BURLINGAME, CA: $22.2M on 48,530 FEC receipts

48,530 lines carrying $22,156,632

The headline pair is $22,156,632 and 48,530 lines. The implied average is about $457. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the BURLINGAME book. San Mateo County filers typed BURLINGAME with state CA.

Burlingame is a San Mateo County Peninsula city field next to the airport corridor. San Francisco rows that list SAN FRANCISCO sit on another hub. Hillsborough and Millbrae are neighboring Peninsula strings. 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 $22,156,632 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of BURLINGAME gave. The 48,530 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints BURLINGAME together with Millbrae, San Mateo, and Hillsborough, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $22,156,632 on 48,530 BURLINGAME, CA rows, mean near $457. Keep the stored spelling BURLINGAME in the citation.

Why BURLINGAME on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Burlingame give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city BURLINGAME, CA total $22,156,632 across 48,530 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. BURLINGAME, CA is the stored Peninsula string. San Francisco is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $22,156,632. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $457 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the BURLINGAME itemized book

$22,156,632 is not spending by BURLINGAME candidates. A candidate who lives in BURLINGAME can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged BURLINGAME, CA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Millbrae, San Mateo, and Hillsborough is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $22,156,632 counts rows that stored BURLINGAME, CA. 48,530 lines. About $457 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. CA state-office receipts are omitted.

BURLINGAME versus San Francisco on the FEC tape

BURLINGAME is a Peninsula mid-volume book. 48,530 lines produce $22,156,632, a mean near $457. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to San Francisco is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A BURLINGAME total of $22,156,632 does not absorb Millbrae, San Mateo, and Hillsborough. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so BURLINGAME, 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

48,530 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 BURLINGAME 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 BURLINGAME 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: $22,156,632 and 48,530.

Source tables for $22,156,632

A mean of about $457 is division of $22,156,632 by 48,530. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of BURLINGAME. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the BURLINGAME city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

BURLINGAME’s $22,156,632 across 48,530 contributions is a San Mateo County city field, mean near $457. Millbrae is a neighboring string, not a subset. San Mateo County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $22,156,632 with 48,530 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 BURLINGAME, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city BURLINGAME, CA total $22,156,632 across 48,530 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 Burlingame. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $457 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Burlingame counted as San Francisco on this extract?

No. BURLINGAME, CA is the stored Peninsula string. San Francisco is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 48,530 itemized contributions for BURLINGAME, CA against $22,156,632. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 48,530 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Burlingame total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BURLINGAME with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Burlingame can be part of $22,156,632 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 48,530-line count follows the same rule.

Are Burlingame numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $22,156,632 and 48,530 lines for BURLINGAME, 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.