COLUMBUS, OH: $135.1M on 321,806 FEC receipts

Columbus, OH: the itemized dollar total

Divide $135,072,444 by 321,806 and the average itemized line is about $420. Averages hide mixed line sizes. This packet has no distribution, so $420 is a mean, not a typical resident gift.

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. Ohio’s capital is orientation for the city string. It is not an FEC finding about Ohio ideology.

Keep Dublin, Westerville, and Upper Arlington off the Columbus citation unless the receipt actually stored those cities. $135,072,444 is the COLUMBUS, OH string alone. 321,806 itemized rows and about $420 per row are the shape of that string, not of the metro map.

Volume and average on the Columbus book

Columbus sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $420 from $135,072,444 divided by 321,806. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

A later extract can move Columbus across that description if large lines are refunded or if many small lines are added. Recheck $135,072,444 and 321,806 on the hub.

The FEC city field behind COLUMBUS, OH

FEC.gov stores whatever city string appeared on the itemized receipt. COLUMBUS, OH is that string plus state OH. Recoding rows into a Census place would be a new dataset. This page does not do that recode.

ZIP pages under the same state cut the same series more finely. A Columbus city total is not the sum of every ZIP that postal service maps to Columbus; it is the sum of rows that typed this city string.

Metro shorthand that folds Dublin or Westerville into Columbus is a recode. FEC.gov stored COLUMBUS, OH. $135,072,444 across 321,806 contributions, mean near $420, belongs to that spelling. Upper Arlington is a different key if it appears as the city field.

Finer grain than COLUMBUS, OH

Use ZIP pages to see concentration inside a metro without replacing $135,072,444. Adding selected ZIPs and calling the sum “Columbus” is a recode. FEC.gov did not publish that recode on this city packet.

State OH on the city key is required in the citation so Columbus is not confused with a same-named city in another state.

A complete COLUMBUS, OH footnote names FEC.gov as the source, names contributor city as the dimension, and prints $135,072,444 and 321,806 as a pair. Leaving off any of those parts turns a public-record total into a slogan. LobbyVault’s job on this page is the pair, the dimension, and the link to the live table.

Readers who live near Dublin or Westerville still need the city string as filed. A Columbus mailing habit is not the FEC dimension. COLUMBUS, OH sums to $135,072,444 on 321,806 lines (about $420 each). Upper Arlington remains outside that pair.

Limits of the COLUMBUS, OH aggregate

State and local campaigns in OH file under state law. Those receipts are outside $135,072,444 and outside the 321,806 line count. Adding them by hand would mix disclosure systems.

The source for $135,072,444 and 321,806 is FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If a later bulk file disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.

A complete COLUMBUS, OH citation

Title, H1, and table on the live hub should show the same $135,072,444 and 321,806 this guide cites. If they do not, the hub was rebuilt from a newer extract. Trust the hub over this paragraph.

Guides do not replace filings. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named receipt on the Columbus hub matters to a story.

Columbus, Ohio shares a common U.S. city name. State OH on the key is what keeps this book off Columbus, Georgia or Columbus, Indiana. Always write COLUMBUS, OH when citing $135,072,444. Franklin County geography orients a map; it does not expand the city string to every suburb that uses a Columbus mailing address. Dublin, Westerville, and Upper Arlington remain separate if that is what filers typed. The 321,806-line count is itemized federal rows, not a roster of Columbus voters. Ohio statewide campaigns sit outside FEC.gov city totals. Open the Columbus FEC page for names. Use ZIP codes when the five-digit field is the question. A mean near $420 follows from division and is not a typical-household claim.

Questions

What is the FEC donation total for COLUMBUS, OH?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city COLUMBUS, OH total $135,072,444 across 321,806 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 Columbus. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 321,806 a count of Columbus donors?

LobbyVault counts 321,806 itemized contributions for COLUMBUS, 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 321,806 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $135,072,444.

Is COLUMBUS, OH a residency total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed COLUMBUS with state OH. Office addresses and mail that list Columbus can be part of $135,072,444 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 321,806-line count follows the same rule.

What is the source for COLUMBUS, OH campaign money figures?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $135,072,444 and 321,806 lines for COLUMBUS, 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 $420 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.