CEDAR RAPIDS, IA: $16.7M on 63,661 FEC receipts

63,661 lines behind CEDAR RAPIDS's $16.7M

CEDAR RAPIDS shows 63,661 itemizations behind $16,690,185. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $16.7M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. The implied mean is about $262.

Cedar Rapids is an eastern-Iowa Linn County string. Des Moines is a different Polk County key. Marion and Iowa City are neighboring strings. Cedar Rapids is not a statewide Iowa roll-up. 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 $16,690,185 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Cedar Rapids gave. The 63,661 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Cedar Rapids together with Marion, Iowa City, and Des Moines, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,690,185 on 63,661 CEDAR RAPIDS, IA rows, mean near $262. Keep the stored spelling CEDAR RAPIDS in the citation.

Why CEDAR RAPIDS on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Cedar Rapids give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city CEDAR RAPIDS, IA total $16,690,185 across 63,661 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. CEDAR RAPIDS, IA is the stored Linn County city field. Des Moines and Iowa City are other keys.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,690,185. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $262 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the CEDAR RAPIDS itemized book

$16,690,185 is not spending by Cedar Rapids candidates. A candidate who lives in Cedar Rapids can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged CEDAR RAPIDS, IA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Marion, Iowa City, and Des Moines is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $16,690,185 counts rows that stored CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. 63,661 lines. About $262 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. IA state-office receipts are omitted.

CEDAR RAPIDS versus Des Moines on the FEC tape

CEDAR RAPIDS is an eastern-Iowa volume book in Linn County in eastern Iowa. 63,661 lines produce $16,690,185, a mean near $262. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Des Moines is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Cedar Rapids total of $16,690,185 does not absorb Marion, Iowa City, and Des Moines. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State IA stays on the citation so CEDAR RAPIDS, IA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in IA state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in IA

63,661 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 Cedar Rapids 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 Cedar Rapids 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: $16,690,185 and 63,661.

Source tables for $16,690,185

A mean of about $262 is division of $16,690,185 by 63,661. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Cedar Rapids. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Cedar Rapids city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Cedar Rapids’s $16,690,185 across 63,661 contributions is a Linn County city field, mean near $262. Marion is a neighboring string, not a subset. Linn County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $16,690,185 with 63,661 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 CEDAR RAPIDS, IA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city CEDAR RAPIDS, IA total $16,690,185 across 63,661 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 Cedar Rapids. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $262 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Cedar Rapids the Iowa statewide total?

No. CEDAR RAPIDS, IA is the stored Linn County city field. Des Moines and Iowa City are other keys. LobbyVault counts 63,661 itemized contributions for CEDAR RAPIDS, IA against $16,690,185. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 63,661 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Cedar Rapids total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed CEDAR RAPIDS with state IA. Office addresses and mail that list Cedar Rapids can be part of $16,690,185 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 63,661-line count follows the same rule.

Are Cedar Rapids numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,690,185 and 63,661 lines for CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from IA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.