JANESVILLE, WI: $22.4M on 20,555 FEC receipts

20,555 lines carrying $22,443,451

JANESVILLE shows 20,555 itemizations behind $22,443,451. 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 $1,092. Committee receipts that list a JANESVILLE address still sit in the same column as individual rows.

Janesville posts a thin stack: 20,555 lines against $22.4 million, a mean near $1,092. That mix is a high average line relative to volume books that post similar dollars on 80,000-plus rows. Madison is a different Dane 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 $22,443,451 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of JANESVILLE gave. The 20,555 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints JANESVILLE together with Beloit, Milton, and Madison, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $22,443,451 on 20,555 JANESVILLE, WI rows, mean near $1,092. Keep the stored spelling JANESVILLE in the citation.

Why JANESVILLE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Janesville give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city JANESVILLE, WI total $22,443,451 across 20,555 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Twenty thousand five hundred fifty-five lines against $22,443,451 produce that mean. A thinner stack can be moved by a few large receipts.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $22,443,451. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $1,092 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the JANESVILLE itemized book

$22,443,451 is not spending by JANESVILLE candidates. A candidate who lives in JANESVILLE can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged JANESVILLE, WI can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Beloit, Milton, and Madison is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $22,443,451 counts rows that stored JANESVILLE, WI. 20,555 lines. About $1,092 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. WI state-office receipts are omitted.

JANESVILLE versus Madison on the FEC tape

JANESVILLE is a thin high-mean Rock County book. 20,555 lines produce $22,443,451, a mean near $1,092. 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 JANESVILLE total of $22,443,451 does not absorb Beloit, Milton, and Madison. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State WI stays on the citation so JANESVILLE, 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

20,555 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 JANESVILLE 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 JANESVILLE 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: $22,443,451 and 20,555.

Source tables for $22,443,451

A mean of about $1,092 is division of $22,443,451 by 20,555. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of JANESVILLE. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the JANESVILLE city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

JANESVILLE’s $22,443,451 across 20,555 contributions is a Rock County city field, mean near $1,092. Beloit is a neighboring string, not a subset. Rock County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $22,443,451 with 20,555 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 JANESVILLE, WI?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city JANESVILLE, WI total $22,443,451 across 20,555 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 Janesville. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $1,092 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Why is Janesville’s average line near $1,092?

Twenty thousand five hundred fifty-five lines against $22,443,451 produce that mean. A thinner stack can be moved by a few large receipts. LobbyVault counts 20,555 itemized contributions for JANESVILLE, WI against $22,443,451. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 20,555 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Janesville total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed JANESVILLE with state WI. Office addresses and mail that list Janesville can be part of $22,443,451 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 20,555-line count follows the same rule.

Are Janesville numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $22,443,451 and 20,555 lines for JANESVILLE, 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.