LOS GATOS, CA

Reading $26,534,469 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $26,534,469 and 76,090 lines. The implied average is about $349. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Los Gatos book.

Santa Clara County’s Los Gatos string is separate from San Jose, Saratoga, and Campbell on the FEC city key. Filers typed LOS GATOS 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 Los Gatos together with Saratoga and Campbell, the FEC file still splits them. San Jose too. This extract’s only city total is $26,534,469 on 76,090 LOS GATOS, CA rows, mean near $349.

Why LOS GATOS on the receipt is not a census of Los Gatos

Searchers often want “how much did people in Los Gatos give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city LOS GATOS, CA total $26,534,469 across 76,090 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $26,534,469. 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 Los Gatos?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city LOS GATOS, CA total $26,534,469 across 76,090 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 Los Gatos. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Los Gatos contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 76,090 itemized contributions for LOS GATOS, 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 76,090 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $26,534,469.

Does the Los Gatos total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed LOS GATOS with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Los Gatos can be part of $26,534,469 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 76,090-line count follows the same rule.

Are Los Gatos numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $26,534,469 and 76,090 lines for LOS GATOS, 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 $349 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.