PALM BEACH, FL: $108.7M on 92,679 FEC receipts

What $108,657,771 on the Palm Beach city field covers

$108,657,771 divided by 92,679 is about $1,172 per itemized line. That mean is arithmetic from the two packet facts. FEC.gov does not publish a median, a unique-donor count, or a party split on this city aggregate. LobbyVault reports $108,657,771 and 92,679.

The Palm Beach town string is not the same FEC key as West Palm Beach. Do not add neighboring cities. 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.

Palm Beach versus West Palm Beach is a different-key problem, not a suburb ranking. Palm Beach Gardens and Palm Beach Shores follow the same rule. Quote $108,657,771 and 92,679 for PALM BEACH, FL only. The mean near $1,172 does not travel with a neighbor’s name.

Palm Beach is a contributor city, not a residency audit

The city is the contributor-city value on FEC itemizations. Filers type it. LobbyVault does not geocode Palm Beach against a municipal boundary file. A work address, a mail drop, or a household in a neighboring place that still typed PALM BEACH can sit inside $108,657,771.

Amended reports can raise or lower both $108,657,771 and 92,679. If the live Palm Beach hub reprints different figures, the newer FEC extract wins.

Volume and average on the Palm Beach book

Palm Beach sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $1,172 from $108,657,771 divided by 92,679. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

Do not convert that shape into a story about Palm Beach culture. FEC.gov did not interview anyone. It stored city, dollars, and a line count.

What $108,657,771 from Palm Beach omits

Unitemized federal contributions do not appear in $108,657,771. Many small gifts never become Schedule A city rows. Citing $108,657,771 as “all federal money from Palm Beach” overstates the series.

LobbyVault does not impute missing city strings. Blank or nonstandard city values are not silently folded into Palm Beach.

ZIP codes under the Palm Beach city string

The ZIP directory cuts the same FEC itemized series by five-digit contributor ZIP. A Palm Beach city total of $108,657,771 is not automatically the sum of ZIPs that the postal service assigns to Palm Beach. Filers can type this city with a ZIP the postal service maps elsewhere, and the reverse.

Do not treat a high mean as proof that Palm Beach ZIPs are “wealthy donor ZIPs.” This packet has no ZIP list and no income field.

Palm Beach will keep attracting “how much did Palm Beach give” queries because searchers use city as a proxy for residents. FEC.gov does not use city that way. It stores a contributor-city field. $108,657,771 across 92,679 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $1,172 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. Use the all-cities directory only to compare other strings on the same series. Use ZIP pages for a different field. If the live hub reprints a different $108,657,771 or 92,679, the newer FEC extract wins and this snapshot is stale.

How to cite Palm Beach without inflating the city

The accurate sentence is: itemized federal receipts with contributor city PALM BEACH, FL total $108,657,771 across 92,679 contributions, according to FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Shorthand such as “Palm Beach donated $108,657,771” drops the itemized-only limit and the contributor-city definition.

No motive is attached to the Palm Beach city field. FEC.gov stored a string. LobbyVault summed it. That is the whole method on this page.

Palm Beach’s $108,657,771 on 92,679 lines is a high-mean Florida town book, about $1,172 per itemized row. West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, and Palm Beach Shores are different FEC city strings. Adding them because the names share two words is a recode FEC.gov did not publish here. The barrier-island place name is orientation. It is not a finding about who lives behind a gate. Florida state-office money is omitted. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Ninety-two thousand six hundred seventy-nine lines is still a line count, not unique donors. Cite PALM BEACH, FL, $108,657,771, and 92,679 as a triple. The Palm Beach FEC page is the live table for this string.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to Palm Beach, FL?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city PALM BEACH, FL total $108,657,771 across 92,679 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 Palm Beach. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to Palm Beach?

LobbyVault counts 92,679 itemized contributions for PALM BEACH, FL. 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 92,679 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $108,657,771.

Does the Palm Beach total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed PALM BEACH with state FL. Office addresses and mail that list Palm Beach can be part of $108,657,771 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 92,679-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get Palm Beach totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $108,657,771 and 92,679 lines for PALM BEACH, FL. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from FL are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $1,172 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.