LA JOLLA, CA: $71.5M on 164,309 FEC receipts

La Jolla as a typed city, not a San Diego subtotal

Divide $71,515,979 by 164,309 and the average itemized line is about $435. That mean is arithmetic. This packet has no median. $435 is not a typical gift from a La Jolla household.

San Diego is a separate city hub. Adding La Jolla to San Diego and calling the sum “San Diego” would double-count or mislabel depending on how filers typed the city. This page reports the LA JOLLA string only.

A PAC or joint-fundraising committee that listed La Jolla can share the city field with household streets. LobbyVault does not recode those rows into San Diego. The 164,309 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Why the city string matters on the coast

Postal convention lets La Jolla appear as a city even where municipal maps treat it as part of San Diego. FEC.gov stored what was typed. Del Mar, Coronado, and Rancho Santa Fe are other strings. They are not inside $71,515,979.

Keep LA JOLLA, CA as the citation. Recheck $71,515,979 and 164,309 on the live hub after a later extract.

ZIP pages versus the La Jolla label

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. A La Jolla ZIP can contain receipts that used SAN DIEGO as the city, and a San Diego ZIP can contain receipts that used LA JOLLA. Do not expect ZIP sums to equal $71,515,979.

The 164,309-line count follows the city field. Recoding free-text cities into Census places would be a different product.

What the La Jolla table omits

California state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $71,515,979 and outside 164,309. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

A La Jolla citation that names FEC.gov and prints $71,515,979 without 164,309 is incomplete. The line count is how a reader sees a postal-city book, mean near $435, not a San Diego subtotal. Municipal maps do not replace the typed city field.

If a later extract moves La Jolla’s pair, the live hub is the authority. This guide is a snapshot. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named La Jolla receipt is the story. Unitemized gifts and California state filings remain outside $71,515,979 and 164,309.

Citing LA JOLLA, CA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $71,515,979 with 164,309 together. Do not describe the pair as “San Diego’s La Jolla subtotal.” The Commission stored a city string.

If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named La Jolla receipt matters.

La Jolla’s $71,515,979 on 164,309 lines, mean near $435, is a postal-city book, not a San Diego subtotal. Keep that distinction in every citation.

Del Mar, Coronado, and Rancho Santa Fe remain other coastal strings. They are not inside $71,515,979. The 164,309 lines follow the LA JOLLA label only.

What a La Jolla reader should carry

Carry FEC.gov, contributor city LA JOLLA, CA, $71,515,979, and 164,309 lines. The mean near $435 is optional arithmetic. It is not a typical household gift and not a unique-donor average.

San Diego remains a separate city hub. Adding La Jolla to San Diego mixes labels filers kept separate. California state-office receipts stay off this page. Unitemized federal gifts stay off this page.

Postal convention lets La Jolla appear as a city even where municipal maps treat it as part of San Diego. FEC.gov stored what was typed. This page reports that string, not a neighborhood recode.

The live La Jolla hub is the table. This guide is the footnote. If they disagree, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named La Jolla receipt matters. ZIP pages split a different field and will not automatically reproduce $71,515,979.

La Jolla’s 164,309 lines behind $71,515,979, mean near $435, describe a postal city string. Municipal maps that fold La Jolla into San Diego are not the FEC city field. This page follows the typed string.

San Diego remains a separate hub. Adding the two and calling the sum San Diego mixes labels. Del Mar, Coronado, and Rancho Santa Fe stay on their own hubs.

California state campaigns and unitemized federal gifts sit outside both facts. ZIP geography will not automatically reproduce $71,515,979 because some receipts in a La Jolla ZIP used SAN DIEGO as the city. The La Jolla hub holds the live table. Open FEC.gov for named receipts. Quote $71,515,979 with 164,309.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for La Jolla federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city LA JOLLA, CA total $71,515,979 across 164,309 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of La Jolla residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is La Jolla part of the San Diego city total?

Not on this hub. San Diego is a separate city string. $71,515,979 counts rows that stored LA JOLLA, CA. Receipts that stored SAN DIEGO sit on the San Diego hub. Adding the two is a recode this packet does not publish. The 164,309 lines follow the La Jolla label only.

How should I read the 164,309 figure?

LobbyVault counts 164,309 itemized contribution lines for LA JOLLA, CA. That is a line count, not a headcount. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding people. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $71,515,979. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 164,309 should not be quoted as a La Jolla population of donors.

How current is La Jolla’s $71,515,979 total?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $71,515,979 and 164,309 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 $435 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.