ACTBLUE — 2016 cycle receipts

ActBlue as a 2016 committee × cycle cell

A pac-cycle page exists because two FEC dimensions meet. One side is ACTBLUE (C00401224), stored as a hybrid PAC (FEC type W). The other is election cycle 2016. $694,740,214.79 is the receipt total on that intersection from cycle-details topCommittees. It is not the 2016 national cycle sum across every committee, and it is not ACTBLUE's receipts in any other even-year window. WinRed is a different committee ID and a different cycle in this slice. Do not treat ActBlue’s 2016 receipts as a Republican counterpart book.

LobbyVault does not treat this URL as a donor-detail page. No contributor names appear in the packet. The packet flags isSuperPac 0; do not relabel this cell as a Super PAC page. Source: FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle. Campaign contributions are not USAspending obligations; this join does not claim that $694,740,214.79 funded federal awards.

Committee C00401224 and FEC type W

Committee C00401224 files as ACTBLUE. Type W is a hybrid PAC (FEC type W). The packet flags isSuperPac 0; do not relabel this cell as a Super PAC page. The committee hub at /committees/C00401224/ mixes every cycle this committee appears in; this tie isolates 2016 only. Adding other-cycle receipts from that hub into $694,740,214.79 would break the join. ActBlue’s public role as a pass-through brand is not a packet field. What the extract does store is committee C00401224, type W, 2016 receipts, and 2016 disbursements. Those four facts are the join.

All committees at /committees/ still lists every other filer. Those rows are not this cell. Keep C00401224 on the citation so a similar public name cannot swallow this 2016 total.

The 2016 cycle is wider than ActBlue

Federal election cycles on FEC.gov are two-year windows tagged by the even year of the election. 2016 is that tag, not a single calendar year of January-only activity. The cycle hub at /election-cycles/2016/ lists many committees; ACTBLUE is one row in that ranking extract. $694,740,214.79 belongs only to this committee in that window. 2016 is a presidential cycle. The cycle hub ranks many committees. ActBlue’s 2016 cell is one row in that ranking extract, not the Democratic Party’s 2016 total.

All FEC ties at /ties/ collect other committee × cycle pairs and other LobbyVault joins. Opening a sibling tie does not change $694,740,214.79 on this URL. Correlation is not causation: a large 2016 receipt total does not prove why money moved or who sent it.

2016 ActBlue receipts beside disbursements

Receipts $694,740,214.79 and disbursements $684,321,166.05 are separate FEC columns. Receipts exceed disbursements by $10,419,048.74 in this extract. Neither figure is an independent-expenditure-only total unless the packet’s Super PAC flag says so. This extract does not split operating expenditures, transfers, refunds, or cash-on-hand. Receipts exceed disbursements by a modest gap relative to the size of the book. That is still two columns, not a fee schedule and not a unique-donor census.

What a conduit-looking total still is not

This join does not name donors, unique contributors, or employers. It does not convert campaign receipts into USAspending obligations. FEC reports and federal award tables are different datasets even when a famous name overlaps. No contributor names, no candidate-by-candidate split, and no earmark table appear in this packet.

Independent expenditures by other committees that mention the same public figure are other tables. Party transfers, if they exist, are not itemized here. Keep the citation to ACTBLUE, C00401224, cycle 2016, receipts $694,740,214.79, disbursements $684,321,166.05, source FEC.gov.

Citing ActBlue’s 2016 FEC totals

Cite ACTBLUE, committee C00401224, cycle 2016, receipts $694,740,214.79, and disbursements $684,321,166.05, source FEC.gov. Open /committees/C00401224/ for the committee overlay, /election-cycles/2016/ for the 2016 cycle hub, /committees/ for the full committee index, and /ties/ for other FEC joins. Live overlay pages can move as new bulk files arrive; this snapshot stores the harvested pair.

Restating the join without new numbers: ACTBLUE in 2016 is $694,740,214.79 receipts and $684,321,166.05 disbursements on FEC.gov. Type W; isSuperPac 0. Not a donor page. Not a lifetime committee total. Not a national cycle total. Not a USAspending award sum. Type W hybrid PAC; isSuperPac 0. 2014 ActBlue receipts are a different cycle join.

Questions

How much did ActBlue report in 2016 FEC receipts?

ACTBLUE (C00401224) reported $694,740,214.79 in FEC.gov receipts for the 2016 election cycle. Disbursements in the same window were $684,321,166.05. This is a committee × cycle join, not a donor roster. FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle are the source.

Does this list the people who gave through ActBlue in 2016?

No. The packet has no contributor names, no unique-donor count, and no employer split. It stores committee C00401224, type W, cycle 2016, receipts $694,740,214.79, and disbursements $684,321,166.05. FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle are the source.

Is ActBlue a Super PAC in this 2016 extract?

Receipts exceed disbursements by $10,419,048.74 in this extract. The packet flags isSuperPac 0; do not relabel this cell as a Super PAC page. Independent expenditures by other committees and USAspending awards are outside this table. Quote both FEC columns with the 2016 cycle tag.

Where are C00401224 and the 2016 cycle pages?

Open /committees/C00401224/ for ACTBLUE, /election-cycles/2016/ for the 2016 election cycle, /committees/ for the committee index, and /ties/ for other FEC joins. This URL is the overlap only. FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle are the source.