DETROIT, MI: $78.6M on 200,432 FEC receipts

What $78,603,491 counts in Detroit

The $78,603,491 figure is the sum of federal contribution itemizations stored as DETROIT, MI. Two hundred thousand four hundred thirty-two lines feed that total. Divide the pair and the mean line is about $392. This packet has no size distribution, so $392 is arithmetic, not a typical gift from a Detroit household.

Neighbor strings such as Dearborn, Grosse Pointe, or Southfield are not inside $78,603,491 unless the filer typed DETROIT. Metro Detroit is a research phrase. FEC.gov stored a city field. Wayne County is orientation, not a roll-up dimension on this page.

A PAC or joint-fundraising committee that listed a Detroit office can sit in the same bucket as household streets. LobbyVault does not split those rows. Quoting $78,603,491 as resident giving describes the city field, not a residency test. The 200,432 lines are disclosed receipts, not unique persons.

Detroit versus nearby Michigan city keys

Bloomfield Hills appears as its own city hub on this same extract, with a different dollar-to-line shape. Ann Arbor is another Michigan key. Adding those hubs to Detroit and calling the sum “southeast Michigan” would be a recode this packet does not publish.

Keep DETROIT, MI as the citation. State MI on the key stops a same-named city in another state from merging into this book. Recheck $78,603,491 and 200,432 on the live hub if a later extract lands.

How FEC stores the Detroit city string

Filers type a city. The Commission stores that string. DETROIT plus MI is the match LobbyVault indexed. Recoding free-text cities into Census places would be a different product. This guide does not run that recode.

ZIP pages regroup the same federal series by postal code. Summing selected Detroit-area ZIPs will not necessarily reproduce $78,603,491, because some ZIPs map to other city strings. The 200,432-line count follows the city field, not the postal map.

What the Detroit table leaves out

Michigan state-office campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $78,603,491 and outside the 200,432 count. Unitemized federal gifts are also omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing on this page estimates how Detroit voted or which committees received the money. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. The supported path is the Detroit city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index.

Citing Detroit without a slogan

A complete footnote names FEC.gov, names contributor city, and prints $78,603,491 with 200,432 in the same sentence. Dropping the line count hides whether Detroit is a volume book or a large-check book. On this extract it is neither extreme: about $392 per line on 200,432 receipts.

If title, H1, and table on the live hub disagree with this snapshot, the hub was rebuilt from a newer extract. Trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named receipt matters to a story.

Detroit’s $78,603,491 on 200,432 lines is a mid-volume Michigan book, mean near $392. Bloomfield Hills and Ann Arbor remain other Michigan keys with different shapes. Do not add them here.

Wayne County, metro Detroit, and southeast Michigan are research phrases. FEC.gov stored city. A complete Detroit footnote prints the city string, the dollars, and the line count in one citation.

What a Detroit reader should carry

Carry FEC.gov, contributor city DETROIT, MI, $78,603,491, and 200,432 lines. The mean near $392 is optional arithmetic. It is not a typical household gift and not a unique-donor average.

Dearborn, Grosse Pointe, Southfield, and Bloomfield Hills stay off this page unless the filer typed DETROIT. Michigan state-office receipts stay off this page. Unitemized federal gifts stay off this page.

The live Detroit hub is the table. This guide is the footnote. If title, H1, and table disagree with $78,603,491 or 200,432, the hub was rebuilt from a newer extract. Trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Detroit receipt matters to a story.

Nothing on this page estimates how Detroit voted or which committees received the money. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. ZIP pages split a different field. The cities index lists other Michigan labels. Quote the pair, not a metro slogan.

Questions

What is Detroit’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city DETROIT, MI total $78,603,491 across 200,432 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Detroit residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

Is 200,432 the number of Detroit donors?

No. LobbyVault counts 200,432 itemized contribution lines for DETROIT, MI. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding people. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $78,603,491. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 200,432 should not be quoted as a Detroit population of donors.

Does Detroit’s total include suburban cities?

Only if the filer typed DETROIT as the city. Dearborn, Grosse Pointe, and Southfield are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $78,603,491 is the DETROIT, MI match alone. The 200,432 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub. Metro Detroit is a research phrase, not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Detroit dollar and line facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $78,603,491 and 200,432 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Michigan non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $392 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.