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Des Moines, IA Schedule A to ACTBLUE

LobbyVault publishes $695,248 as the overlap of Des Moines, IA and ACTBLUE. FEC.gov itemized individual contribution aggregates supply the number. $56,663,095 is the city book with the committee filter off. C00401224 is required in any citation so a similarly named committee is not swapped in.

Key figures

  • $695,248 is the Des Moines, IA × ACTBLUE (C00401224) itemized join.
  • $56,663,095 is the all-committee Des Moines, IA book; this committee is 1.23% of that book.
  • Leftover $55,967,847 under the DES MOINES city string went to other committees.
  • City labels are filer-entered; this packet is not independent expenditures.
  • Do not add $695,248 to USAspending or to the Iowa hub as extra money.

ACTBLUE receipts that stored DES MOINES

Schedule A lines that stored city DES MOINES and committee C00401224 sum to $695,248 in this extract. That is the relationship this URL exists to explain. Des Moines, IA is not a municipal treasury. ACTBLUE is not scored here as a winner or loser. Public records, not accusations.

DES MOINES is the stored city string in Iowa; West Des Moines and other metro spellings are other keys. ACTBLUE on C00401224 received $695,248 from that string, a larger share of a smaller city book than Miami’s cell. A donor who stored a different city spelling is omitted from $695,248 even if a map would put the address near Des Moines. LobbyVault does not recode the field.

Des Moines, IA dollars that stored other committees

$56,663,095 is every itemized individual contribution storing city DES MOINES in this file, regardless of recipient. $695,248 is the subset whose recipient is ACTBLUE. Quote the pair. Ranking Des Moines against other cities is outside the packet.

The stored city sits in Iowa. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into DES MOINES. Iowa campaign-finance pages include other cities. All FEC ties lists other city-committee pages. None of them converts $695,248 into spending by Des Moines, IA candidates or into independent expenditures by ACTBLUE.

Stored name ACTBLUE

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. $695,248 is itemized individual receipts storing city DES MOINES and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

ACTBLUE is the recipient key, not a donor. This city-pac page does not publish a list of people in Des Moines. Inventing names from the committee label or from local knowledge would break the packet contract.

Share math for Des Moines, IA

1.23% of $56,663,095 is $695,248 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Des Moines, IA as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $56,663,095 city book went to other committees. Even when 1.23% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $55,967,847 under the DES MOINES city string went to other committees. The Des Moines, IA hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store DES MOINES. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

State filings and unitemized gifts

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $695,248. Iowa 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 $695,248 as proof that Des Moines, IA funded ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Iowa. 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 $695,248 to federal spending in Iowa.

Using All FEC ties without mixing cells

Internal links go to Des Moines, IA, ACTBLUE, Iowa campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $56,663,095 book and the committees that received the leftover $55,967,847. 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: Des Moines, IA and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $695,248 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 $695,248, $56,663,095, 1.23%, leftover $55,967,847, and C00401224.

Questions

How much itemized money from DES MOINES went to C00401224?
Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city DES MOINES and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $695,248 in this extract. That is the join, not Des Moines, IA's all-committee book of $56,663,095. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.
Are Des Moines and other spellings combined in $695,248?
No. DES MOINES is the exact stored city string with state IA. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $695,248. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Des Moines, IA hub for the all-committee book of $56,663,095.
What is left in DES MOINES after $695,248 to ACTBLUE?
$695,248 is 1.23% of the $56,663,095 Des Moines, IA city book. The leftover $55,967,847 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 1.23% into a ranking of civic preference.
Does this page list Des Moines donor names?
No. The packet publishes a dollar join, not a roster. Do not invent contributor names from the committee label ACTBLUE or from local knowledge. The Des Moines, IA hub and the C00401224 hub are the next public-record doors. Cite FEC.gov for $695,248 from DES MOINES to ACTBLUE (C00401224) and $56,663,095 for the Des Moines, IA city book.

FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions grouped by donor city and recipient committee. Not independent expenditures.