CUPERTINO, CA: $16.4M on 55,446 FEC receipts

55,446 lines carrying $16,390,661

The headline pair is $16,390,661 and 55,446 lines. The implied average is about $296. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the CUPERTINO book. Santa Clara County filers typed CUPERTINO with state CA.

Cupertino is a Santa Clara County city field, not a San Jose merge. Sunnyvale and Los Altos are neighboring keys. Employer names that appear on individual receipts are not rolled up in this packet. State CA stays on the citation. 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 $16,390,661 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Cupertino gave. The 55,446 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Cupertino together with Sunnyvale, Los Altos, and San Jose, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,390,661 on 55,446 CUPERTINO, CA rows, mean near $296. Keep the stored spelling CUPERTINO in the citation.

Why CUPERTINO on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Cupertino give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city CUPERTINO, CA total $16,390,661 across 55,446 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. CUPERTINO, CA is the stored Santa Clara string. San Jose is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,390,661. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $296 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the CUPERTINO itemized book

$16,390,661 is not spending by Cupertino candidates. A candidate who lives in Cupertino can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged CUPERTINO, CA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Sunnyvale, Los Altos, and San Jose is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $16,390,661 counts rows that stored CUPERTINO, CA. 55,446 lines. About $296 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. CA state-office receipts are omitted.

CUPERTINO versus San Jose on the FEC tape

CUPERTINO is a Santa Clara mid-volume book in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley. 55,446 lines produce $16,390,661, a mean near $296. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to San Jose is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Cupertino total of $16,390,661 does not absorb Sunnyvale, Los Altos, and San Jose. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so CUPERTINO, 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

55,446 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 Cupertino 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 Cupertino 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: $16,390,661 and 55,446.

Source tables for $16,390,661

A mean of about $296 is division of $16,390,661 by 55,446. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Cupertino. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Cupertino city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Cupertino’s $16,390,661 across 55,446 contributions is a Santa Clara County city field, mean near $296. Sunnyvale is a neighboring string, not a subset. Santa Clara County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $16,390,661 with 55,446 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 CUPERTINO, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city CUPERTINO, CA total $16,390,661 across 55,446 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 Cupertino. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $296 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Cupertino folded into San Jose on FEC city totals?

No. CUPERTINO, CA is the stored Santa Clara string. San Jose is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 55,446 itemized contributions for CUPERTINO, CA against $16,390,661. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 55,446 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Cupertino total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed CUPERTINO with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Cupertino can be part of $16,390,661 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 55,446-line count follows the same rule.

Are Cupertino numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,390,661 and 55,446 lines for CUPERTINO, 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.