SUGAR LAND, TX

Sugar Land is not Houston on the FEC city key

The headline pair is $23,132,925 and 82,997 lines. The implied average is about $279. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Sugar Land book.

Fort Bend County’s Sugar Land string is separate from Houston, Missouri City, and Stafford on the FEC city key. Filers typed SUGAR LAND 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.

If a newsroom map paints Sugar Land together with Houston as one metro total, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $23,132,925 on 82,997 SUGAR LAND, TX rows, mean near $279.

Why SUGAR LAND on the receipt is not a census of Sugar Land

Searchers often want “how much did people in Sugar Land give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city SUGAR LAND, TX total $23,132,925 across 82,997 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $23,132,925. 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 Sugar Land, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city SUGAR LAND, TX total $23,132,925 across 82,997 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 Houston merge. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is Sugar Land folded into Houston’s FEC city total?

No. LobbyVault counts 82,997 itemized contributions for SUGAR LAND, TX against $23,132,925. Houston is a different city string. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 82,997 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Sugar Land total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed SUGAR LAND with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Sugar Land can be part of $23,132,925 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 82,997-line count follows the same rule.

Are Sugar Land numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $23,132,925 and 82,997 lines for SUGAR LAND, 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 $279 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.