Los Altos Hills, CA and the 2014 FEC cycle

What the Los Altos Hills × 2014 join measures

$137,350 is the amount of itemized individual contributions that match both filters at once: donor city LOS ALTOS HILLS in CA, and FEC election cycle 2014. The 20 contribution lines in the packet are the volume behind that dollar figure. They are form rows, not a headcount of unique people, and this file does not invent names for the filers. The city hub for Los Altos Hills, CA still carries $80,477,479 when every stored cycle is included. Subtracting the join leaves $80,340,129 in other windows (99.8% of the city total).

A city page without a cycle cut answers a different question. A 2014 cycle page without a city cut answers a different question. Only the overlap is authorized by this packet. The 2014 tag is a two-year FEC election-cycle window (the even year and the odd year paired with it). This packet does not split 2013 from 2014. FEC.gov is the underlying source for both the city aggregates and the cycle tag. USAspending award files, PAC filings, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts sit outside $137,350.

The Los Altos Hills, CA city table without the year cut

The city hub for Los Altos Hills, CA stores $80,477,479 in itemized individual contributions across the cycles kept for that key. 2014 is one of those cycles. It is not a small rounding error on $80,477,479; it is a defined window of $137,350. Researchers who need the city without a year filter should use the Los Altos Hills, CA city page, not this tie.

Los Altos Hills is stored as LOS ALTOS HILLS in California. Los Altos without Hills, Palo Alto, and Mountain View are other city keys. Misspellings, ZIP-only rows, and suburb names that filers sometimes use instead of Los Altos Hills are other keys if they exist. This file does not search for those keys or add them to $137,350 or $80,477,479.

The 2014 election-cycle table without the city cut

The 2014 election-cycle hub covers itemized individual receipts tagged to that even-year window, regardless of city. This tie keeps only the Los Altos Hills, CA rows inside that window: $137,350, 20 contributions. The 2014 tag is a two-year FEC election-cycle window (the even year and the odd year paired with it). This packet does not split 2013 from 2014.

Even-year FEC tags, whether the even year is a presidential year (2008, 2012) or a midterm year (2010, 2014), are still two-year windows. This file does not convert either type into a one-year calendar total. It also does not assign the $137,350 to a party, a nominee, or a ballot measure.

What $137,350 does not include

$137,350 is itemized individual contributions matching Los Altos Hills, CA and 2014. It is not PAC disbursements, not committee-to-committee transfers, not independent expenditures, and not unitemized gifts below itemization thresholds. It is not a USAspending.gov award total for California or for any agency. Federal obligations are a different dataset. This page does not claim that FEC donations fund federal spending.

How to cite Los Altos Hills, CA in 2014

A stable sentence: “Los Altos Hills, CA donors reported $137,350 in 20 itemized individual contributions in the 2014 FEC cycle (FEC.gov). The same city string stores $80,477,479 across cycles.” That sentence names both join sides, the headline number, the volume, the source, and the lifetime city total. Follow the city overlay /cities/ca-los-altos-hills/, the cycle overlay /election-cycles/2014/, California campaign finance at /states/CA/, and All FEC ties at /ties/.

Restating the Los Altos Hills and 2014 relationship

Repeat the relationship without new figures: Los Altos Hills, CA is the donor-city side; 2014 is the election-cycle side; $137,350 is the overlap in itemized individual contributions; 20 is the line count; $80,477,479 is the city key’s stored lifetime total; about 0.17% of that lifetime total sits in 2014; $80,340,129 sits in other stored windows. The 2014 tag is a two-year FEC election-cycle window (the even year and the odd year paired with it). This packet does not split 2013 from 2014. Los Altos Hills is stored as LOS ALTOS HILLS in California. Los Altos without Hills, Palo Alto, and Mountain View are other city keys. FEC.gov is the source. Federal award dollars are not. Donor names are not. Mean line size about $6,868 is an arithmetic convenience, not a typical-gift finding. Restating without new facts: Los Altos Hills, CA in 2014 is $137,350 from 20 itemized individual contributions on FEC.gov. The city string stores $80,477,479 across cycles, so this window is about 0.17% and other windows hold $80,340,129. Arithmetic mean per line is about $6,868. Unique donors, recipient committees, party split, and USAspending dollars are not in the packet. Live overlays at the city hub, the 2014 hub, and All FEC ties outrank this snapshot if they differ.

Questions

How much did Los Altos Hills donors give in 2014?

Los Altos Hills, CA donors reported $137,350 in itemized individual contributions in the 2014 FEC election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates in this packet. That total sits on 20 contribution records. It is the city-and-cycle overlap, not the $80,477,479 all-cycle city total and not a statewide California figure. Mean line size in the packet is about $6,868. Unique donors are not counted here.

What share of Los Altos Hills FEC money is 2014?

About 0.17% of the stored Los Altos Hills, CA city total sits in 2014. The city total in the packet is $80,477,479; the 2014 slice is $137,350; other windows hold $80,340,129 (99.8%). That share is of this city key only, not of national 2014 FEC receipts. A nationwide cycle denominator is not in the facts and is not used.

Is 2014 the same as the 2008 Los Altos Hills cell?

No. The join uses the stored city string LOS ALTOS HILLS in CA, displayed as Los Altos Hills, CA. Los Altos Hills is stored as LOS ALTOS HILLS in California. Los Altos without Hills, Palo Alto, and Mountain View are other city keys. Alternate spellings, suburb names, and same-named cities in other states stay on other pages and are not added to $137,350 or $80,477,479. This file does not recode municipal boundaries.

Where are the Los Altos Hills and 2014 overlay pages?

The Los Altos Hills, CA city hub is /cities/ca-los-altos-hills/. The 2014 election-cycle hub is /election-cycles/2014/. California campaign finance is /states/CA/. All FEC ties is /ties/. This article’s canonical path is /ties/ca-los-altos-hills-2014-donations/. Live tables override this snapshot if they differ. The join dollars on this packet are $137,350 from 20 contributions.