SUNNYVALE, CA: $25.7M on 116,904 FEC receipts

Reading $25,670,427 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $25,670,427 and 116,904 lines. The implied average is about $220. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Sunnyvale book.

Santa Clara County’s Sunnyvale string is separate from Mountain View, Cupertino, and Santa Clara on the FEC city key. Filers typed SUNNYVALE in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state CA. 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 Sunnyvale together with Mountain View and Cupertino, the FEC file still splits them. Santa Clara the city too. This extract’s only city total is $25,670,427 on 116,904 SUNNYVALE, CA rows, mean near $220.

Why SUNNYVALE on the receipt is not a census of Sunnyvale

Searchers often want “how much did people in Sunnyvale give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city SUNNYVALE, CA total $25,670,427 across 116,904 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $25,670,427. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. Tech-campus geography orients readers; this packet has no employer roll-up.

Outside the Sunnyvale itemized book

$25,670,427 is not spending by Sunnyvale candidates. A candidate who lives in Sunnyvale can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged SUNNYVALE, CA can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $220 does not describe a median resident of Sunnyvale. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Mountain View, Cupertino, or Santa Clara is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $25,670,427 counts rows that stored SUNNYVALE, CA. 116,904 lines. About $220 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Sunnyvale’s volume book on the South Bay tape

Sunnyvale is a volume book on this extract: 116,904 lines produce $25,670,427, a mean near $220. Many itemized rows, smaller average line. Volume is not the same as unique people.

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

A Sunnyvale total of $25,670,427 does not absorb Mountain View, Cupertino, or Santa Clara. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so SUNNYVALE, CA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in CA

116,904 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 Sunnyvale 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 Sunnyvale 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 $25,670,427

A mean of about $220 is division of $25,670,427 by 116,904. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Sunnyvale.

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

Sunnyvale’s $25,670,427 across 116,904 contributions is a South Bay city field, mean near $220. Mountain View, Cupertino, and Santa Clara are neighboring strings, not subsets. Santa Clara County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. California state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $25,670,427 with 116,904 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Sunnyvale should keep Santa Clara County off the sentence unless they add Mountain View, Cupertino, and Santa Clara on purpose. The live Sunnyvale table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $25,670,427 or 116,904 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $220 as division only. California state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Sunnyvale code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Tech-campus geography orients readers; it does not add an employer split to this extract. The 116,904-line count still is not a headcount of Sunnyvale people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Sunnyvale?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city SUNNYVALE, CA total $25,670,427 across 116,904 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 Sunnyvale. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Sunnyvale contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 116,904 itemized contributions for SUNNYVALE, CA. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 116,904 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $25,670,427.

Does the Sunnyvale total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed SUNNYVALE with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Sunnyvale can be part of $25,670,427 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 116,904-line count follows the same rule.

Are Sunnyvale numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $25,670,427 and 116,904 lines for SUNNYVALE, 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 $220 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.