Greenwich, CT political money — 2014 cycle

Greenwich, CT political money in 2014

The join keeps donor city Greenwich in Connecticut and election cycle 2014. The match is $298,255 across 190 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $281,199,418. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.11% of Greenwich, CT itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $280,901,163 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Greenwich, CT. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under GREENWICH. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Greenwich, CT with every other donor city in the United States. The 190 rows and $298,255 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 and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Greenwich, CT here is the string that survived aggregation as GREENWICH in CT. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Greenwich, CT donors itemized $298,255. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Greenwich, CT side of the join

The city aggregate for Greenwich, CT is $281,199,418 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 $298,255 from 2014 and the $280,901,163 from every other cycle in the same city file. Connecticut campaign-finance pages still mix Greenwich with every other city in Connecticut.

The stored city sits in Fairfield County, Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Stamford, Darien, and New York City are not rolled into GREENWICH. State CT stays on the citation so Greenwich, CT is not merged with Greenwich in another state. $281,199,418 is the CT key only. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Greenwich, CT, the city stack is $281,199,418 while this cycle is $298,255 (0.11%). Use the city hub to see Greenwich, CT without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Greenwich in 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle side for Connecticut filers in Greenwich

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Greenwich, CT donors itemized $298,255 on 190 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,570 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Connecticut still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Greenwich × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 190 itemized rows is a moderate file. Adjacent pages for Greenwich, CT, 2014 election cycle, and Connecticut campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2014 versus the rest of Greenwich

0.11% of $281,199,418 is a very small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $280,901,163. Put another way, about 0.11% of Greenwich, CT's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $298,255 divided by $281,199,418 and $280,901,163 divided by $281,199,418. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.11%) and row volume (190 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A very small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate 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 0.11% as Greenwich's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

190 itemized contributions totaling $298,255 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 GREENWICH. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Greenwich versus other Connecticut cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,570 uses only the two numbers in the join: $298,255 and 190 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 $298,255 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed GREENWICH is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Greenwich.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Greenwich against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Connecticut. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A CT address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Connecticut candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Greenwich, CT hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Greenwich, CT, the 2014 election cycle, Connecticut 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 Greenwich, CT donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Greenwich, CT total $298,255 in the 2014 cycle, across 190 contribution records. The same city label totals $281,199,418 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.11% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Greenwich, CT city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $281,199,418 covers every cycle in the table for GREENWICH. The 2014 filter is $298,255 from 190 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $280,901,163. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Greenwich, CT 2014 donations stay in Connecticut?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Greenwich, CT; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $298,255 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CT city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Connecticut races.

How many Greenwich, CT contributions were itemized in 2014?

190 itemized contribution records sum to $298,255. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,570 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.