BURLINGTON, VT: $15.9M on 43,911 FEC receipts

43,911 lines carrying $15,877,548

The headline pair is $15,877,548 and 43,911 lines. The implied average is about $362. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the BURLINGTON book. Chittenden County filers typed BURLINGTON with state VT.

BURLINGTON, VT is a Chittenden County city field, not Burlington, North Carolina. State VT is required in the citation. South Burlington is a neighboring string when filers typed that name. Montpelier is a different Vermont key. 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 $15,877,548 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Burlington gave. The 43,911 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Burlington together with South Burlington, Winooski, and Burlington, North Carolina, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $15,877,548 on 43,911 BURLINGTON, VT rows, mean near $362. Keep the stored spelling BURLINGTON in the citation.

Why BURLINGTON on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Burlington give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city BURLINGTON, VT total $15,877,548 across 43,911 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. This extract is BURLINGTON with state VT only. Burlington, NC is another FEC city key. South Burlington is a different string when typed.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $15,877,548. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $362 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the BURLINGTON itemized book

$15,877,548 is not spending by Burlington candidates. A candidate who lives in Burlington can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged BURLINGTON, VT can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with South Burlington, Winooski, and Burlington, North Carolina is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $15,877,548 counts rows that stored BURLINGTON, VT. 43,911 lines. About $362 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. VT state-office receipts are omitted.

BURLINGTON versus Montpelier on the FEC tape

BURLINGTON is a Champlain mid-volume book in Chittenden County on Lake Champlain. 43,911 lines produce $15,877,548, a mean near $362. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Montpelier is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Burlington total of $15,877,548 does not absorb South Burlington, Winooski, and Burlington, North Carolina. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State VT stays on the citation so BURLINGTON, VT is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in VT state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in VT

43,911 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 Burlington 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 Burlington 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: $15,877,548 and 43,911.

Source tables for $15,877,548

A mean of about $362 is division of $15,877,548 by 43,911. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Burlington. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Burlington city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Burlington’s $15,877,548 across 43,911 contributions is a Chittenden County city field, mean near $362. South Burlington is a neighboring string, not a subset. Chittenden County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $15,877,548 with 43,911 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 BURLINGTON, VT?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city BURLINGTON, VT total $15,877,548 across 43,911 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 Burlington. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $362 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Which Burlington is this $15.9M total?

This extract is BURLINGTON with state VT only. Burlington, NC is another FEC city key. South Burlington is a different string when typed. LobbyVault counts 43,911 itemized contributions for BURLINGTON, VT against $15,877,548. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 43,911 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Burlington total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BURLINGTON with state VT. Office addresses and mail that list Burlington can be part of $15,877,548 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 43,911-line count follows the same rule.

Are Burlington numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $15,877,548 and 43,911 lines for BURLINGTON, VT. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from VT are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.