SCOTTSDALE, AZ: $97.4M on 304,191 FEC receipts

Reading $97,390,742 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $97,390,742 and 304,191 lines. The implied average is about $320. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Scottsdale book.

Maricopa County’s Scottsdale string is separate from Phoenix. Do not fold the two city keys together. Filers typed SCOTTSDALE in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state 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.

Scottsdale versus Phoenix is a different-key problem, not a suburb ranking. Tempe and Paradise Valley follow the same rule. Quote $97,390,742 and 304,191 for SCOTTSDALE, AZ only. The mean near $320 does not travel with a neighbor’s name.

Why SCOTTSDALE on the receipt is not a census of Scottsdale

Searchers often want “how much did people in Scottsdale give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city SCOTTSDALE, AZ total $97,390,742 across 304,191 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $97,390,742. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Scottsdale itemized book

$97,390,742 is not spending by Scottsdale candidates. A candidate who lives in Scottsdale can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged SCOTTSDALE, AZ can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $320 does not describe a median resident of Scottsdale. Means move with a few large lines.

Annexation stories about Phoenix, Tempe, or Paradise Valley do not rewrite $97,390,742. FEC city strings do not auto-follow city-limit changes. 304,191 contributions tagged SCOTTSDALE, AZ stay on this page until a filer types a different city. About $320 per line is still division.

Scottsdale’s high line count

Scottsdale is a volume book on this extract: 304,191 lines produce $97,390,742, a mean near $320. Many itemized rows, smaller average line. Volume is not the same as unique people.

Comparing Scottsdale’s mean to another city is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in state data breaks the comparison.

If a newsroom map paints Scottsdale together with Phoenix and Tempe, the FEC file still splits them. Paradise Valley too. This extract’s only city total is $97,390,742 on 304,191 SCOTTSDALE, AZ rows, mean near $320.

City total versus postal codes in AZ

304,191 city-field lines can spread across many ZIPs or cluster in a few. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the ZIP directory and the live Scottsdale hub rather than guessing the split.

After an amendment wave, recheck both the city hub and any ZIP you compared. Snapshots drift independently.

Because this packet carries only city, state, dollar total, and contribution count, every other story about Scottsdale politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. Those subjects have other documents. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field.

Postal confusion with Phoenix, Tempe, or Paradise Valley is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $97,390,742 counts rows that stored SCOTTSDALE, AZ in state AZ. 304,191 lines. About $320 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Source tables for $97,390,742

A mean of about $320 is division of $97,390,742 by 304,191. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Scottsdale.

Internal links on this page go only to the Scottsdale city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

Scottsdale’s $97,390,742 across 304,191 contributions is a Maricopa County volume book, mean near $320. Phoenix, Tempe, and Paradise Valley are different city keys. Do not merge the Valley into one FEC city total. Tucson is a separate Arizona book with a longer line list. Keep Arizona cities on their own citations. Arizona state campaigns are omitted. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Three hundred four thousand one hundred ninety-one lines is not a unique-donor census. Tourism geography orients a map; this packet has no employer field to prove an industry mix. The Scottsdale FEC page holds $97,390,742 and 304,191 as currently indexed.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to Scottsdale, AZ?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city SCOTTSDALE, AZ total $97,390,742 across 304,191 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 Scottsdale. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to Scottsdale?

LobbyVault counts 304,191 itemized contributions for SCOTTSDALE, AZ. 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 304,191 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $97,390,742.

Does the Scottsdale total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed SCOTTSDALE with state AZ. Office addresses and mail that list Scottsdale can be part of $97,390,742 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 304,191-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get Scottsdale totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $97,390,742 and 304,191 lines for SCOTTSDALE, 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. The mean of about $320 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.