PARADISE VALLEY, AZ: $48.9M on 74,910 FEC receipts

Paradise Valley’s mean on a mid-size file

Seventy-four thousand nine hundred ten lines produce $48,894,307. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $653. Scottsdale and Phoenix keep separate Arizona hubs with larger line counts. That contrast is a shape fact, not a character study of Camelback Mountain.

Scottsdale, Phoenix, and Carefree are other Maricopa County city strings. They are not inside $48,894,307 unless the filer typed PARADISE VALLEY. Maricopa County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Paradise Valley city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 74,910 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Scottsdale or Phoenix sum

Scottsdale, Phoenix, and Tucson keep separate Arizona hubs. Adding them to Paradise Valley would be a recode. This packet publishes PARADISE VALLEY, AZ only: $48,894,307 and 74,910 lines.

State AZ on the key is required in the citation. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

Town name versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. PARADISE VALLEY plus AZ is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a Valley-of-the-Sun label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Paradise Valley-area ZIPs can diverge from $48,894,307 when some receipts used Scottsdale as the city. The 74,910-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Paradise Valley aggregate

Arizona state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $48,894,307 and outside 74,910. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing here estimates how Paradise Valley voted. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. Use the city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index.

Citing PARADISE VALLEY, AZ

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $48,894,307 with 74,910 together. Dropping the line count hides Paradise Valley’s mid-size file relative to Phoenix’s larger book.

Paradise Valley will keep attracting queries that treat the town as a proxy for residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $48,894,307 across 74,910 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $653 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Paradise Valley receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Paradise Valley hub

Start on the live Paradise Valley city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $48,894,307 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 74,910 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Scottsdale or Phoenix as the “real” Valley. Filers typed PARADISE VALLEY. LobbyVault indexed PARADISE VALLEY. Maricopa County, Camelback Mountain, and “the Valley of the Sun” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $653 is only $48,894,307 divided by 74,910. It is not a typical Paradise Valley household gift, not a typical resort gift, and not a typical Camelback-corridor gift. Occupation is a different FEC field. Recipient is a different FEC field. Party is a different FEC field. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer them from the mean. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that Paradise Valley is more or less “politically active” than Scottsdale because the line counts differ. Scottsdale is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city PARADISE VALLEY, AZ, $48,894,307, 74,910 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov for any named Paradise Valley receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Arizona non-federal filings never enter either fact. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. That is the full scope of this city page.

Questions

What is Paradise Valley’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city PARADISE VALLEY, AZ total $48,894,307 across 74,910 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Paradise Valley residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Paradise Valley’s 74,910 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 74,910 itemized lines for PARADISE VALLEY, AZ. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $48,894,307.

Does Paradise Valley’s total include Scottsdale or Phoenix?

Only if the filer typed PARADISE VALLEY. Scottsdale, Phoenix, and Carefree are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $48,894,307 is the PARADISE VALLEY, AZ match. The 74,910 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Paradise Valley facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $48,894,307 and 74,910 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Arizona non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $653 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.