REDWOOD CITY, CA: $16.5M on 63,289 FEC receipts

63,289 lines behind REDWOOD CITY's $16.5M

REDWOOD CITY shows 63,289 itemizations behind $16,466,721. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $16.5M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. The implied mean is about $260.

Redwood City is a San Mateo County Peninsula string. Redwood Shores is a neighborhood label, not this packet’s city key unless filers typed REDWOOD CITY. San Francisco rows that list SAN FRANCISCO sit on another hub. Atherton and San Carlos are neighboring 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. Read $16,466,721 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Redwood City gave. The 63,289 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Redwood City together with San Carlos, Atherton, and Palo Alto, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,466,721 on 63,289 REDWOOD CITY, CA rows, mean near $260. Keep the stored spelling REDWOOD CITY in the citation.

Why REDWOOD CITY on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Redwood City give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city REDWOOD CITY, CA total $16,466,721 across 63,289 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. REDWOOD CITY, CA is the stored Peninsula string. San Francisco is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,466,721. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $260 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the REDWOOD CITY itemized book

$16,466,721 is not spending by Redwood City candidates. A candidate who lives in Redwood City can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged REDWOOD CITY, CA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with San Carlos, Atherton, and Palo Alto is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $16,466,721 counts rows that stored REDWOOD CITY, CA. 63,289 lines. About $260 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. CA state-office receipts are omitted.

REDWOOD CITY versus San Francisco on the FEC tape

REDWOOD CITY is a Peninsula volume book in San Mateo County on the Peninsula. 63,289 lines produce $16,466,721, a mean near $260. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to San Francisco is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Redwood City total of $16,466,721 does not absorb San Carlos, Atherton, and Palo Alto. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so REDWOOD CITY, 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

63,289 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 Redwood City 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 Redwood City 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: $16,466,721 and 63,289.

Source tables for $16,466,721

A mean of about $260 is division of $16,466,721 by 63,289. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Redwood City. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Redwood City city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Redwood City’s $16,466,721 across 63,289 contributions is a San Mateo County city field, mean near $260. San Carlos is a neighboring string, not a subset. San Mateo County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $16,466,721 with 63,289 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 REDWOOD CITY, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city REDWOOD CITY, CA total $16,466,721 across 63,289 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 Redwood City. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $260 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Redwood City counted as San Francisco on this extract?

No. REDWOOD CITY, CA is the stored Peninsula string. San Francisco is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 63,289 itemized contributions for REDWOOD CITY, CA against $16,466,721. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 63,289 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Redwood City total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed REDWOOD CITY with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Redwood City can be part of $16,466,721 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 63,289-line count follows the same rule.

Are Redwood City numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,466,721 and 63,289 lines for REDWOOD CITY, 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.