BALTIMORE, MD: $116.9M on 320,791 FEC receipts

$116,865,577 is a Schedule A city total

FEC.gov indexed 320,791 itemized rows to contributor city BALTIMORE, MD. Their sum is $116,865,577. The mean near $364 describes the average row, not a household and not a census tract.

Maryland’s largest city is the contributor-city label. Annapolis state filings are outside this federal series. The 320,791-line count is a contribution-line total. It is not a headcount of Baltimore residents. 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.

Metro shorthand that folds Towson or Columbia into Baltimore is a recode. FEC.gov stored BALTIMORE, MD. $116,865,577 across 320,791 contributions, mean near $364, belongs to that spelling. Annapolis is a different key if it appears as the city field.

How to read the MD city key for Baltimore

City-name spelling is part of the key. BALTIMORE with state MD is the unit. A close spelling, a neighborhood abbreviation, or a merged metro label is a different aggregate if FEC stored it differently.

Independent expenditures that mention a Baltimore race can be paid by a committee with a different city on its own reports. Those disbursements do not move $116,865,577. Keep independent-expenditure tables separate from this city total.

Using ZIP pages without breaking $116,865,577

If a ZIP page and the Baltimore city page disagree in implied geography, that is expected. They answer different questions: five-digit code versus city string.

Named receipts on the Baltimore FEC page are the next click for researchers who need committee names. This guide does not invent those names.

The Baltimore city key will not absorb nearby towns because a map looks contiguous. Annexation, CDPs, and neighborhood names are not auto-merged. BALTIMORE, MD is the filed string. $116,865,577 belongs to that string alone in this extract.

Readers who live near Towson or Columbia still need the city string as filed. A Baltimore mailing habit is not the FEC dimension. BALTIMORE, MD sums to $116,865,577 on 320,791 lines (about $364 each). Annapolis remains outside that pair.

Volume and average on the Baltimore book

Baltimore sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $364 from $116,865,577 divided by 320,791. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

High means can come from a few large lines. Low means can come from many modest lines. This packet has no top-line list, so neither story can be proven here.

Baltimore versus Towson is a different-key problem, not a suburb ranking. Columbia and Annapolis follow the same rule. Quote $116,865,577 and 320,791 for BALTIMORE, MD only. The mean near $364 does not travel with a neighbor’s name.

Do not stretch $116,865,577 past FEC.gov

This packet has no unique-donor count, no employer roll-up, and no party split. Anything in that list, if quoted as a fact about Baltimore, is not from this extract.

Cycle windows on the live hub may be rebuilt. This prose will not silently rewrite $116,865,577 after you load the page.

Annexation stories about Towson, Columbia, or Annapolis do not rewrite $116,865,577. FEC city strings do not auto-follow city-limit changes. 320,791 contributions tagged BALTIMORE, MD stay on this page until a filer types a different city. About $364 per line is still division.

What a careful Baltimore sentence includes

Keep 320,791 as a contribution-line total. Researchers who need persons must match names on the city hub rather than treating the line count as a headcount.

The overlay target for this copy is the Baltimore city hub. The guide URL is a standalone citation page that points back to that hub.

Baltimore’s $116,865,577 across 320,791 contributions is the city string BALTIMORE, MD, not Baltimore County as a whole. Towson, Columbia, and Annapolis are different keys. Annapolis state filings are a different system entirely. A mean near $364 is the average itemized row. It is not a neighborhood map of Baltimore. Maryland state-office campaigns are outside this total. Unitemized federal gifts are outside it. The harbor city’s name on a receipt is a spelling, not a port-industry finding — this packet has no NAICS field. Open the Baltimore FEC page for committee names. Use ZIP codes when the question is a five-digit field. If the live hub reprints a different $116,865,577, trust the hub.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Baltimore?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city BALTIMORE, MD total $116,865,577 across 320,791 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 Baltimore. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Baltimore contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 320,791 itemized contributions for BALTIMORE, MD. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 320,791 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $116,865,577.

Can committee addresses appear in the Baltimore city total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BALTIMORE with state MD. Office addresses and mail that list Baltimore can be part of $116,865,577 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 320,791-line count follows the same rule.

Are Baltimore numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $116,865,577 and 320,791 lines for BALTIMORE, MD. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MD are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $364 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.