BELVEDERE, CA: $15.7M on 14,953 FEC receipts

14,953 lines carrying $15,677,195

BELVEDERE shows 14,953 itemizations behind $15,677,195. That mix is a thinner stack with a high average line relative to high-line city books that post similar dollars on far more rows. The implied mean is about $1,048. Committee receipts that list a BELVEDERE address still sit in the same column as individual rows.

Belvedere is a thin Marin book: 14,953 lines against $15.7 million, a mean near $1,048. Tiburon and Sausalito are neighboring keys with their own pages. Belvedere, Illinois is a different city-and-state pair. 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 $15,677,195 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Belvedere gave. The 14,953 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Belvedere together with Tiburon, Sausalito, and Belvedere, Illinois, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $15,677,195 on 14,953 BELVEDERE, CA rows, mean near $1,048. Keep the stored spelling BELVEDERE in the citation.

Why BELVEDERE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Belvedere give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city BELVEDERE, CA total $15,677,195 across 14,953 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. BELVEDERE, CA is the stored Marin city field. Tiburon is a different key on this extract. Belvedere, IL is another state pair.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $15,677,195. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $1,048 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the BELVEDERE itemized book

$15,677,195 is not spending by Belvedere candidates. A candidate who lives in Belvedere can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged BELVEDERE, CA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Tiburon, Sausalito, and Belvedere, Illinois is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $15,677,195 counts rows that stored BELVEDERE, CA. 14,953 lines. About $1,048 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. CA state-office receipts are omitted.

BELVEDERE versus Tiburon on the FEC tape

BELVEDERE is a thin high-mean Marin city book in a small Marin County city on the Tiburon Peninsula. 14,953 lines produce $15,677,195, a mean near $1,048. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Tiburon is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Belvedere total of $15,677,195 does not absorb Tiburon, Sausalito, and Belvedere, Illinois. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so BELVEDERE, 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

14,953 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 Belvedere 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 Belvedere 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: $15,677,195 and 14,953.

Source tables for $15,677,195

A mean of about $1,048 is division of $15,677,195 by 14,953. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Belvedere. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Belvedere city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Belvedere’s $15,677,195 across 14,953 contributions is a Marin County city field, mean near $1,048. Tiburon is a neighboring string, not a subset. Marin County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $15,677,195 with 14,953 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 BELVEDERE, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city BELVEDERE, CA total $15,677,195 across 14,953 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 Belvedere. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $1,048 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Should Belvedere be added to Tiburon’s total?

No. BELVEDERE, CA is the stored Marin city field. Tiburon is a different key on this extract. Belvedere, IL is another state pair. LobbyVault counts 14,953 itemized contributions for BELVEDERE, CA against $15,677,195. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 14,953 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Belvedere total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BELVEDERE with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Belvedere can be part of $15,677,195 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 14,953-line count follows the same rule.

Are Belvedere numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $15,677,195 and 14,953 lines for BELVEDERE, 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.