LOS ALTOS, CA: $66.6M on 110,178 FEC receipts

Los Altos is not Los Altos Hills

Divide $66,600,752 by 110,178 and the average itemized line is about $605. That mean is arithmetic. This packet has no median. $605 is not a typical gift from a Los Altos household.

Los Altos Hills is a different city hub on this extract. Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Menlo Park are other Peninsula strings. They are not inside $66,600,752 unless the filer typed LOS ALTOS.

A PAC or joint-fundraising committee that listed Los Altos can share the city field with household streets. LobbyVault does not recode those rows into Los Altos Hills. The 110,178 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Do not build a Peninsula sum from this page

Adding Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Los Altos Hills to Los Altos and calling the result “Silicon Valley” is a recode this packet does not publish. Keep LOS ALTOS, CA as the citation: $66,600,752 and 110,178 lines.

Recheck both facts on the live hub after a later extract.

City field versus ZIP pages

Filers type a city. The Commission stores that string. Confusion between LOS ALTOS and LOS ALTOS HILLS is why the literal match matters.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Peninsula ZIPs often straddle city labels. Do not expect ZIP sums to equal $66,600,752. The 110,178-line count follows the city field.

What this table omits

California state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $66,600,752 and outside 110,178. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

A Los Altos citation that names FEC.gov and prints $66,600,752 without 110,178 is incomplete. The line count is how a reader sees a Peninsula book, mean near $605, that is not Los Altos Hills. Peninsula maps do not replace the typed city field.

If a later extract moves Los Altos’s pair, the live hub is the authority. This guide is a snapshot. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Los Altos receipt is the story. Unitemized gifts and California state filings remain outside $66,600,752 and 110,178.

Citing LOS ALTOS, CA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $66,600,752 with 110,178 together. Name Los Altos, not Los Altos Hills, unless the receipt stored that other string.

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

Los Altos’s $66,600,752 on 110,178 lines, mean near $605, is a Peninsula book that is not Los Altos Hills and not Palo Alto. Keep that distinction in every citation.

Los Altos Hills remains the neighboring hub whose name is the citation trap. Filers who typed LOS ALTOS HILLS do not land in $66,600,752.

What a Los Altos reader should carry

Carry FEC.gov, contributor city LOS ALTOS, CA, $66,600,752, and 110,178 lines. The mean near $605 is optional arithmetic. It is not a typical household gift and not a unique-donor average.

Los Altos Hills, Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Menlo Park stay off this page unless the filer typed LOS ALTOS. California state-office receipts stay off this page. Unitemized federal gifts stay off this page.

Silicon Valley and Peninsula are research phrases. FEC.gov stored city. Peninsula ZIPs often straddle city labels. Do not expect ZIP sums to equal $66,600,752. The 110,178 lines follow the city field.

The live Los Altos hub is the table. This guide is the footnote. If they disagree, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Los Altos receipt matters. Name Los Altos, not Los Altos Hills, unless the receipt stored that other string.

Los Altos’s 110,178 lines behind $66,600,752, mean near $605, describe LOS ALTOS, not LOS ALTOS HILLS. The extra word on the neighboring hub is the whole difference. Filers who typed the Hills label sit on that other page.

Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Menlo Park remain other Peninsula hubs. Silicon Valley is a research phrase. FEC.gov stored city. $66,600,752 is LOS ALTOS only.

California state campaigns and unitemized federal gifts sit outside both facts. Peninsula ZIPs often straddle city labels, so ZIP sums will not automatically equal $66,600,752. The Los Altos hub holds the live table. Open FEC.gov for named receipts. Quote $66,600,752 with 110,178.

Questions

What is Los Altos’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city LOS ALTOS, CA total $66,600,752 across 110,178 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Los Altos residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

Is Los Altos the same hub as Los Altos Hills?

No. Los Altos Hills is a separate city string. $66,600,752 counts rows that stored LOS ALTOS, CA. Receipts that stored LOS ALTOS HILLS sit on that other hub. Adding the two is a recode this packet does not publish. The 110,178 lines follow the Los Altos label only.

How should I read the 110,178 figure?

LobbyVault counts 110,178 itemized contribution lines for LOS ALTOS, 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 $66,600,752. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 110,178 should not be quoted as a Los Altos population of donors.

Where do the Los Altos facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $66,600,752 and 110,178 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 $605 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.