Phila, PA political money — 2014 cycle

2014 receipts from Phila, PA donors

The join keeps donor city Phila in Pennsylvania and election cycle 2014. The match is $220,781 across 104 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $31,839,653. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.7% of Phila, PA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $31,618,872 (99.3%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Phila, PA. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under PHILA. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Phila, PA with every other donor city in the United States. The 104 rows and $220,781 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Phila, PA here is the string that survived aggregation as PHILA in PA. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. This page does not split the $220,781 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Phila, PA is $31,839,653 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $220,781 from 2014 and the $31,618,872 from every other cycle in the same city file. Pennsylvania campaign-finance pages still mix Phila with every other city in Pennsylvania.

The stored city sits in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Camden, NJ and nearby PA boroughs filed under other city strings are not rolled into PHILA except as noted: PHILA is the stored FEC city abbreviation; PHILADELPHIA as a longer string is a different key if filers typed it that way. State PA stays on the citation. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Phila, PA, the city stack is $31,839,653 while this cycle is $220,781 (0.7%). Use the city hub to see Phila, PA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Phila in 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2014 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Phila, PA donors itemized $220,781 on 104 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,123 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Pennsylvania still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Phila × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 104 itemized rows is a receipt count rather than a unique-person census. Repeat givers and office addresses sit in the same stack.

A modest cut of the Phila stack

0.7% of $31,839,653 is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $220,781 of the $31,839,653 city stack was tagged 2014, and $31,618,872 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $220,781 divided by $31,839,653 and $31,618,872 divided by $31,839,653. They are not shares of Pennsylvania totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.7%) and row volume (104 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.7% as Phila's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Phila × 2014 only: $220,781, 104 receipts, mean about $2,123. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

See Phila, PA, the 2014 election cycle, Pennsylvania campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

This overlay exists so a searcher asking about Phila, PA in 2014 gets the join instead of a generic city or cycle restatement. Quote $220,781, 104, and $31,839,653 as a set. Quoting only one of them drops a filter.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

0-for-national: this packet has no national 2014 dollar total, so Phila, PA cannot be expressed as a percent of the United States. 0.7% is city-internal. 104 is city-and-cycle. Mean $2,123 is city-and-cycle.

Adjacent pages for Phila, PA, 2014 election cycle, and Pennsylvania campaign finance keep the broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards.

Questions

How much did Phila, PA donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Phila, PA total $220,781 in the 2014 cycle, across 104 contribution records. The same city label totals $31,839,653 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.7% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Phila, PA city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $31,839,653 covers every cycle in the table for PHILA. The 2014 filter is $220,781 from 104 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $31,618,872. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Phila, PA 2014 donations stay in Pennsylvania?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Phila, PA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $220,781 by office, state of the committee, or party. A PA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Pennsylvania races.

How many Phila, PA contributions were itemized in 2014?

104 itemized contribution records sum to $220,781. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,123 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.