ORINDA, CA

47,223 lines carrying $16,855,039

The headline pair is $16,855,039 and 47,223 lines. The implied average is about $357. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the ORINDA book. Contra Costa County filers typed ORINDA with state CA.

Orinda is a Contra Costa Lamorinda city field, not a Berkeley or Oakland merge. Lafayette and Moraga are neighboring keys. State CA stays on the citation. Lamorinda is a local nickname, not an FEC city string. 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 $16,855,039 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Orinda gave. The 47,223 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Orinda together with Lafayette, Moraga, and Berkeley, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,855,039 on 47,223 ORINDA, CA rows, mean near $357. Keep the stored spelling ORINDA in the citation.

Why ORINDA on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Orinda give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ORINDA, CA total $16,855,039 across 47,223 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Only if the filer typed ORINDA. Lafayette and Moraga are other Contra Costa city keys when stored that way.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,855,039. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $357 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city ORINDA, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ORINDA, CA total $16,855,039 across 47,223 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 Orinda. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $357 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Does Orinda’s total include Lafayette and Moraga?

Only if the filer typed ORINDA. Lafayette and Moraga are other Contra Costa city keys when stored that way. LobbyVault counts 47,223 itemized contributions for ORINDA, CA against $16,855,039. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 47,223 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Orinda total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ORINDA with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Orinda can be part of $16,855,039 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 47,223-line count follows the same rule.

Are Orinda numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,855,039 and 47,223 lines for ORINDA, 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.