OLYMPIA, WA

103,491 lines behind OLYMPIA's $17.1M

OLYMPIA shows 103,491 itemizations behind $17,139,832. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $17.1M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. Volume does not prove small-dollar giving. The implied mean is about $166.

Olympia is a Thurston capital-city volume field: 103,491 lines behind $17.1 million, a lower mean than thin Eastside books. Lacey and Tumwater are neighboring keys. Seattle is a different King County string. 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 $17,139,832 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of OLYMPIA gave. The 103,491 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints OLYMPIA together with Lacey, Tumwater, and Tacoma, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,139,832 on 103,491 OLYMPIA, WA rows, mean near $166. Keep the stored spelling OLYMPIA in the citation.

Why OLYMPIA on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Olympia give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city OLYMPIA, WA total $17,139,832 across 103,491 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. OLYMPIA, WA is the stored Thurston string. Seattle is a different city key. Lacey is a neighboring string when typed.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,139,832. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $166 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city OLYMPIA, WA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city OLYMPIA, WA total $17,139,832 across 103,491 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 Olympia. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $166 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Olympia rolled into Seattle on FEC reports?

No. OLYMPIA, WA is the stored Thurston string. Seattle is a different city key. Lacey is a neighboring string when typed. LobbyVault counts 103,491 itemized contributions for OLYMPIA, WA against $17,139,832. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 103,491 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Olympia total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed OLYMPIA with state WA. Office addresses and mail that list Olympia can be part of $17,139,832 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 103,491-line count follows the same rule.

Are Olympia numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,139,832 and 103,491 lines for OLYMPIA, 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.