San Francisco, CA political money — 2014 cycle

Joining donor city San Francisco with cycle 2014

The join keeps donor city San Francisco in California and election cycle 2014. The match is $1,947,578 across 605 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $1,418,166,223. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.14% of San Francisco, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $1,416,218,645 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of San Francisco, CA. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under SAN FRANCISCO. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes San Francisco, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 605 rows and $1,947,578 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. San Francisco, CA here is the string that survived aggregation as SAN FRANCISCO in CA. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why San Francisco, CA donors itemized $1,947,578. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

San Francisco, CA across every cycle in the aggregate

The city aggregate for San Francisco, CA is $1,418,166,223 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 $1,947,578 from 2014 and the $1,416,218,645 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix San Francisco with every other city in California.

A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For San Francisco, CA, the city stack is $1,418,166,223 while this cycle is $1,947,578 (0.14%). Use the city hub to see San Francisco, CA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically San Francisco in 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

2014 as a two-year FEC window

The 2014 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, San Francisco, CA donors itemized $1,947,578 on 605 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $3,219 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 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates San Francisco × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 605 itemized rows is a busy but not enormous file. It is large enough that a handful of gifts cannot explain the entire $1,947,578. Adjacent pages for San Francisco, CA, 2014 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

Share of $1,418,166,223 sitting in 2014

0.14% of $1,418,166,223 is a thin slice. San Francisco, CA remains a large multi-cycle file; 2014 is one filter on that stack. Put another way, about 0.14% of San Francisco, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $1,947,578 divided by $1,418,166,223 and $1,416,218,645 divided by $1,418,166,223. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.14%) and row volume (605 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A thin slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a busy 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 0.14% as San Francisco's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

605 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

605 itemized contributions totaling $1,947,578 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 SAN FRANCISCO. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of San Francisco versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $3,219 uses only the two numbers in the join: $1,947,578 and 605 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 $1,947,578 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank San Francisco against other cities, does not call 2014 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.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See San Francisco, CA, the 2014 election cycle, California campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. 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 San Francisco, CA donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing San Francisco, CA total $1,947,578 in the 2014 cycle, across 605 contribution records. The same city label totals $1,418,166,223 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.14% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the San Francisco, CA city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $1,418,166,223 covers every cycle in the table for SAN FRANCISCO. The 2014 filter is $1,947,578 from 605 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $1,416,218,645. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did San Francisco, CA 2014 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is San Francisco, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $1,947,578 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 San Francisco, CA contributions were itemized in 2014?

605 itemized contribution records sum to $1,947,578. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $3,219 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.