Donors in Baltimore, MD to SMP

How Baltimore, MD meets SMP on the FEC tape

$1,628,250 is the overlap of two keys: contributor city BALTIMORE with state MD, and recipient committee C00484642 disclosed as SMP. LobbyVault keeps a Baltimore, MD city hub and a committee hub for SMP. 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 C00484642. This page is only both filters at once.

SMP is the stored committee name on C00484642; the packet does not expand the acronym. The join does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or cycles. Do not invent a headcount from $1,628,250. 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. BALTIMORE 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 BALTIMORE and a different committee ID is in the leftover $115,237,327 of the city book, not in $1,628,250.

The Baltimore, MD side of the SMP join

Baltimore, MD’s all-committee itemized book in this extract is $116,865,577. $1,628,250 is 1.4% of Baltimore, MD’s $116,865,577 all-committee book. A small share is expected when one committee is compared with every other recipient on the city tape. The leftover $115,237,327 went to other committees under the same city string, or sits outside this recipient filter. Open the Baltimore, MD hub for that remainder; do not subtract by hand from a different extract.

The stored city sits in Maryland. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into BALTIMORE. Maryland campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $1,628,250 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 $1,628,250 into spending by Baltimore, MD candidates or into independent expenditures by SMP.

SMP (C00484642) as the recipient key

C00484642 is disclosed as SMP. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $1,628,250 is itemized individual receipts storing city BALTIMORE and committee C00484642. Other cities giving to SMP 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. SMP on another ID is a different page. This URL is Baltimore, MD × C00484642, not Maryland × C00484642 and not every spelling of BALTIMORE. If the overlay at the committee path disagrees with $1,628,250, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Baltimore, MD book

1.4% of $116,865,577 is $1,628,250 to SMP (C00484642). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Baltimore, MD as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $116,865,577 city book went to other committees unless 1.4% is read as a large slice — even then, the slice is still only the C00484642 filter.

The leftover $115,237,327 under the BALTIMORE city string went to other committees. The Baltimore, MD hub holds that remainder. The SMP page holds receipts whose city field did not store BALTIMORE. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00484642; each join is its own filter.

What the Baltimore, MD × SMP dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $1,628,250. Maryland 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 $1,628,250 as proof that Baltimore, MD “funded” SMP as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Maryland. 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 $1,628,250 to federal spending in Maryland.

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 Baltimore, MD × SMP join

Internal links go to Baltimore, MD, SMP, Maryland campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $116,865,577 book and the committees that received the leftover $115,237,327. The committee page holds C00484642 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: Baltimore, MD and SMP (C00484642). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $1,628,250 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 $1,628,250, $116,865,577, 1.4%, leftover $115,237,327, and C00484642. Keep both sides named: BALTIMORE as filer-entered city, SMP 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 Baltimore, MD donors give SMP?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city BALTIMORE and recipient SMP (C00484642) total $1,628,250 in this extract. That is the join, not Baltimore, MD’s all-committee book of $116,865,577. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Baltimore, MD total include every spelling of the city name?

No. BALTIMORE is the exact stored city string with state MD. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $1,628,250. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Baltimore, MD hub for the all-committee book of $116,865,577.

What share of Baltimore, MD itemized money went to SMP?

$1,628,250 is 1.4% of the $116,865,577 Baltimore, MD city book. The leftover $115,237,327 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00484642. Do not upgrade 1.4% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Baltimore, MD SMP figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $1,628,250 for the Baltimore, MD × C00484642 join and $116,865,577 for the city string. If a later extract or the committee overlay disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.