KALAMAZOO, MI: $37.5M on 81,532 FEC receipts

Kalamazoo’s mid-volume Michigan book

Eighty-one thousand five hundred thirty-two lines produce $37,505,162. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $460. Portage and Battle Creek are other nearby city strings. They are not inside $37,505,162 unless the filer typed KALAMAZOO.

Detroit and Ann Arbor keep separate Michigan hubs. Kalamazoo County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up. $37,505,162 is the KALAMAZOO match only.

Not Grand Rapids and not a campus roll-up

FEC.gov stored a city string, not an employer. Recoding Kalamazoo into a campus map would be a different product. This page does not recode. It publishes KALAMAZOO, MI: $37,505,162 and 81,532 lines.

Office addresses can share the city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 81,532 lines are receipts, not unique persons. Recheck both facts on the live hub after a later extract.

City field versus ZIP pages

Filers type a city. The Commission stores that string. ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Kalamazoo-area ZIPs will not reproduce $37,505,162 when some receipts used Portage or another label.

The 81,532-line count follows the city field, not the postal map and not an employer field.

What this table omits

Michigan state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts sit outside $37,505,162 and outside 81,532. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing here estimates how Kalamazoo voted. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. Use the city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index.

Citing KALAMAZOO, MI

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $37,505,162 with 81,532 together. Dropping the line count hides a mean near $460.

If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Kalamazoo receipt matters. A campus is not an FEC city dimension.

How to use the Kalamazoo hub

Start on the live Kalamazoo city page. $37,505,162 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 81,532 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Portage or Battle Creek as the “real” southwest Michigan address. Filers typed KALAMAZOO. LobbyVault indexed KALAMAZOO. Kalamazoo County is useful for maps. It is not an FEC dimension on this hub. A mean near $460 is only $37,505,162 divided by 81,532. It is not a typical Kalamazoo household gift and not a typical campus gift. Occupation is a different FEC field. An employer on a receipt does not convert the city key. Party is not in this packet. Do not infer turnout. Detroit and Ann Arbor remain other Michigan hubs with their own pairs.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city KALAMAZOO, MI, $37,505,162, 81,532 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original filings remain on FEC.gov for any named Kalamazoo receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Michigan non-federal filings never enter either fact. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. 81,532 is not a unique-donor census. $37,505,162 is still the dollar sum of those lines. Quote both. The live Kalamazoo hub is the table. This guide is the footnote. ZIP pages split a different field. Campus language does not convert the city field into an employer census. Keep MI on the key.

Kalamazoo’s pair on this extract is $37,505,162 and 81,532 lines, mean near $460. Print both. Portage and Battle Creek remain other nearby strings. Detroit and Ann Arbor remain other Michigan hubs. Kalamazoo County is orientation. A campus is not an FEC city dimension. Michigan state campaigns and unitemized federal gifts sit outside both facts. Repeat givers can inflate 81,532 without adding unique persons. The live Kalamazoo FEC page is the authority if this snapshot and the hub diverge. Open FEC.gov for a named receipt. Quote contributor city KALAMAZOO, MI with both packet numbers. Keep MI on the key; campus language does not convert the city field into an employer census.

Questions

What is Kalamazoo’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city KALAMAZOO, MI total $37,505,162 across 81,532 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Kalamazoo residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Kalamazoo’s 81,532 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 81,532 itemized lines for KALAMAZOO, MI. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $37,505,162.

Does Kalamazoo’s total include Portage or Detroit?

Only if the filer typed KALAMAZOO. Portage, Battle Creek, and Detroit are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $37,505,162 is the KALAMAZOO, MI match. The 81,532 lines follow the same rule. County labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Kalamazoo facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $37,505,162 and 81,532 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.