Hilliard Oil Co political contributions from Menlo Park, CA

What this Hilliard Oil Co × Menlo Park, CA join is

This page is a join. One dimension is contributor city Menlo Park, CA. The other is employer or industry grouping Hilliard Oil Co (stored as HILLIARD OIL CO). $12,400 is the intersection — dollars on receipts that carry both labels. $85,321,855 is the city bucket before the employer filter, built from 141,122 itemized lines. The harvested donor count inside the intersection is 1 donor, not a census of everyone in Menlo Park, CA who ever worked under a related name.

LobbyVault does not add a third table and does not route these dollars through USAspending. A Form 3 itemization is not a federal award. Open the Menlo Park, CA city hub for the unfiltered city book, the Hilliard Oil Co industry hub for the grouping outside this city filter, California campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Each of those pages answers a different question. This one answers only the intersection.

One donor on four receipts produced $12,400. About $3,100 per receipt is $12,400 divided by 4. About $12,400 per harvested donor is $12,400 divided by 1. Those ratios describe shape. They are not medians and not typical salaries.

What the Menlo Park, CA city book holds

Menlo Park, CA indexes $85,321,855 ($85.3 million) on 141,122 itemized individual contributions. Menlo Park is a San Mateo County, California city string. Palo Alto and Atherton are other stored cities. Joint-fundraising and committee addresses that happen to list MENLO PARK can sit in the same bucket as residents. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for the city as a whole, so this page does not invent one from 141,122.

California campaign-finance pages cover the state, which is a larger geography than Menlo Park, CA. Do not treat $85,321,855 as the CA state total. Unitemized federal gifts never carry a published city in this roll-up, so they never enter $85,321,855. State-office campaigns in California file under state law and sit outside these FEC individual-contribution aggregates.

The Hilliard Oil Co slice inside Menlo Park, CA

Inside Menlo Park, CA, receipts tagged HILLIARD OIL CO total $12,400 on 4 lines from 1 donor. That is under 0.1% of $85,321,855. HILLIARD OIL CO is a stored employer name, not a California oil NAICS roll-up. $12,400 counts only rows that stored this string in Menlo Park, CA.

Repeat gifts, household pairs, and spelling variants of Hilliard Oil Co that did not match this key never enter $12,400. Repeat gifts that did match add to 4 without necessarily adding to 1. Keep line count and donor count attached to their nouns when citing Menlo Park, CA. This extract does not publish committee names for the overlap.

Limits of the Hilliard Oil Co Menlo Park, CA snapshot

Unitemized gifts, California state filings, and independent expenditures sit outside $12,400. LobbyVault does not recode MENLO PARK into a Census place. If the live Menlo Park, CA or Hilliard Oil Co hubs disagree with $12,400, the newer FEC extract controls. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this pair of strings follow the same exact-match rule as household streets. The packet does not split those address types.

Correlation is not causation. $12,400 does not prove that Hilliard Oil Co directs Menlo Park, CA elections. Do not mix these FEC dollars with USAspending obligations. This packet has no award counts. All FEC ties is the index of other two-dimension pages. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes even when both mention Menlo Park, CA.

Using Menlo Park, CA and Hilliard Oil Co links without mixing statutes

Internal links go to Menlo Park, CA, Hilliard Oil Co, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors (/cities/ca-menlo-park/, /industries/hilliard-oil-co/, /states/CA/, /ties/). FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars. Do not add $12,400 to federal spending in California.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Hilliard Oil Co and Menlo Park, CA. Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. Do not add $12,400 to $85,321,855; the first number is already inside the second.

Citing Hilliard Oil Co and Menlo Park, CA together

Keep both nouns in one sentence: Hilliard Oil Co and Menlo Park, CA, $12,400 on 4 receipts from 1 donor, against a city book of $85,321,855 (under 0.1%). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.

A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot. City-cycle and industry-cycle pages are other joins. This file stays on one employer string and one city string. If you need cycle cuts of Menlo Park, CA, those are city-cycle joins, not this file.

Questions

How much did Hilliard Oil Co donors in Menlo Park, CA give?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing industry HILLIARD OIL CO and city MENLO PARK total $12,400 across 4 receipts from 1 donor in this extract. That is the join, not Menlo Park, CA’s all-industry book of $85.3 million. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does Hilliard Oil Co in Menlo Park, CA include every related job title?

No. HILLIARD OIL CO is the exact stored string. Other employer spellings are other keys and are omitted from $12,400. 1 donor and 4 receipts follow that exact-match rule. LobbyVault does not map the field to a standardized occupation list or to NAICS.

What share of Menlo Park, CA itemized money is Hilliard Oil Co?

$12,400 is under 0.1% of the $85.3 million Menlo Park, CA city book (141,122 city-field contributions). A thin share usually means other employer strings dominate the city tape, not that the grouping is absent. Quote both dollars. Do not upgrade under 0.1% into a sector ranking.

Do Hilliard Oil Co donations in Menlo Park, CA fund federal spending there?

No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $12,400 does not become a contract because both rows can mention Menlo Park, CA. Different statutes, different forms. This packet has no obligation dollars. Filings remain on FEC.gov.