Federal contributions from ZIP 49546: $14.6M

Southeast Kent County mail, not downtown 49503

$14,578,747 divided by 30,227 is about $482 per itemized line. Grand Rapids uses many 495xx codes. 49546 is one southeast key, not downtown and not a metro roll-up. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count.

Thirty thousand two hundred twenty-seven contributions is a mid-length list. Repeat gifts and any committee that prints 49546 add rows. Do not treat 30,227 as a census of Grand Rapids. LobbyVault does not treat $14,578,747 as a ranking of West Michigan civic mood.

Suburban-edge ZIP on a federal tape

A household, a commercial strip suite, and a committee mailbox can share 49546. $14,578,747 follows the form. Open the ZIP 49546 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not guess which of the 30,227 rows are households. Michigan state-office filings are a different dataset.

49506, 49525, and 49512 are separate FEC keys. Adding them to 49546 and calling the sum a Grand Rapids FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $14,578,747 for 49546 only.

What $14,578,747 leaves out

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Michigan state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Kent County race. Cite $14,578,747 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 49546. The mean of about $482 is arithmetic, not a median. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings.

Live hub for 49546

The ZIP 49546 FEC page holds $14,578,747 and 30,227 as currently indexed. The all-ZIP directory places the code among others. The donor directory lists names on itemized receipts. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count.

Reading 49546 next to the rest of the ZIP directory

The all-ZIP directory exists so 49546 can be placed among other five-digit keys without turning $14,578,747 into a metro story. southeast Grand Rapids sits in Kent County. Peers include 49506, 49525, and 49512. Each peer has its own total. 30,227 lines at $14,578,747 ($14.6M) is the local shape. A peer with similar dollars and half the rows will show a higher mean; that contrast is the point of keeping keys separate.

Do not build a Kent County FEC total by addition unless you list every ZIP you included. Michigan state-office filings still sit outside every one of those keys. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside them too. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count for 49546, so a Kent County donor census is also out of reach from these facts.

Citation template: contributor ZIP 49546, $14,578,747, 30,227 itemized contributions, FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Add that the mean is about $482 only if you also say it is dollars divided by lines. Then send the reader to the ZIP 49546 FEC page for names and to the donor directory for person-level itemizations.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 49546 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering southeast Grand Rapids. $14,578,747 is the itemized-dollar total. 30,227 is the itemized-line total. $14.6M is $14,578,747 rounded. About $482 is those dollars divided by those lines. Kent County is map context. 49506, 49525, and 49512 are other keys. Michigan state-office activity is out of scope. Unitemized federal gifts are out of scope. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count, so do not cite one. Open the ZIP 49546 FEC page for the live index, the all-ZIP directory for peers, and the donor directory for names on itemized receipts. If those tools and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls. Cite the ZIP, the dollars, and the line count together.

LobbyVault publishes this 49546 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/49546/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-49546-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,578,747 and 30,227 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.6M into a forecast. Readers who want the row list should use the hub. Readers who want the explanation should stay on the guide. The ZIP remains the five-digit contributor field on FEC itemizations, indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. A complete citation names ZIP 49546, $14,578,747, 30,227 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 49546?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 49546 total $14,578,747 across 30,227 contributions. The compact headline is $14.6M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of southeast Grand Rapids. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 49546?

LobbyVault counts 30,227 itemized contributions for ZIP 49546. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts can add rows. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $14,578,747. The mean of about $482 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 49546 cover all of Grand Rapids?

No. 49546 is one southeast mail key. Other Kent County ZIPs are separate roll-ups. Committees that file 49546 can be part of $14,578,747. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a metro or residential-only book. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear. This packet still does not publish a unique-donor count.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 49546 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,578,747 and 30,227 lines for ZIP 49546. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Michigan state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.