SARASOTA, FL

Sarasota’s volume relative to its dollars

One hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred ninety-four lines produce $41,007,472. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $246. That is a high-volume city string on this extract. Fort Lauderdale, on a nearby dollar total, carries fewer lines and a higher mean. That contrast is a shape fact, not a character study of the Gulf.

Bradenton, Venice, and Siesta Key are other Gulf Coast city strings. They are not inside $41,007,472 unless the filer typed SARASOTA. Sarasota County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Sarasota city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 166,694 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Tampa or Miami sum

Tampa, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale keep separate Florida hubs. Adding them to Sarasota would be a recode. This packet publishes SARASOTA, FL only: $41,007,472 and 166,694 lines.

State FL on the key is required in the citation. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

Questions

What is Sarasota’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city SARASOTA, FL total $41,007,472 across 166,694 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Sarasota residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Sarasota’s 166,694 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 166,694 itemized lines for SARASOTA, FL. 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 $41,007,472.

Does Sarasota’s total include Bradenton or Tampa?

Only if the filer typed SARASOTA. Bradenton, Venice, and Tampa are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $41,007,472 is the SARASOTA, FL match. The 166,694 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Sarasota facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $41,007,472 and 166,694 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Florida non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $246 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.