Pasadena, CA political money — 2012 cycle

2012 receipts from Pasadena, CA donors

The join keeps donor city Pasadena in California and election cycle 2012. The match is $331,096 across 148 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $69,184,320. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.5% of Pasadena, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $68,853,224 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Pasadena, CA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under PASADENA. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Pasadena, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 148 rows and $331,096 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. Pasadena, CA here is the string that survived aggregation as PASADENA in CA. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $331,096 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Pasadena, CA is $69,184,320 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 $331,096 from 2012 and the $68,853,224 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Pasadena with every other city in California.

The stored city sits in Los Angeles County, California. Los Angeles, Glendale, and Pasadena, Texas are not rolled into PASADENA. State CA stays on the citation so Pasadena, California is not merged with Pasadena, Texas. A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Pasadena, CA, the city stack is $69,184,320 while this cycle is $331,096 (0.5%). Use the city hub to see Pasadena, CA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Pasadena in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a presidential cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Pasadena, CA donors itemized $331,096 on 148 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,237 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 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Pasadena × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 148 itemized rows is a modest file for a named city. A handful of large receipts can still move $331,096 without proving a wide unique-donor pool. Adjacent pages for Pasadena, CA, 2012 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Pasadena stack

0.5% of $69,184,320 is a modest slice. Most of the Pasadena, CA aggregate — $68,853,224 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.5% of Pasadena, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $331,096 divided by $69,184,320 and $68,853,224 divided by $69,184,320. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.5%) and row volume (148 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a modest 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 0.5% as Pasadena's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

148 itemized contributions totaling $331,096 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 PASADENA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Pasadena versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,237 uses only the two numbers in the join: $331,096 and 148 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 $331,096 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and California state-office filings sit outside $331,096.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank Pasadena against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in California. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A CA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a California candidate. A candidate who lives in Pasadena can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed PASADENA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood or a nearby suburb such as Los Angeles is not recoded into Pasadena. Treat 148 as lines that stored this string in 2012. See Pasadena, CA, the 2012 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Pasadena, CA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Pasadena, CA total $331,096 in the 2012 cycle, across 148 contribution records. The same city label totals $69,184,320 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.5% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Pasadena, CA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $69,184,320 covers every cycle in the table for PASADENA. The 2012 filter is $331,096 from 148 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $68,853,224. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Pasadena, CA 2012 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Pasadena, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $331,096 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 Pasadena, CA contributions were itemized in 2012?

148 itemized contribution records sum to $331,096. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,237 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.