What did FEC.gov record from San Francisco, CA to SMP?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city SAN FRANCISCO and recipient SMP (C00484642) total $2,131,460 in this extract. That is the join, not San Francisco, CA’s all-committee book of $1,418,166,223. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does LobbyVault recode SAN FRANCISCO to a Census place?

No. SAN FRANCISCO is the exact stored city string with state CA. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $2,131,460. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the San Francisco, CA hub for the all-committee book of $1,418,166,223.

Is 0.15% of San Francisco, CA money going to SMP?

$2,131,460 is 0.15% of the $1,418,166,223 San Francisco, CA city book. The leftover $1,416,034,763 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00484642. Do not upgrade 0.15% into a ranking of civic preference.

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Donors in San Francisco, CA to SMP

0.15% of San Francisco, CA’s $1,418,166,223 itemized city book is $2,131,460 to SMP (C00484642). The leftover $1,416,034,763 stayed with other committee IDs under the same city string. FEC.gov Schedule A aggregates are the source. The packet does not convert these receipts into independent expenditures.

Key figures

$2,131,460 is the San Francisco, CA × SMP (C00484642) itemized join.
$1,418,166,223 is the all-committee San Francisco, CA book; this committee is 0.15% of that book.
Leftover $1,416,034,763 under the SAN FRANCISCO city string went to other committees.
City labels are filer-entered; this packet is not independent expenditures.
If the live hub or overlay disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

The join, not the San Francisco, CA hub

FEC.gov itemized individual contributions are grouped by donor city and recipient committee. For SAN FRANCISCO, CA × SMP, the published overlap is $2,131,460. Cycle splits, donor names, and receipt counts are absent from the packet. Do not invent a headcount from the dollar figure.

SMP is the stored name on C00484642. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them. Do not invent donor names. The committee title is a recipient label, not a roster of contributors in San Francisco.

San Francisco’s all-committee book is $1,418,166,223. SMP’s $2,131,460 is 0.15% of that tape. Other city strings in the Bay Area are not folded into SAN FRANCISCO. The leftover $1,416,034,763 stayed with other committee IDs on the same city key.

All-committee dollars stored as SAN FRANCISCO

The city book $1,418,166,223 is not a budget. It is a sum of Schedule A lines that stored this city string. PAC addresses, joint-fundraising addresses, and household streets that stored SAN FRANCISCO follow the same rule.

C00484642 compared with look-alike names

C00484642 is disclosed as SMP. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $2,131,460 is itemized individual receipts storing city SAN FRANCISCO and committee C00484642. Other cities giving to SMP appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Committee hubs roll up every city. This join does not. $2,131,460 is not the committee’s national total. Researchers who need the all-city figure must leave this URL for the SMP hub.

Why 0.15% still leaves $1,416,034,763

0.15% of $1,418,166,223 is $2,131,460 to SMP (C00484642). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of San Francisco, CA as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $1,418,166,223 city book went to other committees. Even when 0.15% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00484642 filter.

The leftover $1,416,034,763 under the SAN FRANCISCO city string went to other committees. The San Francisco, CA hub holds that remainder. The SMP page holds receipts whose city field did not store SAN FRANCISCO. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00484642; each join is its own filter.

Independent expenditures and other omitted files

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $2,131,460. 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 $2,131,460 as proof that San Francisco, CA “funded” SMP 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 $2,131,460 to federal spending in California.

Contribution lines can cluster in a few ZIPs or spread across many. This packet does not list those ZIPs or a donor headcount. Open the city hub and the committee hub rather than guessing a postal split from the city string alone. San Francisco’s all-committee book is $1,418,166,223. SMP’s $2,131,460 is 0.15% of that tape. Other city strings in the Bay Area are not folded into SAN FRANCISCO. The leftover $1,416,034,763 stayed with other committee IDs on the same city key.

Internal links that keep both nouns

Internal links go to San Francisco, CA, SMP, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $1,418,166,223 book and the committees that received the leftover $1,416,034,763. The committee page holds C00484642 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: San Francisco, CA and SMP (C00484642). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $2,131,460 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 $2,131,460, $1,418,166,223, 0.15%, leftover $1,416,034,763, and C00484642. Keep both sides named: SAN FRANCISCO as filer-entered city, SMP as recipient. Motive is outside the packet. Unitemized gifts never appear. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Questions

What did FEC.gov record from San Francisco, CA to SMP?: Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city SAN FRANCISCO and recipient SMP (C00484642) total $2,131,460 in this extract. That is the join, not San Francisco, CA’s all-committee book of $1,418,166,223. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.
Does LobbyVault recode SAN FRANCISCO to a Census place?: No. SAN FRANCISCO is the exact stored city string with state CA. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $2,131,460. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the San Francisco, CA hub for the all-committee book of $1,418,166,223.
Is 0.15% of San Francisco, CA money going to SMP?: $2,131,460 is 0.15% of the $1,418,166,223 San Francisco, CA city book. The leftover $1,416,034,763 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00484642. Do not upgrade 0.15% into a ranking of civic preference.
Is $2,131,460 independent expenditure spending by SMP?: No. The source note states these aggregates are not independent expenditures. $2,131,460 is itemized individual receipts storing city SAN FRANCISCO and committee C00484642. IE files, if any, live elsewhere on FEC.gov.

FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions grouped by donor city and recipient committee. Not independent expenditures.