COLUMBUS, GA: $23.0M on 46,498 FEC receipts

State GA keeps Columbus off Ohio

The headline pair is $22,988,570 and 46,498 lines. The implied average is about $494. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Columbus, GA book.

Muscogee County’s Columbus string is separate from Phenix City, AL, and Atlanta on the FEC city key. Filers typed COLUMBUS in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state GA. 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 Columbus, GA, together with Phenix City across the river, the FEC file still splits them by city and state. This extract’s only city total is $22,988,570 on 46,498 COLUMBUS, GA rows, mean near $494.

Why COLUMBUS, GA on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Columbus give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city COLUMBUS, GA total $22,988,570 across 46,498 contributions. Dropping “itemized,” “contributor city,” and state GA inflates or misplaces the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $22,988,570. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. State GA is what keeps this page off Columbus, OH.

Outside the Columbus, GA itemized book

$22,988,570 is not spending by Columbus candidates. A candidate who lives in Columbus can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged COLUMBUS, GA can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $494 does not describe a median resident of Columbus. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Phenix City, AL, or Atlanta is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $22,988,570 counts rows that stored COLUMBUS, GA. 46,498 lines. About $494 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Columbus, GA versus Columbus, OH

Columbus, GA, posts $22,988,570 on 46,498 lines, a mean near $494. Columbus, OH, is a different city key with its own total. Do not merge them because the names match.

Comparing this mean to Atlanta is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in Georgia state data breaks the comparison.

A Columbus, GA, total of $22,988,570 does not absorb Atlanta or Phenix City. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State GA stays on the citation.

City total versus postal codes in GA

46,498 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 Columbus 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 Columbus 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 $22,988,570

A mean of about $494 is division of $22,988,570 by 46,498. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Columbus.

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

Columbus’s $22,988,570 across 46,498 contributions is a Muscogee County city field, mean near $494. Phenix City, AL, is across the river and separate on the FEC key. Repeat gifts add rows. Georgia state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $22,988,570 with 46,498 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Columbus, Georgia, should keep Columbus, Ohio, and Atlanta off the sentence unless they add those objects on purpose. The live Columbus table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $22,988,570 or 46,498 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $494 as division only. Georgia state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Columbus code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Phenix City, Alabama, remains another string across the river. The 46,498-line count still is not a headcount of Columbus people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Columbus, GA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city COLUMBUS, GA total $22,988,570 across 46,498 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 Columbus, Ohio. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is this Columbus, Georgia or Columbus, Ohio?

This extract is COLUMBUS with state GA: 46,498 lines and $22,988,570. Columbus, OH, would be a different city key. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 46,498 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Columbus, GA total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed COLUMBUS with state GA. Office addresses and mail that list Columbus can be part of $22,988,570 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 46,498-line count follows the same rule.

Are Columbus, GA numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $22,988,570 and 46,498 lines for COLUMBUS, 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. The mean of about $494 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.