NORTHRIDGE, CA: $22.4M on 50,228 FEC receipts

50,228 lines carrying $22,444,304

The headline pair is $22,444,304 and 50,228 lines. The implied average is about $447. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the NORTHRIDGE book. Los Angeles County filers typed NORTHRIDGE with state CA.

Northridge is a San Fernando Valley neighborhood stored as its own city string. Filers who typed LOS ANGELES are on a different hub. Reseda, Granada Hills, and Chatsworth are neighboring Valley strings, not subsets of NORTHRIDGE. 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. Read $22,444,304 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of NORTHRIDGE gave. The 50,228 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints NORTHRIDGE together with Reseda, Granada Hills, and Chatsworth, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $22,444,304 on 50,228 NORTHRIDGE, CA rows, mean near $447. Keep the stored spelling NORTHRIDGE in the citation.

Why NORTHRIDGE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Northridge give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city NORTHRIDGE, CA total $22,444,304 across 50,228 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Not on this extract. NORTHRIDGE, CA is the stored city field. LOS ANGELES is a different key when filers typed it.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $22,444,304. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $447 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the NORTHRIDGE itemized book

$22,444,304 is not spending by NORTHRIDGE candidates. A candidate who lives in NORTHRIDGE can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged NORTHRIDGE, CA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Reseda, Granada Hills, and Chatsworth is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $22,444,304 counts rows that stored NORTHRIDGE, CA. 50,228 lines. About $447 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. CA state-office receipts are omitted.

NORTHRIDGE versus Los Angeles on the FEC tape

NORTHRIDGE is a Valley neighborhood mid-volume book. 50,228 lines produce $22,444,304, a mean near $447. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Los Angeles is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A NORTHRIDGE total of $22,444,304 does not absorb Reseda, Granada Hills, and Chatsworth. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so NORTHRIDGE, CA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in CA state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in CA

50,228 city-field lines can spread across many ZIPs or cluster in a few. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the ZIP directory and the live NORTHRIDGE hub rather than guessing the split. After an amendment wave, recheck both the city hub and any ZIP you compared. Snapshots drift independently.

Because this packet carries only city, state, dollar total, and contribution count, every other story about NORTHRIDGE politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field: $22,444,304 and 50,228.

Source tables for $22,444,304

A mean of about $447 is division of $22,444,304 by 50,228. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of NORTHRIDGE. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the NORTHRIDGE city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

NORTHRIDGE’s $22,444,304 across 50,228 contributions is a Los Angeles County city field, mean near $447. Reseda is a neighboring string, not a subset. Los Angeles County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $22,444,304 with 50,228 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city NORTHRIDGE, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city NORTHRIDGE, CA total $22,444,304 across 50,228 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 Northridge. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $447 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Northridge rolled into Los Angeles on FEC reports?

Not on this extract. NORTHRIDGE, CA is the stored city field. LOS ANGELES is a different key when filers typed it. LobbyVault counts 50,228 itemized contributions for NORTHRIDGE, CA against $22,444,304. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 50,228 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Northridge total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed NORTHRIDGE with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Northridge can be part of $22,444,304 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 50,228-line count follows the same rule.

Are Northridge numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $22,444,304 and 50,228 lines for NORTHRIDGE, 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.