Donors in Chicago, IL to ACTBLUE

How Chicago, IL meets ACTBLUE on the FEC tape

$2,230,034 is the overlap of two keys: contributor city CHICAGO with state IL, and recipient committee C00401224 disclosed as ACTBLUE. LobbyVault keeps a Chicago, IL city hub and a committee hub for ACTBLUE. Neither hub is this join. The city hub is every committee that received itemized gifts storing this city string. The committee hub is every city that gave to C00401224. This page is only both filters at once.

ACTBLUE (C00401224) is often a conduit on FEC individual receipts; this page still reports the labeled recipient as ACTBLUE. The join does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or cycles. Do not invent a headcount from $2,230,034. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them.

City labels are filer-entered. CHICAGO is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A donor who stored a neighboring city is on another hub. A donor who stored CHICAGO and a different committee ID is in the leftover $1.01 billion of the city book, not in $2,230,034.

The Chicago, IL side of the ACTBLUE join

Chicago, IL’s all-committee itemized book in this extract is $1.01 billion. $2,230,034 is 0.22% of Chicago, IL’s $1.01 billion all-committee book. A small share is expected when one committee is compared with every other recipient on the city tape. The leftover $1.01 billion went to other committees under the same city string, or sits outside this recipient filter. Open the Chicago, IL hub for that remainder; do not subtract by hand from a different extract.

The stored city sits in Illinois. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into CHICAGO. Illinois campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $2,230,034 to the state hub; the state extract already contains these rows when the same tape is used. All FEC ties lists other city-committee pages. None of them converts $2,230,034 into spending by Chicago, IL candidates or into independent expenditures by ACTBLUE.

ACTBLUE (C00401224) as the recipient key

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. $2,230,034 is itemized individual receipts storing city CHICAGO and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Quote the committee with its FEC ID so a similarly named filing is not swapped in. ACTBLUE on another ID is a different page. This URL is Chicago, IL × C00401224, not Illinois × C00401224 and not every spelling of CHICAGO. If the overlay at the committee path disagrees with $2,230,034, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Chicago, IL book

0.22% of $1.01 billion is $2,230,034 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Chicago, IL as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $1.01 billion city book went to other committees unless 0.22% is read as a large slice — even then, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $1.01 billion under the CHICAGO city string went to other committees. The Chicago, IL hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store CHICAGO. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

What the Chicago, IL × ACTBLUE dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $2,230,034. Illinois 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 $2,230,034 as proof that Chicago, IL “funded” ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Illinois. 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 $2,230,034 to federal spending in Illinois.

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.

How to cite the Chicago, IL × ACTBLUE join

Internal links go to Chicago, IL, ACTBLUE, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $1.01 billion book and the committees that received the leftover $1.01 billion. 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: Chicago, IL and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $2,230,034 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 $2,230,034, $1.01 billion, 0.22%, leftover $1.01 billion, and C00401224. Keep both sides named: CHICAGO 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

How much did Chicago, IL donors give ACTBLUE?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city CHICAGO and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $2,230,034 in this extract. That is the join, not Chicago, IL’s all-committee book of $1.01 billion. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Chicago, IL total include every spelling of the city name?

No. CHICAGO is the exact stored city string with state IL. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $2,230,034. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Chicago, IL hub for the all-committee book of $1.01 billion.

What share of Chicago, IL itemized money went to ACTBLUE?

$2,230,034 is 0.22% of the $1.01 billion Chicago, IL city book. The leftover $1.01 billion went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 0.22% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Chicago, IL ACTBLUE figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $2,230,034 for the Chicago, IL × C00401224 join and $1.01 billion for the city string. If a later extract or the committee overlay disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.