Pittsburgh, PA itemized contributions to FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE

Pittsburgh and Financial Services PAC as a two-field filter

LobbyVault’s Pittsburgh, PA page and the FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE (C00162735) page are related doors, not duplicates of $551,500. The join is a filter: city string plus committee ID. Correlation is not causation. $551,500 beside $176,816,217 does not mean Pittsburgh “drove” FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE or that FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE “owns” Pittsburgh politics.

Do not stack this $551,500 onto other Pittsburgh committee cells and call the sum the city book — $176,816,217 already is that roll-up. Do not stack this $551,500 onto other cities’ gifts to C00162735 and call the sum this page. The filter is Pittsburgh and C00162735 together.

Internal links on this page go to Pittsburgh, PA, FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE, Pennsylvania campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. None of them converts $551,500 into spending by Pittsburgh candidates or into federal awards.

The Pittsburgh, PA side of the join

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed PITTSBURGH is counted in the city book. A donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, a nearby suburb, or a misspelling is not recoded into Pittsburgh. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place. Treat $176,816,217 as lines that stored this string.

Pennsylvania campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Pittsburgh. Do not add $551,500 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-committee joins.

FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE (C00162735) as the recipient key

C00162735 is disclosed as FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made. The $551,500 is Pittsburgh-coded individual receipts. Other cities giving to FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the Pittsburgh filter.

C00162735 received $551,500 from Pittsburgh, PA itemized receipts. Other Pennsylvania cities on the same committee are different joins. Do not stack those FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE cells into this URL. FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE is disclosed under FEC committee ID C00162735. This page does not reclassify the committee as a Super PAC, leadership PAC, or candidate committee beyond the stored name and ID. Independent expenditures by C00162735, if any, sit in a different FEC table.

Committee names on FEC filings can be long, truncated, or punctuated. This packet’s stored name is FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE. Citations should keep C00162735 even when the display name is shortened to Financial Services PAC. A different committee ID with a similar short name is not this join.

Limits of the Pittsburgh × Financial Services PAC cell

FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $551,500 to federal spending in Pennsylvania, and do not claim that FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE receipts funded contracts, grants, or loans. Two datasets can share a geography without sharing a payment trail.

City PITTSBURGH is filer-entered; C00162735 is the committee ID. LobbyVault does not recode either field. Repeat itemized gifts can add lines without appearing as a separate dollar in this snapshot, because this packet publishes totals, not a line list. Researchers who need names must leave this prose page for the committee and city tables.

How to cite Pittsburgh × Financial Services PAC

The Pittsburgh, PA city page holds the $176,816,217 grouping and the committees that received the other 99.7%. The FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE page holds C00162735 receipts from every city. All FEC ties collects neighboring pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this cell. Pennsylvania campaign finance is the state roll-up.

Name both keys: city Pittsburgh, PA totaling $176,816,217 across all recipients, and $551,500 in itemized gifts to FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE (C00162735). The share of the city bucket is 0.31%. The leftover is $176,264,717. Do not print a Pittsburgh share of federal awards. This packet has no USAspending field.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns: Pittsburgh, PA and FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE. Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $551,500 is the only overlap this extract published for this pair.

Using the Pittsburgh and C00162735 links

Live hubs override this snapshot. If the Pittsburgh, PA overlay or the FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control. Cite $551,500, $176,816,217, 0.31%, $176,264,717, and C00162735. Keep both sides named.

Pennsylvania’s state hub includes Pittsburgh and every other city string in PA. This page does not reprint the state total. Adding $551,500 to other PA city cells on FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE would double-count if someone then compared that sum to the committee overlay. Stay on the pair.

Internal links go to Pittsburgh, PA; FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE; Pennsylvania campaign finance; and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. Campaign contributions are not federal awards. This packet has no award dollars.

Questions

How much did Pittsburgh, PA donors give Financial Services PAC?

FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions show $551,500 coded to contributor city Pittsburgh, PA and received by FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE (C00162735). The broader Pittsburgh city book across all committees is $176,816,217. This cell is about 0.31% of that city total. These figures are not independent expenditures.

Is $551,500 all of Pittsburgh’s federal political money?

No. $176,816,217 is the all-committee itemized book for contributor city PITTSBURGH in PA. The FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE slice is $551,500, 0.31% of that book. Other committees in the same city string are on the Pittsburgh, PA hub. $176,264,717 (99.7%) is the remainder in this extract.

Is PITTSBURGH a Census place on this page?

No. PITTSBURGH is filer-entered text on Schedule A. LobbyVault does not map it to a Census incorporated place or a county. $551,500 counts rows that stored this city string with state PA and recipient C00162735. Nearby cities are other keys.

Where do the Pittsburgh × Financial Services PAC numbers come from?

FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $551,500 for Pittsburgh, PA to FINANCIAL SERVICES POLITICAL COMMITTEE (C00162735), and $176,816,217 for the city string across committees. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. Independent expenditures are omitted.