Brookline, MA political money — 2014 cycle

2014 receipts from Brookline, MA donors

The join keeps donor city Brookline in Massachusetts and election cycle 2014. The match is $377,563 across 106 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $64,389,320. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.6% of Brookline, MA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $64,011,757 (99.4%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Brookline, MA. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under BROOKLINE. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Brookline, MA with every other donor city in the United States. The 106 rows and $377,563 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Brookline, MA here is the string that survived aggregation as BROOKLINE in MA. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. This page does not split the $377,563 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Brookline, MA is $64,389,320 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $377,563 from 2014 and the $64,011,757 from every other cycle in the same city file. Massachusetts campaign-finance pages still mix Brookline with every other city in Massachusetts.

The stored city sits in a town in Norfolk County bordering Boston. Boston, Cambridge, and Newton are not rolled into BROOKLINE. State MA stays on the citation so Brookline is not recoded into Boston or merged with Brookline, New Hampshire. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Brookline, MA, the city stack is $64,389,320 while this cycle is $377,563 (0.6%). Use the city hub to see Brookline, MA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Brookline in 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2014 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Brookline, MA donors itemized $377,563 on 106 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $3,562 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Massachusetts still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Brookline × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 106 itemized rows is a modest file for a named city. A handful of large receipts can still move $377,563 without proving a wide unique-donor pool. Adjacent pages for Brookline, MA, 2014 election cycle, and Massachusetts campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Brookline stack

0.6% of $64,389,320 is a modest slice. Most of the Brookline, MA aggregate — $64,011,757 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.6% of Brookline, MA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.4% were not. Those percentages are $377,563 divided by $64,389,320 and $64,011,757 divided by $64,389,320. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.6%) and row volume (106 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a modest contribution file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.6% as Brookline's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

106 itemized contributions totaling $377,563 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of BROOKLINE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Brookline versus other Massachusetts cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $3,562 uses only the two numbers in the join: $377,563 and 106 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $377,563 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and Massachusetts state-office filings sit outside $377,563.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank Brookline against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Massachusetts. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A MA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Massachusetts candidate. A candidate who lives in Brookline can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed BROOKLINE is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood or a nearby suburb such as Boston is not recoded into Brookline. Treat 106 as lines that stored this string in 2014. See Brookline, MA, the 2014 election cycle, Massachusetts campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Brookline, MA donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Brookline, MA total $377,563 in the 2014 cycle, across 106 contribution records. The same city label totals $64,389,320 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.6% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Brookline, MA city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $64,389,320 covers every cycle in the table for BROOKLINE. The 2014 filter is $377,563 from 106 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $64,011,757. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Brookline, MA 2014 donations stay in Massachusetts?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Brookline, MA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $377,563 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Massachusetts races.

How many Brookline, MA contributions were itemized in 2014?

106 itemized contribution records sum to $377,563. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $3,562 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.