FEC join: Indianapolis, IN and ACTBLUE

Headline cell $533,459

FEC.gov itemized individual contributions are grouped by donor city and recipient committee. For INDIANAPOLIS, IN × ACTBLUE, the published overlap is $533,459. Cycle splits, donor names, and receipt counts are absent from the packet. Do not invent a headcount from the dollar figure.

ACTBLUE is the stored name on C00401224. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them. Do not invent donor names. The committee title is a recipient label, not a roster of contributors in Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS is the stored city string in Indiana; Carmel and other metro spellings are other keys. ACTBLUE received $533,459 from that string against a $139,287,043 city book.

IN city string INDIANAPOLIS

The city book $139,287,043 is not a budget. It is a sum of Schedule A lines that stored this city string. PAC addresses, joint-fundraising addresses, and household streets that stored INDIANAPOLIS follow the same rule. Leftover after C00401224: $138,753,584.

Indianapolis is displayed for readers; INDIANAPOLIS is the grouping key. Titles use Indianapolis, IN. The leftover $138,753,584 is $139,287,043 minus $533,459 on this extract only. The Indiana hub is a different roll-up.

Recipient ID C00401224

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. $533,459 is itemized individual receipts storing city INDIANAPOLIS and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Committee hubs roll up every city. This join does not. $533,459 is not the committee's national total. Researchers who need the all-city figure must leave this URL for the ACTBLUE hub.

Indianapolis, IN remainder after ACTBLUE

0.38% of $139,287,043 is $533,459 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Indianapolis, IN as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $139,287,043 city book went to other committees. Even when 0.38% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $138,753,584 under the INDIANAPOLIS city string went to other committees. The Indianapolis, IN hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store INDIANAPOLIS. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

Caveats on motive and spending

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $533,459. Indiana 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 $533,459 as proof that Indianapolis, IN funded ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Indiana. 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 $533,459 to federal spending in Indiana.

Keep Indianapolis and ACTBLUE in one sentence

Internal links go to Indianapolis, IN, ACTBLUE, Indiana campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $139,287,043 book and the committees that received the leftover $138,753,584. 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: Indianapolis, IN and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $533,459 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 $533,459, $139,287,043, 0.38%, leftover $138,753,584, and C00401224.

Questions

What did FEC.gov record from Indianapolis, IN to ACTBLUE?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city INDIANAPOLIS and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $533,459 in this extract. That is the join, not Indianapolis, IN's all-committee book of $139,287,043. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does LobbyVault recode INDIANAPOLIS to a Census place?

No. INDIANAPOLIS is the exact stored city string with state IN. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $533,459. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Indianapolis, IN hub for the all-committee book of $139,287,043.

Is 0.38% of Indianapolis, IN money going to ACTBLUE?

$533,459 is 0.38% of the $139,287,043 Indianapolis, IN city book. The leftover $138,753,584 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 0.38% into a ranking of civic preference.

Is $533,459 independent expenditure spending by ACTBLUE?

No. The source note states these aggregates are not independent expenditures. $533,459 is itemized individual receipts storing city INDIANAPOLIS and committee C00401224. IE files, if any, live elsewhere on FEC.gov. Cite FEC.gov for $533,459 from INDIANAPOLIS to ACTBLUE (C00401224) and $139,287,043 for the Indianapolis, IN city book.