How to Use Our Data

 

File Definitions

 

Receipts (Income) - Income for “Citizens for Helen Shiller”.

Committee Expenditures - “Citizens for Helen Shiller” committee expenses.
 
 

D-2 Column Definitions (Column N)

 

1A (Individual Contributions) - Donations made by friends, family members, corporations, labor unions, associations, and other people or organizations to the political committee would be considered individual contributions. Money collected at fund-raising events would be reported as individual contributions.

2A (Transfers In) - Any monetary donations received from another political committee.

3A (Loans Received) - Loans are funds received by the political committee with an obligation or expectation of repayment. Loans can be made to the political committee from the personal funds of a candidate, friends, family, another political committee or a lending institution.

4A (Other Receipts) - Interest income, cash dividends, or returned deposits.

5A (In-Kind Contributions) - An in-kind contribution is anything of value, other than cash, donated to the political committee. Generally speaking, it will be goods or services provided to the political committee free of charge — such as a friend who provides campaign printing at no charge or a real estate agent that provides campaign office space rent-free. If a vendor sells anything of value to the political committee at a charge less than cost, the difference would be considered an in-kind contribution.

8B (Expenditures) - Expenses
 
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