Individual donors are required to provide addresses to campaigns so it is easy to show the source of funds from a location perspective. For PACs it is difficult because if a PAC is set up by a company with a national or global presence then it is hard to identify a specific location. If on the other hand it is a PAC that represents an industry or cause then donors can come from anywhere in the US. For the PACs I went through the list and identified the ones that I determined had a significant presence in Utah (for corporations I looked up where they had offices or plants) then added a small fudge factor to this total to err on the side of donations from Utah. Note, similar to Hatch donations I did not take the time to research all of them but I did look for those that I thought would have a Utah presence first. Also, I generalized the industries for the PAC contributions (e.g. Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals, Doctors, and Medical Devices are categorized as Healthcare) and added a pie chart to the sources PAC donations by Industry.
Unlike Senator Hatch or Representative Chaffetz a clear majority of Matheson’s donation came from PACs.
An interesting set of comparisons to look at is individual donations from Utah and total donations from Utah (Individuals + PACs).
I was surprised that Matheson had such a high percentage of individual donations from Utah (66%). However, since PACs comprise 81% of his funding, even with a generous allocation of PAC sources to Utah (28%) his total Utah based donations were only 35%. Interesting enough although Matheson trailed Hatch significantly in total donations he beat Hatch by 10% in money raised through PACs.
Another fact that jumped out to me as I reviewed his PAC donors were the large number of donations from Unions (10%). I went back to Hatch and Chaffetz and looked at their Union % and found they were 1% and 6% for Chaffetz (6% was also a surprise). The bulk of Chaffetz Union donations were from the US Postal Workers Union.
The source files, Matheson 2006-2012 Campaign Contributions & Hatch-Chaffetz-Matheson 2006 Campaign Contribution Comparisons (Excel 2007), can be downloaded simply by clicking on the aforementioned filenames.
Here are the charts and tables for Representative Matheson:
| Contribution Amounts | Percentage | |||||
| Source | UT | Non-UT | Total | UT | Not UT | |
| Individuals | $ 690,409 | $ 357,967 | $ 1,048,376 | 19% | 66% | 34% |
| PACs | $ 1,269,764 | $ 3,248,690 | $ 4,518,454 | 81% | 28% | 72% |
| Total | $ 1,960,173 | $ 3,606,657 | $ 5,566,830 | 100% | 35% | 65% |
| Individual Contributions | ||
| 2006-2012 | ||
| State | Contributions | % |
| UT | $ 690,409 | 65.86% |
| DC | $ 58,541 | 5.58% |
| VA | $ 56,483 | 5.39% |
| NY | $ 34,946 | 3.33% |
| MD | $ 30,898 | 2.95% |
| WY | $ 27,600 | 2.63% |
| TX | $ 22,605 | 2.16% |
| CA | $ 21,400 | 2.04% |
| CO | $ 13,450 | 1.28% |
| NJ | $ 13,350 | 1.27% |
| AZ | $ 10,844 | 1.03% |
| FL | $ 7,300 | 0.70% |
| CT | $ 7,250 | 0.69% |
| IL | $ 7,000 | 0.67% |
| IN | $ 6,750 | 0.64% |
| MA | $ 6,250 | 0.60% |
| RI | $ 5,000 | 0.48% |
| OK | $ 4,000 | 0.38% |
| NV | $ 3,500 | 0.33% |
| MO | $ 3,500 | 0.33% |
| TN | $ 3,250 | 0.31% |
| OH | $ 2,000 | 0.19% |
| WA | $ 2,000 | 0.19% |
| NC | $ 2,000 | 0.19% |
| PA | $ 1,750 | 0.17% |
| OR | $ 1,000 | 0.10% |
| DE | $ 1,000 | 0.10% |
| ID | $ 1,000 | 0.10% |
| KS | $ 1,000 | 0.10% |
| MT | $ 1,000 | 0.10% |
| SC | $ 500 | 0.05% |
| NH | $ 300 | 0.03% |
| AR | $ 250 | 0.02% |
| LA | $ 250 | 0.02% |
| Grand Total | $ 1,048,376 | 100.00% |
| 2006-2012 | ||
| Industry | Sum of Amount | |
| Manufacturing | $ 174,000 | 3.85% |
| Political | $ 423,621 | 9.38% |
| Healthcare | $ 915,701 | 20.27% |
| Finance | $ 666,882 | 14.76% |
| IT | $ 58,486 | 1.29% |
| Insurance | $ 228,700 | 5.06% |
| Defense | $ 65,500 | 1.45% |
| Transportation | $ 138,171 | 3.06% |
| Legal | $ 60,800 | 1.35% |
| Energy | $ 415,825 | 9.20% |
| Agriculture | $ 63,000 | 1.39% |
| Unions | $ 438,500 | 9.70% |
| Construction | $ 177,656 | 3.93% |
| Misc | $ 24,000 | 0.53% |
| Real Estate | $ 74,000 | 1.64% |
| Retail | $ 381,112 | 8.43% |
| Communications | $ 95,000 | 2.10% |
| Media | $ 105,500 | 2.33% |
| Education | $ 5,500 | 0.12% |
| Entertainment | $ 6,500 | 0.14% |
| Grand Total | $ 4,518,454 | 100.00% |
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