SARASOTA, FL: $41.0M on 166,694 FEC receipts

Sarasota’s volume relative to its dollars

One hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred ninety-four lines produce $41,007,472. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $246. That is a high-volume city string on this extract. Fort Lauderdale, on a nearby dollar total, carries fewer lines and a higher mean. That contrast is a shape fact, not a character study of the Gulf.

Bradenton, Venice, and Siesta Key are other Gulf Coast city strings. They are not inside $41,007,472 unless the filer typed SARASOTA. Sarasota County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Sarasota city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 166,694 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Tampa or Miami sum

Tampa, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale keep separate Florida hubs. Adding them to Sarasota would be a recode. This packet publishes SARASOTA, FL only: $41,007,472 and 166,694 lines.

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

City string versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. SARASOTA plus FL is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a Suncoast metro label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Sarasota-area ZIPs can diverge from $41,007,472 when some receipts used Bradenton or Osprey as the city. The 166,694-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Sarasota aggregate

Florida state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $41,007,472 and outside 166,694. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing SARASOTA, FL

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $41,007,472 with 166,694 together. Dropping the line count hides Sarasota’s volume relative to a thinner city on similar dollars.

Sarasota will keep attracting queries that treat the city as a proxy for Gulf Coast residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $41,007,472 across 166,694 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $246 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 Sarasota receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Sarasota hub

Start on the live Sarasota city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $41,007,472 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 166,694 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Bradenton or Venice as the “real” Suncoast. Filers typed SARASOTA. LobbyVault indexed SARASOTA. Sarasota County, the bayfront, and “the Suncoast” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $246 is only $41,007,472 divided by 166,694. It is not a typical Sarasota household gift, not a typical retiree gift, and not a typical downtown-bayfront 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 Sarasota is more or less “politically active” than Tampa because the line counts differ. Tampa is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city SARASOTA, FL, $41,007,472, 166,694 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 Sarasota receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Florida 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 Sarasota’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city SARASOTA, FL total $41,007,472 across 166,694 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Sarasota residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Sarasota’s 166,694 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 166,694 itemized lines for SARASOTA, FL. 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 $41,007,472.

Does Sarasota’s total include Bradenton or Tampa?

Only if the filer typed SARASOTA. Bradenton, Venice, and Tampa are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $41,007,472 is the SARASOTA, FL match. The 166,694 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Sarasota facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $41,007,472 and 166,694 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Florida non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $246 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.