Donors in Hinsdale, IL to AMERICAN CROSSROADS

How Hinsdale, IL meets American Crossroads on the FEC tape

$1,500,000 is the overlap of two keys: contributor city HINSDALE with state IL, and recipient committee C00487363 disclosed as AMERICAN CROSSROADS. LobbyVault keeps a Hinsdale, IL city hub and a committee hub for American Crossroads. 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 C00487363. This page is only both filters at once.

AMERICAN CROSSROADS is the stored name on C00487363. The join does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or cycles. Do not invent a headcount from $1,500,000. 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. HINSDALE 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 HINSDALE and a different committee ID is in the leftover $28,253,170 of the city book, not in $1,500,000.

The Hinsdale, IL side of the American Crossroads join

Hinsdale, IL’s all-committee itemized book in this extract is $29,753,170. $1,500,000 is 5.0% of Hinsdale, IL’s $29,753,170 all-committee book. That is a visible slice, not a finding that the city as a civic body directed gifts to American Crossroads. The leftover $28,253,170 went to other committees under the same city string, or sits outside this recipient filter. Open the Hinsdale, 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 HINSDALE. Illinois campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $1,500,000 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 $1,500,000 into spending by Hinsdale, IL candidates or into independent expenditures by American Crossroads.

AMERICAN CROSSROADS (C00487363) as the recipient key

C00487363 is disclosed as AMERICAN CROSSROADS. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $1,500,000 is itemized individual receipts storing city HINSDALE and committee C00487363. Other cities giving to American Crossroads 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. American Crossroads on another ID is a different page. This URL is Hinsdale, IL × C00487363, not Illinois × C00487363 and not every spelling of HINSDALE. If the overlay at the committee path disagrees with $1,500,000, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Hinsdale, IL book

5.0% of $29,753,170 is $1,500,000 to AMERICAN CROSSROADS (C00487363). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Hinsdale, IL as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $29,753,170 city book went to other committees unless 5.0% is read as a large slice — even then, the slice is still only the C00487363 filter.

The leftover $28,253,170 under the HINSDALE city string went to other committees. The Hinsdale, IL hub holds that remainder. The American Crossroads page holds receipts whose city field did not store HINSDALE. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00487363; each join is its own filter.

What the Hinsdale, IL × American Crossroads dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $1,500,000. 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 $1,500,000 as proof that Hinsdale, IL “funded” American Crossroads 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 $1,500,000 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 Hinsdale, IL × American Crossroads join

Internal links go to Hinsdale, IL, AMERICAN CROSSROADS, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $29,753,170 book and the committees that received the leftover $28,253,170. The committee page holds C00487363 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: Hinsdale, IL and AMERICAN CROSSROADS (C00487363). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $1,500,000 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 $1,500,000, $29,753,170, 5.0%, leftover $28,253,170, and C00487363. Keep both sides named: HINSDALE as filer-entered city, AMERICAN CROSSROADS 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 Hinsdale, IL donors give American Crossroads?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city HINSDALE and recipient AMERICAN CROSSROADS (C00487363) total $1,500,000 in this extract. That is the join, not Hinsdale, IL’s all-committee book of $29,753,170. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

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

No. HINSDALE is the exact stored city string with state IL. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $1,500,000. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Hinsdale, IL hub for the all-committee book of $29,753,170.

What share of Hinsdale, IL itemized money went to American Crossroads?

$1,500,000 is 5.0% of the $29,753,170 Hinsdale, IL city book. The leftover $28,253,170 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00487363. Do not upgrade 5.0% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Hinsdale, IL American Crossroads figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $1,500,000 for the Hinsdale, IL × C00487363 join and $29,753,170 for the city string. If a later extract or the committee overlay disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.