NEW HAVEN, CT: $25.4M on 93,529 FEC receipts

Reading $25,447,083 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $25,447,083 and 93,529 lines. The implied average is about $272. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the New Haven book.

New Haven’s string is separate from Hamden, West Haven, and East Haven on the FEC city key. Filers typed NEW HAVEN in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state CT. 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 New Haven together with Hamden and West Haven, the FEC file still splits them. East Haven too. This extract’s only city total is $25,447,083 on 93,529 NEW HAVEN, CT rows, mean near $272.

Why NEW HAVEN on the receipt is not a census of New Haven

Searchers often want “how much did people in New Haven give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city NEW HAVEN, CT total $25,447,083 across 93,529 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $25,447,083. University geography orients readers; this packet has no student, faculty, or employer split. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the New Haven itemized book

$25,447,083 is not spending by New Haven candidates. A candidate who lives in New Haven can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged NEW HAVEN, CT can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $272 does not describe a median resident of New Haven. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Hamden, West Haven, or East Haven is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $25,447,083 counts rows that stored NEW HAVEN, CT. 93,529 lines. About $272 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

New Haven’s mid-volume Connecticut book

New Haven sits between volume books and thin stacks: 93,529 lines produce $25,447,083, a mean near $272. That line count is not a unique-donor count.

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

A New Haven total of $25,447,083 does not absorb Hamden, West Haven, or East Haven. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CT stays on the citation so NEW HAVEN, CT is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in CT

93,529 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 New Haven 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 New Haven 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 $25,447,083

A mean of about $272 is division of $25,447,083 by 93,529. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of New Haven.

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

New Haven’s $25,447,083 across 93,529 contributions is a Connecticut city field, mean near $272. Hamden, West Haven, and East Haven are neighboring strings, not subsets. New Haven County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Connecticut state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $25,447,083 with 93,529 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing New Haven should keep New Haven County off the sentence unless they add Hamden, West Haven, and East Haven on purpose. The live New Haven table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $25,447,083 or 93,529 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $272 as division only. Connecticut state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a New Haven code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. University geography orients readers; it does not add a campus split to this extract. The 93,529-line count still is not a headcount of New Haven people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city New Haven, CT?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city NEW HAVEN, CT total $25,447,083 across 93,529 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 New Haven. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the New Haven contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 93,529 itemized contributions for NEW HAVEN, CT. 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 93,529 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $25,447,083.

Does the New Haven total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed NEW HAVEN with state CT. Office addresses and mail that list New Haven can be part of $25,447,083 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 93,529-line count follows the same rule.

Are New Haven numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $25,447,083 and 93,529 lines for NEW HAVEN, CT. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from CT are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $272 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.