CHATTANOOGA, TN: $40.9M on 85,922 FEC receipts

Chattanooga’s mid-volume Tennessee book

Eighty-five thousand nine hundred twenty-two lines produce $40,880,211. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $476. That mean is packet arithmetic. It is not a typical household gift and not a typical downtown-riverfront gift.

Lookout Mountain, East Ridge, and Hixson are other nearby city strings. They are not inside $40,880,211 unless the filer typed CHATTANOOGA. Hamilton County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Chattanooga city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 85,922 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not Nashville, Knoxville, or Georgia

Nashville and Knoxville keep separate Tennessee hubs. Atlanta is a Georgia city string. This packet does not merge tri-state labels. It publishes CHATTANOOGA, TN: $40,880,211 and 85,922 lines.

Keep TN on the key. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

City string versus ZIP cut

The Commission stores the city that appeared on the itemized receipt. CHATTANOOGA plus TN is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a Tennessee Valley metro label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages split the same federal series by postal code. Summing Chattanooga-area ZIPs can miss $40,880,211 when some receipts used another city label. The 85,922-line count follows the city field.

What sits outside the pair

Tennessee state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $40,880,211 and outside 85,922. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing CHATTANOOGA, TN

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $40,880,211 with 85,922 together. Dropping the line count hides a mean near $476.

If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Chattanooga receipt matters.

How to read the Chattanooga table

Start on the live Chattanooga city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the question. $40,880,211 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 85,922 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Lookout Mountain, East Ridge, or Hixson as the “real” Tennessee Valley address. Filers typed CHATTANOOGA. LobbyVault indexed CHATTANOOGA. Hamilton County and “the Scenic City” are useful for maps. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub. A mean near $476 is only $40,880,211 divided by 85,922. It is not a typical Chattanooga household gift. Occupation, recipient, and party live on other FEC fields. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer turnout. Nashville and Knoxville remain other Tennessee hubs. Atlanta is a Georgia city string.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city CHATTANOOGA, TN, $40,880,211, 85,922 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 Chattanooga receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Tennessee 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. 85,922 is not a unique-donor census. $40,880,211 is still the dollar sum of those lines. Quote both. The live Chattanooga hub is the table. This guide is the footnote. ZIP pages split a different field. Keep TN on the key so the citation does not drift into a tri-state slogan.

Chattanooga’s pair on this extract is $40,880,211 and 85,922 lines, mean near $476. Print both. Lookout Mountain, East Ridge, and Hixson remain other nearby strings. Nashville and Knoxville remain other Tennessee hubs. Atlanta remains a Georgia hub. Hamilton County is orientation. Tennessee state campaigns and unitemized federal gifts sit outside both facts. Repeat givers can inflate 85,922 without adding unique persons. The live Chattanooga FEC page is the authority if this snapshot and the hub diverge. Open FEC.gov for a named receipt. Quote contributor city CHATTANOOGA, TN with both packet numbers.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Chattanooga federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city CHATTANOOGA, TN total $40,880,211 across 85,922 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Chattanooga residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 85,922 the number of Chattanooga donors?

No. LobbyVault counts 85,922 itemized contribution lines for CHATTANOOGA, TN. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding people. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $40,880,211.

Does Chattanooga’s total include Nashville or Atlanta?

No, unless the filer typed CHATTANOOGA. Nashville, Knoxville, and Atlanta are separate city hubs. $40,880,211 is the CHATTANOOGA, TN match. The 85,922 lines follow the same rule. Metro and tri-state labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

How current is Chattanooga’s $40,880,211 figure?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $40,880,211 and 85,922 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Tennessee non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.