Chapel Hill, NC: $36.9M on 132,334 FEC receipts

Chapel Hill’s volume beside its dollars

One hundred thirty-two thousand three hundred thirty-four lines produce $36,924,487. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $279. That is a high-volume city string on this extract. Carrboro, Durham, and Raleigh are other Triangle city strings. They are not inside $36,924,487 unless the filer typed Chapel Hill.

Orange County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up. $36,924,487 is the Chapel Hill match only. The packet stores the city as Chapel Hill, mixed case, plus NC.

A campus is not an FEC city dimension

FEC.gov stored a city string, not an employer. Recoding Chapel Hill into a university map would be a different product. This page does not recode. It publishes Chapel Hill, NC: $36,924,487 and 132,334 lines.

Office addresses can share the city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 132,334 lines are receipts, not unique persons. Recheck both facts on the live hub after a later extract.

City field versus ZIP pages

Filers type a city. The Commission stores that string. ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Chapel Hill-area ZIPs will not reproduce $36,924,487 when some receipts used Carrboro or Durham as the city.

The 132,334-line count follows the city field, not the postal map and not an employer field.

What this table omits

North Carolina state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts sit outside $36,924,487 and outside 132,334. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing here estimates how Chapel Hill voted. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. Use the city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index.

Citing Chapel Hill, NC

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $36,924,487 with 132,334 together. Dropping the line count hides a mean near $279 and a volume Triangle book.

If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Chapel Hill receipt matters. Campus language does not convert the city field into an employer census.

How researchers should use the Chapel Hill hub

Start on the live Chapel Hill city page. $36,924,487 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 132,334 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Durham as the “real” Triangle city.

A mean near $279 is only $36,924,487 divided by 132,334. It is not a typical student gift, faculty gift, or household gift. Party is not in the packet. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot.

Carry FEC.gov, contributor city Chapel Hill, NC, $36,924,487, and 132,334 lines. The mean near $279 is optional arithmetic. It is not a typical gift from a student, a faculty member, or a household. Durham, Raleigh, and Carrboro stay off this page unless the filer typed Chapel Hill. North Carolina state-office receipts stay off this page. Unitemized federal gifts stay off this page. Orange County is orientation, not a roll-up. A high line count can include repeat givers. 132,334 is not a unique-donor census. $36,924,487 is still the dollar sum of those lines. Quote both. The live Chapel Hill hub is the table. This guide is the footnote. If they disagree, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Chapel Hill receipt matters. ZIP pages split a different field. Occupation lives on other FEC fields.

Chapel Hill’s pair is $36,924,487 and 132,334 lines. Print both. Durham stays on its own hub. Raleigh stays on its own hub. Campus language does not replace the city field. The live table on the Chapel Hill FEC page is the authority if this snapshot and the hub diverge. North Carolina non-federal filings never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. Cite contributor city Chapel Hill, NC, the dollar total, the line count, and FEC.gov in one sentence. If a later extract moves the pair, discard this snapshot. The packet stores mixed-case Chapel Hill plus NC. Match that string. Do not recode it into a Triangle metro total.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Chapel Hill federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city Chapel Hill, NC total $36,924,487 across 132,334 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a campus census. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 132,334 the number of Chapel Hill donors?

No. LobbyVault counts 132,334 itemized contribution lines for Chapel Hill, NC. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding people. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $36,924,487.

Does Chapel Hill’s total include Durham or Raleigh?

No, unless the filer typed Chapel Hill. Durham, Raleigh, and Carrboro are separate city hubs. $36,924,487 is the Chapel Hill, NC match. The 132,334 lines follow the same rule. Triangle and county labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

How current is Chapel Hill’s $36,924,487 figure?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $36,924,487 and 132,334 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. North Carolina non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.