Oregon federal obligations next to campaign finance totals

Oregon’s join is a postal code, not a timber-to-PAC wire

SpendingVault indexes USAspending.gov obligations for Oregon at $175,574,039,681 across 116,094 awards. LobbyVault indexes FEC.gov candidate receipts at $28.1 million across 680 committees. The join key is OR. A Form 3 contribution does not become a contract or grant because both rows mention Oregon. Forest-service and research folklore may bring a reader here. Those stories are not packet dollars.

The scale gap is the first honest observation: $28.1 million is a receipt total; $175,574,039,681 is an obligation total. Receipts measure what candidate committees booked. Obligations measure what agencies promised to pay. Adding them invents an Oregon federal-money headline no agency published.

Open Oregon federal spending for the award table, Oregon FEC totals for the candidate table, and All spending ties for sibling joins. None of those pages converts donations into spending.

Award obligations without a campaign overlay

$175,574,039,681 covers award obligations USAspending attributes to Oregon. 116,094 is an action count, not unique recipients. Health, defense, land-management, and civilian agencies can all appear in that count without appearing on a campaign report. Average obligation per action is about $1,512,344 ($175,574,039,681 ÷ 116,094), which hides the mix of instruments in the file.

Recipient and agency names live on Oregon federal spending. They do not live inside the FEC committees. Independent expenditures that mention an Oregon candidate can be paid from elsewhere and sit in neither total. This packet publishes obligations, not outlays.

Democratic-heavy receipts on 680 committees

Democratic committees reported $22.5 million (80.0% of $28.1 million). Republican committees reported $5.5 million (19.6%). Other filers reported $110,170 (0.4%). 680 federal candidate committees tagged to Oregon sit behind those lines, including residual and long-shot filers. 80.0% is a committee-label share, not a vendor share.

USAspending award rows in this packet have no Democratic flag. Copying 80.0 percent onto the obligation total would assign party to grantees this file does not party-code. State races file with Oregon’s state system, outside the FEC extract.

Portland versus the rest of Oregon is not a packet split

This extract does not divide $175,574,039,681 or $28.1 million between the Portland metro and the rest of the state. 116,094 awards and 680 committees are statewide. A metro cut would be a different file. Willamette Valley folklore is not a substitute for agency tables.

Do not divide $175,574,039,681 by $28.1 million and call the result a return on donations. Do not divide 116,094 by 680 and call the result awards per campaign. Candidate committees are not award recipients in this join. Correlation is not causation.

Oregon citation block

USAspending.gov: $175,574,039,681; 116,094 awards. FEC.gov: $28.1 million; 680 committees; Democratic $22.5 million; Republican $5.5 million; other $110,170. Two sentences. No plus sign. Campaign contributions are not federal awards. 680 is a filing count, not a November ballot census. 116,094 is an action count, not unique vendors. Portland-versus-rest-of-Oregon splits are not in this packet. State-office campaigns file under Oregon law and sit outside the FEC extract. Local procurement paid without a federal award sits outside the obligation total.

What a later Oregon ingest would change

USAspending restatements can move $175,574,039,681 and 116,094. FEC amendments can move $28.1 million and the party lines. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Do not carry a receipt change onto the obligation sentence. Oregon federal spending and Oregon FEC totals are the live hubs; this page is a snapshot of the join.

Land-management and research folklore still belong on the award hub. They do not inherit 80.0% from the candidate file. All spending ties keeps Oregon in a series of geographic joins without publishing a blended ‘Oregon federal money’ total. Do not rank Oregon as more influential because receipts sit beside obligations. Influence is not a field in this packet.

Questions

Do Oregon campaign donations fund Oregon federal awards?

No. $28.1 million is FEC candidate receipts from 680 committees. $175,574,039,681 is USAspending obligations from 116,094 awards. A shared OR code is not a payment trail from donors to vendors. Original filings remain on FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.

How much has the federal government obligated in Oregon?

USAspending.gov records $175,574,039,681 in obligations across 116,094 awards coded to Oregon. That is an agency-award extract, not FEC operating expenditure, and not a restatement of {n['raised']} in candidate receipts. Original filings remain on the source sites.

How Democratic is Oregon’s federal candidate fundraising?

Democratic committees reported $22.5 million, or 80.0% of $28.1 million. Republican committees reported $5.5 million (19.6%). Other filers reported $110,170. Those shares describe 680 candidate committees, not award recipients. Party labels travel with the candidate file only.

Where are Oregon’s FEC and spending hubs?

Oregon federal spending on SpendingVault holds obligations. Oregon FEC totals on LobbyVault holds candidate receipts. All spending ties lists other state joins. If a later bulk file disagrees with this snapshot, the later extract controls. Original filings remain on the source sites.