ORANGE, CA

Orange the city is not Orange County on the FEC key

The headline pair is $24,356,088 and 74,558 lines. The implied average is about $327. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Orange city book.

Filers typed ORANGE with state CA. LobbyVault summed those rows. Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, and Fullerton are other city strings. 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 Orange together with Anaheim and Santa Ana as “Orange County money,” the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $24,356,088 on 74,558 ORANGE, CA rows, mean near $327.

Why ORANGE on the receipt is not a census of Orange

Searchers often want “how much did people in Orange give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ORANGE, CA total $24,356,088 across 74,558 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Treating the page as an Orange County roll-up inflates it further.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $24,356,088. 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 Orange, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ORANGE, CA total $24,356,088 across 74,558 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows for the City of Orange, not Orange County as a whole. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Does the Orange, CA total cover all of Orange County?

No. LobbyVault counts 74,558 itemized contributions for ORANGE, CA against $24,356,088. Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, and Fullerton are other city strings. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 74,558 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Orange total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ORANGE with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Orange can be part of $24,356,088 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 74,558-line count follows the same rule.

Are Orange numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $24,356,088 and 74,558 lines for ORANGE, 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 $327 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.