SUNNYVALE, CA

Reading $25,670,427 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $25,670,427 and 116,904 lines. The implied average is about $220. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Sunnyvale book.

Santa Clara County’s Sunnyvale string is separate from Mountain View, Cupertino, and Santa Clara on the FEC city key. Filers typed SUNNYVALE in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state CA. 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 Sunnyvale together with Mountain View and Cupertino, the FEC file still splits them. Santa Clara the city too. This extract’s only city total is $25,670,427 on 116,904 SUNNYVALE, CA rows, mean near $220.

Why SUNNYVALE on the receipt is not a census of Sunnyvale

Searchers often want “how much did people in Sunnyvale give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city SUNNYVALE, CA total $25,670,427 across 116,904 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $25,670,427. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. Tech-campus geography orients readers; this packet has no employer roll-up.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Sunnyvale?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city SUNNYVALE, CA total $25,670,427 across 116,904 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 Sunnyvale. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Sunnyvale contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 116,904 itemized contributions for SUNNYVALE, CA. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 116,904 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $25,670,427.

Does the Sunnyvale total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed SUNNYVALE with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Sunnyvale can be part of $25,670,427 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 116,904-line count follows the same rule.

Are Sunnyvale numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $25,670,427 and 116,904 lines for SUNNYVALE, 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 $220 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.