How much did Pittsburgh, PA donors give in 2012?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city PITTSBURGH and cycle 2012 total $657,457 across 427 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Pittsburgh, PA book of $176.8 million. Unitemized gifts and Pennsylvania state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $657,457 all of Pittsburgh’s federal political money?

No. $176.8 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city PITTSBURGH in PA. The 2012 slice is $657,457, 0.4% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Pittsburgh, PA hub. 427 is a 2012 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Does the 2012 Pittsburgh total count only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed PITTSBURGH with state PA. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Pittsburgh can sit in $657,457 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.

Where do the Pittsburgh, PA 2012 numbers come from?

FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $657,457 and 427 lines for PITTSBURGH in cycle 2012, and $176.8 million for the city string across cycles. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.

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Pittsburgh, PA political money in the 2012 election cycle

Filers listing Pittsburgh, PA reported $657,457 in itemized individual contributions during the 2012 presidential election cycle, across 427 FEC receipts. That dollar figure is the city-and-cycle join, not Pittsburgh’s all-cycle book of $176.8 million and not a national 2012 total. Source: FEC.gov Schedule A aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Key figures

$657,457 across 427 itemized receipts is the Pittsburgh, PA × 2012 join.
$176.8 million is the all-cycle Pittsburgh, PA city book; 2012 is 0.4% of that book.
Mean near $1,540 is $657,457 ÷ 427, not a median resident.
City PITTSBURGH is filer-entered; 2012 is the FEC cycle tag.
If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

How Pittsburgh meets the 2012 election cycle

$657,457 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city PITTSBURGH with state PA, and election cycle 2012. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Pittsburgh, PA city hub and the 2012 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers “how much itemized money has this city string produced across cycles.” The cycle hub answers “how much itemized money did that two-year federal window produce nationally.” This page answers only the intersection: Pittsburgh, PA in 2012.

427 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored PITTSBURGH is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,540 ($657,457 ÷ 427). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2012 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $657,457. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $657,457 for the 2012 slice and $176.8 million for the Pittsburgh, PA book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Pittsburgh, PA side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city PITTSBURGH in Pennsylvania totals $176.8 million. $657,457 is 0.4% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Pittsburgh; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Pittsburgh, PA table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Sewickley and Mount Lebanon are other stored city names. State PA stays on the citation so Pittsburgh is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $176.8 million is the PA key only.

The 2012 cycle side for Pennsylvania filers in Pittsburgh

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts. 427 Pittsburgh, PA lines in that window produced $657,457. National 2012 activity — every city — lives on the 2012 election cycle hub, not here.

Pennsylvania campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Pittsburgh. Do not add $657,457 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $657,457 into spending by Pittsburgh candidates.

What $657,457 does not measure

$657,457 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city PITTSBURGH. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Pennsylvania file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. 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, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Pittsburgh. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 427 as lines that stored this string in 2012.

Reading Pittsburgh and 2012 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $657,457 beside $176.8 million does not mean 2012 “caused” the city book or that Pittsburgh “drove” the 2012 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Pittsburgh, PA hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Internal links on this page go to Pittsburgh, PA, the 2012 election cycle, Pennsylvania campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $657,457 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars.

Questions

How much did Pittsburgh, PA donors give in 2012?: Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city PITTSBURGH and cycle 2012 total $657,457 across 427 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Pittsburgh, PA book of $176.8 million. Unitemized gifts and Pennsylvania state-office filings sit outside both figures.
Is $657,457 all of Pittsburgh’s federal political money?: No. $176.8 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city PITTSBURGH in PA. The 2012 slice is $657,457, 0.4% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Pittsburgh, PA hub. 427 is a 2012 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.
Does the 2012 Pittsburgh total count only residents?: No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed PITTSBURGH with state PA. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Pittsburgh can sit in $657,457 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.
Where do the Pittsburgh, PA 2012 numbers come from?: FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $657,457 and 427 lines for PITTSBURGH in cycle 2012, and $176.8 million for the city string across cycles. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.