Donors in Boston, MA to SLF PAC

How Boston, MA meets SLF PAC on the FEC tape

$2,268,600 is the overlap of two keys: contributor city BOSTON with state MA, and recipient committee C00571703 disclosed as SLF PAC. LobbyVault keeps a Boston, MA city hub and a committee hub for SLF PAC. 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 C00571703. This page is only both filters at once.

SLF PAC is the stored committee name on C00571703. The join does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or cycles. Do not invent a headcount from $2,268,600. 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. BOSTON 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 BOSTON and a different committee ID is in the leftover $278,434,161 of the city book, not in $2,268,600.

The Boston, MA side of the SLF PAC join

Boston, MA’s all-committee itemized book in this extract is $280,702,761. $2,268,600 is 0.81% of Boston, MA’s $280,702,761 all-committee book. A small share is expected when one committee is compared with every other recipient on the city tape. The leftover $278,434,161 went to other committees under the same city string, or sits outside this recipient filter. Open the Boston, MA hub for that remainder; do not subtract by hand from a different extract.

The stored city sits in Massachusetts. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into BOSTON. Massachusetts campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $2,268,600 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 $2,268,600 into spending by Boston, MA candidates or into independent expenditures by SLF PAC.

SLF PAC (C00571703) as the recipient key

C00571703 is disclosed as SLF PAC. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $2,268,600 is itemized individual receipts storing city BOSTON and committee C00571703. Other cities giving to SLF PAC 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. SLF PAC on another ID is a different page. This URL is Boston, MA × C00571703, not Massachusetts × C00571703 and not every spelling of BOSTON. If the overlay at the committee path disagrees with $2,268,600, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Boston, MA book

0.81% of $280,702,761 is $2,268,600 to SLF PAC (C00571703). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Boston, MA as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $280,702,761 city book went to other committees unless 0.81% is read as a large slice — even then, the slice is still only the C00571703 filter.

The leftover $278,434,161 under the BOSTON city string went to other committees. The Boston, MA hub holds that remainder. The SLF PAC page holds receipts whose city field did not store BOSTON. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00571703; each join is its own filter.

What the Boston, MA × SLF PAC dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $2,268,600. Massachusetts 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 $2,268,600 as proof that Boston, MA “funded” SLF PAC as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Massachusetts. 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 $2,268,600 to federal spending in Massachusetts.

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 Boston, MA × SLF PAC join

Internal links go to Boston, MA, SLF PAC, Massachusetts campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $280,702,761 book and the committees that received the leftover $278,434,161. The committee page holds C00571703 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: Boston, MA and SLF PAC (C00571703). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $2,268,600 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 $2,268,600, $280,702,761, 0.81%, leftover $278,434,161, and C00571703. Keep both sides named: BOSTON as filer-entered city, SLF PAC 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 Boston, MA donors give SLF PAC?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city BOSTON and recipient SLF PAC (C00571703) total $2,268,600 in this extract. That is the join, not Boston, MA’s all-committee book of $280,702,761. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Boston, MA total include every spelling of the city name?

No. BOSTON is the exact stored city string with state MA. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $2,268,600. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Boston, MA hub for the all-committee book of $280,702,761.

What share of Boston, MA itemized money went to SLF PAC?

$2,268,600 is 0.81% of the $280,702,761 Boston, MA city book. The leftover $278,434,161 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00571703. Do not upgrade 0.81% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Boston, MA SLF PAC figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $2,268,600 for the Boston, MA × C00571703 join and $280,702,761 for the city string. If a later extract or the committee overlay disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.