Nebraska’s $26.4 million FEC book next to $80.7 billion in federal awards

A geography join, not a payment trail

FEC candidate receipts answer how much Nebraska-tagged federal committees disclosed as inflows. USAspending obligations answer how much federal agencies recorded as commitments with a Nebraska place tag. Putting $26.4 million next to $80.7 billion is useful because readers often search both questions at once. It is misleading if the page implies a pipeline from Form 3 receipts into award files.

On the FEC side, Republican committees hold $16,026,556.66 (60.7% of $26,416,319.67). Democratic committees hold $6,499,980.06 (24.6%). Other-party filers hold $3,889,782.95 (14.7%). Those percentages are receipt shares among 300 candidate committees. They are not shares of the 344,180 federal awards.

The obligation total is about 3,054 times the candidate-receipt total. That multiple is arithmetic from the two packet dollars. It is not a measure of influence, and it is not a ranking of Nebraska against other states.

Three hundred Nebraska candidate committees

The $26.4 million sits on 300 federal filers tagged to Nebraska. A committee with large receipts is a disclosure fact. This join does not infer motive, industry, or a link to any USAspending recipient. Super PAC independent expenditures that mention Nebraska candidates are outside the receipt column.

Nebraska state-office campaigns file with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission, not with the FEC. Those filings are not in the $26,416,319.67. Keep the federal candidate book and the state-office book on separate shelves.

344,180 awards behind $80.7 billion

Nebraska’s USAspending extract is dense on the row count: 344,180 awards against $80.7 billion in obligations. Award volume and dollar volume are independent fields. A high row count can include many small assistance awards; this packet does not split contracts from grants, so this page does not invent that split.

The West Virginia USAspending table is a sibling join in this series, not a comparison of which state is “better funded.” Each state’s obligation figure is its own USAspending roll-up. Read Nebraska’s award table on SpendingVault for agency and recipient detail.

Three hundred forty-four thousand one hundred eighty awards is the densest row count among the state joins in this slice. Density is not a ranking of Nebraska as more federally active. Assistance programs with many small rows can inflate count while dollars stay in the same order of magnitude as West Virginia’s thinner 86,083-row file. This packet does not split award types, so the density stays a count, not a diagnosis.

Recipient headquarters in a Nebraska city can tag an award to the state even when work occurs elsewhere, depending on which USAspending geography field the roll-up uses. The $80,692,936,584.08 is the indexed state total, not a household census and not a list of the 300 FEC committees.

Caveats that keep the columns honest

Candidate receipts are inflows, not cash on hand and not money spent on ads. Obligations are recorded commitments, not always outlays in the same fiscal window. FEC cycles and USAspending fiscal years are different clocks. This snapshot does not force them onto one calendar.

Amendments move both series. If the live Nebraska campaign finance hub or the live Nebraska USAspending hub disagrees with these packet dollars, the live table and the source agency win.

Nebraska’s Republican receipt share of 60.7% ($16,026,556.66 of $26,416,319.67) does not travel onto the 344,180 awards. Democratic receipts of $6,499,980.06 (24.6%) and other-party receipts of $3,889,782.95 (14.7%) likewise stay in the FEC column. USAspending does not store FEC party codes.

The Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission file for state offices remains outside both columns. A researcher who needs state-office money and federal awards still has two agencies and two clocks, not one blended ledger.

How to use the two hubs

Start with Nebraska campaign finance for the 300-committee receipt file. Cross to All FEC ties for other state joins. Open Nebraska USAspending for the $80.7 billion obligation file. Cite each source by name: FEC.gov for receipts, USAspending.gov for awards.

Open Nebraska campaign finance for the 300-filer receipt sort. Open All FEC ties for the rest of the geography joins. Open Nebraska USAspending for agency and recipient rows behind $80.7 billion. Quote FEC.gov and USAspending.gov by name in any footnote.

Cycle time on the FEC side and fiscal-year time on the USAspending side will not match on this page. Forcing them onto one calendar would invent a year that neither source published in the packet.

What a complete Nebraska citation includes

Name 300 federal candidate committees, $26,416,319.67 in FEC receipts, the three party roll-ups ($16,026,556.66 Republican, $6,499,980.06 Democratic, $3,889,782.95 other), 344,180 USAspending awards, and $80,692,936,584.08 in obligations. Then stop. A seventh invented figure — per capita, GDP share, or return on donations — is not in the packet.

The about-3,054-to-1 obligation-to-receipt ratio is optional arithmetic. It describes scale. It does not describe a pipeline from Nebraska donors to Nebraska awards. Individual contribution aggregates by donor address are a different FEC series and are not in this join.

After amendments, the live Nebraska campaign finance hub and the live Nebraska USAspending hub control. This snapshot does not auto-update those two dollars.

Questions

How much have Nebraska federal candidates raised?

Nebraska-associated federal candidate committees reported $26,416,319.67 across 300 filers. Republican committees reported $16,026,556.66, Democratic committees $6,499,980.06, and other-party committees $3,889,782.95, according to FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

How many federal awards are tagged to Nebraska?

USAspending.gov lists 344,180 awards with $80,692,936,584.08 in obligations tagged to Nebraska, as indexed on SpendingVault. Award count and obligation dollars are separate fields.

Does FEC fundraising in Nebraska fund USAspending awards?

No. The $26.4 million in candidate receipts and the $80.7 billion in obligations come from different reporting systems. This page joins them on state geography only.

Are Nebraska state races in the $26.4 million?

No. These receipts are FEC.gov federal data. Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission filings for state offices are outside this join.