Donors in Washington, DC to ACTBLUE

$2,469,553 as a two-field overlap

This page is a JOIN. One side is the filer-entered city WASHINGTON in District of Columbia. The other side is ACTBLUE on C00401224. $2,469,553 is what remains after both filters. Opening only the Washington, DC hub restates $3,742,866,190. Opening only the committee hub restates every city that gave to C00401224. Adding those hubs together double-counts.

City labels are filer-entered. WASHINGTON is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A neighboring municipality is another hub. A WASHINGTON line to a different committee ID sits in the leftover $3,740,396,637, not in $2,469,553.

Washington, DC sits in District of Columbia. The state campaign-finance hub includes other cities. Do not add $2,469,553 to the state total; the state extract already contains these rows when the tape is the same.

WASHINGTON without the C00401224 filter

Take the committee filter off and WASHINGTON still shows $3,742,866,190 itemized. $2,469,553 is the slice tagged to C00401224. Open the Washington, DC hub for the remainder $3,740,396,637. Do not subtract by hand from a different extract dated on another night.

Washington, DC’s city book is $3,742,866,190, the only billion-scale city total in this packet’s pair. ACTBLUE’s $2,469,553 is 0.066% of that book. Quote the join in dollars, not as a claim that the District’s itemized tape is mostly this committee.

Reading the ACTBLUE label

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. $2,469,553 is itemized individual receipts storing city WASHINGTON and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Long or truncated FEC names stay as stored. DBA clauses, AKA clauses, slashes, and parentheticals are part of the label on C00401224. Short titles on this page still point at that ID. Do not invent a cleaner legal name.

0.066% is a share, not a ranking

0.066% of $3,742,866,190 is $2,469,553 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Washington, DC as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $3,742,866,190 city book went to other committees. Even when 0.066% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $3,740,396,637 under the WASHINGTON city string went to other committees. The Washington, DC hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store WASHINGTON. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

Rows that never enter $2,469,553

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $2,469,553. District of Columbia 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 $2,469,553 as proof that Washington, DC “funded” ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in District of Columbia. 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 $2,469,553 to federal spending in District of Columbia.

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. Washington, DC’s city book is $3,742,866,190, the only billion-scale city total in this packet’s pair. ACTBLUE’s $2,469,553 is 0.066% of that book. Quote the join in dollars, not as a claim that the District’s itemized tape is mostly this committee.

Doors out of the Washington, DC × C00401224 page

Internal links go to Washington, DC, ACTBLUE, District of Columbia campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $3,742,866,190 book and the committees that received the leftover $3,740,396,637. 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: Washington, DC and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $2,469,553 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 $2,469,553, $3,742,866,190, 0.066%, leftover $3,740,396,637, and C00401224. Keep both sides named: WASHINGTON 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

What is the Washington × ACTBLUE FEC total?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city WASHINGTON and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $2,469,553 in this extract. That is the join, not Washington, DC’s all-committee book of $3,742,866,190. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is WASHINGTON merged with nearby cities?

No. WASHINGTON is the exact stored city string with state DC. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $2,469,553. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Washington, DC hub for the all-committee book of $3,742,866,190.

How much of the $3.74B Washington book is C00401224?

$2,469,553 is 0.066% of the $3,742,866,190 Washington, DC city book. The leftover $3,740,396,637 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 0.066% into a ranking of civic preference.

Do Washington donations to ACTBLUE fund USAspending awards?

No. The series is FEC individual contributions. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This packet publishes no obligation dollars. Geography on a contribution line does not convert the gift into a federal award in District of Columbia.