MEMPHIS, TN: $81.0M on 214,100 FEC receipts

Reading $81,045,423 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $81,045,423 and 214,100 lines. The implied average is about $379. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Memphis book.

Shelby County’s Memphis string is southwest Tennessee on the map. Nashville is a different FEC city key. Filers typed MEMPHIS in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state TN. 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.

If a newsroom map paints Memphis together with Germantown and Bartlett, the FEC file still splits them. Nashville too. This extract’s only city total is $81,045,423 on 214,100 MEMPHIS, TN rows, mean near $379.

Why MEMPHIS on the receipt is not a census of Memphis

Searchers often want “how much did people in Memphis give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city MEMPHIS, TN total $81,045,423 across 214,100 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $81,045,423. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Memphis itemized book

$81,045,423 is not spending by Memphis candidates. A candidate who lives in Memphis can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged MEMPHIS, TN can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $379 does not describe a median resident of Memphis. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Germantown, Bartlett, or Nashville is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $81,045,423 counts rows that stored MEMPHIS, TN in state TN. 214,100 lines. About $379 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Volume and average on the Memphis book

Memphis sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $379 from $81,045,423 divided by 214,100. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

Comparing Memphis’s mean to another city is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in state data breaks the comparison.

A Memphis total of $81,045,423 does not absorb Germantown, Bartlett, or Nashville. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State TN stays on the citation so MEMPHIS, TN is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 214,100 lines and the mean near $379 describe this key only.

City total versus postal codes in TN

214,100 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 Memphis 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 Memphis politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. Those subjects have other documents. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field.

Keep Germantown, Bartlett, and Nashville off the Memphis citation unless the receipt actually stored those cities. $81,045,423 is the MEMPHIS, TN string alone. 214,100 itemized rows and about $379 per row are the shape of that string, not of the metro map.

Source tables for $81,045,423

A mean of about $379 is division of $81,045,423 by 214,100. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Memphis.

Internal links on this page go only to the Memphis city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

Memphis’s $81,045,423 across 214,100 contributions is the Tennessee city string, mean near $379. Shelby County geography orients. Germantown, Bartlett, and West Memphis, Arkansas are different keys — West Memphis is another state. Nashville is a different Tennessee city book. Do not add the two as Tennessee. Tennessee state-office campaigns are omitted. The 214,100-line count is itemized federal rows, not unique people. River-city geography is not an FEC finding. Cite MEMPHIS, TN with $81,045,423 and 214,100. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Memphis?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MEMPHIS, TN total $81,045,423 across 214,100 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 Memphis. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Memphis contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 214,100 itemized contributions for MEMPHIS, TN. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 214,100 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $81,045,423.

Can committee addresses appear in the Memphis city total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MEMPHIS with state TN. Office addresses and mail that list Memphis can be part of $81,045,423 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 214,100-line count follows the same rule.

Are Memphis numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $81,045,423 and 214,100 lines for MEMPHIS, TN. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from TN are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $379 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.