HOLLAND, MI: $15.6M on 34,022 FEC receipts

34,022 lines carrying $15,576,785

The headline pair is $15,576,785 and 34,022 lines. The implied average is about $458. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the HOLLAND book. Ottawa County filers typed HOLLAND with state MI.

HOLLAND, MI is an Ottawa County lakeshore string, not Holland, Ohio. State MI is required in the citation. Grand Rapids is a different Kent County key. Zeeland is a neighboring string. 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 $15,576,785 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Holland gave. The 34,022 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Holland together with Zeeland, Grand Rapids, and Holland, Ohio, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $15,576,785 on 34,022 HOLLAND, MI rows, mean near $458. Keep the stored spelling HOLLAND in the citation.

Why HOLLAND on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Holland give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city HOLLAND, MI total $15,576,785 across 34,022 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. This extract is HOLLAND with state MI only. Holland, OH is another FEC city key. Grand Rapids is a different Michigan string.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $15,576,785. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $458 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the HOLLAND itemized book

$15,576,785 is not spending by Holland candidates. A candidate who lives in Holland can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged HOLLAND, MI can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Zeeland, Grand Rapids, and Holland, Ohio is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $15,576,785 counts rows that stored HOLLAND, MI. 34,022 lines. About $458 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. MI state-office receipts are omitted.

HOLLAND versus Grand Rapids on the FEC tape

HOLLAND is an Ottawa County lakeshore book in Ottawa County on the Lake Michigan shore. 34,022 lines produce $15,576,785, a mean near $458. 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 Holland total of $15,576,785 does not absorb Zeeland, Grand Rapids, and Holland, Ohio. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State MI stays on the citation so HOLLAND, 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

34,022 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 Holland 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 Holland 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: $15,576,785 and 34,022.

Source tables for $15,576,785

A mean of about $458 is division of $15,576,785 by 34,022. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Holland. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Holland city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Holland’s $15,576,785 across 34,022 contributions is a Ottawa County city field, mean near $458. Zeeland is a neighboring string, not a subset. Ottawa County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $15,576,785 with 34,022 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 HOLLAND, MI?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city HOLLAND, MI total $15,576,785 across 34,022 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 Holland. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $458 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Which Holland is this $15.6M total?

This extract is HOLLAND with state MI only. Holland, OH is another FEC city key. Grand Rapids is a different Michigan string. LobbyVault counts 34,022 itemized contributions for HOLLAND, MI against $15,576,785. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 34,022 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Holland total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed HOLLAND with state MI. Office addresses and mail that list Holland can be part of $15,576,785 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 34,022-line count follows the same rule.

Are Holland numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $15,576,785 and 34,022 lines for HOLLAND, 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.