CLEVELAND, OH: $104.7M on 169,946 FEC receipts

The CLEVELAND, OH contributor-city book

169,946 itemized contributions produced $104,708,861 under the CLEVELAND, OH city key. About $616 per line follows from division. Repeat givers can lengthen 169,946 without adding new people; this packet has no unique-donor figure.

State OH on the same row keeps CLEVELAND, OH distinct from same-named cities elsewhere. Cuyahoga County geography orients Cleveland. Ohio state campaigns are not inside the federal city total. 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.

Postal confusion with Lakewood, Cleveland Heights, or Parma is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $104,708,861 counts rows that stored CLEVELAND, OH in state OH. 169,946 lines. About $616 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Volume and average on the Cleveland book

Cleveland sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $616 from $104,708,861 divided by 169,946. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

The shape is two numbers. $104,708,861 without 169,946 looks like a single pile of money. 169,946 without $104,708,861 looks like a turnout figure. Together they are an itemized city book.

Federal itemized only: the OH city caveat

Refunds, redesignations, and amendments can move both dollars and the 169,946-line count after this snapshot. Treat the figures as currently indexed, not as a closed book.

Researchers who need names should open the Cleveland FEC page rather than dividing $104,708,861 by a guessed household count.

A Cleveland total of $104,708,861 does not absorb Lakewood, Cleveland Heights, or Parma. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State OH stays on the citation so CLEVELAND, OH is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 169,946 lines and the mean near $616 describe this key only.

City string versus people who live in Cleveland

169,946 is a line count. Households that give twice, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows. Without a unique-donor field in this packet, do not quote 169,946 as a population of Cleveland donors.

The all-cities directory ranks the same series. Compare line counts as filing shape, not as a claim that one city is more politically active. FEC.gov does not score activity.

Keep Lakewood, Cleveland Heights, and Parma off the Cleveland citation unless the receipt actually stored those cities. $104,708,861 is the CLEVELAND, OH string alone. 169,946 itemized rows and about $616 per row are the shape of that string, not of the metro map.

Where Cleveland rows split by ZIP

City and ZIP are different FEC fields. A row can carry city CLEVELAND, OH and a ZIP that readers associate with a neighbor. Both fields are stored as filed. LobbyVault’s city page sums the city field.

The all-cities directory is the ranking view of the same city series. Cleveland’s 169,946 lines are comparable to other cities only as filing volume, not as turnout.

Line count 169,946 and dollars $104,708,861 should move together in a reader’s notes. If a later story quotes only one, check the hub. An amendment can change either figure. Snapshot prose cannot update itself.

Metro shorthand that folds Lakewood or Cleveland Heights into Cleveland is a recode. FEC.gov stored CLEVELAND, OH. $104,708,861 across 169,946 contributions, mean near $616, belongs to that spelling. Parma is a different key if it appears as the city field.

Live hub versus this Cleveland snapshot

The Cleveland FEC page holds the live $104,708,861 and 169,946 as currently indexed. The all-cities directory ranks other city strings. The ZIP directory opens a different field. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls.

If you quote $104,708,861, quote 169,946 in the same breath. A dollar total without a line count hides whether Cleveland is a volume book or a concentration book.

Cleveland’s $104,708,861 on 169,946 lines yields a mean near $616, higher than many Ohio volume books. Cuyahoga County geography orients. Lakewood, Cleveland Heights, and Parma are different city strings. Do not treat a metro sports-market name as a license to merge suburbs into $104,708,861. Ohio state campaigns are omitted. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. The 169,946-line count is not a unique-donor census. Columbus is a different Ohio key with its own total. Keep the two citations apart. Named receipts live on the Cleveland FEC page. Quote contributor city CLEVELAND, OH, $104,708,861, and 169,946 in one sentence.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Cleveland federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city CLEVELAND, OH total $104,708,861 across 169,946 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 Cleveland. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How should I read the 169,946 figure for CLEVELAND, OH?

LobbyVault counts 169,946 itemized contributions for CLEVELAND, OH. 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 169,946 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $104,708,861.

What city field does FEC use for Cleveland?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed CLEVELAND with state OH. Office addresses and mail that list Cleveland can be part of $104,708,861 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 169,946-line count follows the same rule.

How current is the $104,708,861 total for Cleveland?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $104,708,861 and 169,946 lines for CLEVELAND, OH. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from OH are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $616 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.