NEW HAVEN, CT

Reading $25,447,083 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $25,447,083 and 93,529 lines. The implied average is about $272. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the New Haven book.

New Haven’s string is separate from Hamden, West Haven, and East Haven on the FEC city key. Filers typed NEW HAVEN in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state CT. 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 New Haven together with Hamden and West Haven, the FEC file still splits them. East Haven too. This extract’s only city total is $25,447,083 on 93,529 NEW HAVEN, CT rows, mean near $272.

Why NEW HAVEN on the receipt is not a census of New Haven

Searchers often want “how much did people in New Haven give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city NEW HAVEN, CT total $25,447,083 across 93,529 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $25,447,083. University geography orients readers; this packet has no student, faculty, or employer split. 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 New Haven, CT?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city NEW HAVEN, CT total $25,447,083 across 93,529 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 New Haven. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the New Haven contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 93,529 itemized contributions for NEW HAVEN, CT. 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 93,529 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $25,447,083.

Does the New Haven total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed NEW HAVEN with state CT. Office addresses and mail that list New Haven can be part of $25,447,083 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 93,529-line count follows the same rule.

Are New Haven numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $25,447,083 and 93,529 lines for NEW HAVEN, CT. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from CT are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $272 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.