integers are not comparable headcounts. Award count includes modifications and repeat actions. Filing count includes residual and long-shot committees. Mean obligation per award is about $1,614,743 if you divide $243,044,668,180 by 150,516 — a calculator output, not a typical farm bill or a typical defense line.

Place of performance tagged to North Dakota can include work that later moves. Outlays can lag. This page does not contain an outlay total. Cite obligations when you quote {n['obl']}. Recipient names live on North Dakota federal spending, not inside the FEC roster. Do not treat the row count as a census of North Dakota contractors. Repeat awards to the same entity add rows. Health, defense, and civilian agencies can all appear in the award extract without appearing on a campaign report.

Republican-majority receipts on a short candidate list

Republican committees reported $3.9 million (81.9% of $4.8 million). Democratic committees reported $317,808 (6.6%). Other filers reported $552,604 (11.5%). 124 federal candidate committees tagged to North Dakota sit behind those lines. An 81.9% receipt share is not a share of $243,044,668,180.

Party codes travel with candidate committees. USAspending rows here have no Republican flag. State races file with North Dakota’s state system and sit outside the FEC total. Do not paint obligation dollars with FEC colors.

What not to compute from the North Dakota pair

Do not divide $243,044,668,180 by $4.8 million and call the result a return on donations. The units are unlike. Do not divide 150,516 by 124 and call the result awards per campaign. Population, contractor density, and the number of federal programs all move the spending ledger without touching a campaign account.

Bismarck versus Fargo splits are not in this packet. Both totals are statewide. A county cut would be a different file. Correlation is not causation. This join exists so the series can be read side by side with the caveat attached.

North Dakota citation lines

USAspending.gov obligations: $243,044,668,180 across 150,516 awards. FEC.gov candidate receipts: $4.8 million across 124 committees (Republican $3.9 million, Democratic $317,808, other $552,604). Campaign contributions are not federal awards. 124 is a filing count, not a November ballot census. 150,516 is an action count, not unique vendors. Bismarck-versus-Fargo splits are not in this packet; both totals stay statewide. State-office campaigns file under North Dakota law and sit outside the FEC extract. Local procurement paid without a federal award sits outside the obligation extract. Amended candidate reports move the receipt total; award restatements move the obligation total. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Do not rank North Dakota as more influential because receipts sit beside obligations. Influence is not a field in this packet.

Questions

Do North Dakota campaign donations fund federal awards in the state?: No. FEC receipts of $4.8 million and USAspending obligations of $243,044,668,180 are joined only by the ND state code. 124 candidate committees and 150,516 awards are different filers on different forms. Donations do not become obligations on this page.
How much has USAspending recorded for North Dakota?: USAspending.gov lists $243,044,668,180 in obligations across 150,516 awards coded to North Dakota. That is a commitment aggregate, not an outlay clock and not FEC operating expenditure. North Dakota federal spending holds the agency rows. Original filings remain on the source sites.
How Republican is North Dakota’s federal candidate fundraising?: Republican committees reported $3.9 million, or 81.9% of $4.8 million. Democratic committees reported $317,808 (6.6%). Other filers reported $552,604. Those percentages describe 124 committees, not USAspending recipients. Party labels travel with the candidate file only.
Where do I open North Dakota’s two tables?: North Dakota federal spending on SpendingVault is the USAspending hub. North Dakota FEC totals on LobbyVault is the candidate-receipt hub. All spending ties lists sibling state joins. Keep each total on its own source sentence. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Join of USAspending.gov state obligations with FEC.gov candidate receipts for the same state. These are different datasets — donations do not fund the obligations on this page.