Donors in Philadelphia, PA to ACTBLUE

How Philadelphia, PA meets ACTBLUE on the FEC tape

$971,422 is the overlap of two keys: contributor city PHILADELPHIA with state PA, and recipient committee C00401224 disclosed as ACTBLUE. LobbyVault keeps a Philadelphia, PA city hub and a committee hub for ACTBLUE. Neither hub is this join. The city hub is every committee that received itemized gifts storing this city string. The committee hub is every city that gave to C00401224. This page is only both filters at once.

ACTBLUE (C00401224) is often a conduit on FEC individual receipts; this page still reports the labeled recipient as ACTBLUE. The join does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or cycles. Do not invent a headcount from $971,422. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them.

City labels are filer-entered. PHILADELPHIA is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A donor who stored a neighboring city is on another hub. A donor who stored PHILADELPHIA and a different committee ID is in the leftover $321,294,976 of the city book, not in $971,422.

The Philadelphia, PA side of the ACTBLUE join

Philadelphia, PA’s all-committee itemized book in this extract is $322,266,398. $971,422 is 0.30% of Philadelphia, PA’s $322,266,398 all-committee book. A small share is expected when one committee is compared with every other recipient on the city tape. The leftover $321,294,976 went to other committees under the same city string, or sits outside this recipient filter. Open the Philadelphia, PA hub for that remainder; do not subtract by hand from a different extract.

The stored city sits in Pennsylvania. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into PHILADELPHIA. Pennsylvania campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $971,422 to the state hub; the state extract already contains these rows when the same tape is used. All FEC ties lists other city-committee pages. None of them converts $971,422 into spending by Philadelphia, PA candidates or into independent expenditures by ACTBLUE.

ACTBLUE (C00401224) as the recipient key

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. $971,422 is itemized individual receipts storing city PHILADELPHIA and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE 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. ACTBLUE on another ID is a different page. This URL is Philadelphia, PA × C00401224, not Pennsylvania × C00401224 and not every spelling of PHILADELPHIA. If the overlay at the committee path disagrees with $971,422, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Philadelphia, PA book

0.30% of $322,266,398 is $971,422 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). 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 unless 0.30% is read as a large slice — even then, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $321,294,976 under the PHILADELPHIA city string went to other committees. The Philadelphia, PA hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store PHILADELPHIA. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

What the Philadelphia, PA × ACTBLUE dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $971,422. 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 $971,422 as proof that Philadelphia, PA “funded” ACTBLUE 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 $971,422 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.

How to cite the Philadelphia, PA × ACTBLUE join

Internal links go to Philadelphia, PA, ACTBLUE, 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 $321,294,976. 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: Philadelphia, PA and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $971,422 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 $971,422, $322,266,398, 0.30%, leftover $321,294,976, and C00401224. Keep both sides named: PHILADELPHIA as filer-entered city, ACTBLUE 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 ACTBLUE?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city PHILADELPHIA and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $971,422 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 $971,422. 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 ACTBLUE?

$971,422 is 0.30% of the $322,266,398 Philadelphia, PA city book. The leftover $321,294,976 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 0.30% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Philadelphia, PA ACTBLUE figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $971,422 for the Philadelphia, PA × C00401224 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.