SAVANNAH, GA: $22.7M on 83,221 FEC receipts

83,221 lines behind SAVANNAH's $22.7M

SAVANNAH shows 83,221 itemizations behind $22,716,129. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $22.7M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. Volume does not prove small-dollar giving. The implied mean is about $273.

Savannah is a port-and-historic-district string on the FEC tape: warehouse, law-office, and residential rows share one city field when filers typed SAVANNAH with state GA. Hilton Head sits in South Carolina and is a different key; Pooler is a Georgia neighbor that is also stored separately. 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 $22,716,129 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of SAVANNAH gave. The 83,221 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints SAVANNAH together with Pooler, Tybee Island, and Hilton Head, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $22,716,129 on 83,221 SAVANNAH, GA rows, mean near $273. Keep the stored spelling SAVANNAH in the citation.

Why SAVANNAH on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Savannah give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city SAVANNAH, GA total $22,716,129 across 83,221 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Port and downtown office addresses can share the SAVANNAH city field with household streets.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $22,716,129. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $273 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the SAVANNAH itemized book

$22,716,129 is not spending by SAVANNAH candidates. A candidate who lives in SAVANNAH can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged SAVANNAH, GA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Pooler, Tybee Island, and Hilton Head is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $22,716,129 counts rows that stored SAVANNAH, GA. 83,221 lines. About $273 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. GA state-office receipts are omitted.

SAVANNAH versus Atlanta on the FEC tape

SAVANNAH is a volume book with a low-to-mid mean. 83,221 lines produce $22,716,129, a mean near $273. 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 SAVANNAH total of $22,716,129 does not absorb Pooler, Tybee Island, and Hilton Head. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State GA stays on the citation so SAVANNAH, 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

83,221 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 SAVANNAH 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 SAVANNAH 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: $22,716,129 and 83,221.

Source tables for $22,716,129

A mean of about $273 is division of $22,716,129 by 83,221. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of SAVANNAH. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the SAVANNAH city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

SAVANNAH’s $22,716,129 across 83,221 contributions is a Chatham County city field, mean near $273. Pooler is a neighboring string, not a subset. Chatham County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $22,716,129 with 83,221 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 SAVANNAH, GA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city SAVANNAH, GA total $22,716,129 across 83,221 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 Savannah. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $273 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Savannah’s $22.7M a count of coastal Georgia residents?

Port and downtown office addresses can share the SAVANNAH city field with household streets. LobbyVault counts 83,221 itemized contributions for SAVANNAH, GA against $22,716,129. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 83,221 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Savannah total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed SAVANNAH with state GA. Office addresses and mail that list Savannah can be part of $22,716,129 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 83,221-line count follows the same rule.

Are Savannah numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $22,716,129 and 83,221 lines for SAVANNAH, 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.