ASPEN, CO

46,392 lines carrying $17,166,209

The headline pair is $17,166,209 and 46,392 lines. The implied average is about $370. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the ASPEN book. Pitkin County filers typed ASPEN with state CO.

Aspen is a Pitkin mountain-town string. Denver is a different Front Range key. Snowmass Village and Basalt are neighboring Roaring Fork names, not subsets of ASPEN, CO. 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 $17,166,209 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of ASPEN gave. The 46,392 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints ASPEN together with Snowmass Village, Basalt, and Glenwood Springs, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,166,209 on 46,392 ASPEN, CO rows, mean near $370. Keep the stored spelling ASPEN in the citation.

Why ASPEN on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Aspen give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ASPEN, CO total $17,166,209 across 46,392 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. ASPEN, CO is the stored Pitkin County string. Denver is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,166,209. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $370 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city ASPEN, CO?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ASPEN, CO total $17,166,209 across 46,392 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 Aspen. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $370 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Aspen folded into Denver on this extract?

No. ASPEN, CO is the stored Pitkin County string. Denver is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 46,392 itemized contributions for ASPEN, CO against $17,166,209. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 46,392 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Aspen total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ASPEN with state CO. Office addresses and mail that list Aspen can be part of $17,166,209 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 46,392-line count follows the same rule.

Are Aspen numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,166,209 and 46,392 lines for ASPEN, CO. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from CO are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.