ACTBLUE and Cleveland, OH contribution overlap

Relationship between Cleveland and ACTBLUE

This page is a JOIN. One side is the filer-entered city CLEVELAND in Ohio. The other side is ACTBLUE on C00401224. $436,584 is what remains after both filters. Opening only the Cleveland, OH hub restates $104,708,861. Opening only the committee hub restates every city that gave to C00401224. Adding those hubs together double-counts.

City labels are filer-entered. CLEVELAND is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A neighboring municipality is another hub. A CLEVELAND line to a different committee ID sits in the leftover $104,272,277, not in $436,584. CLEVELAND is not Toledo. Toledo’s RESTORE OUR FUTURE page on this slice is a different committee and a different city. ACTBLUE received $436,584 from CLEVELAND against a $104,708,861 book.

City hub versus this cell

Take the committee filter off and CLEVELAND still shows $104,708,861 itemized. $436,584 is the slice tagged to C00401224. Open the Cleveland, OH hub for the remainder $104,272,277. Do not subtract by hand from a different extract dated on another night.

Cleveland is displayed for readers; CLEVELAND is the grouping key. Titles use Cleveland, OH. The leftover $104,272,277 is $104,708,861 minus $436,584 on this extract only. The Ohio hub is a different roll-up.

Committee hub versus this cell

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. $436,584 is itemized individual receipts storing city CLEVELAND and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Long or truncated FEC names stay as stored. DBA clauses, AKA clauses, slashes, and parentheticals are part of the label on C00401224. Short titles on this page still point at that ID. Do not invent a cleaner legal name.

Exact-match city strings

0.42% of $104,708,861 is $436,584 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Cleveland, OH as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $104,708,861 city book went to other committees. Even when 0.42% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $104,272,277 under the CLEVELAND city string went to other committees. The Cleveland, OH hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store CLEVELAND. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

Outside the $436,584 total

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $436,584. Ohio 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 $436,584 as proof that Cleveland, OH funded ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Ohio. 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 $436,584 to federal spending in Ohio.

How researchers should quote C00401224

Internal links go to Cleveland, OH, ACTBLUE, Ohio campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $104,708,861 book and the committees that received the leftover $104,272,277. 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: Cleveland, OH and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $436,584 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 $436,584, $104,708,861, 0.42%, leftover $104,272,277, and C00401224.

Questions

What is the Cleveland × ACTBLUE FEC total?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city CLEVELAND and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $436,584 in this extract. That is the join, not Cleveland, OH's all-committee book of $104,708,861. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is CLEVELAND merged with nearby cities?

No. CLEVELAND is the exact stored city string with state OH. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $436,584. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Cleveland, OH hub for the all-committee book of $104,708,861.

How much of the $104.7M Cleveland book is C00401224?

$436,584 is 0.42% of the $104,708,861 Cleveland, OH city book. The leftover $104,272,277 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 0.42% into a ranking of civic preference.

Do Cleveland donations to ACTBLUE fund USAspending awards?

No. The series is FEC individual contributions. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This packet publishes no obligation dollars. Geography on a contribution line does not convert the gift into a federal award in Ohio. Cite FEC.gov for $436,584 from CLEVELAND to ACTBLUE (C00401224) and $104,708,861 for the Cleveland, OH city book.