How much did Indianapolis, IN donors give in 2010?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city INDIANAPOLIS and cycle 2010 total $517,403 across 310 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Indianapolis, IN book of $139.3 million. Unitemized gifts and Indiana state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $517,403 all of Indianapolis’s federal political money?

No. $139.3 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city INDIANAPOLIS in IN. The 2010 slice is $517,403, 0.4% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Indianapolis, IN hub. 310 is a 2010 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Does the 2010 Indianapolis total count only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed INDIANAPOLIS with state IN. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Indianapolis can sit in $517,403 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.

Where do the Indianapolis, IN 2010 numbers come from?

FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $517,403 and 310 lines for INDIANAPOLIS in cycle 2010, and $139.3 million for the city string across cycles. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.

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Indianapolis, IN political money in the 2010 election cycle

Filers listing Indianapolis, IN reported $517,403 in itemized individual contributions during the 2010 midterm election cycle, across 310 FEC receipts. That dollar figure is the city-and-cycle join, not Indianapolis’s all-cycle book of $139.3 million and not a national 2010 total. Source: FEC.gov Schedule A aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Key figures

$517,403 across 310 itemized receipts is the Indianapolis, IN × 2010 join.
$139.3 million is the all-cycle Indianapolis, IN city book; 2010 is 0.4% of that book.
Mean near $1,669 is $517,403 ÷ 310, not a median resident.
City INDIANAPOLIS is filer-entered; 2010 is the FEC cycle tag.
If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

How Indianapolis meets the 2010 election cycle

$517,403 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city INDIANAPOLIS with state IN, and election cycle 2010. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Indianapolis, IN city hub and the 2010 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers “how much itemized money has this city string produced across cycles.” The cycle hub answers “how much itemized money did that two-year federal window produce nationally.” This page answers only the intersection: Indianapolis, IN in 2010.

310 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored INDIANAPOLIS is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,669 ($517,403 ÷ 310). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2010 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $517,403. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $517,403 for the 2010 slice and $139.3 million for the Indianapolis, IN book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Indianapolis, IN side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city INDIANAPOLIS in Indiana totals $139.3 million. $517,403 is 0.4% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in Indianapolis; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Indianapolis, IN table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Marion County, Indiana. Carmel and Fishers are other stored city names. State IN stays on the citation so Indianapolis is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $139.3 million is the IN key only.

The 2010 cycle side for Indiana filers in Indianapolis

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts. 310 Indianapolis, IN lines in that window produced $517,403. National 2010 activity — every city — lives on the 2010 election cycle hub, not here.

Indiana campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Indianapolis. Do not add $517,403 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $517,403 into spending by Indianapolis candidates.

What $517,403 does not measure

$517,403 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city INDIANAPOLIS. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Indiana file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Indianapolis can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed INDIANAPOLIS is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Indianapolis. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 310 as lines that stored this string in 2010.

Reading Indianapolis and 2010 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $517,403 beside $139.3 million does not mean 2010 “caused” the city book or that Indianapolis “drove” the 2010 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Indianapolis, IN hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Internal links on this page go to Indianapolis, IN, the 2010 election cycle, Indiana campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $517,403 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars.

Questions

How much did Indianapolis, IN donors give in 2010?: Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city INDIANAPOLIS and cycle 2010 total $517,403 across 310 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Indianapolis, IN book of $139.3 million. Unitemized gifts and Indiana state-office filings sit outside both figures.
Is $517,403 all of Indianapolis’s federal political money?: No. $139.3 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city INDIANAPOLIS in IN. The 2010 slice is $517,403, 0.4% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Indianapolis, IN hub. 310 is a 2010 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.
Does the 2010 Indianapolis total count only residents?: No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed INDIANAPOLIS with state IN. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Indianapolis can sit in $517,403 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.
Where do the Indianapolis, IN 2010 numbers come from?: FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $517,403 and 310 lines for INDIANAPOLIS in cycle 2010, and $139.3 million for the city string across cycles. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.