SPARTANBURG, SC: $15.7M on 45,326 FEC receipts

45,326 lines carrying $15,714,690

The headline pair is $15,714,690 and 45,326 lines. The implied average is about $347. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the SPARTANBURG book. Spartanburg County filers typed SPARTANBURG with state SC.

Spartanburg is an Upstate South Carolina city field. Greenville is a neighboring county seat on a different key. Columbia is a Midlands string. Spartanburg County is geography, not this FEC 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. Read $15,714,690 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Spartanburg gave. The 45,326 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Spartanburg together with Greenville, Greer, and Columbia, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $15,714,690 on 45,326 SPARTANBURG, SC rows, mean near $347. Keep the stored spelling SPARTANBURG in the citation.

Why SPARTANBURG on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Spartanburg give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city SPARTANBURG, SC total $15,714,690 across 45,326 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. SPARTANBURG, SC is the stored Upstate string. Greenville is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $15,714,690. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $347 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the SPARTANBURG itemized book

$15,714,690 is not spending by Spartanburg candidates. A candidate who lives in Spartanburg can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged SPARTANBURG, SC can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Greenville, Greer, and Columbia is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $15,714,690 counts rows that stored SPARTANBURG, SC. 45,326 lines. About $347 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. SC state-office receipts are omitted.

SPARTANBURG versus Greenville on the FEC tape

SPARTANBURG is an Upstate mid-volume book in Spartanburg County in the South Carolina Upstate. 45,326 lines produce $15,714,690, a mean near $347. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Greenville is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Spartanburg total of $15,714,690 does not absorb Greenville, Greer, and Columbia. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State SC stays on the citation so SPARTANBURG, SC is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in SC state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in SC

45,326 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 Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg 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: $15,714,690 and 45,326.

Source tables for $15,714,690

A mean of about $347 is division of $15,714,690 by 45,326. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Spartanburg. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Spartanburg city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Spartanburg’s $15,714,690 across 45,326 contributions is a Spartanburg County city field, mean near $347. Greenville is a neighboring string, not a subset. Spartanburg County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $15,714,690 with 45,326 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 SPARTANBURG, SC?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city SPARTANBURG, SC total $15,714,690 across 45,326 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 Spartanburg. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $347 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Spartanburg folded into Greenville on this extract?

No. SPARTANBURG, SC is the stored Upstate string. Greenville is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 45,326 itemized contributions for SPARTANBURG, SC against $15,714,690. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 45,326 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Spartanburg total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed SPARTANBURG with state SC. Office addresses and mail that list Spartanburg can be part of $15,714,690 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 45,326-line count follows the same rule.

Are Spartanburg numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $15,714,690 and 45,326 lines for SPARTANBURG, SC. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from SC are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.