ADA, MI: $19.3M on 18,380 FEC receipts

18,380 lines carrying $19,271,873

ADA shows 18,380 itemizations behind $19,271,873. That mix is a thinner stack with a high average line relative to volume books that post similar dollars on 70,000-plus rows. The implied mean is about $1,049. Committee receipts that list a ADA address still sit in the same column as individual rows.

Ada posts a thin Kent County stack: 18,380 lines against $19.3 million, a mean near $1,049. Grand Rapids is a neighboring string, not a parent key. Ada, Oklahoma is a different state key. 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 $19,271,873 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of ADA gave. The 18,380 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints ADA together with Grand Rapids, Cascade, and East Grand Rapids, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $19,271,873 on 18,380 ADA, MI rows, mean near $1,049. Keep the stored spelling ADA in the citation.

Why ADA on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Ada give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ADA, MI total $19,271,873 across 18,380 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Eighteen thousand three hundred eighty lines against $19,271,873 produce that mean. A short file at this dollar scale can be moved by large receipts.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $19,271,873. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $1,049 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the ADA itemized book

$19,271,873 is not spending by ADA candidates. A candidate who lives in ADA can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged ADA, MI can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Grand Rapids, Cascade, and East Grand Rapids is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $19,271,873 counts rows that stored ADA, MI. 18,380 lines. About $1,049 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. MI state-office receipts are omitted.

ADA versus Grand Rapids on the FEC tape

ADA is a thin high-mean Kent County book. 18,380 lines produce $19,271,873, a mean near $1,049. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Grand Rapids is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A ADA total of $19,271,873 does not absorb Grand Rapids, Cascade, and East Grand Rapids. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State MI stays on the citation so ADA, MI is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in MI state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in MI

18,380 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 ADA 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 ADA politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field: $19,271,873 and 18,380.

Source tables for $19,271,873

A mean of about $1,049 is division of $19,271,873 by 18,380. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of ADA. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the ADA city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

ADA’s $19,271,873 across 18,380 contributions is a Kent County city field, mean near $1,049. Grand Rapids is a neighboring string, not a subset. Kent County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $19,271,873 with 18,380 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city ADA, MI?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ADA, MI total $19,271,873 across 18,380 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 Ada. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $1,049 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Why is Ada’s average line near $1,049?

Eighteen thousand three hundred eighty lines against $19,271,873 produce that mean. A short file at this dollar scale can be moved by large receipts. LobbyVault counts 18,380 itemized contributions for ADA, MI against $19,271,873. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 18,380 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Ada total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ADA with state MI. Office addresses and mail that list Ada can be part of $19,271,873 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 18,380-line count follows the same rule.

Are Ada numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $19,271,873 and 18,380 lines for ADA, 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.