FRESNO, CA: $46.1M on 149,791 FEC receipts

Fresno’s volume relative to its dollars

One hundred forty-nine thousand seven hundred ninety-one lines produce $46,129,402. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $308. That mean is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a ranking of San Joaquin Valley giving. FEC.gov does not publish a median or a unique-donor count on this city aggregate.

Clovis, Visalia, and Bakersfield are other Central Valley city strings. They are not inside $46,129,402 unless the filer typed FRESNO. Fresno County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Fresno city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 149,791 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Central Valley sum

Sacramento, Bakersfield, and Stockton keep separate California hubs. Adding them to Fresno would be a recode. This packet publishes FRESNO, CA only: $46,129,402 and 149,791 lines.

State CA on the key is required in the citation. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

City string versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. FRESNO plus CA is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a Valley metro label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Fresno-area ZIPs can diverge from $46,129,402 when some receipts used Clovis or Madera as the city. The 149,791-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Fresno aggregate

California state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $46,129,402 and outside 149,791. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing here estimates how Fresno voted. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. Use the city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index.

Citing FRESNO, CA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $46,129,402 with 149,791 together. Dropping the line count hides Fresno’s volume on a mid-forty-million dollar book.

Fresno will keep attracting queries that treat the city as a proxy for Valley residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $46,129,402 across 149,791 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $308 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Fresno receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Fresno hub

Start on the live Fresno city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $46,129,402 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 149,791 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Clovis or Madera as the “real” Valley. Filers typed FRESNO. LobbyVault indexed FRESNO. Fresno County, the San Joaquin Valley, and “central California” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $308 is only $46,129,402 divided by 149,791. It is not a typical Fresno household gift, not a typical agribusiness gift, and not a typical downtown-office gift. Occupation is a different FEC field. Recipient is a different FEC field. Party is a different FEC field. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer them from the mean. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that Fresno is more or less “politically active” than Sacramento because the line counts differ. Sacramento is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city FRESNO, CA, $46,129,402, 149,791 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov for any named Fresno receipt that needs a line-by-line check. California non-federal filings never enter either fact. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. That is the full scope of this city page. Clovis remains a separate city string even when mail routes cross the city line.

Questions

What is Fresno’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city FRESNO, CA total $46,129,402 across 149,791 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Fresno residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Fresno’s 149,791 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 149,791 itemized lines for FRESNO, CA. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $46,129,402.

Does Fresno’s total include Clovis or Bakersfield?

Only if the filer typed FRESNO. Clovis, Visalia, and Bakersfield are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $46,129,402 is the FRESNO, CA match. The 149,791 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Fresno facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $46,129,402 and 149,791 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. California non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $308 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.