TEMPE, AZ: $17.8M on 84,626 FEC receipts

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.

TEMPE receipts versus local campaigns

A TEMPE, AZ tag records the contributor city on a federal itemization. It does not record where a TEMPE candidate spent money. $17,816,186 can leave town. Unitemized federal gifts and AZ state-office receipts sit outside the 84,626 lines.

Mail and office addresses that store TEMPE still count. That is why Mesa, Scottsdale, and Phoenix should not be treated as the same book. About $211 per line is arithmetic on $17,816,186 and 84,626.

Reading TEMPE against Phoenix

Place TEMPE next to Phoenix only if both figures are contributor-city itemized federal receipts. An east valley volume book: 84,626 lines, $17,816,186, mean near $211.

Mesa, Scottsdale, and Phoenix remain other keys. Keep state AZ so TEMPE, AZ is not added to a twin elsewhere. AZ state-campaign totals are a different filing system than this FEC city extract.

AZ ZIPs are not a substitute for TEMPE

Do not back into a TEMPE story from a ZIP you assume belongs there. This packet does not publish those codes. 84,626 city-field lines wait on the live hub and the ZIP directory for any geographic split.

Candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results are not in the packet. The extract’s numbers are $17,816,186 and 84,626 from FEC.gov for the city field TEMPE, AZ.

Packet facts for TEMPE

$17,816,186 divided by 84,626 is about $211. Quote the pair. Quoting only the mean hides the line count. Repeat gifts add rows. Maricopa County is the geography of the string, not a summed county total.

Mesa is next door on a map and separate on the tape. Cite $17,816,186 with 84,626 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live TEMPE hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Researchers citing TEMPE should keep state AZ in the sentence so readers do not hunt a same-named place. The live city table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $17,816,186 or 84,626 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $211 as division only. Mesa, Scottsdale, and Phoenix remain other strings. The 84,626-line count still is not a headcount.

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.