CLF — 2020 cycle receipts

C00504530 inside election cycle 2020

CLF in 2020 is committee C00504530 under the stored name CLF, type W. CLF is a PAC with a non-contribution account (FEC type W). The packet Super PAC flag is 0. Do not relabel this cell as a Super PAC page. The operational definition of the receipt column is $165,741,326.17. The operational definition of the disbursement column is $165,923,057.23. Drop the cycle and you are citing the committee hub. Drop the committee and you are citing the 2020 hub.

2020 is a presidential-year FEC two-year window. Source: FEC.gov. Disbursements of $165,923,057.23 exceed receipts of $165,741,326.17 for CLF in this extract. The excess is $181,731.06. Spending above cycle receipts can reflect prior-cash use, transfers, or timing; this packet does not itemize those mechanics. Quote both inputs if you mention the gap. Cash on hand in this packet is $409,100.46 for CLF. Do not substitute receipts $165,741,326.17 for that cash line, and do not treat receipts minus disbursements as cash unless those two fields match. Individual contributions are $161,446,552.91, sitting close to receipts $165,741,326.17. Proximity of those two columns is not a donor directory. No names, occupations, or states are in this packet. CLF carries designation U in this packet (unauthorized). Unauthorized is an FEC designation code, not a motive claim and not a ranking against authorized committees.

Do not read $165,741,326.17 or $165,923,057.23 as federal contract or grant funding. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets and different statutes. Other type-W committees and other 2020 filers are out of scope for the dollar columns on this page.

Reading the CLF committee overlay

The committee page linked from this file is C00504530. That hub is not limited to 2020. Quote $165,741,326.17 only with 2020 attached. Quote the hub only as the committee overlay. CLF in 2020 is the join.

2020 is a closed FEC election cycle in this extract. Type W, receipts $165,741,326.17, disbursements $165,923,057.23. Other type-W committees and other 2020 filers stay on other pages. The packet Super PAC flag is 0. Do not relabel this cell as a Super PAC page.

CLF carries designation U in this packet (unauthorized). Unauthorized is an FEC designation code, not a motive claim and not a ranking against authorized committees.

Reading 2020 without treating receipts as cash

A 2020 searcher who wants every committee should leave this URL for the cycle hub. A searcher who wants CLF in every cycle should leave for the committee hub. Staying here keeps both filters: C00504530 and 2020, receipts $165,741,326.17, disbursements $165,923,057.23.

Do not treat $165,741,326.17 as cash on hand for 2020 unless a cash line is present and equal to that figure. Committees spend, refund, and transfer. Disbursements of $165,923,057.23 exceed receipts of $165,741,326.17 for CLF in this extract. The excess is $181,731.06. Spending above cycle receipts can reflect prior-cash use, transfers, or timing; this packet does not itemize those mechanics.

Individual contributions are $161,446,552.91, sitting close to receipts $165,741,326.17. Proximity of those two columns is not a donor directory. No names, occupations, or states are in this packet.

Arithmetic on CLF’s 2020 totals

Every reuse of $165,741,326.17 should still say receipts, CLF, and 2020. Every reuse of $165,923,057.23 should still say disbursements, CLF, and 2020. Every reuse of C00504530 should still say the committee ID. That discipline is the point of a tie page.

2020 is a closed FEC election cycle in this extract. The packet Super PAC flag is 0. Do not relabel this cell as a Super PAC page. Independent expenditures by other IDs remain another table. Do not read $165,741,326.17 or $165,923,057.23 as federal contract or grant funding. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets and different statutes.

Cash on hand in this packet is $409,100.46 for CLF. Do not substitute receipts $165,741,326.17 for that cash line, and do not treat receipts minus disbursements as cash unless those two fields match.

Coverage limits on this committee-cycle cell

Coverage is committee receipts and disbursements for C00504530 in 2020: $165,741,326.17 and $165,923,057.23. Anything else a reader might want — donors, occupations, states, payees — is not in this packet unless an extra column is quoted from facts. This is a committee × cycle page, not a donor-detail page. Do not invent contractor names, award recipients, or donor names to illustrate $165,741,326.17.

Committee type is W (a PAC with a non-contribution account (FEC type W)). The packet Super PAC flag is 0. Do not relabel this cell as a Super PAC page. Those flags do not expand coverage to other IDs. Other type-W committees and other 2020 filers stay on other pages. Cash on hand in this packet is $409,100.46 for CLF. Do not substitute receipts $165,741,326.17 for that cash line, and do not treat receipts minus disbursements as cash unless those two fields match. Individual contributions are $161,446,552.91, sitting close to receipts $165,741,326.17. Proximity of those two columns is not a donor directory. No names, occupations, or states are in this packet. CLF carries designation U in this packet (unauthorized). Unauthorized is an FEC designation code, not a motive claim and not a ranking against authorized committees.

Itemized coverage and what stays outside

What stays outside $165,741,326.17: other committees’ 2020 receipts, other cycles for C00504530, donor-level itemizations, independent expenditures by a different ID, and USAspending obligations. What stays inside: the committee-cycle cell for CLF in 2020.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: committee CLF (C00504530), election cycle 2020, receipts $165,741,326.17, disbursements $165,923,057.23, FEC type W, Super PAC flag 0. Other type-W committees and other 2020 filers stay on other pages. The 2020 election-cycle hub still mixes every other committee. All committees and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

What a reader may not do with $165,741,326.17: treat it as a donor roster, treat it as a 2020 grand total for every committee, or treat it as money that funded USAspending awards. What a reader may do: quote the pair, quote disbursements $165,923,057.23 with its own label, quote the source FEC.gov, and follow the four internal links.

Questions

How much did CLF raise in 2020?

CLF reported $165,741,326.17 in FEC receipts in the 2020 election cycle under committee ID C00504530. Disbursements for the same committee-and-cycle cell are $165,923,057.23. The committee is a PAC with a non-contribution account (FEC type W). The packet Super PAC flag is 0. Do not relabel this cell as a Super PAC page. Those dollar columns are committee aggregates, not a list of named donors. Source: FEC.gov.

Is CLF a Super PAC in this 2020 file?

The packet Super PAC flag is 0. FEC committee type is W, so CLF is a PAC with a non-contribution account (FEC type W). Cite both fields as stored rather than recoding the committee into another ID or another year’s cell. Receipts remain $165,741,326.17 and disbursements remain $165,923,057.23 for cycle 2020 only. Source: FEC.gov.

Does $165,741,326.17 include named donors to CLF?

No. $165,741,326.17 is a committee receipt total for cycle 2020, not a contributor roster. This packet has no donor names, occupations, or counts, so this page does not invent any. Itemized individual records, if a reader needs them, live on other LobbyVault pages that are not facts here. Disbursements are $165,923,057.23 for committee C00504530.

Did CLF receipts pay for federal awards in 2020?

No. $165,741,326.17 is an FEC committee receipt total for CLF in 2020. USAspending awards are a different dataset and a different statute. This join does not treat campaign receipts as contract or grant funding. Disbursements of $165,923,057.23 are also campaign-finance figures, not federal obligations. Source: FEC.gov.