PIEDMONT, CA: $26.5M on 72,512 FEC receipts

Piedmont is not Oakland on the FEC city key

The headline pair is $26,462,789 and 72,512 lines. The implied average is about $365. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Piedmont book.

Piedmont sits as an independent city string inside the Oakland street grid. Filers typed PIEDMONT with state CA. LobbyVault summed those rows. 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 Piedmont together with Oakland and Berkeley, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $26,462,789 on 72,512 PIEDMONT, CA rows, mean near $365. Do not fold Piedmont into Oakland because the map looks enclosed.

Why PIEDMONT on the receipt is not a census of Piedmont

Searchers often want “how much did people in Piedmont give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city PIEDMONT, CA total $26,462,789 across 72,512 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $26,462,789. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Piedmont itemized book

$26,462,789 is not spending by Piedmont candidates. A candidate who lives in Piedmont can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged PIEDMONT, CA can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $365 does not describe a median resident of Piedmont. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Oakland is the main trap. $26,462,789 counts rows that stored PIEDMONT, CA. 72,512 lines. About $365 each. Oakland and Berkeley need their own hubs. This packet is not Piedmont, South Carolina.

Piedmont’s mid-mean line book

Piedmont is a mid-mean book on this extract: 72,512 lines produce $26,462,789, a mean near $365. A small municipal name can still carry a eight-figure itemized total when filers type that city.

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

A Piedmont total of $26,462,789 does not absorb Oakland or Berkeley. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so PIEDMONT, CA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in CA

72,512 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 Piedmont 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 Piedmont 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 $26,462,789

A mean of about $365 is division of $26,462,789 by 72,512. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Piedmont.

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

Piedmont’s $26,462,789 across 72,512 contributions is an East Bay city field, mean near $365. Oakland surrounds it on the map and is separate on the FEC key. Berkeley is another string. Alameda County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. California state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $26,462,789 with 72,512 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Piedmont should keep Oakland off the sentence unless a receipt actually stored Oakland. The live Piedmont table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $26,462,789 or 72,512 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $365 as division only. California state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Piedmont code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Berkeley remains another string. The 72,512-line count still is not a headcount of Piedmont people. A small municipal name can still carry an eight-figure federal city total when filers type that city.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Piedmont, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city PIEDMONT, CA total $26,462,789 across 72,512 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 Piedmont. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is Piedmont folded into Oakland’s FEC city total?

No. LobbyVault counts 72,512 itemized contributions for PIEDMONT, CA against $26,462,789. Oakland is a different city string. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 72,512 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Piedmont total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed PIEDMONT with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Piedmont can be part of $26,462,789 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 72,512-line count follows the same rule.

Are Piedmont numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $26,462,789 and 72,512 lines for PIEDMONT, 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 $365 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.