Lawyer political contributions from Beverly Hills, CA
Filers who listed Lawyer and Beverly Hills, CA on FEC.gov Schedule A itemizations reported $16,000 across 12 receipts from 3 donors. Beverly Hills as a whole indexes $243,943,527 ($243.9 million rounded) on 325,245 itemized contributions. The Lawyer slice is under 0.1% of the city dollar total. Those figures share a filer-entered city label; they are not a claim that the grouping runs the city's politics.
Key figures
- Lawyer in Beverly Hills, CA: $16,000 on 12 itemized lines from 3 donors.
- Beverly Hills city book is $243,943,527 on 325,245 contributions (under 0.1% for this string).
- FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards.
- City label BEVERLY HILLS is filer-entered, not a Census recode.
- Correlation is not causation.
How Lawyer meets Beverly Hills
This page is a join. One dimension is contributor city Beverly Hills, CA. The other is occupation/employer grouping Lawyer (stored as LAWYER). $16,000 is the intersection — dollars on receipts that carry both labels. $243,943,527 is the city bucket before the employer filter, built from 325,245 itemized lines. The harvested donor count inside the intersection is 3 donors, not a census of everyone in Beverly Hills who ever worked in a related trade.
LobbyVault does not add a third table and does not route these dollars through USAspending. A Form 3 itemization is not a federal award. Open the Beverly Hills, CA city hub for the unfiltered city book, the Lawyer industry hub for the grouping outside this city filter, California campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Each of those pages answers a different question. This one answers only the intersection.
12 contributions from 3 donors produced $16,000. Repeat gifts add receipts; 3 donors is the headcount in this extract for the join, not a Census of Lawyer workers in Beverly Hills. Arithmetic mean per receipt is about $1,333; per donor, about $5,333. Those means are division of packet facts, not typical salaries and not medians.
What the Beverly Hills city book holds
Beverly Hills indexes $243,943,527 ($243.9 million rounded) on 325,245 itemized individual contributions. City labels are filer-entered. A suburb that types a different city never enters $243,943,527. Joint-fundraising and committee addresses that happen to list Beverly Hills can sit in the same bucket as residents. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for the city as a whole, so this page does not invent one from 325,245.
California campaign-finance pages cover the state, which is a larger geography than Beverly Hills. Do not treat $243,943,527 as the CA state total. Unitemized federal gifts never carry a published city in this roll-up, so they never enter $243,943,527. State-office campaigns in California file under state law and sit outside these FEC individual-contribution aggregates.
The Lawyer slice inside Beverly Hills
Inside Beverly Hills, receipts tagged Lawyer total $16,000 on 12 lines from 3 donors. That is under 0.1% of $243,943,527. About $1,333 per receipt is $16,000 divided by 12. About $5,333 per harvested donor is $16,000 divided by 3. Those ratios describe shape. They are not medians, not typical household gifts, and not salaries.
Lawyer is a filer-entered employer string, not a NAICS sector and not every affiliate, predecessor name, or related partnership. Other spellings of the same organization are other keys and are omitted from $16,000. A donor in Beverly Hills who stored a different employer never enters this join. A donor outside Beverly Hills who stored LAWYER belongs on the industry hub, not here.
What this join is not
It is not a ranking of Beverly Hills neighborhoods. It is not a safety comparison. It is not proof that Lawyer money funded a federal contract, grant, or loan. Campaign contributions and USAspending awards are different disclosure systems even when they mention the same city. This packet has no award dollars, so this page prints none.
It is not Lawyer nationwide unless the industry hub — a different page — is cited separately. It is not a PAC independent-expenditure total. Motive is not a field. Party split is not a field in this packet. Missing fields stay missing. Correlation is not causation: two filer-entered fields meeting is not evidence that Lawyer controls Beverly Hills politics.
How to cite the Beverly Hills × Lawyer facts
Citation template: employer name Lawyer, contributor city Beverly Hills, CA, $16,000 on 12 itemized individual contributions from 3 donors, against a city-wide $243,943,527 on 325,245 contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.
Then send the reader to the live Beverly Hills, CA hub, the Lawyer industry page, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live hubs control. Do not add $16,000 to $243,943,527; the first number is already inside the second.
Using the Beverly Hills and Lawyer hubs together
The Beverly Hills, CA hub is the unfiltered city index: $243,943,527 on 325,245 lines. The Lawyer hub is the grouping without this city's filter. California campaign finance is the state roll-up, a larger geography than Beverly Hills. All FEC ties is the inventory of other two-table pages. Use all four links. None of them turns $16,000 into a federal award.
If you need names, open the live city and industry hubs rather than reverse-engineering 3 donors from this snapshot. If you need cycle cuts of Beverly Hills, those are city-cycle joins, not this file. If you need Lawyer in a single even-year window, those are industry-cycle joins. This file stays on one city and one employer string: Beverly Hills and Lawyer, $16,000, 12 receipts, 3 donors.
Questions
- How much did Lawyer donors in Beverly Hills contribute?
- Itemized individual contributions tagged Lawyer and Beverly Hills, CA total $16,000 across 12 receipts from 3 donors on FEC.gov aggregates indexed here. That join is under 0.1% of Beverly Hills's $243,943,527 city-wide book. It is not a PAC total. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.
- Is $16,000 all Lawyer money nationwide?
- No. $16,000 is only the Beverly Hills, CA filter on stored string LAWYER. Other cities that stored the same string belong on the industry hub, not in this join. 12 receipts and 3 donors are likewise city-filtered. Do not treat the slice as a national total.
- Why can receipts (12) exceed donors (3)?
- Repeat itemized gifts from the same person add lines without adding people. 12 contributions and 3 donors are both packet facts for Lawyer in Beverly Hills. The per-receipt mean about $1,333 and per-donor mean about $5,333 are arithmetic only. They are not medians.
- Are Lawyer gifts in Beverly Hills the same as federal awards?
- No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different disclosure systems. $16,000 is a contribution total. This packet has no obligation dollars. Sharing the city name does not move money from one statute to the other.
FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and employer/industry grouping. City labels are filer-entered.