BENTONVILLE, AR: $16.0M on 33,788 FEC receipts

33,788 lines carrying $15,972,612

The headline pair is $15,972,612 and 33,788 lines. The implied average is about $473. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the BENTONVILLE book. Benton County filers typed BENTONVILLE with state AR.

Bentonville is a Benton County northwest-Arkansas string. Little Rock is a different Pulaski County key. Rogers and Fayetteville are neighboring strings. Bentonville is not a statewide Arkansas roll-up. 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 $15,972,612 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Bentonville gave. The 33,788 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Bentonville together with Rogers, Fayetteville, and Bella Vista, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $15,972,612 on 33,788 BENTONVILLE, AR rows, mean near $473. Keep the stored spelling BENTONVILLE in the citation.

Why BENTONVILLE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Bentonville give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city BENTONVILLE, AR total $15,972,612 across 33,788 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. BENTONVILLE, AR is the stored Benton County city field. Little Rock and Fayetteville are other keys.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $15,972,612. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $473 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the BENTONVILLE itemized book

$15,972,612 is not spending by Bentonville candidates. A candidate who lives in Bentonville can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged BENTONVILLE, AR can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Rogers, Fayetteville, and Bella Vista is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $15,972,612 counts rows that stored BENTONVILLE, AR. 33,788 lines. About $473 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. AR state-office receipts are omitted.

BENTONVILLE versus Little Rock on the FEC tape

BENTONVILLE is a northwest-Arkansas mid-volume book in Benton County in northwest Arkansas. 33,788 lines produce $15,972,612, a mean near $473. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Little Rock is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Bentonville total of $15,972,612 does not absorb Rogers, Fayetteville, and Bella Vista. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State AR stays on the citation so BENTONVILLE, AR is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in AR state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in AR

33,788 city-field lines can spread across many ZIPs or cluster in a few. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the ZIP directory and the live Bentonville hub rather than guessing the split. After an amendment wave, recheck both the city hub and any ZIP you compared. Snapshots drift independently.

Because this packet carries only city, state, dollar total, and contribution count, every other story about Bentonville politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field: $15,972,612 and 33,788.

Source tables for $15,972,612

A mean of about $473 is division of $15,972,612 by 33,788. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Bentonville. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Bentonville city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Bentonville’s $15,972,612 across 33,788 contributions is a Benton County city field, mean near $473. Rogers is a neighboring string, not a subset. Benton County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $15,972,612 with 33,788 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city BENTONVILLE, AR?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city BENTONVILLE, AR total $15,972,612 across 33,788 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 Bentonville. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $473 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Bentonville the Arkansas statewide total?

No. BENTONVILLE, AR is the stored Benton County city field. Little Rock and Fayetteville are other keys. LobbyVault counts 33,788 itemized contributions for BENTONVILLE, AR against $15,972,612. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 33,788 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Bentonville total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BENTONVILLE with state AR. Office addresses and mail that list Bentonville can be part of $15,972,612 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 33,788-line count follows the same rule.

Are Bentonville numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $15,972,612 and 33,788 lines for BENTONVILLE, AR. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from AR are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.