Chestnut Hill, MA

Chestnut Hill’s high mean on a thinner file

Fifty-nine thousand eight hundred thirteen lines produce $52,400,939. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $876. Boston and Cambridge, on other Massachusetts hubs, carry different line counts and different means. That contrast is a shape fact, not a character study of Brookline or Newton.

Chestnut Hill is a neighborhood name that filers type as a city. Brookline, Newton, and Boston are other city strings. They are not inside $52,400,939 unless the filer typed Chestnut Hill. Suffolk and Norfolk Counties are orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Chestnut Hill city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 59,813 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Boston metro sum

Boston, Cambridge, and Newton Centre keep separate Massachusetts hubs. Adding them to Chestnut Hill would be a recode. This packet publishes Chestnut Hill, MA only: $52,400,939 and 59,813 lines.

State MA on the key is required in the citation. The mixed-case city string in this packet is the match as stored. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

Questions

What is Chestnut Hill’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city Chestnut Hill, MA total $52,400,939 across 59,813 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Chestnut Hill residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Chestnut Hill’s 59,813 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 59,813 itemized lines for Chestnut Hill, MA. 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 $52,400,939.

Does Chestnut Hill’s total include Brookline or Newton?

Only if the filer typed Chestnut Hill. Brookline, Newton, and Boston are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $52,400,939 is the Chestnut Hill, MA match. The 59,813 lines follow the same rule. Neighborhood-to-city recodes are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Chestnut Hill facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $52,400,939 and 59,813 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Massachusetts non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $876 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.