Donors in Denver, CO to ACTBLUE

How Denver, CO meets ACTBLUE on the FEC tape

$1,412,237 is the overlap of two keys: contributor city DENVER with state CO, and recipient committee C00401224 disclosed as ACTBLUE. LobbyVault keeps a Denver, CO city hub and a committee hub for ACTBLUE. Neither hub is this join. The city hub is every committee that received itemized gifts storing this city string. The committee hub is every city that gave to C00401224. This page is only both filters at once.

ACTBLUE (C00401224) is often a conduit on FEC individual receipts; this page still reports the labeled recipient as ACTBLUE. The join does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or cycles. Do not invent a headcount from $1,412,237. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them.

City labels are filer-entered. DENVER is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A donor who stored a neighboring city is on another hub. A donor who stored DENVER and a different committee ID is in the leftover $237,514,939 of the city book, not in $1,412,237.

The Denver, CO side of the ACTBLUE join

Denver, CO’s all-committee itemized book in this extract is $238,927,176. $1,412,237 is 0.59% of Denver, CO’s $238,927,176 all-committee book. A small share is expected when one committee is compared with every other recipient on the city tape. The leftover $237,514,939 went to other committees under the same city string, or sits outside this recipient filter. Open the Denver, CO hub for that remainder; do not subtract by hand from a different extract.

The stored city sits in Colorado. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into DENVER. Colorado campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $1,412,237 to the state hub; the state extract already contains these rows when the same tape is used. All FEC ties lists other city-committee pages. None of them converts $1,412,237 into spending by Denver, CO candidates or into independent expenditures by ACTBLUE.

ACTBLUE (C00401224) as the recipient key

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. $1,412,237 is itemized individual receipts storing city DENVER and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Quote the committee with its FEC ID so a similarly named filing is not swapped in. ACTBLUE on another ID is a different page. This URL is Denver, CO × C00401224, not Colorado × C00401224 and not every spelling of DENVER. If the overlay at the committee path disagrees with $1,412,237, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Denver, CO book

0.59% of $238,927,176 is $1,412,237 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Denver, CO as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $238,927,176 city book went to other committees unless 0.59% is read as a large slice — even then, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $237,514,939 under the DENVER city string went to other committees. The Denver, CO hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store DENVER. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

What the Denver, CO × ACTBLUE dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $1,412,237. Colorado 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 $1,412,237 as proof that Denver, CO “funded” ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Colorado. 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 $1,412,237 to federal spending in Colorado.

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.

How to cite the Denver, CO × ACTBLUE join

Internal links go to Denver, CO, ACTBLUE, Colorado campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $238,927,176 book and the committees that received the leftover $237,514,939. 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: Denver, CO and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $1,412,237 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 $1,412,237, $238,927,176, 0.59%, leftover $237,514,939, and C00401224. Keep both sides named: DENVER as filer-entered city, ACTBLUE 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

How much did Denver, CO donors give ACTBLUE?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city DENVER and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $1,412,237 in this extract. That is the join, not Denver, CO’s all-committee book of $238,927,176. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Denver, CO total include every spelling of the city name?

No. DENVER is the exact stored city string with state CO. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $1,412,237. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Denver, CO hub for the all-committee book of $238,927,176.

What share of Denver, CO itemized money went to ACTBLUE?

$1,412,237 is 0.59% of the $238,927,176 Denver, CO city book. The leftover $237,514,939 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 0.59% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Denver, CO ACTBLUE figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $1,412,237 for the Denver, CO × C00401224 join and $238,927,176 for the city string. If a later extract or the committee overlay disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.