BELOIT, WI: $16.4M on 9,543 FEC receipts

9,543 lines carrying $16,384,895

BELOIT shows 9,543 itemizations behind $16,384,895. That mix is a thinner stack with a high average line relative to high-line city books that post similar dollars on far more rows. The implied mean is about $1,717. Committee receipts that list a BELOIT address still sit in the same column as individual rows.

Beloit is a thin Rock County book: 9,543 lines against $16.4 million, a mean near $1,717. South Beloit, Illinois is a different city-and-state key. Janesville and Rockford are neighboring strings, not subsets. 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 $16,384,895 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Beloit gave. The 9,543 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Beloit together with Janesville, South Beloit, and Rockford, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,384,895 on 9,543 BELOIT, WI rows, mean near $1,717. Keep the stored spelling BELOIT in the citation.

Why BELOIT on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Beloit give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city BELOIT, WI total $16,384,895 across 9,543 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Nine thousand five hundred forty-three lines against $16,384,895 produce that mean. A short file at this dollar scale can be dominated by large receipts.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,384,895. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $1,717 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the BELOIT itemized book

$16,384,895 is not spending by Beloit candidates. A candidate who lives in Beloit can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged BELOIT, WI can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Janesville, South Beloit, and Rockford is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $16,384,895 counts rows that stored BELOIT, WI. 9,543 lines. About $1,717 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. WI state-office receipts are omitted.

BELOIT versus Madison on the FEC tape

BELOIT is a thin high-mean Rock County book in Rock County on the Wisconsin–Illinois line. 9,543 lines produce $16,384,895, a mean near $1,717. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Madison is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Beloit total of $16,384,895 does not absorb Janesville, South Beloit, and Rockford. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State WI stays on the citation so BELOIT, WI is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in WI state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in WI

9,543 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 Beloit 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 Beloit 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: $16,384,895 and 9,543.

Source tables for $16,384,895

A mean of about $1,717 is division of $16,384,895 by 9,543. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Beloit. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Beloit city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Beloit’s $16,384,895 across 9,543 contributions is a Rock County city field, mean near $1,717. Janesville is a neighboring string, not a subset. Rock County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $16,384,895 with 9,543 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 BELOIT, WI?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city BELOIT, WI total $16,384,895 across 9,543 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 Beloit. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $1,717 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Why is Beloit’s average line near $1,717?

Nine thousand five hundred forty-three lines against $16,384,895 produce that mean. A short file at this dollar scale can be dominated by large receipts. LobbyVault counts 9,543 itemized contributions for BELOIT, WI against $16,384,895. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 9,543 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Beloit total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BELOIT with state WI. Office addresses and mail that list Beloit can be part of $16,384,895 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 9,543-line count follows the same rule.

Are Beloit numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,384,895 and 9,543 lines for BELOIT, WI. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from WI are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.