Rhode Island’s $8.6 million FEC receipts beside $49.7 billion in federal awards

Smallest-state geography, two national databases

Rhode Island’s join is still a full FEC extract next to a full USAspending extract. The $8.6 million and the $49.7 billion share the RI tag. They do not share a disbursement trail. The obligation total is about 5,779 times the candidate-receipt total — a larger multiple than several states in this slice with bigger FEC books.

Two hundred thirty committees produced the receipt file. Thirty-three thousand eight hundred eighty-eight awards produced the obligation file. Committee count and award count are not comparable units. This page keeps them in separate sentences.

The $0.00 other-party receipt line means the FEC party roll-up in this packet assigned no dollars to the other bucket. It does not mean unaffiliated activity is impossible in other FEC series, such as independent expenditures, which are not in this join.

FEC.gov: $8.6 million in candidate inflows

The $8,606,053.23 is receipts disclosed by Rhode Island-tagged federal candidate committees. It is not cash on hand and not a donor-address total for every Rhode Island ZIP. Super PAC spending that names a Rhode Island candidate sits outside this column.

Rhode Island Board of Elections filings for state offices are not FEC.gov. They are outside the $8.6 million and outside the $49.7 billion.

USAspending.gov: 33,888 awards

Thirty-three thousand eight hundred eighty-eight awards carry $49.7 billion in obligations tagged to Rhode Island. Agency mix, award type, and place-of-performance rules live on the Rhode Island USAspending hub. This join does not split the $49.7 billion by CFDA or NAICS because those fields are not in the packet.

An obligation is a recorded federal commitment. It is not an FEC contribution, and it is not assigned to the 230 candidate committees.

Thirty-three thousand eight hundred eighty-eight awards against $49,734,637,732.68 sit next to $8,606,053.23 in candidate receipts. The about-5,779-to-1 multiple is larger than Nebraska’s about-3,054-to-1 in this slice even though Nebraska’s FEC book is bigger. Multiple size tracks the relative smallness of the receipt file, not a special Rhode Island funding path.

A compact geography can still carry a large obligation total through place-of-performance and recipient-location rules. The $49.7 billion is the indexed roll-up, not a list of the 230 FEC committees.

Do not export the 84.6% share

Democratic receipt share is a campaign-finance percentage. Applying 84.6% to 33,888 awards would mix incompatible codes. USAspending does not store FEC party. This page will not rank Rhode Island’s award book as partisan.

Election-cycle time and fiscal-year time remain different. Amendments on either side move the live hubs first.

Democratic receipts of $7,278,354.44 are 84.6% of $8,606,053.23. Republican receipts of $1,327,698.79 are 15.4%. Other-party receipts are $0.00 in this extract. A zero in the other bucket is a filed roll-up for candidate receipts. It is not a statement about Super PACs, and it is not a statement about 33,888 awards.

Rhode Island Board of Elections state-office filings remain outside both columns. Independent expenditures remain outside the $8.6 million.

Live tables

Rhode Island campaign finance for the 230-committee FEC file. All FEC ties for other joins. Rhode Island USAspending for the 33,888-award file. Cite FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.

Rhode Island campaign finance for the 230-committee FEC file. All FEC ties for other joins. Rhode Island USAspending for the 33,888-award file. Cite FEC.gov for $8,606,053.23 and USAspending.gov for $49,734,637,732.68.

Do not apply 84.6% to the obligation file. Do not add the columns. Do not rank Rhode Island as more partisan on the award side from a receipt share.

A $0 other-party line is still only a receipt line

Rhode Island’s FEC distinctive in this slice is the $0.00 other-party roll-up next to an 84.6% Democratic receipt share. Those are campaign-finance facts on 230 committees. The USAspending distinctive is $49.7 billion across 33,888 awards. Keeping them in separate sentences is the join’s job.

A complete citation names $8,606,053.23, 230 filers, $7,278,354.44 Democratic, $1,327,698.79 Republican, $0.00 other, 33,888 awards, and $49,734,637,732.68 in obligations, then states that contributions are not awards.

Live hubs control after amendments. This snapshot does not rewrite either dollar on page load.

Questions

How much have Rhode Island federal candidates raised?

Rhode Island-associated federal candidate committees reported $8,606,053.23 across 230 filers. Democratic committees reported $7,278,354.44 and Republican committees $1,327,698.79. Other-party receipts in this extract are $0.00. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

How much federal spending is tagged to Rhode Island?

USAspending.gov records $49,734,637,732.68 in obligations across 33,888 awards tagged to Rhode Island, as indexed on SpendingVault. That total is not FEC receipts.

Did Rhode Island campaign donations fund federal spending?

No. Candidate receipts and federal obligations are different datasets. This page places them side by side because both are tagged to Rhode Island.

Does $0 other-party mean there are no independent groups?

It means this candidate-receipt roll-up assigned $0.00 to the other-party bucket. Independent expenditures and Super PAC filings are separate FEC series and are not in this join.