Enterprise, AL political money — 2014 cycle

2014 receipts from Enterprise, AL donors

The join keeps donor city Enterprise in Alabama and election cycle 2014. The match is $1,937,600 across 57 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $18,506,704. 2014 therefore accounts for 10.5% of Enterprise, AL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $16,569,104 (89.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Enterprise, AL. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under ENTERPRISE. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Enterprise, AL with every other donor city in the United States. The 57 rows and $1,937,600 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Enterprise, AL here is the string that survived aggregation as ENTERPRISE in AL. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Enterprise, AL donors itemized $1,937,600. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Enterprise, AL is $18,506,704 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $1,937,600 from 2014 and the $16,569,104 from every other cycle in the same city file. Alabama campaign-finance pages still mix Enterprise with every other city in Alabama.

A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Enterprise, AL, the city stack is $18,506,704 while this cycle is $1,937,600 (10.5%). Use the city hub to see Enterprise, AL without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Enterprise in 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2014 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Enterprise, AL donors itemized $1,937,600 on 57 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $33,993 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Alabama still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Enterprise × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 57 itemized rows is a very sparse file. With that few records, $1,937,600 should be read as a small set of itemized transactions, not a citywide turnout measure. Adjacent pages for Enterprise, AL, 2014 election cycle, and Alabama campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A large cut of the Enterprise stack

10.5% of the citywide $18,506,704 is a large slice. 2014 is a major year in this city's FEC file, not a footnote. Put another way, about 10.5% of Enterprise, AL's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 89.5% were not. Those percentages are $1,937,600 divided by $18,506,704 and $16,569,104 divided by $18,506,704. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (10.5%) and row volume (57 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A large slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a very sparse contribution file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 10.5% as Enterprise's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

57 itemized contributions totaling $1,937,600 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of ENTERPRISE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Enterprise versus other Alabama cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $33,993 uses only the two numbers in the join: $1,937,600 and 57 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $1,937,600 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank Enterprise against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Alabama. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A AL address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Alabama candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Enterprise, AL, the 2014 election cycle, Alabama campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Enterprise, AL donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Enterprise, AL total $1,937,600 in the 2014 cycle, across 57 contribution records. The same city label totals $18,506,704 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 10.5% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Enterprise, AL city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $18,506,704 covers every cycle in the table for ENTERPRISE. The 2014 filter is $1,937,600 from 57 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $16,569,104. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Enterprise, AL 2014 donations stay in Alabama?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Enterprise, AL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $1,937,600 by office, state of the committee, or party. A AL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Alabama races.

How many Enterprise, AL contributions were itemized in 2014?

57 itemized contribution records sum to $1,937,600. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $33,993 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.