Bethesda, MD itemized gifts to ACTBLUE

How Bethesda, MD meets ACTBLUE on the FEC tape

$609,720 requires both keys at once: contributor city BETHESDA with state MD, and recipient committee C00401224 disclosed as ACTBLUE. LobbyVault keeps a Bethesda, MD city hub and a ACTBLUE committee hub. Neither hub is this page. The city hub lists every committee that received itemized gifts storing this city string. The committee hub lists every city that gave to C00401224. This URL is only the intersection.

The packet does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or election cycles for this pair. $609,720 is a dollar aggregate. Treating it as a typical gift size or as a count of households is arithmetic the file does not support. BETHESDA is not Washington, DC and is not Chevy Chase. Maryland’s state hub already contains these rows when the tape matches. ACTBLUE on C00401224 received $609,720 from the Bethesda city string.

The Bethesda, MD side of the ACTBLUE join

Bethesda, MD's all-committee itemized book in this extract is $157,728,166. $609,720 is 0.39% of that book. A thin or moderate share is the usual result of comparing one committee with every other recipient on the city tape. The leftover $157,118,446 went to other committees under BETHESDA, or sits outside this recipient filter.

The stored city sits in Maryland. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into BETHESDA. Maryland campaign-finance pages include other cities. All FEC ties lists other city-committee pages. None of them converts $609,720 into spending by Bethesda, MD candidates or into independent expenditures by ACTBLUE.

ACTBLUE (C00401224) as the recipient key

C00401224 is disclosed as ACTBLUE. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $609,720 is itemized individual receipts storing city BETHESDA and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE 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. ACTBLUE on another ID is a different page. This URL is Bethesda, MD × C00401224, not Maryland × C00401224 and not every spelling of BETHESDA. If a live overlay at the committee path disagrees with $609,720, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Bethesda, MD book

0.39% of $157,728,166 is $609,720 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Bethesda, MD as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $157,728,166 city book went to other committees. Even when 0.39% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $157,118,446 under the BETHESDA city string went to other committees. The Bethesda, MD hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store BETHESDA. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

What the Bethesda, MD × ACTBLUE dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $609,720. 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 $609,720 as proof that Bethesda, MD funded ACTBLUE 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 $609,720 to federal spending in Maryland.

How to cite the Bethesda, MD × ACTBLUE join

Internal links go to Bethesda, MD, ACTBLUE, Maryland campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $157,728,166 book and the committees that received the leftover $157,118,446. The committee page holds C00401224 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: Bethesda, MD and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $609,720 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 $609,720, $157,728,166, 0.39%, leftover $157,118,446, and C00401224.

Questions

How much did Bethesda, MD donors give ACTBLUE?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city BETHESDA and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $609,720 in this extract. That is the join, not Bethesda, MD's all-committee book of $157,728,166. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

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

No. BETHESDA is the exact stored city string with state MD. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $609,720. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Bethesda, MD hub for the all-committee book of $157,728,166.

What share of Bethesda, MD itemized money went to ACTBLUE?

$609,720 is 0.39% of the $157,728,166 Bethesda, MD city book. The leftover $157,118,446 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 0.39% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Bethesda, MD ACTBLUE figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $609,720 for the Bethesda, MD × C00401224 join and $157,728,166 for the city string. If a later extract or the committee overlay disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission's filing controls.