WACO, TX

Reading $25,504,084 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $25,504,084 and 65,898 lines. The implied average is about $387. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Waco book.

McLennan County’s Waco string is separate from Dallas, Austin, and Temple on the FEC city key. Filers typed WACO 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 Waco together with Temple or Hewitt, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $25,504,084 on 65,898 WACO, TX rows, mean near $387. Waco is not a Dallas suburb on this tape.

Why WACO on the receipt is not a census of Waco

Searchers often want “how much did people in Waco give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city WACO, TX total $25,504,084 across 65,898 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $25,504,084. 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 Waco, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city WACO, TX total $25,504,084 across 65,898 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 Waco. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Waco contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 65,898 itemized contributions for WACO, 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 65,898 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $25,504,084.

Does the Waco total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed WACO with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Waco can be part of $25,504,084 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 65,898-line count follows the same rule.

Are Waco numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $25,504,084 and 65,898 lines for WACO, 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 $387 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.