ACTBLUE and Riverside, CA contribution overlap

Relationship between Riverside and ACTBLUE

This page is a JOIN. One side is the filer-entered city RIVERSIDE in California. The other side is ACTBLUE on C00401224. $546,679 is what remains after both filters. Opening only the Riverside, CA hub restates $28,376,398. Opening only the committee hub restates every city that gave to C00401224. Adding those hubs together double-counts.

City labels are filer-entered. RIVERSIDE is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A neighboring municipality is another hub. A RIVERSIDE line to a different committee ID sits in the leftover $27,829,719, not in $546,679. Riverside, CA also has a WINRED city-pac join on this slice ($257,059). That cell is a different committee ID. ACTBLUE on C00401224 received $546,679 from RIVERSIDE. San Diego’s ACTBLUE page is another California city filter.

City hub versus this cell

Take the committee filter off and RIVERSIDE still shows $28,376,398 itemized. $546,679 is the slice tagged to C00401224. Open the Riverside, CA hub for the remainder $27,829,719. Do not subtract by hand from a different extract dated on another night.

Riverside is displayed for readers; RIVERSIDE is the grouping key. Titles use Riverside, CA. The leftover $27,829,719 is $28,376,398 minus $546,679 on this extract only. The California hub is a different roll-up.

Committee hub versus this cell

C00401224 is disclosed as ACTBLUE. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $546,679 is itemized individual receipts storing city RIVERSIDE and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Long or truncated FEC names stay as stored. DBA clauses, AKA clauses, slashes, and parentheticals are part of the label on C00401224. Short titles on this page still point at that ID. Do not invent a cleaner legal name.

Exact-match city strings

1.93% of $28,376,398 is $546,679 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Riverside, CA as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $28,376,398 city book went to other committees. Even when 1.93% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $27,829,719 under the RIVERSIDE city string went to other committees. The Riverside, CA hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store RIVERSIDE. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

Outside the $546,679 total

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $546,679. California state-office filings sit outside it. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file; the source note on this packet says these aggregates are not independent expenditures. City labels are filer-entered. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this city string follow the same rule as household streets.

Do not read $546,679 as proof that Riverside, CA funded ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in California. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $546,679 to federal spending in California.

How researchers should quote C00401224

Internal links go to Riverside, CA, ACTBLUE, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $28,376,398 book and the committees that received the leftover $27,829,719. The committee page holds C00401224 receipts from every city. All FEC ties collects neighboring pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this cell.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Riverside, CA and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $546,679 is the only overlap this extract published. A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot. Cite $546,679, $28,376,398, 1.93%, leftover $27,829,719, and C00401224.

Questions

What is the Riverside × ACTBLUE FEC total?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city RIVERSIDE and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $546,679 in this extract. That is the join, not Riverside, CA's all-committee book of $28,376,398. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is RIVERSIDE merged with nearby cities?

No. RIVERSIDE is the exact stored city string with state CA. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $546,679. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Riverside, CA hub for the all-committee book of $28,376,398.

How much of the $28.4M Riverside book is C00401224?

$546,679 is 1.93% of the $28,376,398 Riverside, CA city book. The leftover $27,829,719 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 1.93% into a ranking of civic preference.

Do Riverside donations to ACTBLUE fund USAspending awards?

No. The series is FEC individual contributions. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This packet publishes no obligation dollars. Geography on a contribution line does not convert the gift into a federal award in California. Cite FEC.gov for $546,679 from RIVERSIDE to ACTBLUE (C00401224) and $28,376,398 for the Riverside, CA city book.