MENLO PARK, CA: $85.3M on 141,122 FEC receipts

The MENLO PARK, CA contributor-city book

141,122 itemized contributions produced $85,321,855 under the MENLO PARK, CA city key. About $605 per line follows from division. Repeat givers can lengthen 141,122 without adding new people; this packet has no unique-donor figure.

State CA on the same row keeps MENLO PARK, CA distinct from same-named cities elsewhere. San Mateo County’s Menlo Park string is not Palo Alto or Atherton. Peninsula neighbors keep separate keys. 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.

Keep Atherton, Palo Alto, and Redwood City off the Menlo Park citation unless the receipt actually stored those cities. $85,321,855 is the MENLO PARK, CA string alone. 141,122 itemized rows and about $605 per row are the shape of that string, not of the metro map.

Volume and average on the Menlo Park book

Menlo Park sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $605 from $85,321,855 divided by 141,122. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

The shape is two numbers. $85,321,855 without 141,122 looks like a single pile of money. 141,122 without $85,321,855 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 141,122-line count after this snapshot. Treat the figures as currently indexed, not as a closed book.

Researchers who need names should open the Menlo Park FEC page rather than dividing $85,321,855 by a guessed household count.

Metro shorthand that folds Atherton or Palo Alto into Menlo Park is a recode. FEC.gov stored MENLO PARK, CA. $85,321,855 across 141,122 contributions, mean near $605, belongs to that spelling. Redwood City is a different key if it appears as the city field.

City string versus people who live in Menlo Park

141,122 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 Without a unique-donor field in this packet, do not quote 141,122 as a population of Menlo Park donors.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.

Readers who live near Atherton or Palo Alto still need the city string as filed. A Menlo Park mailing habit is not the FEC dimension. MENLO PARK, CA sums to $85,321,855 on 141,122 lines (about $605 each). Redwood City remains outside that pair.

Where Menlo Park rows split by ZIP

City and ZIP are different FEC fields. A row can carry city MENLO PARK, 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. Menlo Park’s 141,122 lines are comparable to other cities only as filing volume, not as turnout.

Line count 141,122 and dollars $85,321,855 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.

Menlo Park versus Atherton is a different-key problem, not a suburb ranking. Palo Alto and Redwood City follow the same rule. Quote $85,321,855 and 141,122 for MENLO PARK, CA only. The mean near $605 does not travel with a neighbor’s name.

Live hub versus this Menlo Park snapshot

The Menlo Park FEC page holds the live $85,321,855 and 141,122 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 $85,321,855, quote 141,122 in the same breath. A dollar total without a line count hides whether Menlo Park is a volume book or a concentration book.

Menlo Park’s $85,321,855 on 141,122 lines is a San Mateo County Peninsula string, mean near $605. Atherton, Palo Alto, and Redwood City are neighboring keys, not parts of MENLO PARK. Keep those citations separate. California state campaigns are omitted. The 141,122-line count is not unique donors. Campus geography orients readers; this packet has no employer roll-up to prove a company mix. Cite MENLO PARK, CA, $85,321,855, and 141,122 together. The Menlo Park FEC page is the live table for this string.

Questions

What is the FEC donation total for MENLO PARK, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MENLO PARK, CA total $85,321,855 across 141,122 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 Menlo Park. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 141,122 a count of Menlo Park donors?

LobbyVault counts 141,122 itemized contributions for MENLO PARK, 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 141,122 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $85,321,855.

Is MENLO PARK, CA a residency total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MENLO PARK with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Menlo Park can be part of $85,321,855 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 141,122-line count follows the same rule.

What is the source for MENLO PARK, CA campaign money figures?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $85,321,855 and 141,122 lines for MENLO PARK, 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 $605 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.