TULSA, OK

Reading $128,640,043 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $128,640,043 and 270,118 lines. The implied average is about $476. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Tulsa book.

Northeastern Oklahoma geography orients the map. FEC.gov stored a city string, not a regional politics grade. Filers typed TULSA in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state OK. 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.

Metro shorthand that folds Broken Arrow or Jenks into Tulsa is a recode. FEC.gov stored TULSA, OK. $128,640,043 across 270,118 contributions, mean near $476, belongs to that spelling. Bixby is a different key if it appears as the city field.

Why TULSA on the receipt is not a census of Tulsa

Searchers often want “how much did people in Tulsa give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city TULSA, OK total $128,640,043 across 270,118 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $128,640,043. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Tulsa?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city TULSA, OK total $128,640,043 across 270,118 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 Tulsa. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Tulsa contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 270,118 itemized contributions for TULSA, OK. 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 270,118 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $128,640,043.

Can committee addresses appear in the Tulsa city total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed TULSA with state OK. Office addresses and mail that list Tulsa can be part of $128,640,043 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 270,118-line count follows the same rule.

Are Tulsa numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $128,640,043 and 270,118 lines for TULSA, OK. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from OK are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $476 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.