How much did Fort Worth, TX donors give in 2014?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city FORT WORTH and cycle 2014 total $715,965 across 138 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Fort Worth, TX book of $117.9 million. Unitemized gifts and Texas state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $715,965 all of Fort Worth’s federal political money?

No. $117.9 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city FORT WORTH in TX. The 2014 slice is $715,965, 0.6% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Fort Worth, TX hub. 138 is a 2014 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Does the 2014 Fort Worth total count only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FORT WORTH with state TX. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Fort Worth can sit in $715,965 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.

Where do the Fort Worth, TX 2014 numbers come from?

FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $715,965 and 138 lines for FORT WORTH in cycle 2014, and $117.9 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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Fort Worth, TX political money in the 2014 election cycle

Filers listing Fort Worth, TX reported $715,965 in itemized individual contributions during the 2014 midterm election cycle, across 138 FEC receipts. That dollar figure is the city-and-cycle join, not Fort Worth’s all-cycle book of $117.9 million and not a national 2014 total. Source: FEC.gov Schedule A aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Key figures

$715,965 across 138 itemized receipts is the Fort Worth, TX × 2014 join.
$117.9 million is the all-cycle Fort Worth, TX city book; 2014 is 0.6% of that book.
Mean near $5,188 is $715,965 ÷ 138, not a median resident.
City FORT WORTH is filer-entered; 2014 is the FEC cycle tag.
If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

How Fort Worth meets the 2014 election cycle

$715,965 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city FORT WORTH with state TX, and election cycle 2014. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Fort Worth, TX city hub and the 2014 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: Fort Worth, TX in 2014.

138 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 FORT WORTH is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $5,188 ($715,965 ÷ 138). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $715,965. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $715,965 for the 2014 slice and $117.9 million for the Fort Worth, TX book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Fort Worth, TX side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city FORT WORTH in Texas totals $117.9 million. $715,965 is 0.6% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Fort Worth; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Fort Worth, TX table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Tarrant County, Texas. Arlington and Dallas are other city fields on the same metro map. State TX stays on the citation so Fort Worth is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $117.9 million is the TX key only.

The 2014 cycle side for Texas filers in Fort Worth

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts. 138 Fort Worth, TX lines in that window produced $715,965. National 2014 activity — every city — lives on the 2014 election cycle hub, not here.

Texas campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Fort Worth. Do not add $715,965 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 $715,965 into spending by Fort Worth candidates.

What $715,965 does not measure

$715,965 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city FORT WORTH. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Texas file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Fort Worth can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed FORT WORTH is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Fort Worth. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 138 as lines that stored this string in 2014.

Reading Fort Worth and 2014 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $715,965 beside $117.9 million does not mean 2014 “caused” the city book or that Fort Worth “drove” the 2014 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Fort Worth, TX hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Internal links on this page go to Fort Worth, TX, the 2014 election cycle, Texas campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $715,965 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars.

Questions

How much did Fort Worth, TX donors give in 2014?: Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city FORT WORTH and cycle 2014 total $715,965 across 138 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Fort Worth, TX book of $117.9 million. Unitemized gifts and Texas state-office filings sit outside both figures.
Is $715,965 all of Fort Worth’s federal political money?: No. $117.9 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city FORT WORTH in TX. The 2014 slice is $715,965, 0.6% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Fort Worth, TX hub. 138 is a 2014 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.
Does the 2014 Fort Worth total count only residents?: No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FORT WORTH with state TX. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Fort Worth can sit in $715,965 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.
Where do the Fort Worth, TX 2014 numbers come from?: FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $715,965 and 138 lines for FORT WORTH in cycle 2014, and $117.9 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.