WOODSIDE, CA: $46.6M on 51,314 FEC receipts

Woodside’s high mean on a thinner file

Fifty-one thousand three hundred fourteen lines produce $46,627,342. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $909. Portola Valley sits on a nearby dollar total with a similar mean band on this extract. That contrast is a shape fact, not a hillside ranking.

Atherton, Portola Valley, and Redwood City are other Peninsula city strings. They are not inside $46,627,342 unless the filer typed WOODSIDE. San Mateo County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Woodside city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 51,314 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Peninsula sum

Atherton, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto keep separate California hubs. Adding them to Woodside would be a recode. This packet publishes WOODSIDE, CA only: $46,627,342 and 51,314 lines.

State CA on the key is required in the citation. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

Town string versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. WOODSIDE plus CA is the match. Recoding into a Census place is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Woodside-area ZIPs can diverge from $46,627,342 when some receipts used Redwood City or Portola Valley as the city. The 51,314-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Woodside aggregate

California state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $46,627,342 and outside 51,314. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing here estimates how Woodside voted. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. Use the city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index.

Citing WOODSIDE, CA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $46,627,342 with 51,314 together. Dropping the line count hides Woodside’s thinner file relative to a high-volume city on similar dollars.

Woodside will keep attracting queries that treat the town as a proxy for Peninsula residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $46,627,342 across 51,314 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $909 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Woodside receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Woodside hub

Start on the live Woodside city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $46,627,342 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 51,314 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Atherton or Redwood City as the “real” hillside. Filers typed WOODSIDE. LobbyVault indexed WOODSIDE. San Mateo County, Skyline Boulevard, and “the Peninsula” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $909 is only $46,627,342 divided by 51,314. It is not a typical Woodside household gift, not a typical ranch gift, and not a typical Canada Road gift. Occupation is a different FEC field. Recipient is a different FEC field. Party is a different FEC field. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer them from the mean. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that Woodside is more or less “politically active” than Portola Valley because the line counts differ. Portola Valley is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city WOODSIDE, CA, $46,627,342, 51,314 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov for any named Woodside receipt that needs a line-by-line check. California non-federal filings never enter either fact. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. That is the full scope of this city page.

Questions

What is Woodside’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city WOODSIDE, CA total $46,627,342 across 51,314 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Woodside residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Woodside’s 51,314 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 51,314 itemized lines for WOODSIDE, CA. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $46,627,342.

Does Woodside’s total include Atherton or Portola Valley?

Only if the filer typed WOODSIDE. Atherton, Portola Valley, and Redwood City are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $46,627,342 is the WOODSIDE, CA match. The 51,314 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Woodside facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $46,627,342 and 51,314 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. California non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $909 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.