Chestnut Hill, MA: $52.4M on 59,813 FEC receipts

Chestnut Hill’s high mean on a thinner file

Fifty-nine thousand eight hundred thirteen lines produce $52,400,939. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $876. Boston and Cambridge, on other Massachusetts hubs, carry different line counts and different means. That contrast is a shape fact, not a character study of Brookline or Newton.

Chestnut Hill is a neighborhood name that filers type as a city. Brookline, Newton, and Boston are other city strings. They are not inside $52,400,939 unless the filer typed Chestnut Hill. Suffolk and Norfolk Counties are orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Chestnut Hill city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 59,813 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Boston metro sum

Boston, Cambridge, and Newton Centre keep separate Massachusetts hubs. Adding them to Chestnut Hill would be a recode. This packet publishes Chestnut Hill, MA only: $52,400,939 and 59,813 lines.

State MA on the key is required in the citation. The mixed-case city string in this packet is the match as stored. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

Neighborhood name versus municipal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. Chestnut Hill plus MA is the match. Recoding into Brookline, Newton, or a Census place is a different dataset. The packet does not split the 59,813 lines by municipality.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Chestnut Hill-area ZIPs can diverge from $52,400,939 when some receipts used Brookline or Newton as the city. The 59,813-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Chestnut Hill aggregate

Massachusetts state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $52,400,939 and outside 59,813. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing Chestnut Hill, MA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $52,400,939 with 59,813 together. Dropping the line count hides Chestnut Hill’s thinner file relative to a high-volume city on similar dollars.

Searchers will keep treating Chestnut Hill as a proxy for residents of a Boston neighborhood. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $52,400,939 across 59,813 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $876 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 Chestnut Hill receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Chestnut Hill hub

Start on the live Chestnut Hill city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $52,400,939 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 59,813 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Brookline or Newton as the “real” neighborhood. Filers typed Chestnut Hill. LobbyVault indexed Chestnut Hill. The mixed-case string in this packet is the match as stored. Suffolk and Norfolk Counties, the Green Line, and “greater Boston” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $876 is only $52,400,939 divided by 59,813. It is not a typical Chestnut Hill household gift, not a typical faculty gift, and not a typical professional 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 Chestnut Hill is more or less “politically active” than Cambridge because the line counts differ. Cambridge is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city Chestnut Hill, MA, $52,400,939, 59,813 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 Chestnut Hill receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Massachusetts 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 Chestnut Hill’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city Chestnut Hill, MA total $52,400,939 across 59,813 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Chestnut Hill residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Chestnut Hill’s 59,813 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 59,813 itemized lines for Chestnut Hill, MA. 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 $52,400,939.

Does Chestnut Hill’s total include Brookline or Newton?

Only if the filer typed Chestnut Hill. Brookline, Newton, and Boston are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $52,400,939 is the Chestnut Hill, MA match. The 59,813 lines follow the same rule. Neighborhood-to-city recodes are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Chestnut Hill facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $52,400,939 and 59,813 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Massachusetts non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $876 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.