GAITHERSBURG, MD

69,921 lines behind GAITHERSBURG's $16.7M

GAITHERSBURG shows 69,921 itemizations behind $16,718,788. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $16.7M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. The implied mean is about $239.

Gaithersburg is a Montgomery County volume book: 69,921 lines against $16.7 million, a mean near $239. Rockville and Germantown are neighboring keys. District of Columbia rows that list WASHINGTON sit on another hub. 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 $16,718,788 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Gaithersburg gave. The 69,921 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Gaithersburg together with Rockville, Germantown, and Bethesda, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,718,788 on 69,921 GAITHERSBURG, MD rows, mean near $239. Keep the stored spelling GAITHERSBURG in the citation.

Why GAITHERSBURG on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Gaithersburg give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city GAITHERSBURG, MD total $16,718,788 across 69,921 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. GAITHERSBURG, MD is the stored Montgomery County string. Washington, D.C. is a different city-and-state key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,718,788. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $239 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city GAITHERSBURG, MD?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city GAITHERSBURG, MD total $16,718,788 across 69,921 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 Gaithersburg. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $239 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Gaithersburg folded into Washington, D.C. on this extract?

No. GAITHERSBURG, MD is the stored Montgomery County string. Washington, D.C. is a different city-and-state key. LobbyVault counts 69,921 itemized contributions for GAITHERSBURG, MD against $16,718,788. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 69,921 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Gaithersburg total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed GAITHERSBURG with state MD. Office addresses and mail that list Gaithersburg can be part of $16,718,788 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 69,921-line count follows the same rule.

Are Gaithersburg numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,718,788 and 69,921 lines for GAITHERSBURG, MD. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MD are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.