The Woodlands, TX

Keep “The Woodlands” as the FEC city string

The headline pair is $25,385,322 and 50,792 lines. The implied average is about $500. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of The Woodlands book.

Montgomery County’s The Woodlands string is separate from Houston, Spring, and Conroe on the FEC city key. Filers typed The Woodlands in the city field. A all-caps WOODLANDS row, if it exists, would be a different key. LobbyVault summed rows with this 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 The Woodlands together with Houston and Spring, the FEC file still splits them. Conroe too. This extract’s only city total is $25,385,322 on 50,792 The Woodlands, TX rows, mean near $500.

Why The Woodlands on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in The Woodlands give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city The Woodlands, TX total $25,385,322 across 50,792 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $25,385,322. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. Census-designated-place status does not change the FEC city field.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city The Woodlands, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city The Woodlands, TX total $25,385,322 across 50,792 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 The Woodlands. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Does spelling matter for The Woodlands on FEC reports?

Yes. This extract is the title-case string The Woodlands with state TX: 50,792 lines and $25,385,322. A different capitalization or WOODLANDS without The would be a different city key if FEC stored it that way. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 50,792 should not be quoted as a population.

Does The Woodlands total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed The Woodlands with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list The Woodlands can be part of $25,385,322 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 50,792-line count follows the same rule.

Are The Woodlands numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $25,385,322 and 50,792 lines for The Woodlands, 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 $500 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.