Philadelphia, PA political money — 2010 cycle

2010 receipts from Philadelphia, PA donors

The join keeps donor city Philadelphia in Pennsylvania and election cycle 2010. The match is $770,170 across 545 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $322,266,398. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.24% of Philadelphia, PA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $321,496,228 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Philadelphia, PA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under PHILADELPHIA. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Philadelphia, PA with every other donor city in the United States. The 545 rows and $770,170 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. Philadelphia, PA here is the string that survived aggregation as PHILADELPHIA in PA. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Philadelphia, PA donors itemized $770,170. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Philadelphia, PA is $322,266,398 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 $770,170 from 2010 and the $321,496,228 from every other cycle in the same city file. Pennsylvania campaign-finance pages still mix Philadelphia with every other city in Pennsylvania.

A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Philadelphia, PA, the city stack is $322,266,398 while this cycle is $770,170 (0.24%). Use the city hub to see Philadelphia, PA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Philadelphia in 2010. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2010 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Philadelphia, PA donors itemized $770,170 on 545 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,413 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 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Pennsylvania still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Philadelphia × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 545 itemized contribution rows is a busy but not enormous file. It is large enough that a handful of gifts cannot explain the entire dollar total. Adjacent pages for Philadelphia, PA, 2010 election cycle, and Pennsylvania campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A thin cut of the Philadelphia stack

0.24% of $322,266,398 is a thin slice. Most of the Philadelphia, PA aggregate — $321,496,228 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.24% of Philadelphia, PA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $770,170 divided by $322,266,398 and $321,496,228 divided by $322,266,398. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.24%) and row volume (545 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A thin slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a busy contribution file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.24% as Philadelphia's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

545 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

545 itemized contributions totaling $770,170 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of PHILADELPHIA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Philadelphia versus other Pennsylvania cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,413 uses only the two numbers in the join: $770,170 and 545 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $770,170 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Philadelphia against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Pennsylvania. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A PA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Pennsylvania candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Philadelphia, PA, the 2010 election cycle, Pennsylvania campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Philadelphia, PA donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Philadelphia, PA total $770,170 in the 2010 cycle, across 545 contribution records. The same city label totals $322,266,398 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.24% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Philadelphia, PA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $322,266,398 covers every cycle in the table for PHILADELPHIA. The 2010 filter is $770,170 from 545 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $321,496,228. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Philadelphia, PA 2010 donations stay in Pennsylvania?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Philadelphia, PA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $770,170 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 Philadelphia, PA contributions were itemized in 2010?

545 itemized contribution records sum to $770,170. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,413 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.