ORINDA, CA: $16.9M on 47,223 FEC receipts

47,223 lines carrying $16,855,039

The headline pair is $16,855,039 and 47,223 lines. The implied average is about $357. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the ORINDA book. Contra Costa County filers typed ORINDA with state CA.

Orinda is a Contra Costa Lamorinda city field, not a Berkeley or Oakland merge. Lafayette and Moraga are neighboring keys. State CA stays on the citation. Lamorinda is a local nickname, not an FEC city string. 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 $16,855,039 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Orinda gave. The 47,223 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Orinda together with Lafayette, Moraga, and Berkeley, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,855,039 on 47,223 ORINDA, CA rows, mean near $357. Keep the stored spelling ORINDA in the citation.

Why ORINDA on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Orinda give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ORINDA, CA total $16,855,039 across 47,223 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Only if the filer typed ORINDA. Lafayette and Moraga are other Contra Costa city keys when stored that way.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,855,039. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $357 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the ORINDA itemized book

$16,855,039 is not spending by Orinda candidates. A candidate who lives in Orinda can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged ORINDA, CA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Lafayette, Moraga, and Berkeley is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $16,855,039 counts rows that stored ORINDA, CA. 47,223 lines. About $357 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. CA state-office receipts are omitted.

ORINDA versus Oakland on the FEC tape

ORINDA is a Lamorinda mid-volume book in the Lamorinda pocket of Contra Costa County. 47,223 lines produce $16,855,039, a mean near $357. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Oakland is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Orinda total of $16,855,039 does not absorb Lafayette, Moraga, and Berkeley. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so ORINDA, 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

47,223 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 Orinda 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 Orinda 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: $16,855,039 and 47,223.

Source tables for $16,855,039

A mean of about $357 is division of $16,855,039 by 47,223. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Orinda. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Orinda city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Orinda’s $16,855,039 across 47,223 contributions is a Contra Costa County city field, mean near $357. Lafayette is a neighboring string, not a subset. Contra Costa County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $16,855,039 with 47,223 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 ORINDA, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ORINDA, CA total $16,855,039 across 47,223 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 Orinda. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $357 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Does Orinda’s total include Lafayette and Moraga?

Only if the filer typed ORINDA. Lafayette and Moraga are other Contra Costa city keys when stored that way. LobbyVault counts 47,223 itemized contributions for ORINDA, CA against $16,855,039. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 47,223 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Orinda total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ORINDA with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Orinda can be part of $16,855,039 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 47,223-line count follows the same rule.

Are Orinda numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,855,039 and 47,223 lines for ORINDA, 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.