CARY, NC

69,798 lines behind CARY's $17.1M

CARY shows 69,798 itemizations behind $17,093,255. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $17.1M 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 $245.

Cary is a Wake County Triangle suburb as typed, not a Raleigh merge. Apex and Morrisville are neighboring keys. Filers who typed RALEIGH land 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 $17,093,255 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of CARY gave. The 69,798 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints CARY together with Raleigh, Apex, and Morrisville, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,093,255 on 69,798 CARY, NC rows, mean near $245. Keep the stored spelling CARY in the citation.

Why CARY on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Cary give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city CARY, NC total $17,093,255 across 69,798 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. CARY, NC is the stored Wake County string. Raleigh is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,093,255. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $245 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city CARY, NC?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city CARY, NC total $17,093,255 across 69,798 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 Cary. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $245 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Cary folded into Raleigh on this extract?

No. CARY, NC is the stored Wake County string. Raleigh is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 69,798 itemized contributions for CARY, NC against $17,093,255. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 69,798 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Cary total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed CARY with state NC. Office addresses and mail that list Cary can be part of $17,093,255 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 69,798-line count follows the same rule.

Are Cary numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,093,255 and 69,798 lines for CARY, 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.