RESTON, VA: $37.2M on 81,379 FEC receipts

Reston’s Fairfax city string

Eighty-one thousand three hundred seventy-nine lines produce $37,243,054. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $458. Herndon, Vienna, and McLean are other Northern Virginia city strings. They are not inside $37,243,054 unless the filer typed RESTON.

Fairfax County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up. $37,243,054 is the RESTON match only. The 81,379 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not Washington and not a planned-community census

Washington, DC keeps separate District hubs. Recoding Reston into a capital-region total would mix jurisdictions. This packet publishes RESTON, VA only: $37,243,054 and 81,379 lines.

FEC.gov stored a city string, not a neighborhood plan. A PAC or joint-fundraising address counts when that is what the filer typed. 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 20190-area ZIPs can diverge from $37,243,054 when some receipts used Herndon or another label.

The 81,379-line count follows the city field, not the postal map and not an employer field.

What this table omits

Virginia state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts sit outside $37,243,054 and outside 81,379. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing RESTON, VA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $37,243,054 with 81,379 together. Dropping the line count hides a mean near $458.

If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Reston receipt matters. Keep VA on the key so the citation stays off District hubs.

How to use the Reston hub

Start on the live Reston city page. $37,243,054 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 81,379 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Herndon, Vienna, or McLean as the “real” Fairfax address. Filers typed RESTON. LobbyVault indexed RESTON. Fairfax County and “planned community” language are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub. A mean near $458 is only $37,243,054 divided by 81,379. It is not a typical Reston household gift and not a typical office-park gift. Occupation is a different FEC field. Recipient is a different FEC field. Party is a different FEC field. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer turnout. Washington, DC hubs are different jurisdictions. Keep VA on the key.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city RESTON, VA, $37,243,054, 81,379 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original filings remain on FEC.gov for any named Reston receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Virginia non-federal filings never enter either fact. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. 81,379 is not a unique-donor census. $37,243,054 is still the dollar sum of those lines. Quote both. The live Reston hub is the table. This guide is the footnote. ZIP pages split a different field. A census-designated place on a map is not an FEC roll-up. The stored string is RESTON plus VA.

Reston’s pair on this extract is $37,243,054 and 81,379 lines, mean near $458. Print both. Herndon, Vienna, and McLean remain other Northern Virginia strings. Washington, DC hubs are different jurisdictions. Fairfax County is orientation. A planned-community label is not an FEC dimension. Virginia state campaigns and unitemized federal gifts sit outside both facts. Repeat givers can inflate 81,379 without adding unique persons. The live Reston FEC page is the authority if this snapshot and the hub diverge. Open FEC.gov for a named receipt. Quote contributor city RESTON, VA with both packet numbers. Keep VA on the key. A census-designated place on a map is not an FEC roll-up; the stored string is RESTON plus VA.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Reston federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city RESTON, VA total $37,243,054 across 81,379 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Reston residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 81,379 the number of Reston donors?

No. LobbyVault counts 81,379 itemized contribution lines for RESTON, VA. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding people. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $37,243,054.

Does Reston’s total include Washington, DC or Vienna?

No, unless the filer typed RESTON. Washington, Herndon, and Vienna are separate city hubs. $37,243,054 is the RESTON, VA match. The 81,379 lines follow the same rule. County and capital-region labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

How current is Reston’s $37,243,054 figure?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $37,243,054 and 81,379 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Virginia non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.