Encino, CA political money — 2008 cycle

Encino, CA × 2008 isolates a Valley city key

$172,158 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city ENCINO with state CA, and election cycle 2008. The match is $172,158 across 114 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $50,370,936. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.34% of Encino, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $50,198,778 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Encino, CA. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under ENCINO. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Encino, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 114 rows and $172,158 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.

The packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. This page is not a Los Angeles city ethics total, a Valley ranking, or a Los Angeles rollup. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

ENCINO is not LOS ANGELES on the FEC city field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city ENCINO in California totals $50.4 million ($50,370,936). $172,158 is 0.34% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Encino; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $172,158 to $50,370,936; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $50,370,936 − $172,158 = $50,198,778 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, California. Sherman Oaks, Tarzana, and Van Nuys are other FEC city strings, not rolled into ENCINO. State CA stays on the citation so Encino is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $50.4 million is the CA key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 presidential window on Encino receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Encino, CA filers itemized $172,158 on 114 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,510 per itemized gift ($172,158 ÷ 114). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 114-row extract — a mid-size receipt file for this neighborhood string, still lines rather than unique residents. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Encino × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. California campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $172,158 into the state hub a second time.

2008 as a slice of the Encino city book

0.34% of $50,370,936 is the 2008 slice. Put another way, about 0.34% of Encino, CA’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $172,158 divided by $50,370,936 and $50,198,778 divided by $50,370,936. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.34%) and row volume (114 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Filers who typed LOS ANGELES sit on a different city key. Encino as stored is not recoded into the Los Angeles city hub. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.34% as Encino’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

114 itemized gifts name no unique-donor count

114 itemized contributions totaling $172,158 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 ENCINO. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Encino versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,510 uses only the two numbers in the join: $172,158 and 114 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 $172,158 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed ENCINO is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Encino.

What Encino–2008 does not prove

This page does not rank Encino against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in California. Two columns matched. A CA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a California candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Encino, CA hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Neighborhood names in Los Angeles often split the metro across many FEC city pages. This join keeps ENCINO only.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Encino, CA, the 2008 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Pacific Palisades and Beverly Hills are other Los Angeles County strings. They are not folded into ENCINO. 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 Encino, CA donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Encino, CA total $172,158 in the 2008 cycle, across 114 contribution records. The same city label totals $50,370,936 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.34% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does Encino’s city aggregate cover only 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $50,370,936 covers every cycle in the table for ENCINO. The 2008 filter is $172,158 from 114 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $50,198,778. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did 2008 Encino donations stay with California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Encino, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $172,158 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of California races.

How many Encino, CA contributions were itemized in 2008?

114 itemized contribution records sum to $172,158. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,510 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.