CUPERTINO, CA

55,446 lines carrying $16,390,661

The headline pair is $16,390,661 and 55,446 lines. The implied average is about $296. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the CUPERTINO book. Santa Clara County filers typed CUPERTINO with state CA.

Cupertino is a Santa Clara County city field, not a San Jose merge. Sunnyvale and Los Altos are neighboring keys. Employer names that appear on individual receipts are not rolled up in this packet. State CA stays on the citation. 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. Read $16,390,661 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Cupertino gave. The 55,446 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Cupertino together with Sunnyvale, Los Altos, and San Jose, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,390,661 on 55,446 CUPERTINO, CA rows, mean near $296. Keep the stored spelling CUPERTINO in the citation.

Why CUPERTINO on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Cupertino give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city CUPERTINO, CA total $16,390,661 across 55,446 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. CUPERTINO, CA is the stored Santa Clara string. San Jose is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,390,661. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $296 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city CUPERTINO, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city CUPERTINO, CA total $16,390,661 across 55,446 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 Cupertino. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $296 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Cupertino folded into San Jose on FEC city totals?

No. CUPERTINO, CA is the stored Santa Clara string. San Jose is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 55,446 itemized contributions for CUPERTINO, CA against $16,390,661. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 55,446 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Cupertino total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed CUPERTINO with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Cupertino can be part of $16,390,661 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 55,446-line count follows the same rule.

Are Cupertino numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,390,661 and 55,446 lines for CUPERTINO, 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.