CHEVY CHASE, MD: $94.9M on 213,521 FEC receipts

What $94,884,425 on the Chevy Chase city field covers

$94,884,425 divided by 213,521 is about $444 per itemized line. That mean is arithmetic from the two packet facts. FEC.gov does not publish a median, a unique-donor count, or a party split on this city aggregate. LobbyVault reports $94,884,425 and 213,521.

Montgomery County’s Chevy Chase string is not Bethesda. Neighboring Maryland keys stay separate. 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.

A Chevy Chase total of $94,884,425 does not absorb Bethesda, Potomac, or Silver Spring. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State MD stays on the citation so CHEVY CHASE, MD is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 213,521 lines and the mean near $444 describe this key only.

Chevy Chase is a contributor city, not a residency audit

The city is the contributor-city value on FEC itemizations. Filers type it. LobbyVault does not geocode Chevy Chase against a municipal boundary file. A work address, a mail drop, or a household in a neighboring place that still typed CHEVY CHASE can sit inside $94,884,425.

Amended reports can raise or lower both $94,884,425 and 213,521. If the live Chevy Chase hub reprints different figures, the newer FEC extract wins.

Volume and average on the Chevy Chase book

Chevy Chase sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $444 from $94,884,425 divided by 213,521. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

Do not convert that shape into a story about Chevy Chase culture. FEC.gov did not interview anyone. It stored city, dollars, and a line count.

What $94,884,425 from Chevy Chase omits

Unitemized federal contributions do not appear in $94,884,425. Many small gifts never become Schedule A city rows. Citing $94,884,425 as “all federal money from Chevy Chase” overstates the series.

LobbyVault does not impute missing city strings. Blank or nonstandard city values are not silently folded into Chevy Chase.

ZIP codes under the Chevy Chase city string

The ZIP directory cuts the same FEC itemized series by five-digit contributor ZIP. A Chevy Chase city total of $94,884,425 is not automatically the sum of ZIPs that the postal service assigns to Chevy Chase. Filers can type this city with a ZIP the postal service maps elsewhere, and the reverse.

Do not treat a high mean as proof that Chevy Chase ZIPs are “wealthy donor ZIPs.” This packet has no ZIP list and no income field.

Chevy Chase will keep attracting “how much did Chevy Chase give” queries because searchers use city as a proxy for residents. FEC.gov does not use city that way. It stores a contributor-city field. $94,884,425 across 213,521 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $444 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. Use the all-cities directory only to compare other strings on the same series. Use ZIP pages for a different field. If the live hub reprints a different $94,884,425 or 213,521, the newer FEC extract wins and this snapshot is stale.

How to cite Chevy Chase without inflating the city

The accurate sentence is: itemized federal receipts with contributor city CHEVY CHASE, MD total $94,884,425 across 213,521 contributions, according to FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Shorthand such as “Chevy Chase donated $94,884,425” drops the itemized-only limit and the contributor-city definition.

No motive is attached to the Chevy Chase city field. FEC.gov stored a string. LobbyVault summed it. That is the whole method on this page.

Chevy Chase’s $94,884,425 across 213,521 contributions is a Montgomery County string, mean near $444. Bethesda, Potomac, and Silver Spring are neighboring keys. The town name on a receipt is not automatically the Town of Chevy Chase corporate limit; it is the string filers typed. Maryland state-office filings are omitted. Washington-adjacent geography orients. It is not an FEC ranking. The 213,521-line count is not unique donors. Do not add Chevy Chase and Potomac and call the sum Maryland suburbs. FEC.gov did not publish that recode here. Cite $94,884,425 with 213,521 on the Chevy Chase FEC page.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to Chevy Chase, MD?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city CHEVY CHASE, MD total $94,884,425 across 213,521 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 Chevy Chase. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to Chevy Chase?

LobbyVault counts 213,521 itemized contributions for CHEVY CHASE, 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 213,521 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $94,884,425.

Does the Chevy Chase total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed CHEVY CHASE with state MD. Office addresses and mail that list Chevy Chase can be part of $94,884,425 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 213,521-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get Chevy Chase totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $94,884,425 and 213,521 lines for CHEVY CHASE, 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 $444 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.