Brookline, MA and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Brookline, MA receipts inside the 2012 FEC window

Lead with the join dollars: $137,301. Then name both sides: Brookline, MA and the 2012 cycle. Then name volume: 79 itemized contributions. That order keeps a researcher from quoting the city lifetime total $64,389,320 as if it were a single-cycle number. 2012 is about 0.21% of $64,389,320. The remainder $64,252,019 belongs on other cycle pages for the same city string.

The relationship is a filter, not a story about why people in Brookline gave. Self-reported city text on FEC Schedule A (and related individual-receipt files) is grouped as stored. Brookline is stored as BROOKLINE in Massachusetts. Boston, Cambridge, and Newton are other Massachusetts keys. This page does not add those neighbor keys into $137,301.

What the Brookline hub still holds

$64,389,320 is the all-cycle figure attached to BROOKLINE in MA. It is larger than $137,301 because other even-year tags remain in the city table. Those other tags are not listed in this packet and are not guessed. The only cycle unpacked here is 2012.

City text is self-reported. The FEC does not certify municipal boundaries when a donor writes BROOKLINE. A mailing city, a neighborhood label, or an abbreviated city (BROOKLINE) can differ from the Census place name. This page follows the stored string, not a GIS join.

What the 2012 FEC window includes

The 2012 tag is a two-year FEC election-cycle window (the even year and the odd year paired with it). This packet does not split 2011 from 2012. If a receipt’s cycle field is 2012 and the city field is BROOKLINE in MA, it can sit in $137,301. If either field differs, it does not. That mechanical rule is the whole join.

Cycle hubs are useful for national context. They will not reproduce $137,301. Do not divide a national 2012 total by some assumed Brookline share; no such national total is in this packet.

Tables that sit outside the Brookline–2012 cell

Recipient committee names are not in the packet, so none are listed. Donor names are not in the packet, so none are listed. Party split, office sought, and employer text are not in the packet. If those dimensions matter, use other LobbyVault hubs rather than padding this join with invented rows. The safe citation remains $137,301 / 79 lines / Brookline, MA / 2012 / FEC.gov.

Stable language for the $137,301 cell

If the live Brookline, MA hub disagrees with $64,389,320, use the hub. If the live 2012 page or this tie’s overlay disagrees with $137,301, use the live table. This JSON is a packet snapshot. Canonical path: /ties/ma-brookline-2012-donations/. All FEC ties (/ties/) lists other two-dimension pages, including other cities in 2012 and other cycles for Brookline.

Packet inventory for Brookline, MA × 2012

Inventory: city=BROOKLINE; state=MA (Massachusetts); cycle=2012; cycleTotal=$137,301; cycleContributions=79; cityTotal=$64,389,320. Derived: share 0.21%; remainder $64,252,019; mean $1,738. Kind=city-cycle. Slug=ma-brookline-2012-donations. Voice=nonpartisan FEC transparency. If any later sentence on the live site adds a contractor, a recipient, or a donor, that sentence is outside this JSON. Restating without new facts: Brookline, MA in 2012 is $137,301 from 79 itemized individual contributions on FEC.gov. The city string stores $64,389,320 across cycles, so this window is about 0.21% and other windows hold $64,252,019. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,738. Unique donors, recipient committees, party split, and USAspending dollars are not in the packet. Live overlays at the city hub, the 2012 hub, and All FEC ties outrank this snapshot if they differ. Keep both join sides in any reuse of $137,301: donor city Brookline, MA and FEC cycle 2012, sourced from FEC.gov itemized individual receipts. The 79 contribution lines are volume for this cell only and are not added to counts from other Brookline cycle pages.

Questions

How much did Brookline donors give in 2012?

The 2012 cell for Brookline, MA is $137,301 across 79 itemized individual contributions. FEC.gov is the source. The same city string stores $64,389,320 when every cycle is included, so 2012 is about 0.21% of that running sum. No donor names are published in this aggregate.

What share of Brookline FEC money is 2012?

$137,301 divided by $64,389,320 is about 0.21%. Remainder $64,252,019 belongs to other cycles stored on the same BROOKLINE key. Do not read the percentage as a share of Massachusetts giving or of all 2012 itemized gifts. Those denominators are absent from the packet.

Are Boston gifts counted as Brookline?

Only the FEC city field BROOKLINE with state MA is in this cell. Neighboring towns, metro labels, and other spellings of Brookline are other keys. Brookline is stored as BROOKLINE in Massachusetts. Boston, Cambridge, and Newton are other Massachusetts keys. The 2012 dollars remain $137,301 on that exact string.

Where are the Brookline and 2012 overlay pages?

Use /cities/ma-brookline/ for Brookline, MA without a year filter, /election-cycles/2012/ for the 2012 cycle without a city filter, /states/MA/ for statewide Massachusetts context, and /ties/ for other two-dimension pages. This tie stays on $137,301 and 79 lines. Overlay pages are the current record if numbers move.