FORT WORTH, TX

Reading $117,875,456 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $117,875,456 and 309,445 lines. The implied average is about $381. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Fort Worth book.

Tarrant County’s Fort Worth string is separate from Dallas on the FEC city key. Do not merge the two cities. Filers typed FORT WORTH in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state TX. 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.

A Fort Worth total of $117,875,456 does not absorb Arlington, Dallas, or Haltom City. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State TX stays on the citation so FORT WORTH, TX is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 309,445 lines and the mean near $381 describe this key only.

Why FORT WORTH on the receipt is not a census of Fort Worth

Searchers often want “how much did people in Fort Worth give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city FORT WORTH, TX total $117,875,456 across 309,445 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $117,875,456. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to Fort Worth, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city FORT WORTH, TX total $117,875,456 across 309,445 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 Fort Worth. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to Fort Worth?

LobbyVault counts 309,445 itemized contributions for FORT WORTH, TX. 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 309,445 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $117,875,456.

Does the Fort Worth total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FORT WORTH with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Fort Worth can be part of $117,875,456 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 309,445-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get Fort Worth totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $117,875,456 and 309,445 lines for FORT WORTH, TX. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from TX are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $381 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.