SAN FRANCISCO, CA
San Francisco, CA is the contributor city on $1,418,166,223 in federal receipts spread over 1,361,094 FEC itemizations. LobbyVault pulls those lines from FEC.gov filings and groups them by the city and state stored on each record. The label is the address the committee reported. In this city that often means a downtown office as easily as a residential street, which is why the total is a tagged-address rollup rather than a headcount of San Franciscans who donated.
Key figures
- San Francisco, CA contributor-city receipts total $1,418,166,223.
- That sum sits on 1,361,094 FEC contribution itemizations.
- Other Bay Area city strings are not merged into this hub.
- PAC and joint-fundraising addresses can appear in the city field.
- ZIP pages regroup the same federal filings by postal code.
The San Francisco city field versus the Bay Area
One billion four hundred eighteen million one hundred sixty-six thousand two hundred twenty-three dollars is the sum of itemizations whose city text is San Francisco and whose state is CA. The matching line count is 1,361,094. Palo Alto and other Bay Area strings are stored separately. They are not folded into this total. Researchers who want a nine-county picture must add those hubs themselves. This page stays with the literal city field so the table can be checked against the public file without a homemade metro definition.
Technology firms, funds, and national committees keep San Francisco mailing addresses even when the people associated with a receipt live on the peninsula or across the bay. Totals can include PAC and joint-fundraising addresses, not only residents. The $1,418,166,223 figure is therefore a contributor-city rollup. It is not a statement about how many people who sleep in the city wrote federal checks, and the 1,361,094 lines are not unique persons.
What 1.36 million itemizations imply
A count of 1,361,094 lines means the San Francisco total is built from a thick file, not a few oversized transfers. Individual receipts and committee receipts share the same city column. LobbyVault does not strip one type before adding the dollars. If the filing says San Francisco, CA, both the amount and the line stay in this bucket. That is how FEC city aggregation works on this site.
Free-text city fields also produce spelling splits. A neighborhood name or an abbreviation, if it appears in the raw file, would not land here. The 1,361,094 records on this hub are the ones stored as SAN FRANCISCO. That is a feature of FEC disclosure, not a LobbyVault filter. Matching another publisher’s “Bay Area” number requires seeing which labels they included.
Full analysis: Federal contributions listing San Francisco, CA →
Questions
- How much in FEC contributions lists San Francisco, CA?
- Itemizations with contributor city San Francisco, CA total $1,418,166,223 across 1,361,094 contribution records. The figures are federal filings grouped by city field, not a census of San Francisco residents.
- Is Palo Alto included in the San Francisco total?
- No. Palo Alto is a separate city string. This hub is only the 1,361,094 lines labeled San Francisco, CA, summing to $1,418,166,223. Open the cities index for other Bay Area labels.
- Do PAC addresses inflate San Francisco donation totals?
- They can. Committees that list a San Francisco, CA address are in the $1,418,166,223 sum. The city field does not separate a PAC suite from an individual street. Treat the total as tagged receipts, not resident-only giving.
- Where can I see San Francisco donations by ZIP?
- ZIP pages split the same FEC itemizations by postal code. The city rollup remains $1,418,166,223 and 1,361,094 contributions. ZIP views do not change the source; they change the grouping.
City is the contributor city on FEC itemizations. Totals can include PAC and joint-fundraising addresses, not only residents.
City ties
- San Francisco, CA political money — 2008 cycle
- San Francisco, CA political money — 2010 cycle
- San Francisco, CA political money — 2012 cycle
- San Francisco, CA political money — 2014 cycle
- Attorney political contributions from San Francisco, California
- Atty political contributions from San Francisco, CA
- Bank Of America political money from San Francisco, CA
