Why does Rancho Santa Fe, CA have a separate 2012 page?

Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Rancho Santa Fe, CA across cycles is $30,503,831. 2012 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city RANCHO SANTA FE in CA during cycle 2012: $160,561 across 115 itemized receipts.

Can I add $160,561 to the California state total?

Do not add it a second time. California campaign-finance pages already include Rancho Santa Fe when the same extract is used. Double-counting $160,561 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.

What does the 2012 cycle tag mean for Rancho Santa Fe?

2012 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Rancho Santa Fe, CA donors itemized $160,561 on 115 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.

Does this page name Rancho Santa Fe committees or donors?

No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.

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Rancho Santa Fe, CA political money — 2012 cycle

Dividing $160,561 by 115 Rancho Santa Fe, CA itemized receipts in cycle 2012 yields a mean of about $1,396 per line. That ratio is a description of the join, not a typical donor. The same FEC.gov extract stores $30,503,831 for contributor city RANCHO SANTA FE across every cycle in the table. 2012 is a presidential election cycle.

Key figures

The join key is city RANCHO SANTA FE plus cycle 2012: $160,561 and 115 rows.
Rancho Santa Fe, CA citywide (all cycles) is $30,503,831; remainder outside 2012 is $30,343,270.
Committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.
Amended reports can move either dollar figure; the newer FEC extract controls.
See Rancho Santa Fe, CA, the 2012 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties.

Mean size versus the 2012 total for Rancho Santa Fe

$1,396 uses only two packet numbers: $160,561 and 115 rows. Large itemizations pull the mean up; small itemized gifts pull it down. The packet has no median, no unique-donor count, and no household income field. Reporting the mean without those caveats would overclaim. 115 is a mid-size itemized file.

The headline dollar remains $160,561, the overlap of city RANCHO SANTA FE and cycle 2012. Relative to the $30,503,831 city book, that is 0.53% — a thin slice of the citywide book. Other cycles hold $30,343,270 (99.5%). Share of dollars is not share of rows; a citywide row count is not in these facts.

FEC individual contribution files are Schedule A itemizations. Unitemized gifts below the threshold never enter $160,561. Independent expenditures never enter it. Committee-to-committee transfers are another table. This page does not invent donor names or contractor names.

City string RANCHO SANTA FE in California

Rancho Santa Fe sits in San Diego County, California. Santa Fe, New Mexico is a different state key; Del Mar and Solana Beach are neighboring California strings. The stored value is the filer-entered city on the receipt, not a geocoder's preferred place name. $30,503,831 covers that string across cycles. California campaign finance still mixes Rancho Santa Fe with every other city in the state.

Keep CA on the key. Same-named places in other states are different FEC rows. Donor city is not recipient city: a CA address does not prove the committee was a California campaign.

Cycle 2012 as a two-year FEC tag

The 2012 election cycle is a Commission tag, a presidential election cycle, not a January-to-December cash diary. Inside that window, Rancho Santa Fe, CA produced $160,561 on 115 lines. The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. This URL isolates one geography.

All FEC ties collects other joins built the same way. None of those pages turns $160,561 into federal award obligations. FEC receipts and USAspending awards share neither a form nor a statute.

Limits of an arithmetic join

Do not rank Rancho Santa Fe against other cities from this file. Do not call 2012 a wave. Amended reports can revise $160,561 or $30,503,831. Internal links: Rancho Santa Fe, CA, 2012 election cycle, California campaign finance, All FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Source note, restated: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Original reports remain on the Commission site. LobbyVault indexes the join so a reader can hold $160,561 for Rancho Santa Fe, CA in 2012 without mistaking it for the $30,503,831 city book. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

What stays outside the packet

Occupation, industry, committee ID, and party are not in these facts. Unique residents are not in these facts. State-office money is not in these facts. The operational definition of this page is 115 itemized contributions totaling $160,561 for Rancho Santa Fe, CA in 2012, against a citywide itemized book of $30,503,831.

Dollar share (0.53%) and row volume (115) are separate facts. A thin dollar slice can sit next to a mid-size itemized 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 0.53% as Rancho Santa Fe's share of the 2012 national cycle.

Occupation, industry, and committee cuts of $160,561 are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the 115 receipts by employer, occupation, party, or recipient. Inventing those breakdowns would go beyond the facts. The only names on this page are the stored city string RANCHO SANTA FE, the state CA, and the cycle year 2012.

A candidate who lives in Rancho Santa Fe can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. A candidate who lives elsewhere can raise money from Rancho Santa Fe; those gifts are this join when the contributor city stored RANCHO SANTA FE. Residence of the candidate is not a field in this packet. $160,561 is contributor geography in cycle 2012, nothing else.

Questions

Why does Rancho Santa Fe, CA have a separate 2012 page?: Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Rancho Santa Fe, CA across cycles is $30,503,831. 2012 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city RANCHO SANTA FE in CA during cycle 2012: $160,561 across 115 itemized receipts.
Can I add $160,561 to the California state total?: Do not add it a second time. California campaign-finance pages already include Rancho Santa Fe when the same extract is used. Double-counting $160,561 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.
What does the 2012 cycle tag mean for Rancho Santa Fe?: 2012 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Rancho Santa Fe, CA donors itemized $160,561 on 115 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.
Does this page name Rancho Santa Fe committees or donors?: No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.

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