Pittsburgh, PA political money — 2010 cycle

2010 receipts from Pittsburgh, PA donors

The join keeps donor city Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and election cycle 2010. The match is $330,476 across 276 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $176,816,217. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.2% of Pittsburgh, PA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $176,485,741 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Pittsburgh, PA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under PITTSBURGH. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Pittsburgh, PA with every other donor city in the United States. The 276 rows and $330,476 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. Pittsburgh, PA here is the string that survived aggregation as PITTSBURGH in PA. 2010 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 $330,476 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 Pittsburgh, PA is $176,816,217 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 $330,476 from 2010 and the $176,485,741 from every other cycle in the same city file. Pennsylvania campaign-finance pages still mix Pittsburgh with every other city in Pennsylvania.

The stored city sits in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Monroeville, and Pittsburgh, California are not rolled into PITTSBURGH. State PA stays on the citation so Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is not merged with Pittsburgh, California. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Pittsburgh, PA, the city stack is $176,816,217 while this cycle is $330,476 (0.2%). Use the city hub to see Pittsburgh, PA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Pittsburgh 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, Pittsburgh, PA donors itemized $330,476 on 276 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,197 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 Pittsburgh × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 276 itemized rows is a thicker file than many suburb joins, still a receipt count rather than a unique-person census. Repeat givers and office addresses sit in the same 276-line stack. Adjacent pages for Pittsburgh, PA, 2010 election cycle, and Pennsylvania campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Pittsburgh stack

0.2% of $176,816,217 is a modest slice. Most of the Pittsburgh, PA aggregate — $176,485,741 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.2% of Pittsburgh, PA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $330,476 divided by $176,816,217 and $176,485,741 divided by $176,816,217. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.2%) and row volume (276 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a thicker contribution file than many suburb joins; 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 0.2% as Pittsburgh's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

276 itemized contributions totaling $330,476 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 PITTSBURGH. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Pittsburgh versus other Pennsylvania cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,197 uses only the two numbers in the join: $330,476 and 276 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 $330,476 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and Pennsylvania state-office filings sit outside $330,476.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank Pittsburgh 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. A candidate who lives in Pittsburgh can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed PITTSBURGH is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood or a nearby suburb such as Philadelphia is not recoded into Pittsburgh. Treat 276 as lines that stored this string in 2010. See Pittsburgh, PA, the 2010 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.

Questions

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

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Pittsburgh, PA total $330,476 in the 2010 cycle, across 276 contribution records. The same city label totals $176,816,217 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.2% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Pittsburgh, PA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $176,816,217 covers every cycle in the table for PITTSBURGH. The 2010 filter is $330,476 from 276 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $176,485,741. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Pittsburgh, PA 2010 donations stay in Pennsylvania?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Pittsburgh, PA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $330,476 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 Pittsburgh, PA contributions were itemized in 2010?

276 itemized contribution records sum to $330,476. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,197 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.