ASHEVILLE, NC

75,640 lines behind ASHEVILLE's $19.4M

ASHEVILLE shows 75,640 itemizations behind $19,385,297. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $19.4M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. Volume does not prove small-dollar giving. The implied mean is about $256.

Asheville is a Buncombe mountain-city field. Charlotte is a different Mecklenburg string. Black Mountain and Weaverville stay on their own hubs when filers typed those names. 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 $19,385,297 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of ASHEVILLE gave. The 75,640 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints ASHEVILLE together with Weaverville, Black Mountain, and Hendersonville, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $19,385,297 on 75,640 ASHEVILLE, NC rows, mean near $256. Keep the stored spelling ASHEVILLE in the citation.

Why ASHEVILLE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Asheville give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ASHEVILLE, NC total $19,385,297 across 75,640 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. ASHEVILLE, NC is the stored Buncombe string. Charlotte is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $19,385,297. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $256 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city ASHEVILLE, NC?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ASHEVILLE, NC total $19,385,297 across 75,640 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 Asheville. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $256 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Asheville folded into Charlotte on this extract?

No. ASHEVILLE, NC is the stored Buncombe string. Charlotte is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 75,640 itemized contributions for ASHEVILLE, NC against $19,385,297. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 75,640 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Asheville total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ASHEVILLE with state NC. Office addresses and mail that list Asheville can be part of $19,385,297 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 75,640-line count follows the same rule.

Are Asheville numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $19,385,297 and 75,640 lines for ASHEVILLE, NC. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from NC are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.