ALLENTOWN, PA

71,272 lines behind ALLENTOWN's $18.5M

ALLENTOWN shows 71,272 itemizations behind $18,451,312. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $18.5M 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 $259.

Allentown is a Lehigh Valley volume field. Bethlehem and Easton are neighboring strings with their own totals. Philadelphia is a different southeast Pennsylvania key, not a parent of ALLENTOWN, PA. 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 $18,451,312 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of ALLENTOWN gave. The 71,272 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints ALLENTOWN together with Bethlehem, Easton, and Emmaus, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $18,451,312 on 71,272 ALLENTOWN, PA rows, mean near $259. Keep the stored spelling ALLENTOWN in the citation.

Why ALLENTOWN on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Allentown give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ALLENTOWN, PA total $18,451,312 across 71,272 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. ALLENTOWN, PA is the stored Lehigh County string. Philadelphia is a different city key. Bethlehem is a neighboring string when typed.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $18,451,312. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $259 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city ALLENTOWN, PA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ALLENTOWN, PA total $18,451,312 across 71,272 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 Allentown. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $259 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Allentown rolled into Philadelphia on FEC reports?

No. ALLENTOWN, PA is the stored Lehigh County string. Philadelphia is a different city key. Bethlehem is a neighboring string when typed. LobbyVault counts 71,272 itemized contributions for ALLENTOWN, PA against $18,451,312. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 71,272 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Allentown total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ALLENTOWN with state PA. Office addresses and mail that list Allentown can be part of $18,451,312 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 71,272-line count follows the same rule.

Are Allentown numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $18,451,312 and 71,272 lines for ALLENTOWN, PA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from PA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.