SAUSALITO, CA: $15.7M on 43,203 FEC receipts

43,203 lines carrying $15,671,594

The headline pair is $15,671,594 and 43,203 lines. The implied average is about $363. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the SAUSALITO book. Marin County filers typed SAUSALITO with state CA.

Sausalito is a southern Marin waterfront string. San Francisco rows that list SAN FRANCISCO sit on another hub. Tiburon and Belvedere are neighboring Marin keys, not subsets of SAUSALITO. Mill Valley is another 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 $15,671,594 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Sausalito gave. The 43,203 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Sausalito together with Mill Valley, Tiburon, and San Francisco, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $15,671,594 on 43,203 SAUSALITO, CA rows, mean near $363. Keep the stored spelling SAUSALITO in the citation.

Why SAUSALITO on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Sausalito give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city SAUSALITO, CA total $15,671,594 across 43,203 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. SAUSALITO, CA is the stored Marin string. San Francisco is a different city key. Tiburon is a neighboring Marin page.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $15,671,594. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $363 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the SAUSALITO itemized book

$15,671,594 is not spending by Sausalito candidates. A candidate who lives in Sausalito can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged SAUSALITO, CA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Mill Valley, Tiburon, and San Francisco is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $15,671,594 counts rows that stored SAUSALITO, CA. 43,203 lines. About $363 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. CA state-office receipts are omitted.

SAUSALITO versus San Francisco on the FEC tape

SAUSALITO is a southern Marin mid-volume book in southern Marin County on the Golden Gate approach. 43,203 lines produce $15,671,594, a mean near $363. 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 Sausalito total of $15,671,594 does not absorb Mill Valley, Tiburon, and San Francisco. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so SAUSALITO, 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

43,203 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 Sausalito 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 Sausalito 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: $15,671,594 and 43,203.

Source tables for $15,671,594

A mean of about $363 is division of $15,671,594 by 43,203. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Sausalito. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Sausalito city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Sausalito’s $15,671,594 across 43,203 contributions is a Marin County city field, mean near $363. Mill Valley is a neighboring string, not a subset. Marin County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $15,671,594 with 43,203 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 SAUSALITO, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city SAUSALITO, CA total $15,671,594 across 43,203 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 Sausalito. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $363 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Sausalito counted inside San Francisco on this extract?

No. SAUSALITO, CA is the stored Marin string. San Francisco is a different city key. Tiburon is a neighboring Marin page. LobbyVault counts 43,203 itemized contributions for SAUSALITO, CA against $15,671,594. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 43,203 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Sausalito total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed SAUSALITO with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Sausalito can be part of $15,671,594 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 43,203-line count follows the same rule.

Are Sausalito numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $15,671,594 and 43,203 lines for SAUSALITO, 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.