Donors in Philadelphia, PA to AB PAC

How Philadelphia, PA meets AB PAC on the FEC tape

$875,500 requires both keys at once: contributor city PHILADELPHIA with state PA, and recipient committee C00492140 disclosed as AB PAC. LobbyVault keeps a Philadelphia, PA city hub and a AB PAC committee hub. Neither hub is this page. The city hub lists every committee that received itemized gifts storing this city string. The committee hub lists every city that gave to C00492140. This URL is only the intersection.

The packet does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or election cycles for this pair. $875,500 is a dollar aggregate. Treating it as a typical gift size or as a count of households is arithmetic the file does not support.

The overlay, when present, points at the live committee path for C00492140. If that overlay or a later FEC extract disagrees with $875,500, the Commission’s filing controls. This JSON is a snapshot of one grouped extract.

The Philadelphia, PA side of the AB PAC join

Philadelphia, PA’s all-committee itemized book in this extract is $322,266,398. $875,500 is 0.27% of that book. A thin or moderate share is the usual result of comparing one committee with every other recipient on the city tape. The leftover $321,390,898 went to other committees under PHILADELPHIA, or sits outside this recipient filter.

The stored city sits in Pennsylvania. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into PHILADELPHIA. Pennsylvania campaign-finance pages include other cities. All FEC ties lists other city-committee pages. None of them converts $875,500 into spending by Philadelphia, PA candidates or into independent expenditures by AB PAC.

AB PAC (C00492140) as the recipient key

C00492140 is disclosed as AB PAC. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $875,500 is itemized individual receipts storing city PHILADELPHIA and committee C00492140. Other cities giving to AB PAC appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Quote the committee with its FEC ID so a similarly named filing is not swapped in. AB PAC on another ID is a different page. This URL is Philadelphia, PA × C00492140, not Pennsylvania × C00492140 and not every spelling of PHILADELPHIA. If a live overlay at the committee path disagrees with $875,500, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Philadelphia, PA book

0.27% of $322,266,398 is $875,500 to AB PAC (C00492140). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Philadelphia, PA as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $322,266,398 city book went to other committees. Even when 0.27% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00492140 filter.

The leftover $321,390,898 under the PHILADELPHIA city string went to other committees. The Philadelphia, PA hub holds that remainder. The AB PAC page holds receipts whose city field did not store PHILADELPHIA. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00492140; each join is its own filter.

What the Philadelphia, PA × AB PAC dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $875,500. Pennsylvania 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 $875,500 as proof that Philadelphia, PA “funded” AB PAC as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Pennsylvania. 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 $875,500 to federal spending in Pennsylvania.

Contribution lines can cluster in a few ZIPs or spread across many. This packet does not list those ZIPs or a donor headcount. Open the city hub and the committee hub rather than guessing a postal split from the city string alone. Philadelphia (PHILADELPHIA) is a different stored city string from PHILA. This page’s AB PAC cell is $875,500 from PHILADELPHIA against a $322,266,398 book (0.27%). Do not add a Phila-string page into $875,500.

How to cite the Philadelphia, PA × AB PAC join

Internal links go to Philadelphia, PA, AB PAC, Pennsylvania campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $322,266,398 book and the committees that received the leftover $321,390,898. The committee page holds C00492140 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: Philadelphia, PA and AB PAC (C00492140). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $875,500 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 $875,500, $322,266,398, 0.27%, leftover $321,390,898, and C00492140. Keep both sides named: PHILADELPHIA as filer-entered city, AB PAC as recipient. Motive is outside the packet. Unitemized gifts never appear. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Questions

How much did Philadelphia, PA donors give AB PAC?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city PHILADELPHIA and recipient AB PAC (C00492140) total $875,500 in this extract. That is the join, not Philadelphia, PA’s all-committee book of $322,266,398. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Philadelphia, PA total include every spelling of the city name?

No. PHILADELPHIA is the exact stored city string with state PA. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $875,500. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Philadelphia, PA hub for the all-committee book of $322,266,398.

What share of Philadelphia, PA itemized money went to AB PAC?

$875,500 is 0.27% of the $322,266,398 Philadelphia, PA city book. The leftover $321,390,898 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00492140. Do not upgrade 0.27% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Philadelphia, PA AB PAC figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $875,500 for the Philadelphia, PA × C00492140 join and $322,266,398 for the city string. If a later extract or the committee overlay disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.