How much did Beverly Hills, CA donors give in 2014?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city BEVERLY HILLS and cycle 2014 total $709,982 across 490 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Beverly Hills, CA book of $243.9 million. Unitemized gifts and California state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $709,982 all of Beverly Hills’s federal political money?

No. $243.9 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city BEVERLY HILLS in CA. The 2014 slice is $709,982, 0.3% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Beverly Hills, CA hub. 490 is a 2014 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Does the 2014 Beverly Hills total count only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BEVERLY HILLS with state CA. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Beverly Hills can sit in $709,982 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.

Where do the Beverly Hills, CA 2014 numbers come from?

FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $709,982 and 490 lines for BEVERLY HILLS in cycle 2014, and $243.9 million for the city string across cycles. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.

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Beverly Hills, CA political money in the 2014 election cycle

Filers listing Beverly Hills, CA reported $709,982 in itemized individual contributions during the 2014 midterm election cycle, across 490 FEC receipts. That dollar figure is the city-and-cycle join, not Beverly Hills’s all-cycle book of $243.9 million and not a national 2014 total. Source: FEC.gov Schedule A aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Key figures

$709,982 across 490 itemized receipts is the Beverly Hills, CA × 2014 join.
$243.9 million is the all-cycle Beverly Hills, CA city book; 2014 is 0.3% of that book.
Mean near $1,449 is $709,982 ÷ 490, not a median resident.
City BEVERLY HILLS is filer-entered; 2014 is the FEC cycle tag.
If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

How Beverly Hills meets the 2014 election cycle

$709,982 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city BEVERLY HILLS with state CA, and election cycle 2014. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Beverly Hills, CA city hub and the 2014 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers “how much itemized money has this city string produced across cycles.” The cycle hub answers “how much itemized money did that two-year federal window produce nationally.” This page answers only the intersection: Beverly Hills, CA in 2014.

490 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored BEVERLY HILLS is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,449 ($709,982 ÷ 490). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $709,982. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $709,982 for the 2014 slice and $243.9 million for the Beverly Hills, CA book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Beverly Hills, CA side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city BEVERLY HILLS in California totals $243.9 million. $709,982 is 0.3% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Beverly Hills; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Beverly Hills, CA table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Los Angeles County, California. Los Angeles and Santa Monica are separate FEC city keys. State CA stays on the citation so Beverly Hills is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $243.9 million is the CA key only.

The 2014 cycle side for California filers in Beverly Hills

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts. 490 Beverly Hills, CA lines in that window produced $709,982. National 2014 activity — every city — lives on the 2014 election cycle hub, not here.

California campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Beverly Hills. Do not add $709,982 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $709,982 into spending by Beverly Hills candidates.

What $709,982 does not measure

$709,982 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city BEVERLY HILLS. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in California file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Beverly Hills can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed BEVERLY HILLS is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Beverly Hills. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 490 as lines that stored this string in 2014.

Reading Beverly Hills and 2014 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $709,982 beside $243.9 million does not mean 2014 “caused” the city book or that Beverly Hills “drove” the 2014 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Beverly Hills, CA hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Internal links on this page go to Beverly Hills, CA, the 2014 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $709,982 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars.

Questions

How much did Beverly Hills, CA donors give in 2014?: Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city BEVERLY HILLS and cycle 2014 total $709,982 across 490 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Beverly Hills, CA book of $243.9 million. Unitemized gifts and California state-office filings sit outside both figures.
Is $709,982 all of Beverly Hills’s federal political money?: No. $243.9 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city BEVERLY HILLS in CA. The 2014 slice is $709,982, 0.3% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Beverly Hills, CA hub. 490 is a 2014 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.
Does the 2014 Beverly Hills total count only residents?: No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BEVERLY HILLS with state CA. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Beverly Hills can sit in $709,982 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.
Where do the Beverly Hills, CA 2014 numbers come from?: FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $709,982 and 490 lines for BEVERLY HILLS in cycle 2014, and $243.9 million for the city string across cycles. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.