MEDINA, WA: $17.5M on 17,970 FEC receipts

17,970 lines carrying $17,496,725

MEDINA shows 17,970 itemizations behind $17,496,725. That mix is a thinner stack with a high average line relative to volume books that post similar dollars on 70,000-plus rows. The implied mean is about $974. Committee receipts that list a MEDINA address still sit in the same column as individual rows.

Medina posts a thin Eastside stack: 17,970 lines against $17.5 million, a mean near $974. MEDINA, WA is not Medina, Ohio. Bellevue and Mercer Island are neighboring keys, not parents. 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 $17,496,725 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of MEDINA gave. The 17,970 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints MEDINA together with Bellevue, Kirkland, and Mercer Island, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,496,725 on 17,970 MEDINA, WA rows, mean near $974. Keep the stored spelling MEDINA in the citation.

Why MEDINA on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Medina give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city MEDINA, WA total $17,496,725 across 17,970 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Seventeen thousand nine hundred seventy lines against $17,496,725 produce that mean. A short King County file at this dollar scale can be moved by large receipts.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,496,725. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $974 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the MEDINA itemized book

$17,496,725 is not spending by MEDINA candidates. A candidate who lives in MEDINA can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged MEDINA, WA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Bellevue, Kirkland, and Mercer Island is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $17,496,725 counts rows that stored MEDINA, WA. 17,970 lines. About $974 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. WA state-office receipts are omitted.

MEDINA versus Seattle on the FEC tape

MEDINA is a thin high-mean Eastside book. 17,970 lines produce $17,496,725, a mean near $974. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Seattle is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A MEDINA total of $17,496,725 does not absorb Bellevue, Kirkland, and Mercer Island. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State WA stays on the citation so MEDINA, WA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in WA state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in WA

17,970 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 MEDINA 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 MEDINA 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: $17,496,725 and 17,970.

Source tables for $17,496,725

A mean of about $974 is division of $17,496,725 by 17,970. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of MEDINA. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the MEDINA city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

MEDINA’s $17,496,725 across 17,970 contributions is a King County city field, mean near $974. Bellevue is a neighboring string, not a subset. King County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $17,496,725 with 17,970 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 MEDINA, WA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MEDINA, WA total $17,496,725 across 17,970 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 Medina. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $974 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Why is Medina’s average line near $974?

Seventeen thousand nine hundred seventy lines against $17,496,725 produce that mean. A short King County file at this dollar scale can be moved by large receipts. LobbyVault counts 17,970 itemized contributions for MEDINA, WA against $17,496,725. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 17,970 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Medina total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MEDINA with state WA. Office addresses and mail that list Medina can be part of $17,496,725 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 17,970-line count follows the same rule.

Are Medina numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,496,725 and 17,970 lines for MEDINA, WA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from WA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.