PORTOLA VALLEY, CA

$51,596,273 is a Schedule A city total

FEC.gov indexed 57,222 itemized rows to contributor city PORTOLA VALLEY, CA. Their sum is $51,596,273. The mean near $902 describes the average row, not a household and not a census tract.

San Mateo County’s Portola Valley is a small Peninsula municipality on the tape. Size of the town is not in this packet. The 57,222-line count is a contribution-line total. It is not a headcount of Portola Valley residents. 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.

Portola Valley versus Woodside is a different-key problem, not a hillside ranking. Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills follow the same rule. Quote $51,596,273 and 57,222 for PORTOLA VALLEY, CA only. The mean near $902 does not travel with a neighbor’s name.

How to read the CA city key for Portola Valley

City-name spelling is part of the key. PORTOLA VALLEY with state CA is the unit. A close spelling, a hyphenated variant, or a merged metro label is a different aggregate if FEC stored it differently.

Independent expenditures that mention a Portola Valley race can be paid by a committee with a different city on its own reports. Those disbursements do not move $51,596,273. Keep independent-expenditure tables separate from this city total.

Questions

What is Portola Valley’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city PORTOLA VALLEY, CA total $51,596,273 across 57,222 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Portola Valley residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Portola Valley’s 57,222 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 57,222 itemized lines for PORTOLA VALLEY, CA. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $51,596,273.

Does Portola Valley’s total include Woodside or Palo Alto?

Only if the filer typed PORTOLA VALLEY. Woodside, Palo Alto, and Los Altos Hills are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $51,596,273 is the PORTOLA VALLEY, CA match. The 57,222 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Portola Valley facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $51,596,273 and 57,222 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 $902 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.