TAMPA, FL

$101,922,580 is a Schedule A city total

FEC.gov indexed 293,890 itemized rows to contributor city TAMPA, FL. Their sum is $101,922,580. The mean near $347 describes the average row, not a household and not a census tract.

Hillsborough County’s Tampa string is not St. Petersburg. Adjacent Florida cities have their own FEC keys. The 293,890-line count is a contribution-line total. It is not a headcount of Tampa residents. 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.

A Tampa total of $101,922,580 does not absorb St. Petersburg, Clearwater, or Brandon. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State FL stays on the citation so TAMPA, FL is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 293,890 lines and the mean near $347 describe this key only.

How to read the FL city key for Tampa

City-name spelling is part of the key. TAMPA with state FL is the unit. A close spelling, a neighborhood abbreviation, or a merged metro label is a different aggregate if FEC stored it differently.

Independent expenditures that mention a Tampa race can be paid by a committee with a different city on its own reports. Those disbursements do not move $101,922,580. Keep independent-expenditure tables separate from this city total.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to Tampa, FL?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city TAMPA, FL total $101,922,580 across 293,890 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 Tampa. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to Tampa?

LobbyVault counts 293,890 itemized contributions for TAMPA, FL. 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 293,890 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $101,922,580.

Does the Tampa total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed TAMPA with state FL. Office addresses and mail that list Tampa can be part of $101,922,580 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 293,890-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get Tampa totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $101,922,580 and 293,890 lines for TAMPA, FL. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from FL are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $347 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.