BERKELEY, CA

Reading $104,952,206 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $104,952,206 and 390,864 lines. The implied average is about $269. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Berkeley book.

Alameda County’s Berkeley string is separate from Oakland on the FEC city key. Keep the two books apart. Filers typed BERKELEY in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state CA. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string.

If a newsroom map paints Berkeley together with Oakland and Albany, the FEC file still splits them. El Cerrito too. This extract’s only city total is $104,952,206 on 390,864 BERKELEY, CA rows, mean near $269.

Why BERKELEY on the receipt is not a census of Berkeley

Searchers often want “how much did people in Berkeley give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city BERKELEY, CA total $104,952,206 across 390,864 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $104,952,206. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Berkeley?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city BERKELEY, CA total $104,952,206 across 390,864 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in Berkeley. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Berkeley contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 390,864 itemized contributions for BERKELEY, CA. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 390,864 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $104,952,206.

Can committee addresses appear in the Berkeley city total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BERKELEY with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Berkeley can be part of $104,952,206 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 390,864-line count follows the same rule.

Are Berkeley numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $104,952,206 and 390,864 lines for BERKELEY, CA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from CA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $269 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.