ORANGE, CA: $24.4M on 74,558 FEC receipts

Orange the city is not Orange County on the FEC key

The headline pair is $24,356,088 and 74,558 lines. The implied average is about $327. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Orange city book.

Filers typed ORANGE with state CA. LobbyVault summed those rows. Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, and Fullerton are other city strings. 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.

If a newsroom map paints Orange together with Anaheim and Santa Ana as “Orange County money,” the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $24,356,088 on 74,558 ORANGE, CA rows, mean near $327.

Why ORANGE on the receipt is not a census of Orange

Searchers often want “how much did people in Orange give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ORANGE, CA total $24,356,088 across 74,558 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Treating the page as an Orange County roll-up inflates it further.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $24,356,088. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Orange itemized book

$24,356,088 is not spending by Orange candidates. A candidate who lives in Orange can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged ORANGE, CA can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $327 does not describe a median resident of Orange. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Anaheim, Santa Ana, or Irvine is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $24,356,088 counts rows that stored ORANGE, CA. 74,558 lines. About $327 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. This packet is not Orange, Texas or Orange, New Jersey.

Orange’s mid-mean city book

Orange is a mid-mean book on this extract: 74,558 lines produce $24,356,088, a mean near $327. Mid-mean is not the same as unique people.

Comparing Orange’s mean to Anaheim is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in California state data breaks the comparison.

An Orange total of $24,356,088 does not absorb Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, or Fullerton. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so ORANGE, CA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in CA

74,558 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 Orange 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 Orange 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.

Source tables for $24,356,088

A mean of about $327 is division of $24,356,088 by 74,558. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Orange.

Internal links on this page go only to the Orange city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

Orange’s $24,356,088 across 74,558 contributions is a City of Orange field, mean near $327. Anaheim, Santa Ana, and Irvine are neighboring strings, not subsets. Orange County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. California state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $24,356,088 with 74,558 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Orange should keep Orange County off the sentence unless they add Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, and Fullerton on purpose. The live Orange table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $24,356,088 or 74,558 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $327 as division only. California state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for an Orange code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. This is the City of Orange, not the county. The 74,558-line count still is not a headcount of Orange people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Orange, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ORANGE, CA total $24,356,088 across 74,558 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows for the City of Orange, not Orange County as a whole. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Does the Orange, CA total cover all of Orange County?

No. LobbyVault counts 74,558 itemized contributions for ORANGE, CA against $24,356,088. Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, and Fullerton are other city strings. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 74,558 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Orange total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ORANGE with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Orange can be part of $24,356,088 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 74,558-line count follows the same rule.

Are Orange numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $24,356,088 and 74,558 lines for ORANGE, 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 $327 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.