MINNETONKA, MN: $16.9M on 48,334 FEC receipts

48,334 lines carrying $16,934,276

The headline pair is $16,934,276 and 48,334 lines. The implied average is about $350. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the MINNETONKA book. Hennepin County filers typed MINNETONKA with state MN.

Minnetonka is a western Hennepin suburb stored as MINNETONKA, MN. Minneapolis rows that list MINNEAPOLIS sit on another hub. Edina and Plymouth are neighboring strings. Minnetonka Beach, if typed, is a different city field. 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 $16,934,276 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Minnetonka gave. The 48,334 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Minnetonka together with Edina, Plymouth, and Minneapolis, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,934,276 on 48,334 MINNETONKA, MN rows, mean near $350. Keep the stored spelling MINNETONKA in the citation.

Why MINNETONKA on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Minnetonka give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city MINNETONKA, MN total $16,934,276 across 48,334 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. MINNETONKA, MN is the stored western Hennepin string. Minneapolis is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,934,276. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $350 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the MINNETONKA itemized book

$16,934,276 is not spending by Minnetonka candidates. A candidate who lives in Minnetonka can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged MINNETONKA, MN can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Edina, Plymouth, and Minneapolis is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $16,934,276 counts rows that stored MINNETONKA, MN. 48,334 lines. About $350 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. MN state-office receipts are omitted.

MINNETONKA versus Minneapolis on the FEC tape

MINNETONKA is a western-Hennepin mid-volume book in western Hennepin County beside Minneapolis. 48,334 lines produce $16,934,276, a mean near $350. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Minneapolis is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Minnetonka total of $16,934,276 does not absorb Edina, Plymouth, and Minneapolis. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State MN stays on the citation so MINNETONKA, MN is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in MN state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in MN

48,334 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 Minnetonka 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 Minnetonka 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: $16,934,276 and 48,334.

Source tables for $16,934,276

A mean of about $350 is division of $16,934,276 by 48,334. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Minnetonka. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Minnetonka city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Minnetonka’s $16,934,276 across 48,334 contributions is a Hennepin County city field, mean near $350. Edina is a neighboring string, not a subset. Hennepin County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $16,934,276 with 48,334 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 MINNETONKA, MN?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MINNETONKA, MN total $16,934,276 across 48,334 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 Minnetonka. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $350 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Minnetonka counted inside Minneapolis on this extract?

No. MINNETONKA, MN is the stored western Hennepin string. Minneapolis is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 48,334 itemized contributions for MINNETONKA, MN against $16,934,276. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 48,334 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Minnetonka total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MINNETONKA with state MN. Office addresses and mail that list Minnetonka can be part of $16,934,276 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 48,334-line count follows the same rule.

Are Minnetonka numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,934,276 and 48,334 lines for MINNETONKA, MN. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MN are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.