Ohio campaign finance next to federal obligations

Ohio receipts that look large beside Ohio awards — and still are not the source

The spending extract is $398,507,087,354.00 and 524,221 awards. The FEC extract is $124,182,824.13 and 1,570 candidate committees. Receipts here exceed Maryland’s, Tennessee’s, and Washington’s FEC totals in this family while obligations sit in a similar band to those states’ award books. The temptation is to say Ohio “raises more relative to spending.” Relative is still two denominators. There is no funding share.

Open Ohio federal spending for obligations. Open Ohio FEC totals for receipts. All spending ties lists other pairs. OH is a shared code, not a wire.

USAspending.gov in Ohio

The $398,507,087,354.00 total is obligations, not outlays. The 524,221 rows are award actions. Repeat recipients add rows. This packet has no unique-vendor census and no party field on awards.

Ohio federal spending is the live award hub. Agency and program slices do not include FEC donor names.

FEC.gov: a near-even Democratic and Republican split

Ohio candidate receipts are $124,182,824.13 from 1,570 committees. Democratic committees reported $62,375,047.32 (about 50.2%). Republican committees reported $61,525,184.42 (about 49.5%). Other and unaffiliated filers reported $282,592.39 (about 0.2%). About 50.2% / 49.5% is as close as Texas’s split in this family, on a smaller receipt total than Texas and a smaller obligation total than Texas.

1,570 is a filing count, including primary challengers and residual committees. It is not Columbus’s state-office roster and not a contractor headcount. Closeness on the FEC side does not make the award file partisan-neutral in a measurable way — the award file has no party field here at all.

Even receipts still cannot be stacked with awards

Adding $124,182,824.13 to $398,507,087,354.00 invents a combined Ohio federal-money figure. Mapping 50.2% Democratic onto 524,221 awards invents a statistic. Treating a large receipt book as a bigger slice of the award book is the same category error with larger FEC dollars.

Correlation is not causation. Different statutes, different filers.

How to cite Ohio

Name USAspending.gov for $398,507,087,354.00 and 524,221 awards. Name FEC.gov for $124,182,824.13, 1,570 committees, Democratic $62,375,047.32, Republican $61,525,184.42, other $282,592.39. State-office campaigns file under Ohio law and never enter either extract. City procurement is outside USAspending.gov.

Independent expenditures are not extra packet facts. Live hubs: Ohio federal spending and Ohio FEC totals. All spending ties is the join index.

Columbus campaigns and city contracts are not this Ohio join

Ohio state-office campaigns file under Ohio law. Those reports never enter $124,182,824.13 and never enter $398,507,087,354.00. City procurement is outside USAspending.gov. Receipts of $124,182,824.13 are large relative to several states with similar obligation books. Large is still a campaign-file adjective. It is not a funding share of 524,221 awards.

Independent expenditures are not extra packet facts. Democratic $62,375,047.32 (about 50.2%), Republican $61,525,184.42 (about 49.5%), and other $282,592.39 (about 0.2%) describe 1,570 committees. A near-even split does not make the award file measurable by party — the award file has no party field here. 1,570 is a filing count, not a vendor census.

Cite USAspending.gov for $398,507,087,354.00 and 524,221 awards. Cite FEC.gov for $124,182,824.13 and 1,570 committees. Ohio federal spending and Ohio FEC totals are the live hubs. All spending ties is the join index. Donations do not fund the obligations.

A $124,182,824.13 receipt book looks large beside several similar-dollar obligation extracts. Large does not mean inside $398,507,087,354.00. Quote 1,570 committees on FEC.gov and 524,221 awards on USAspending.gov. Ohio federal spending and Ohio FEC totals stay separate. All spending ties is the index. Donations do not fund the obligations.

Questions

Do Ohio campaign donations pay for federal awards?

No. USAspending obligations of $398,507,087,354.00 and FEC receipts of $124,182,824.13 are different datasets joined only by state. Agencies record 524,221 awards as obligations. A shared OH code is not a funding path.

How much federal spending is obligated in Ohio?

USAspending.gov records indexed here show $398,507,087,354.00 in obligations across 524,221 awards tagged to Ohio. That figure is an obligation total, not an outlay series and not an FEC receipt total.

How much have Ohio federal candidates raised?

FEC.gov aggregates show $124,182,824.13 in candidate receipts across 1,570 federal committees tagged to Ohio. Democratic filers reported $62,375,047.32 (about 50.2%). Republican filers reported $61,525,184.42 (about 49.5%). That split does not describe awards.

Does Ohio’s near-even receipt split apply to contracts?

No. About 50.2% / 49.5% is a share of FEC candidate-committee receipts only. This packet has no party field on the 524,221 USAspending awards.