MEMPHIS, TN

Reading $81,045,423 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $81,045,423 and 214,100 lines. The implied average is about $379. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Memphis book.

Shelby County’s Memphis string is southwest Tennessee on the map. Nashville is a different FEC city key. Filers typed MEMPHIS in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state TN. 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.

If a newsroom map paints Memphis together with Germantown and Bartlett, the FEC file still splits them. Nashville too. This extract’s only city total is $81,045,423 on 214,100 MEMPHIS, TN rows, mean near $379.

Why MEMPHIS on the receipt is not a census of Memphis

Searchers often want “how much did people in Memphis give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city MEMPHIS, TN total $81,045,423 across 214,100 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $81,045,423. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Memphis?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MEMPHIS, TN total $81,045,423 across 214,100 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 Memphis. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Memphis contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 214,100 itemized contributions for MEMPHIS, TN. 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 214,100 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $81,045,423.

Can committee addresses appear in the Memphis city total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MEMPHIS with state TN. Office addresses and mail that list Memphis can be part of $81,045,423 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 214,100-line count follows the same rule.

Are Memphis numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $81,045,423 and 214,100 lines for MEMPHIS, TN. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from TN are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $379 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.