FORT WORTH, TX: $117.9M on 309,445 FEC receipts

Reading $117,875,456 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $117,875,456 and 309,445 lines. The implied average is about $381. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Fort Worth book.

Tarrant County’s Fort Worth string is separate from Dallas on the FEC city key. Do not merge the two cities. Filers typed FORT WORTH in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state TX. 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.

A Fort Worth total of $117,875,456 does not absorb Arlington, Dallas, or Haltom City. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State TX stays on the citation so FORT WORTH, TX is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 309,445 lines and the mean near $381 describe this key only.

Why FORT WORTH on the receipt is not a census of Fort Worth

Searchers often want “how much did people in Fort Worth give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city FORT WORTH, TX total $117,875,456 across 309,445 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $117,875,456. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Fort Worth itemized book

$117,875,456 is not spending by Fort Worth candidates. A candidate who lives in Fort Worth can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged FORT WORTH, TX can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $381 does not describe a median resident of Fort Worth. Means move with a few large lines.

Keep Arlington, Dallas, and Haltom City off the Fort Worth citation unless the receipt actually stored those cities. $117,875,456 is the FORT WORTH, TX string alone. 309,445 itemized rows and about $381 per row are the shape of that string, not of the metro map.

Volume and average on the Fort Worth book

Fort Worth sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $381 from $117,875,456 divided by 309,445. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

Comparing Fort Worth’s mean to another city is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in state data breaks the comparison.

Metro shorthand that folds Arlington or Dallas into Fort Worth is a recode. FEC.gov stored FORT WORTH, TX. $117,875,456 across 309,445 contributions, mean near $381, belongs to that spelling. Haltom City is a different key if it appears as the city field.

City total versus postal codes in TX

309,445 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 Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. Those subjects have other documents. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field.

Source tables for $117,875,456

A mean of about $381 is division of $117,875,456 by 309,445. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Fort Worth.

Internal links on this page go only to the Fort Worth city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

Fort Worth is indexed as FORT WORTH, TX, not as Dallas and not as Arlington. $117,875,456 across 309,445 contributions belongs to that string alone. Tarrant County geography orients; it does not pull in every suburb that shares a media market. A mean near $381 is division, not a typical Fort Worth household. Texas state campaigns are outside FEC.gov city totals. Independent expenditures that mention a Fort Worth-area race can be paid from another city and would not move this total. Keep Dallas, Fort Worth, and Arlington on separate citations. The Fort Worth FEC page is the live $117,875,456 / 309,445 table.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to Fort Worth, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city FORT WORTH, TX total $117,875,456 across 309,445 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 Fort Worth. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to Fort Worth?

LobbyVault counts 309,445 itemized contributions for FORT WORTH, TX. 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 309,445 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $117,875,456.

Does the Fort Worth total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FORT WORTH with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Fort Worth can be part of $117,875,456 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 309,445-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get Fort Worth totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $117,875,456 and 309,445 lines for FORT WORTH, TX. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from TX are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $381 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.