BILLINGS, MT: $20.8M on 74,831 FEC receipts

74,831 lines behind BILLINGS's $20.8M

BILLINGS shows 74,831 itemizations behind $20,799,354. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $20.8M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. Volume does not prove small-dollar giving. The implied mean is about $278.

Billings is the eastern-Montana Yellowstone County string. Missoula is a western-Montana volume book on a different hub. Bozeman and Laurel are other keys. This packet does not add those pages together. 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 $20,799,354 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of BILLINGS gave. The 74,831 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints BILLINGS together with Laurel, Bozeman, and Missoula, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $20,799,354 on 74,831 BILLINGS, MT rows, mean near $278. Keep the stored spelling BILLINGS in the citation.

Why BILLINGS on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Billings give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city BILLINGS, MT total $20,799,354 across 74,831 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. BILLINGS, MT is the stored Yellowstone County string. Missoula is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $20,799,354. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $278 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the BILLINGS itemized book

$20,799,354 is not spending by BILLINGS candidates. A candidate who lives in BILLINGS can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged BILLINGS, MT can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Laurel, Bozeman, and Missoula is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $20,799,354 counts rows that stored BILLINGS, MT. 74,831 lines. About $278 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. MT state-office receipts are omitted.

BILLINGS versus Missoula on the FEC tape

BILLINGS is an eastern Montana volume book. 74,831 lines produce $20,799,354, a mean near $278. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Missoula is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A BILLINGS total of $20,799,354 does not absorb Laurel, Bozeman, and Missoula. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State MT stays on the citation so BILLINGS, MT is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in MT state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in MT

74,831 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 BILLINGS 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 BILLINGS 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: $20,799,354 and 74,831.

Source tables for $20,799,354

A mean of about $278 is division of $20,799,354 by 74,831. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of BILLINGS. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the BILLINGS city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

BILLINGS’s $20,799,354 across 74,831 contributions is a Yellowstone County city field, mean near $278. Laurel is a neighboring string, not a subset. Yellowstone County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $20,799,354 with 74,831 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 BILLINGS, MT?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city BILLINGS, MT total $20,799,354 across 74,831 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 Billings. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $278 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Billings merged with Missoula on FEC reports?

No. BILLINGS, MT is the stored Yellowstone County string. Missoula is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 74,831 itemized contributions for BILLINGS, MT against $20,799,354. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 74,831 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Billings total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BILLINGS with state MT. Office addresses and mail that list Billings can be part of $20,799,354 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 74,831-line count follows the same rule.

Are Billings numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $20,799,354 and 74,831 lines for BILLINGS, MT. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MT are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.