Brooklyn, NY political money — 2014 cycle

$162,241 is a join, not a restatement of Brooklyn

LobbyVault stores $162,241 so a reader can open the Brooklyn, NY city hub and the 2014 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles ($223,850,174). The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Brooklyn, NY in 2014.

140 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,159 ($162,241 ÷ 140). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join.

2014 is a midterm election cycle. Cite the two packet dollars — $162,241 for the 2014 slice and $223,850,174 for the Brooklyn, NY book — and stop before assigning motive. Independent expenditures and unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

Reading the Brooklyn, NY city book

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city BROOKLYN in New York totals $223,850,174. $162,241 is under 0.1% of that city book — a thin slice of the citywide book. A thin or small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Brooklyn; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Brooklyn, NY table is the place to compare other years.

Brooklyn is Kings County stored as BROOKLYN, not rolled into NEW YORK. Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island remain other city strings. State NY stays on the citation so Brooklyn is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $223,850,174 is the NY key only. Remainder outside 2014 is $223,687,933.

What the 2014 cycle tag actually is

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 140 Brooklyn, NY lines in that window produced $162,241. National 2014 activity — every city — lives on the 2014 election cycle hub, not here.

New York campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Brooklyn. Do not add $162,241 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle joins.

What $162,241 does not measure

$162,241 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city BROOKLYN. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in New York file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Brooklyn can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered.

A donor who typed BROOKLYN is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Brooklyn. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place. Treat 140 as lines that stored this string in 2014. FEC receipts are not USAspending awards.

Using Brooklyn and 2014 without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $162,241 beside $223,850,174 does not mean 2014 caused the city book or that Brooklyn drove the 2014 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. Internal links go to Brooklyn, NY, the 2014 election cycle, New York campaign finance, and All FEC ties. If a live hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

140 is a receipt count for Brooklyn, NY in 2014, a mid-size itemized file. A household that gave on two dates is two lines. An office or joint-fundraising address stored as BROOKLYN sits in the same city field as a residential street. LobbyVault does not convert that field into a Census residency test. Unique-person counts are not in the facts and are not estimated from 140. Mean size of about $1,159 is $162,241 divided by 140, an arithmetic ratio, not a median donor.

Questions

What is the Brooklyn and 2014 join on LobbyVault?

It is the overlap of contributor city BROOKLYN with state NY and election cycle 2014: $162,241 on 140 itemized receipts. The Brooklyn, NY hub still mixes other cycles ($223,850,174 citywide). The 2014 cycle hub still mixes other cities. This URL is only the intersection.

Does $162,241 include unitemized Brooklyn gifts?

No. $162,241 is itemized Schedule A activity stored with city BROOKLYN in cycle 2014. Gifts below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. The citywide book of $223,850,174 is also an itemized aggregate.

Is $1,159 a typical Brooklyn donor in 2014?

No. $1,159 is $162,241 divided by 140 rows. Repeat gifts, large one-time itemizations, and small itemized gifts all sit in that mean. The packet has no median and no unique-person count, so the ratio is arithmetic only, not a household portrait of Brooklyn, NY.

Where should I read Brooklyn without a 2014 filter?

Open the Brooklyn, NY city hub for the $223,850,174 all-cycle book. Open the 2014 election cycle hub for the national two-year window. Open New York campaign finance for the state roll-up. All FEC ties lists other city-cycle pages built the same way.