ANAHEIM, CA: $15.9M on 82,369 FEC receipts

82,369 lines behind ANAHEIM's $15.9M

ANAHEIM shows 82,369 itemizations behind $15,872,868. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $15.9M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. The implied mean is about $193.

Anaheim is a high-volume Orange County book: 82,369 lines against $15.9 million, a mean near $193. Santa Ana and Fullerton are neighboring keys. Irvine is a different Orange County city field. 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 $15,872,868 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Anaheim gave. The 82,369 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Anaheim together with Santa Ana, Fullerton, and Garden Grove, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $15,872,868 on 82,369 ANAHEIM, CA rows, mean near $193. Keep the stored spelling ANAHEIM in the citation.

Why ANAHEIM on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Anaheim give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ANAHEIM, CA total $15,872,868 across 82,369 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. The figure is itemized receipts, not unique persons. Repeat gifts add rows. Santa Ana is a different city string.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $15,872,868. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $193 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the ANAHEIM itemized book

$15,872,868 is not spending by Anaheim candidates. A candidate who lives in Anaheim can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged ANAHEIM, CA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Santa Ana, Fullerton, and Garden Grove is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $15,872,868 counts rows that stored ANAHEIM, CA. 82,369 lines. About $193 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. CA state-office receipts are omitted.

ANAHEIM versus Irvine on the FEC tape

ANAHEIM is a high-volume northern Orange County book in northern Orange County. 82,369 lines produce $15,872,868, a mean near $193. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Irvine is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Anaheim total of $15,872,868 does not absorb Santa Ana, Fullerton, and Garden Grove. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so ANAHEIM, CA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in CA state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in CA

82,369 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 Anaheim 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 Anaheim 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: $15,872,868 and 82,369.

Source tables for $15,872,868

A mean of about $193 is division of $15,872,868 by 82,369. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Anaheim. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Anaheim city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Anaheim’s $15,872,868 across 82,369 contributions is a Orange County city field, mean near $193. Santa Ana is a neighboring string, not a subset. Orange County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $15,872,868 with 82,369 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 ANAHEIM, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ANAHEIM, CA total $15,872,868 across 82,369 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 Anaheim. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $193 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Does 82,369 lines mean 82,369 Anaheim residents?

No. The figure is itemized receipts, not unique persons. Repeat gifts add rows. Santa Ana is a different city string. LobbyVault counts 82,369 itemized contributions for ANAHEIM, CA against $15,872,868. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 82,369 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Anaheim total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ANAHEIM with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Anaheim can be part of $15,872,868 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 82,369-line count follows the same rule.

Are Anaheim numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $15,872,868 and 82,369 lines for ANAHEIM, CA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from CA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.