OLYMPIA, WA: $17.1M on 103,491 FEC receipts

103,491 lines behind OLYMPIA's $17.1M

OLYMPIA shows 103,491 itemizations behind $17,139,832. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $17.1M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. Volume does not prove small-dollar giving. The implied mean is about $166.

Olympia is a Thurston capital-city volume field: 103,491 lines behind $17.1 million, a lower mean than thin Eastside books. Lacey and Tumwater are neighboring keys. Seattle is a different King County string. 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 $17,139,832 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of OLYMPIA gave. The 103,491 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints OLYMPIA together with Lacey, Tumwater, and Tacoma, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,139,832 on 103,491 OLYMPIA, WA rows, mean near $166. Keep the stored spelling OLYMPIA in the citation.

Why OLYMPIA on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Olympia give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city OLYMPIA, WA total $17,139,832 across 103,491 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. OLYMPIA, WA is the stored Thurston string. Seattle is a different city key. Lacey is a neighboring string when typed.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,139,832. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $166 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

What $17,139,832 does not cover

Unitemized federal gifts never enter $17,139,832 or the 103,491-line count. WA state-office filings are also omitted. A candidate based in OLYMPIA can raise from other cities; a OLYMPIA, WA row can travel to a committee in any state.

Lacey, Tumwater, and Tacoma share a map with OLYMPIA and still need their own hubs. The 103,491 lines stored as OLYMPIA, WA are the only rows in this extract. About $166 each is division, not a household typical.

Same-name cities and the WA key

State WA is part of the match. OLYMPIA, WA is not merged with a same-named place in another state. OLYMPIA is a capital-city high-volume book; 103,491 lines produce $17,139,832, mean near $166.

Seattle is a comparison only on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Lacey, Tumwater, and Tacoma are other strings when typed. Mixing WA state-campaign data with $17,139,832 breaks the comparison.

How 103,491 lines sit next to ZIP pages

The city field and the ZIP field are independent FEC columns. 103,491 OLYMPIA rows may cluster in a few codes or scatter. This packet lists neither those ZIPs nor a split. Use the ZIP directory and the live OLYMPIA hub.

Amendments can move the city hub and a ZIP page on different clocks. Recheck both before publishing a comparison. This guide’s facts remain $17,139,832 and 103,491 for contributor city OLYMPIA, WA.

Citing OLYMPIA, WA from FEC.gov

Report $17,139,832 with 103,491 lines and name FEC.gov as the source, indexed on LobbyVault. The mean near $166 is $17,139,832 divided by 103,491. Do not call that a typical OLYMPIA resident.

Links on this page go to the OLYMPIA hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Lacey is a neighbor, not a subset. Thurston County is not totaled here. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Researchers citing OLYMPIA should keep state WA in the sentence so readers do not hunt a same-named place. The live city table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $17,139,832 or 103,491 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $166 as division only. Lacey, Tumwater, and Tacoma remain other strings. The 103,491-line count still is not a headcount.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city OLYMPIA, WA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city OLYMPIA, WA total $17,139,832 across 103,491 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 Olympia. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $166 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Olympia rolled into Seattle on FEC reports?

No. OLYMPIA, WA is the stored Thurston string. Seattle is a different city key. Lacey is a neighboring string when typed. LobbyVault counts 103,491 itemized contributions for OLYMPIA, WA against $17,139,832. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 103,491 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Olympia total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed OLYMPIA with state WA. Office addresses and mail that list Olympia can be part of $17,139,832 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 103,491-line count follows the same rule.

Are Olympia numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,139,832 and 103,491 lines for OLYMPIA, 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.