- Cahill Construction Company political contributions from San Francisco, CA
Total Donations
$1,418,166,223
Contributions
1,361,094
Top Industry
HOMEMAKER
Top Industries
Donation Trend by Cycle
Top Donors
| # | Name | Total | Contributions | Employer | Cycles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HOCHSCHILD, ADAM | $26,600 | 11 | EDITOR & PROFESSOR | 1980 |
| 2 | HOCHSCHILD, ARLIE | $24,300 | 10 | EDITOR AND PROFESSOR | 1980 |
| 3 | KINGMAN, WOODWARD | $23,922 | 20 | — | 1980 |
| 4 | CAHILL, JOHN R | $22,300 | 25 | CAHILL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY | 1980 |
| 5 | CRAVENS, MALCOLM | $21,749 | 14 | — | 1980 |
| 6 | COMMONS, DORMAN L | $18,700 | 10 | NATOMAS CORPORATION | 1980 |
| 7 | FURTH, FREDERICK MR | $13,000 | 2 | ATTY | 1980 |
| 8 | CLAUSEN, ALDEN W | $12,750 | 14 | BANK OF AMERICA | 1980 |
| 9 | GETTY, ANN G MRS | $11,000 | 3 | — | 1980 |
| 10 | BECHTEL, ELIZABETH H | $11,000 | 3 | HOUSE WIFE | 1980 |
| 11 | JONES, PROCTOR P | $10,750 | 3 | — | 1980 |
| 12 | FISHER, DONALD G | $10,500 | 5 | GAP STORES INC | 1980 |
| 13 | KINGMAN, WOODWARD MR | $10,000 | 1 | CROCKER NAT'L BANK | 1980 |
| 14 | BUNS, BRIAN P MR | $10,000 | 1 | REQUESTED | 1980 |
| 15 | BOWLES, HENRY M | $10,000 | 3 | BOWLES FARMING CO | 1980 |
| 16 | COMMONS, GERRY B MRS | $8,500 | 2 | HOMEMAKER | 1980 |
| 17 | DOAN, LELAND A | $8,000 | 6 | SELF-EMPLOYED | 1980 |
| 18 | CAHILL, JOHN R MR | $7,550 | 5 | REQUESTED | 1980 |
| 19 | HAMBRECHT, WILLIAM R | $7,500 | 8 | — | 1980 |
| 20 | ANDERSON, JOHN M | $7,000 | 3 | ATTORNEY | 1980 |
| 21 | FURTH, FREDERICK P | $6,800 | 9 | FURTH, FAHRNER & WONG | 1980 |
| 22 | COMMONS, DORMAN L MR | $6,500 | 2 | NATOMAS CO | 1980 |
| 23 | HSIEH, THOMAS | $6,500 | 7 | HOMEMAKER | 1980 |
| 24 | BECHTEL, STEPHEN D | $6,500 | 4 | RETIRED | 1980 |
| 25 | COX, E MORRIS | $6,300 | 3 | BANKER | 1980 |
| 26 | AGNOST, FRANK P | $6,000 | 2 | — | 1980 |
| 27 | MOORE, JOSEPH A | $5,698 | 9 | — | 1980 |
| 28 | CROWLEY, THOMAS B | $5,500 | 6 | BUSINESS EXECUTIVE | 1980 |
| 29 | HAAS, WALTER A JR | $5,300 | 7 | LEVI STRAUSS COMPANY | 1980 |
| 30 | HALE, DENISE | $5,062 | 4 | HOMEMAKER | 1980 |
| 31 | MCKICKING, JOSEPH R | $5,000 | 1 | — | 1980 |
| 32 | FREEMON, RICHARD D | $5,000 | 1 | — | 1980 |
| 33 | DEGNAN, JUNE OPPEN MS | $5,000 | 2 | SELF-EMPLOYED | 1980 |
| 34 | BELLI, MELVIN MR | $5,000 | 1 | ATTORNEY | 1980 |
| 35 | HORMEL, JAMES C | $5,000 | 1 | INVESTOR | 1980 |
| 36 | CURTIS, MITCHELL T | $5,000 | 1 | — | 1980 |
| 37 | HSEIH, THOMAS MR | $5,000 | 1 | ARCHITECT | 1980 |
| 38 | MALABED, LEONILO L DR | $5,000 | 2 | ANNAC TI BATAC ASSOC | 1980 |
| 39 | HUME, JACQUELIN H MR | $5,000 | 1 | AMPCO FOODS INC | 1980 |
| 40 | BIAGGINI, B F | $5,000 | 3 | — | 1980 |
| 41 | GILLETTE, E S JR | $4,750 | 9 | JOHNSON & HIGGINS OF CALIFORNIA | 1980 |
| 42 | BAKAR, GERSON | $4,750 | 6 | GERSON BAKER AND ASSOCIATES | 1980 |
| 43 | FROMM, ALFRED | $4,700 | 8 | REQUESTED | 1980 |
| 44 | BOWLES, GEORGE M | $4,550 | 7 | BOWLES FARMING COMPANY | 1980 |
| 45 | CROCKER, MARION PHYLLIS MISS | $4,500 | 5 | INFORMATION REQUESTED | 1980 |
| 46 | ENGEL, ALBERT E | $4,350 | 6 | TRIPLE A SHIPYARDS | 1980 |
| 47 | BRINTON, WILLIAM M | $4,250 | 6 | JORDAN KEELER & SILIGMAN | 1980 |
| 48 | CONROY, PETER A | $4,125 | 1 | DENTIST | 1980 |
| 49 | CAMERON, WILLIAM MRS | $4,000 | 2 | HOUSE WIFE | 1980 |
| 50 | HALE, PRENTIS C | $4,000 | 4 | HALE BROS ASSOCIATES INC | 1980 |
Top Recipients
| # | Committee | Total Received |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DCCCC00000935 | $2,586,758 |
| 2 | SMPC00484642 | $2,131,460 |
| 3 | ACTBLUEC00401224 | $2,008,116 |
| 4 | DSCCC00042366 | $1,571,855 |
| 5 | DNC SERVICES CORP / DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEC00010603 | $1,284,683 |
| 6 | UNITE THE COUNTRYC00701888 | $1,000,000 |
| 7 | HARRIS VICTORY FUNDC00744946 | $850,848 |
| 8 | HILLARY VICTORY FUNDC00586537 | $737,872 |
| 9 | REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEEC00003418 | $710,870 |
| 10 | DNC-NON-FEDERAL INDIVIDUALC60000254 | $663,700 |
| 11 | NANCY PELOSI VICTORY FUNDC00492421 | $573,384 |
| 12 | HMPC00495028 | $402,010 |
| 13 | REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEEC00003376 | $387,012 |
| 14 | DSCC/NON-FED UNINCORP ASSOCC60001245 | $375,000 |
| 15 | NRSCC00027466 | $360,689 |