GOLDEN, CO: $24.2M on 52,107 FEC receipts

Reading $24,169,646 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $24,169,646 and 52,107 lines. The implied average is about $464. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Golden book.

Jefferson County’s Golden string is separate from Denver, Lakewood, and Boulder on the FEC city key. Filers typed GOLDEN in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state CO. 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 Golden together with Denver and Lakewood, the FEC file still splits them. Boulder too. This extract’s only city total is $24,169,646 on 52,107 GOLDEN, CO rows, mean near $464.

Why GOLDEN on the receipt is not a census of Golden

Searchers often want “how much did people in Golden give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city GOLDEN, CO total $24,169,646 across 52,107 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $24,169,646. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. Campus or brewery geography orients readers; this packet has no employer split.

Outside the Golden itemized book

$24,169,646 is not spending by Golden candidates. A candidate who lives in Golden can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged GOLDEN, CO can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $464 does not describe a median resident of Golden. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Denver, Lakewood, or Wheat Ridge is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $24,169,646 counts rows that stored GOLDEN, CO. 52,107 lines. About $464 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Golden versus Denver on the FEC tape

Golden posts $24,169,646 on 52,107 lines, a mean near $464. That is fewer rows than several volume books with similar dollar totals. Fewer rows is not a unique-donor count.

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

A Golden total of $24,169,646 does not absorb Denver, Lakewood, or Boulder. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CO stays on the citation so GOLDEN, CO is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in CO

52,107 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 Golden 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 Golden 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 $24,169,646

A mean of about $464 is division of $24,169,646 by 52,107. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Golden.

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

Golden’s $24,169,646 across 52,107 contributions is a Jefferson County city field, mean near $464. Denver and Lakewood are neighboring strings, not subsets. Jefferson County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Colorado state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $24,169,646 with 52,107 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Golden should keep Denver and Jefferson County off the sentence unless they add those hubs on purpose. The live Golden table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $24,169,646 or 52,107 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $464 as division only. Colorado state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Golden code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Lakewood and Boulder remain other strings. The 52,107-line count still is not a headcount of Golden people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Golden, CO?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city GOLDEN, CO total $24,169,646 across 52,107 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 Golden. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is Golden folded into Denver’s FEC city total?

No. LobbyVault counts 52,107 itemized contributions for GOLDEN, CO against $24,169,646. Denver 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 52,107 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Golden total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed GOLDEN with state CO. Office addresses and mail that list Golden can be part of $24,169,646 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 52,107-line count follows the same rule.

Are Golden numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $24,169,646 and 52,107 lines for GOLDEN, CO. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from CO are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $464 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.