LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA: $80.5M on 45,445 FEC receipts

The LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA contributor-city book

45,445 itemized contributions produced $80,477,479 under the LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA city key. About $1,771 per line follows from division. Repeat givers can lengthen 45,445 without adding new people; this packet has no unique-donor figure.

State CA on the same row keeps LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA distinct from same-named cities elsewhere. Santa Clara County’s Los Altos Hills string is not Los Altos. The Hills label is the FEC city key on this page. 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.

Postal confusion with Los Altos, Atherton, or Menlo Park is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $80,477,479 counts rows that stored LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA in state CA. 45,445 lines. About $1,771 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Los Altos Hills’s high average line

Los Altos Hills is a concentration book on this extract: $80,477,479 on 45,445 lines produces a mean near $1,771. Fewer rows carry more dollars per row than a high-volume city book. That describes the average line, not a typical household.

The shape is two numbers. $80,477,479 without 45,445 looks like a single pile of money. 45,445 without $80,477,479 looks like a turnout figure. Together they are an itemized city book.

Federal itemized only: the CA city caveat

Refunds, redesignations, and amendments can move both dollars and the 45,445-line count after this snapshot. Treat the figures as currently indexed, not as a closed book.

Researchers who need names should open the Los Altos Hills FEC page rather than dividing $80,477,479 by a guessed household count.

A Los Altos Hills total of $80,477,479 does not absorb Los Altos, Atherton, or Menlo Park. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 45,445 lines and the mean near $1,771 describe this key only.

City string versus people who live in Los Altos Hills

45,445 is a line count. Households that give twice, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows. Without a unique-donor field in this packet, do not quote 45,445 as a population of Los Altos Hills donors.

The all-cities directory ranks the same series. Compare line counts as filing shape, not as a claim that one city is more politically active. FEC.gov does not score activity.

Where Los Altos Hills rows split by ZIP

City and ZIP are different FEC fields. A row can carry city LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA and a ZIP that readers associate with a neighbor. Both fields are stored as filed. LobbyVault’s city page sums the city field.

The all-cities directory is the ranking view of the same city series. Los Altos Hills’s 45,445 lines are comparable to other cities only as filing volume, not as turnout.

Line count 45,445 and dollars $80,477,479 should move together in a reader’s notes. If a later story quotes only one, check the hub. An amendment can change either figure. Snapshot prose cannot update itself.

Live hub versus this Los Altos Hills snapshot

The Los Altos Hills FEC page holds the live $80,477,479 and 45,445 as currently indexed. The all-cities directory ranks other city strings. The ZIP directory opens a different field. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls.

If you quote $80,477,479, quote 45,445 in the same breath. A dollar total without a line count hides whether Los Altos Hills is a volume book or a concentration book.

Los Altos Hills’s $80,477,479 on 45,445 lines is a high-mean Peninsula book, about $1,771 per itemized row. Los Altos without Hills is a different city string. Do not drop the second word. Atherton and Menlo Park are neighboring keys with their own totals. Santa Clara County geography orients; it does not create a county FEC roll-up. California state campaigns are omitted. Forty-five thousand four hundred forty-five lines is a short list next to large-city volume books. The higher mean is the other half of the shape. Cite LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA, $80,477,479, and 45,445 as a triple. The Los Altos Hills FEC page holds the live snapshot from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Los Altos Hills federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA total $80,477,479 across 45,445 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 Los Altos Hills. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How should I read the 45,445 figure for LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA?

LobbyVault counts 45,445 itemized contributions for LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 45,445 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $80,477,479.

What city field does FEC use for Los Altos Hills?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed LOS ALTOS HILLS with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Los Altos Hills can be part of $80,477,479 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 45,445-line count follows the same rule.

How current is the $80,477,479 total for Los Altos Hills?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $80,477,479 and 45,445 lines for LOS ALTOS HILLS, 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. The mean of about $1,771 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.