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LOS ALTOS, CA

FEC.gov itemizations listing contributor city LOS ALTOS, CA sum to $66,600,752 across 110,178 contributions. Los Altos is a separate city string from Los Altos Hills and from Palo Alto. The table is a contributor-city aggregate, not a unique-donor census. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Key figures

  • Los Altos’s federal itemized city book is $66,600,752 across 110,178 contributions.
  • Los Altos Hills is a separate city string, not inside this total.
  • Cite contributor city, dollars, and line count together.
  • Source: FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Los Altos is not Los Altos Hills

Divide $66,600,752 by 110,178 and the average itemized line is about $605. That mean is arithmetic. This packet has no median. $605 is not a typical gift from a Los Altos household.

Los Altos Hills is a different city hub on this extract. Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Menlo Park are other Peninsula strings. They are not inside $66,600,752 unless the filer typed LOS ALTOS.

A PAC or joint-fundraising committee that listed Los Altos can share the city field with household streets. LobbyVault does not recode those rows into Los Altos Hills. The 110,178 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Do not build a Peninsula sum from this page

Adding Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Los Altos Hills to Los Altos and calling the result “Silicon Valley” is a recode this packet does not publish. Keep LOS ALTOS, CA as the citation: $66,600,752 and 110,178 lines.

Recheck both facts on the live hub after a later extract.

Full analysis: LOS ALTOS, CA: $66.6M on 110,178 FEC receipts

Questions

What is Los Altos’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?
Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city LOS ALTOS, CA total $66,600,752 across 110,178 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Los Altos residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.
Is Los Altos the same hub as Los Altos Hills?
No. Los Altos Hills is a separate city string. $66,600,752 counts rows that stored LOS ALTOS, CA. Receipts that stored LOS ALTOS HILLS sit on that other hub. Adding the two is a recode this packet does not publish. The 110,178 lines follow the Los Altos label only.
How should I read the 110,178 figure?
LobbyVault counts 110,178 itemized contribution lines for LOS ALTOS, CA. That is a line count, not a headcount. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding people. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $66,600,752. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 110,178 should not be quoted as a Los Altos population of donors.
Where do the Los Altos facts come from?
Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $66,600,752 and 110,178 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. California non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $605 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.

City is the contributor city on FEC itemizations. Totals can include PAC and joint-fundraising addresses, not only residents.

Total Donations

$66,600,752

Contributions

110,178

Top Industry

THE ROBERT A MCNEIL CORPORATION

Top Industries

THE ROBERT A MCNEIL CORPORATION
$3K
HOUSEWIFE
$3K
REALTOR
$2K
CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS
$2K
HOUSE WIFE
$2K
REQUESTED
$1K
RETIRED
$1K
PACIFIC MERCHANDISING
$1K
BESSON & MILLS
$1K
SALES EXECUTIVE
$1K

Donation Trend by Cycle

1980
$17K
1982
$9K
1984
$20K
1986
$11K
1988
$7K
1990
$5K
1992
$20K
1994
$15K
1996
$18K
1998
$9K
2000
$17K
2002
$4K
2004
$5K
2006
$5K
2008
$4K
2010
$3K
2012
$750
2014
$3K

Top Donors

Top individual donors in LOS ALTOS, CA, ranked by total donated.
#NameTotalContributionsEmployerCycles
1CYMROT, ALLEN$3,0001THE ROBERT A MCNEIL CORPORATION1980
2HARMAN, ARLINE T$2,0002HOUSEWIFE1980
3MOFFITT, DONALD E$1,3002CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS1980
4HARMAN, LEON$1,2502REQUESTED1980
5CARRUTHERS, PETER$1,0001RETIRED1980
6MARCUS, GEORGE M MRS$1,00011980
7LONG, DENNIS M$1,0001PACIFIC MERCHANDISING1980
8ESPERANZA, ROMEO A MR$1,0001REALTOR1980
9MILLS, W WARREN$1,0001BESSON & MILLS1980
10DORRICOTT, PHYLLIS J MRS$1,0001HOUSE WIFE1980
11DORRICOTT, ROBERT C$1,0001SALES EXECUTIVE1980
12HOPKINS, L E$7503HOPKINS & SONS INC DBA1980
13LODATO, FRANK J MR$7502INVESTOR1980
14ENG, SYLVIA MS$7501REALTOR1980
15INGBER, PHILIP H$5002ALPHA LAND CO1980
16GRANT, CLYDE G MR$5001S P CONMUNENTION1980
17HSIA, EDWARD S T$50011980
18INGBAR, PHILIP H$5001DEVELOPER1980
19MIZUNO, PAUL$50011980
20INGBER, PHILIP HENRY$50011980
21MC LEAN, CLAIRE B MRS$5001HOUSE WIFE1980
22MC LEAN, ROBERT J$5001SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO1980
23MELCHOR, JACK L$5001MELCHOR ASSOCIATES1980
24DANNA, LEE J$5001INTERNATIONAL BRANDS INC1980
25CHESEBROUGH, JAMES A$5001HOUSEWIFE1980
26ALBRECHT, N PETER$4001WATKINS-JOHNSON CO1980
27GRANT, WILBUR J$3001CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTSWAY1980
28CLARK, DORR$2501ST MICHAELS ALLEY1980
29BERLAND, SAMUEL J$2501BAS HOMES, INC1980
30MCLEAN, ROBERT J$2501SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO1980
31MCGEE, S W RUTH$25011980
32LODATO, FRANK J MRS$2501HOMEMAKER1980
33COLDIREW, AUDREY$2501GORDON SINTE OIL CO1980
34KUCHENRITER, T L$2501NFIB1980
35CUTLER, GUY R$2501CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS1980
36EDWARDS, LEONARD$2501ATTORNEY1980
37FROID, STANLEY H MR$2501TUDOR ENGINEERING CO1980
38GINELLA, JAMES A$25011980
39BOWERS, ANN S MRS$2001HOMEMAKER1980
40BLODGETT, ELIZABETH MRS$2001EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION1980
41BECKMEYER, H E$2001WATKINS-JOHNSON COMPANY1980
42BARTLETT, JOEL F$2001TANDEM COMPUTERS1980
43BAER, THEODORE F$2001RETIRED1980

Top Recipients