New Hampshire FEC fundraising beside $59.1 billion in federal obligations

Primary-calendar attention is not an award pipeline

New Hampshire’s 424 federal filers and $30.6 million in receipts sit next to a comparatively compact award row count: 29,975 awards. This join does not explain the early presidential calendar, does not count visiting campaigns as a separate field, and does not treat filer volume as proof of spending influence. It reports the FEC pair (424, $30,614,494.45) and the USAspending pair (29,975, $59,091,096,735.06) as two public extracts tagged NH.

Republican committees hold $11,518,056.49 (37.6%). Other-party committees hold $31,888.77 — about 0.1% of receipts, a rounding-scale slice rather than a third column of weight. Democratic receipts of $19.1 million are the majority of the FEC column only.

Twenty-nine thousand nine hundred seventy-five awards against $59.1 billion is a thicker dollar-per-row picture than states in this series with hundreds of thousands of awards. This packet does not publish an official average. It reports both fields so a reader can see row count and dollars at once.

The FEC column: 424 New Hampshire filers

Four hundred twenty-four is an inventory of federal candidate committees tagged to New Hampshire. Receipts of $30.6 million are inflows those committees disclosed. Super PAC ads that mention a New Hampshire candidate are outside this receipt total. Individual contribution aggregates by donor state are a different FEC series and are not in this packet.

New Hampshire state-office campaigns file with the New Hampshire Secretary of State / Attorney General campaign-finance system. Those filings are not in the $30.6 million and are not in the $59.1 billion.

The USAspending column: $59.1 billion

Obligations tagged to New Hampshire are agency commitments as USAspending records them. Place-of-performance rules can attach dollars to the state even when a recipient’s headquarters is elsewhere, and the reverse can also occur depending on the field USAspending uses for the roll-up. SpendingVault’s New Hampshire USAspending page is the detail table.

This join does not assign the $59.1 billion to the 424 FEC committees, to a party, or to a motive.

Twenty-nine thousand nine hundred seventy-five awards is the thinnest row count among the state joins in this slice, against $59,091,096,735.06. Thin row count with tens of billions in obligations can reflect fewer, larger awards; this packet does not confirm that split. The New Hampshire USAspending hub is the table for agency and award-type detail.

Place-of-performance in a small state can still capture dollars from recipients headquartered elsewhere, and the reverse can occur. The $59.1 billion is the indexed roll-up, not a list of the 424 FEC committees.

What not to conclude from the 1,930-to-1 gap

Federal spending extracts are routinely orders of magnitude larger than candidate-receipt extracts. The gap is a feature of the two reporting systems, not a missing transfer. Adding the columns, netting them, or calling the difference “unaccounted” would invent a statistic.

FEC cycles and USAspending fiscal years remain different clocks. Amendments move both. Live hubs override this snapshot.

Democratic receipts of $19,064,549.19 (62.3% of $30,614,494.45) and Republican receipts of $11,518,056.49 (37.6%) describe the FEC column. Other-party receipts of $31,888.77 are about 0.1% — a rounding-scale slice. None of those shares describe 29,975 awards.

Presidential-primary attention is a calendar fact outside this packet. This join does not count visiting campaigns as a separate field and does not treat 424 filers as proof that fundraising produced the $59.1 billion.

Where the live numbers live

New Hampshire campaign finance holds the FEC receipt table. All FEC ties lists sibling state joins. New Hampshire USAspending holds the obligation table. Cite FEC.gov for the $30.6 million and USAspending.gov for the $59.1 billion.

New Hampshire campaign finance holds the FEC receipt table. All FEC ties lists sibling joins. New Hampshire USAspending holds the obligation table. Cite FEC.gov for $30,614,494.45 and USAspending.gov for $59,091,096,735.06.

State-office filings with New Hampshire’s campaign-finance system are outside both columns. Super PAC independent expenditures that mention a New Hampshire candidate are outside the receipt total.

Largest FEC book in this slice, still not an award pipeline

Among these eleven state joins, New Hampshire’s $30,614,494.45 is the largest candidate-receipt total, and 424 is the longest filer roster. Those FEC superlatives do not make the USAspending column a consequence of the FEC column. The about-1,930-to-1 obligation-to-receipt ratio is still a scale gap, not a conversion rate.

A complete citation names 424 committees, $30,614,494.45, party roll-ups of $19,064,549.19 Democratic and $11,518,056.49 Republican, 29,975 awards, and $59,091,096,735.06 in obligations. Then it states the datasets are different. Per-capita and primary-calendar statistics are not in the packet.

After amendments, the live hubs control. This snapshot does not rewrite $30.6 million or $59.1 billion on page load.

Questions

How much have New Hampshire federal candidates raised?

New Hampshire-associated federal candidate committees reported $30,614,494.45 across 424 filers. Democratic committees reported $19,064,549.19, Republican committees $11,518,056.49, and other-party committees $31,888.77, according to FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

How much federal spending is tagged to New Hampshire?

USAspending.gov records $59,091,096,735.06 in obligations across 29,975 awards tagged to New Hampshire, as indexed on SpendingVault. That series is separate from FEC receipts.

Did New Hampshire campaign donations fund those federal awards?

No. FEC candidate receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. This page joins them on the New Hampshire geography tag, not on a funding relationship.

Why does New Hampshire have 424 candidate committees?

The packet reports 424 federal filers tagged to New Hampshire. That inventory can include presidential, Senate, House, and other federal committees. This join does not break the 424 down by office because that split is not in the packet.