AUGUSTA, GA: $15.8M on 44,687 FEC receipts

44,687 lines carrying $15,770,202

The headline pair is $15,770,202 and 44,687 lines. The implied average is about $353. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the AUGUSTA book. Richmond County filers typed AUGUSTA with state GA.

AUGUSTA, GA is a Richmond County city field, not Augusta, Maine. State GA is required in the citation. North Augusta sits in South Carolina and is a different key. Atlanta is not this hub. 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. Read $15,770,202 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Augusta gave. The 44,687 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Augusta together with North Augusta, Martinez, and Augusta, Maine, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $15,770,202 on 44,687 AUGUSTA, GA rows, mean near $353. Keep the stored spelling AUGUSTA in the citation.

Why AUGUSTA on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Augusta give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city AUGUSTA, GA total $15,770,202 across 44,687 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. This extract is AUGUSTA with state GA only. Augusta, ME is another FEC city key. North Augusta, SC is a different string.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $15,770,202. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $353 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the AUGUSTA itemized book

$15,770,202 is not spending by Augusta candidates. A candidate who lives in Augusta can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged AUGUSTA, GA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with North Augusta, Martinez, and Augusta, Maine is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $15,770,202 counts rows that stored AUGUSTA, GA. 44,687 lines. About $353 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. GA state-office receipts are omitted.

AUGUSTA versus Atlanta on the FEC tape

AUGUSTA is a Savannah River mid-volume book in Richmond County on the Savannah River. 44,687 lines produce $15,770,202, a mean near $353. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Atlanta is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Augusta total of $15,770,202 does not absorb North Augusta, Martinez, and Augusta, Maine. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State GA stays on the citation so AUGUSTA, GA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in GA state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in GA

44,687 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 Augusta 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 Augusta 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: $15,770,202 and 44,687.

Source tables for $15,770,202

A mean of about $353 is division of $15,770,202 by 44,687. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Augusta. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Augusta city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Augusta’s $15,770,202 across 44,687 contributions is a Richmond County city field, mean near $353. North Augusta is a neighboring string, not a subset. Richmond County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $15,770,202 with 44,687 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city AUGUSTA, GA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city AUGUSTA, GA total $15,770,202 across 44,687 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 Augusta. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $353 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Which Augusta is this $15.8M total?

This extract is AUGUSTA with state GA only. Augusta, ME is another FEC city key. North Augusta, SC is a different string. LobbyVault counts 44,687 itemized contributions for AUGUSTA, GA against $15,770,202. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 44,687 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Augusta total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed AUGUSTA with state GA. Office addresses and mail that list Augusta can be part of $15,770,202 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 44,687-line count follows the same rule.

Are Augusta numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $15,770,202 and 44,687 lines for AUGUSTA, GA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from GA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.