GRAND RAPIDS, MI

The GRAND RAPIDS, MI contributor-city book

137,911 itemized contributions produced $91,070,736 under the GRAND RAPIDS, MI city key. About $660 per line follows from division. Repeat givers can lengthen 137,911 without adding new people; this packet has no unique-donor figure.

State MI on the same row keeps GRAND RAPIDS, MI distinct from same-named cities elsewhere. Western Michigan orients Grand Rapids. Lansing state filings are outside the federal itemized book. 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.

Readers who live near Wyoming or Kentwood still need the city string as filed. A Grand Rapids mailing habit is not the FEC dimension. GRAND RAPIDS, MI sums to $91,070,736 on 137,911 lines (about $660 each). East Grand Rapids remains outside that pair.

Volume and average on the Grand Rapids book

Grand Rapids sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $660 from $91,070,736 divided by 137,911. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

The shape is two numbers. $91,070,736 without 137,911 looks like a single pile of money. 137,911 without $91,070,736 looks like a turnout figure. Together they are an itemized city book.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Grand Rapids federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city GRAND RAPIDS, MI total $91,070,736 across 137,911 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 Grand Rapids. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How should I read the 137,911 figure for GRAND RAPIDS, MI?

LobbyVault counts 137,911 itemized contributions for GRAND RAPIDS, MI. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 137,911 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $91,070,736.

What city field does FEC use for Grand Rapids?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed GRAND RAPIDS with state MI. Office addresses and mail that list Grand Rapids can be part of $91,070,736 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 137,911-line count follows the same rule.

How current is the $91,070,736 total for Grand Rapids?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $91,070,736 and 137,911 lines for GRAND RAPIDS, MI. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MI are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $660 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.