Indianapolis, IN political money — 2014 cycle

How Indianapolis, IN meets the 2014 election cycle

$238,391 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city INDIANAPOLIS with state IN, and election cycle 2014. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Indianapolis, IN city hub and the 2014 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles. The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Indianapolis, IN in 2014.

232 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 $1,028 ($238,391 ÷ 232). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $238,391. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $238,391 for the 2014 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 ($139,287,043). $238,391 is 0.2% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Indianapolis; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $139,048,652 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. 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, Fishers, and Greenwood — those suburbs are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into INDIANAPOLIS. 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. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle side for Indiana filers in Indianapolis

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 232 Indianapolis, IN lines in that window produced $238,391. National 2014 activity — every city — lives on the 2014 election cycle hub, not here. A midterm label marks the even-year window; it is not a finding about turnout in Indianapolis.

Indiana campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Indianapolis. Do not add $238,391 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 $238,391 into spending by Indianapolis candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $238,391 and the $139.3 million city book.

What $238,391 does not measure

$238,391 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. PAC transfers and committee-to-committee activity are other files.

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 232 as lines that stored this string in 2014. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Indianapolis and 2014 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $238,391 beside $139.3 million does not mean 2014 caused the city book or that Indianapolis drove the 2014 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 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Internal links on this page go to Indianapolis, IN, the 2014 election cycle, Indiana campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $238,391 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars, and itemized giving is not a proxy for public opinion in Indiana.

A 0.2% cut of the Indianapolis stack

0.2% of $139.3 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $238,391 of the $139,287,043 city stack was tagged 2014, and $139,048,652 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $238,391 divided by $139,287,043 and $139,048,652 divided by $139,287,043. They are not shares of Indiana totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.2%) and row volume (232 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.2% as Indianapolis's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent midterm or presidential windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Indianapolis × 2014 only: $238,391, 232 receipts, mean about $1,028. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Indianapolis, IN donors give in 2014?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city INDIANAPOLIS and cycle 2014 total $238,391 across 232 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 $238,391 all of Indianapolis's federal political money?

No. $139.3 million ($139,287,043) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city INDIANAPOLIS in IN. The 2014 slice is $238,391, 0.2% of that book. Other cycles hold $139,048,652. 232 is a 2014 receipt count, not a unique-donor count. The city hub holds the stack; this page holds the year.

Did Indianapolis, IN 2014 donations stay in Indiana?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Indianapolis, IN; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $238,391 by office, state of the committee, or party. A IN city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Indiana races.

How many Indianapolis, IN contributions were itemized in 2014?

232 itemized contribution records sum to $238,391. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,028 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.