ESAFUND — 2016 cycle receipts

How ESAFUND meets the 2016 cycle

This page is a join, not a restatement of either hub. ESAFUND is one axis. Election cycle 2016 is the other. $16,377,370.47 is only receipts that carry both the committee ID C00489856 and the cycle key. The committee overlay still holds other cycles. The 2016 overlay still holds other committees. Opening one hub and ignoring the other drops a side of the pair.

ESAFUND is stored as independent expenditure-only committee (FEC type O). The packet sets isSuperPac = 1. Combined with FEC type O, cite Super PAC status only as that flag, not as a motive or an independent-expenditure dollar total. 2016 type O Super PAC that disbursed $16,557,065.97 against $16,377,370.47 receipts, cash on hand $71,406.65. None of that recodes $16,377,370.47 into a donor census. Independent-expenditure line items, if they exist on other schedules, are not published as a separate dollar in this packet.

FEC.gov is the source. Committee cycleHistory supplied the receipt and disbursement pair unless the packet source note says otherwise. This prose does not add contribution counts, unique-donor counts, or names. It also does not add USAspending obligations. 2016 is a presidential-year FEC two-year window.

ESAFUND as the committee side

ESAFUND is the committee side of the join. ID C00489856 is the stable key. Display text can shorten to ESAFUND in titles; the stored FEC name remains ESAFUND. Other committees that share a similar brand string are other IDs and other pages. Committee designation U is stored as unauthorized. Cash on hand in the extract is $71,406.65. That is a stored cash-on-hand field, not receipts minus disbursements. Individual contributions are $12,030,219.73. That individual column is not the same number as cycle receipts $16,377,370.47; other receipt types can fill the gap without this page naming them.

Type O (independent expenditure-only committee (FEC type O)) describes how the Commission classifies the committee on this row. The packet sets isSuperPac = 1. Combined with FEC type O, cite Super PAC status only as that flag, not as a motive or an independent-expenditure dollar total. Classification can differ by cycle on the same ID; this file speaks only to 2016.

2016 as the cycle side

Cycle 2016 is a presidential-year FEC two-year window. FEC election cycles are two-year tags ending in the even year. Activity in the paired odd year can sit inside $16,377,370.47. This packet does not split those years.

The 2016 election-cycle hub includes other top committees. Their receipts are not added here. ESAFUND’s $16,377,370.47 is the committee filter inside that hub.

Receipts $16,377,370.47 versus disbursements $16,557,065.97

Disbursements exceed receipts by $179,695.50 in this extract ($16,557,065.97 out, $16,377,370.47 in). Spending above cycle receipts can reflect prior-cash use, transfers, or timing; this packet does not itemize those mechanics. Repeat the labels: receipts $16,377,370.47, disbursements $16,557,065.97, committee ESAFUND, cycle 2016. Netting without labels creates a third number the FEC did not title in this extract.

Cash on hand, debts, and transfers among joint-fundraising participants are other FEC lines unless this packet prints cash on hand as its own field. They are not $16,377,370.47 and not $16,557,065.97.

What this ESAFUND × 2016 page refuses to say

This page does not list donors, employers, occupations, or cities. Kind pac-cycle is committee × cycle. Inventing a donor would violate the packet. Contribution counts are also unpublished unless a packet field already stores them.

This page does not claim $16,377,370.47 funded USAspending awards, contracts, grants, or loans. Different datasets can share a year without sharing a payment trail. Correlation is not causation.

Related tables for ESAFUND and 2016

ESAFUND holds the committee overlay. The 2016 election cycle page holds the cycle overlay. All committees indexes other IDs. All FEC ties indexes other two-dimension pages, including other cycles on C00489856 when those files exist.

Cite FEC.gov as the source for $16,377,370.47 receipts and $16,557,065.97 disbursements. Cite LobbyVault for the join presentation. Do not cite this JSON as a substitute for the Commission’s filings. Unique to this file: 2016 type O Super PAC that disbursed $16,557,065.97 against $16,377,370.47 receipts, cash on hand $71,406.65. Stored name ESAFUND. Stored receipts $16,377,370.47. Stored disbursements $16,557,065.97.

Questions

How much did ESAFUND raise in 2016?

ESAFUND (C00489856) reported $16,377,370.47 in FEC cycle receipts for 2016. Cycle disbursements in the same extract are $16,557,065.97. The committee is independent expenditure-only committee (FEC type O), with isSuperPac = 1. These figures are committee-cycle aggregates from FEC.gov, not a list of donors and not USAspending awards.

Did 2016 ESAFUND disbursements exceed receipts?

Disbursements exceed receipts by $179,695.50 in this extract ($16,557,065.97 out, $16,377,370.47 in). Spending above cycle receipts can reflect prior-cash use, transfers, or timing; this packet does not itemize those mechanics. Receipts remain $16,377,370.47 and disbursements remain $16,557,065.97 for ESAFUND in 2016. The packet does not publish a split of operating versus independent-expenditure spending. FEC.gov filings are the source system.

Is ESAFUND a Super PAC in this packet?

The packet sets isSuperPac = 1. Combined with FEC type O, cite Super PAC status only as that flag, not as a motive or an independent-expenditure dollar total. Type code O means independent expenditure-only committee (FEC type O). Those two packet fields are the only classification facts besides designation when present. This page still does not list donors.

Where is C00489856?

The committee overlay is /committees/C00489856/ for ESAFUND (C00489856). The cycle overlay is the 2016 election-cycle page. All committees and all FEC ties complete the packet link set. Live tables override this snapshot if they disagree. Source: FEC.gov.