KANSAS CITY, MO: $84.5M on 271,062 FEC receipts

How FEC.gov stored KANSAS CITY as a city

Kansas City’s city-field extract shows $84,544,122 across 271,062 contributions. Treat $312 as a derived average. It is not an FEC-published statistic with its own schedule.

Cite $84,544,122 only as itemized federal receipts tagged KANSAS CITY, MO. Kansas City, MO is the Missouri city key. Kansas City, Kansas is a different FEC city-state pair. 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.

Readers who live near Kansas City, KS or Independence still need the city string as filed. A Kansas City mailing habit is not the FEC dimension. KANSAS CITY, MO sums to $84,544,122 on 271,062 lines (about $312 each). Overland Park remains outside that pair.

Neighboring labels that are not Kansas City

Neighboring municipalities are not included unless filers typed KANSAS CITY, MO. Suburb names, county names, and metro nicknames are different keys when they appear as the city field.

Cite the city field, the dollar total, and the line count together. Two of the three is an incomplete citation of KANSAS CITY, MO.

KANSAS CITY, MO on Schedule A, not on a voter file

LobbyVault’s city hub for KANSAS CITY, MO is the live table for this string. This guide’s $84,544,122 and 271,062 are a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted from $84,544,122. State-office campaigns in MO are omitted. Mixing those systems with the FEC city book produces a total no agency published.

Kansas City versus Kansas City, KS is a different-key problem, not a suburb ranking. Independence and Overland Park follow the same rule. Quote $84,544,122 and 271,062 for KANSAS CITY, MO only. The mean near $312 does not travel with a neighbor’s name.

Kansas City’s high line count

Kansas City is a volume book on this extract: 271,062 lines produce $84,544,122, a mean near $312. Many itemized rows, smaller average line. Volume is not the same as unique people.

LobbyVault leaves the shape as arithmetic. KANSAS CITY, MO remains a city string with $84,544,122 and 271,062 attached.

Annexation stories about Kansas City, KS, Independence, or Overland Park do not rewrite $84,544,122. FEC city strings do not auto-follow city-limit changes. 271,062 contributions tagged KANSAS CITY, MO stay on this page until a filer types a different city. About $312 per line is still division.

MO ZIP directory next to Kansas City

Keep $84,544,122 on the city citation. Keep ZIP totals on ZIP citations. Adding them double-counts every row that has both a city and a ZIP, which is most itemized rows.

Postal boundaries change. FEC city strings do not automatically follow annexations. KANSAS CITY, MO is the string as stored on the extract.

Repeat the constraint when you reuse $84,544,122: itemized, federal, contributor city KANSAS CITY, MO, 271,062 lines, FEC.gov via LobbyVault. That sentence is long on purpose. Short slogans about Kansas City money usually drop a limit that changes the meaning.

If a newsroom map paints Kansas City together with Kansas City, KS and Independence, the FEC file still splits them. Overland Park too. This extract’s only city total is $84,544,122 on 271,062 KANSAS CITY, MO rows, mean near $312.

Postal confusion with Kansas City, KS, Independence, or Overland Park is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $84,544,122 counts rows that stored KANSAS CITY, MO in state MO. 271,062 lines. About $312 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

FEC.gov as the control for KANSAS CITY, MO

This prose is a snapshot. Committees still file. Refunds still post. $84,544,122 can rise or fall. 271,062 can lengthen or shrink. The live table is the place to look after an amendment.

Do not add estimated unitemized amounts to $84,544,122. This packet has no such estimate.

Kansas City, MO is the Missouri key: $84,544,122 across 271,062 contributions, mean near $312. Kansas City, Kansas is a different city-state pair. Independence and Overland Park are other strings. Always include MO in the citation. Dropping the state merges two federal books that FEC.gov kept apart. Missouri state-office campaigns are omitted. The 271,062-line count is not unique donors. Bi-state metro geography orients a map; it does not authorize adding Kansas rows into $84,544,122. Saint Louis is a separate Missouri city book. Cite KANSAS CITY, MO with both figures from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Kansas City federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city KANSAS CITY, MO total $84,544,122 across 271,062 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 Kansas City. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How should I read the 271,062 figure for KANSAS CITY, MO?

LobbyVault counts 271,062 itemized contributions for KANSAS CITY, MO. 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 271,062 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $84,544,122.

What city field does FEC use for Kansas City?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed KANSAS CITY with state MO. Office addresses and mail that list Kansas City can be part of $84,544,122 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 271,062-line count follows the same rule.

How current is the $84,544,122 total for Kansas City?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $84,544,122 and 271,062 lines for KANSAS CITY, MO. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MO are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $312 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.