Seattle, WA itemized contributions to ACTBLUE

Seattle and ACTBLUE as a two-field filter

LobbyVault’s Seattle, WA page and the ACTBLUE (C00401224) page are related doors, not duplicates of $910,484. The join is a filter: city string plus committee ID. Correlation is not causation. $910,484 beside $327,126,798 does not mean Seattle “drove” ACTBLUE or that ACTBLUE “owns” Seattle politics.

Do not stack this $910,484 onto other Seattle committee cells and call the sum the city book — $327,126,798 already is that roll-up. Do not stack this $910,484 onto other cities’ gifts to C00401224 and call the sum this page. The filter is Seattle and C00401224 together.

Internal links on this page go to Seattle, WA, ACTBLUE, Washington campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. None of them converts $910,484 into spending by Seattle candidates or into federal awards.

The Seattle, WA side of the join

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SEATTLE 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 Seattle. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place. Treat $327,126,798 as lines that stored this string.

Washington campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Seattle. Do not add $910,484 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.

ACTBLUE (C00401224) as the recipient key

C00401224 is disclosed as ACTBLUE. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made. The $910,484 is Seattle-coded individual receipts. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the Seattle filter.

C00401224 received $910,484 from Seattle, WA itemized receipts. Other Washington cities on the same committee are different joins. Do not stack those ACTBLUE cells into this URL. ACTBLUE (C00401224) is disclosed on FEC filings as a conduit-style recipient for many itemized individual gifts. This page still reports the labeled recipient as ACTBLUE. Earmarked ultimate candidates, if they appear on other schedules, are not this $910,484 headline.

Committee names on FEC filings can be long, truncated, or punctuated. This packet’s stored name is ACTBLUE. Citations should keep C00401224 even when the display name is shortened to ACTBLUE. A different committee ID with a similar short name is not this join.

Limits of the Seattle × ACTBLUE cell

FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $910,484 to federal spending in Washington, and do not claim that ACTBLUE receipts funded contracts, grants, or loans. Two datasets can share a geography without sharing a payment trail.

City SEATTLE is filer-entered; C00401224 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 Seattle × ACTBLUE

The Seattle, WA city page holds the $327,126,798 grouping and the committees that received the other 99.7%. The ACTBLUE page holds C00401224 receipts from every city. All FEC ties collects neighboring pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this cell. Washington campaign finance is the state roll-up.

Name both keys: city Seattle, WA totaling $327,126,798 across all recipients, and $910,484 in itemized gifts to ACTBLUE (C00401224). The share of the city bucket is 0.28%. The leftover is $326,216,314. Do not print a Seattle share of federal awards. This packet has no USAspending field.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns: Seattle, WA and ACTBLUE. Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $910,484 is the only overlap this extract published for this pair.

Using the Seattle and C00401224 links

Live hubs override this snapshot. If the Seattle, WA overlay or the ACTBLUE overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control. Cite $910,484, $327,126,798, 0.28%, $326,216,314, and C00401224. Keep both sides named.

Washington’s state hub includes Seattle and every other city string in WA. This page does not reprint the state total. Adding $910,484 to other WA city cells on ACTBLUE would double-count if someone then compared that sum to the committee overlay. Stay on the pair.

Internal links go to Seattle, WA; ACTBLUE; Washington 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 Seattle, WA donors give ACTBLUE?

FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions show $910,484 coded to contributor city Seattle, WA and received by ACTBLUE (C00401224). The broader Seattle city book across all committees is $327,126,798. This cell is about 0.28% of that city total. These figures are not independent expenditures.

Is $910,484 all of Seattle’s federal political money?

No. $327,126,798 is the all-committee itemized book for contributor city SEATTLE in WA. The ACTBLUE slice is $910,484, 0.28% of that book. Other committees in the same city string are on the Seattle, WA hub. $326,216,314 (99.7%) is the remainder in this extract.

Is SEATTLE a Census place on this page?

No. SEATTLE is filer-entered text on Schedule A. LobbyVault does not map it to a Census incorporated place or a county. $910,484 counts rows that stored this city string with state WA and recipient C00401224. Nearby cities are other keys.

Where do the Seattle × ACTBLUE numbers come from?

FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $910,484 for Seattle, WA to ACTBLUE (C00401224), and $327,126,798 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.