PIEDMONT, CA

Piedmont is not Oakland on the FEC city key

The headline pair is $26,462,789 and 72,512 lines. The implied average is about $365. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Piedmont book.

Piedmont sits as an independent city string inside the Oakland street grid. Filers typed PIEDMONT with state CA. LobbyVault summed those rows. 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 Piedmont together with Oakland and Berkeley, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $26,462,789 on 72,512 PIEDMONT, CA rows, mean near $365. Do not fold Piedmont into Oakland because the map looks enclosed.

Why PIEDMONT on the receipt is not a census of Piedmont

Searchers often want “how much did people in Piedmont give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city PIEDMONT, CA total $26,462,789 across 72,512 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $26,462,789. 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 Piedmont, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city PIEDMONT, CA total $26,462,789 across 72,512 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 Piedmont. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is Piedmont folded into Oakland’s FEC city total?

No. LobbyVault counts 72,512 itemized contributions for PIEDMONT, CA against $26,462,789. Oakland is a different city string. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 72,512 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Piedmont total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed PIEDMONT with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Piedmont can be part of $26,462,789 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 72,512-line count follows the same rule.

Are Piedmont numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $26,462,789 and 72,512 lines for PIEDMONT, 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 $365 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.