MEDINA, WA

17,970 lines carrying $17,496,725

MEDINA shows 17,970 itemizations behind $17,496,725. That mix is a thinner stack with a high average line relative to volume books that post similar dollars on 70,000-plus rows. The implied mean is about $974. Committee receipts that list a MEDINA address still sit in the same column as individual rows.

Medina posts a thin Eastside stack: 17,970 lines against $17.5 million, a mean near $974. MEDINA, WA is not Medina, Ohio. Bellevue and Mercer Island are neighboring keys, not parents. 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 $17,496,725 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of MEDINA gave. The 17,970 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints MEDINA together with Bellevue, Kirkland, and Mercer Island, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,496,725 on 17,970 MEDINA, WA rows, mean near $974. Keep the stored spelling MEDINA in the citation.

Why MEDINA on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Medina give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city MEDINA, WA total $17,496,725 across 17,970 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Seventeen thousand nine hundred seventy lines against $17,496,725 produce that mean. A short King County file at this dollar scale can be moved by large receipts.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,496,725. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $974 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city MEDINA, WA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MEDINA, WA total $17,496,725 across 17,970 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 Medina. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $974 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Why is Medina’s average line near $974?

Seventeen thousand nine hundred seventy lines against $17,496,725 produce that mean. A short King County file at this dollar scale can be moved by large receipts. LobbyVault counts 17,970 itemized contributions for MEDINA, WA against $17,496,725. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 17,970 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Medina total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MEDINA with state WA. Office addresses and mail that list Medina can be part of $17,496,725 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 17,970-line count follows the same rule.

Are Medina numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,496,725 and 17,970 lines for MEDINA, WA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from WA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.