TEMPE, AZ

84,626 lines behind TEMPE's $17.8M

TEMPE shows 84,626 itemizations behind $17,816,186. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $17.8M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. Volume does not prove small-dollar giving. The implied mean is about $211.

Tempe is a Maricopa East Valley volume field. Phoenix, Mesa, and Scottsdale are neighboring strings with their own hubs. Filers who typed PHOENIX do not add into TEMPE, AZ. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string. Read $17,816,186 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of TEMPE gave. The 84,626 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints TEMPE together with Mesa, Scottsdale, and Phoenix, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,816,186 on 84,626 TEMPE, AZ rows, mean near $211. Keep the stored spelling TEMPE in the citation.

Why TEMPE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Tempe give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city TEMPE, AZ total $17,816,186 across 84,626 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Not on this extract. TEMPE, AZ is the stored Maricopa string. Phoenix is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,816,186. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $211 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city TEMPE, AZ?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city TEMPE, AZ total $17,816,186 across 84,626 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in Tempe. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $211 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Tempe rolled into Phoenix on FEC reports?

Not on this extract. TEMPE, AZ is the stored Maricopa string. Phoenix is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 84,626 itemized contributions for TEMPE, AZ against $17,816,186. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 84,626 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Tempe total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed TEMPE with state AZ. Office addresses and mail that list Tempe can be part of $17,816,186 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 84,626-line count follows the same rule.

Are Tempe numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,816,186 and 84,626 lines for TEMPE, AZ. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from AZ are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.