Alaska federal obligations next to FEC candidate receipts

AK is a join key, not a pipeline-to-PAC trail

SpendingVault indexes $76,812,926,289 in Alaska obligations. LobbyVault indexes $25.2 million in Alaska candidate receipts. Resource-extraction and military-base stories are reasons someone might open both tables. They are not fields that connect a contribution to an award ID. The relationship is the AK abbreviation shared by 49,408 award actions and 288 committees.

$76.8 billion in commitments is not a restatement of $25.2 million in receipts. Obligations measure what agencies promised to pay. Receipts measure what candidate committees booked. Citing either number as a proxy for the other is a category error.

Open Alaska federal spending for the award table and Alaska FEC totals for the candidate table. All spending ties lists other state joins built the same way.

What the 49,408-award extract actually counts

49,408 is a row count of award actions, including modifications. It is not a unique-vendor census. $76,812,926,289 is the matching obligation sum. Average dollars per action are about $1,554,666 if you divide those two facts — not a typical defense line and not a typical assistance award. A modest row count can still hold a large dollar total if a few awards dominate.

Place of performance tagged to Alaska is not proof that every dollar was disbursed in-state. Outlays can lag. This packet publishes obligations, not outlays. Recipient names live on Alaska federal spending, not inside the FEC roster.

A close party split on 288 committees

Republican committees reported $13.5 million (53.4% of $25.2 million). Democratic committees reported $9.8 million (39.0%). Other filers reported $1.9 million (7.7%). 288 federal candidate committees tagged to Alaska sit behind those lines. A 53.4% receipt share is not a share of $76,812,926,289.

Party labels travel with candidate committees. USAspending rows here have no party field. State-office campaigns file under Alaska law and sit outside the FEC total. Do not paint obligation dollars with FEC colors.

Anchorage versus the rest of Alaska is not a third total

This packet does not split $25.2 million or $76,812,926,289 between Anchorage and rural Alaska. 288 committees and 49,408 awards are statewide. A metro cut would be a different extract. Independent expenditures about Alaska candidates can be paid from elsewhere and sit in neither total.

Do not add $25.2 million to $76,812,926,289. Do not divide awards by committees. Candidate committees are not award recipients in this join. Correlation is not causation. The join exists so the series can be read side by side with the caveat attached.

Alaska citation without mixing sources

USAspending.gov: $76,812,926,289; 49,408 awards. FEC.gov: $25.2 million; 288 committees; Republican $13.5 million; Democratic $9.8 million; other $1.9 million. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

288 is a filing count, not a November ballot census. 49,408 is an action count, not unique vendors. State-office campaigns file under Alaska law and sit outside the FEC extract. Local procurement paid without a federal award sits outside the obligation total.

Resource headlines are not a third dollar series

Oil and fisheries stories are reasons a researcher opens Alaska’s pair. They are not packet fields. The join still contains only $76,812,926,289 in obligations, 49,408 award actions, $25.2 million in receipts, and 288 committees. A headline that treats those series as one ‘federal money in Alaska’ figure mixes statutes.

If a later USAspending ingest restates obligations, rewrite the spending sentence only. If a later FEC bulk file restates receipts, rewrite the campaign sentence only. Alaska federal spending and Alaska FEC totals are the live tables. All spending ties does not hide a blended total under Alaska’s slug. Do not rank Alaska as more influential because receipts sit beside obligations. Influence is not a field in this packet. Borough names belong on Alaska federal spending if they appear as place-of-performance rows; they do not belong on the FEC sentence.

Questions

Do Alaska campaign donations pay for federal awards in Alaska?

No. $25.2 million in FEC receipts and $76,812,926,289 in USAspending obligations are different datasets joined by the AK code. 288 committees are not the 49,408 award actions. A shared state tag is not a funding path.

How much has the federal government obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov records $76,812,926,289 across 49,408 awards coded to Alaska. That sum is obligations, not Treasury outlays and not campaign spending. Alaska federal spending holds the live award table. Original filings remain on the source sites.

How close is Alaska’s federal candidate fundraising by party?

Republican committees reported $13.5 million, or 53.4% of $25.2 million. Democratic committees reported $9.8 million (39.0%). Other filers reported $1.9 million (7.7%). Those percentages describe 288 committees, not USAspending recipients. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where are Alaska’s USAspending and FEC pages?

Alaska federal spending on SpendingVault is the obligation hub. Alaska FEC totals on LobbyVault is the candidate-receipt hub. All spending ties lists other state joins. Cite each source in its own sentence. Original filings remain on the source sites.