Amway Corp political contributions from Grand Rapids, MI

How Amway Corp meets Grand Rapids, MI on the FEC tape

$48,580 is the overlap of two filer-entered fields: industry/employer grouping AMWAY CORP and contributor city GRAND RAPIDS with state MI. LobbyVault keeps a Grand Rapids, MI city hub and an Amway Corp industry hub. Neither hub is this join. The city hub is all industries in Grand Rapids. The industry hub is that string across cities. This page is only both filters at once.

22 contributions from 11 donors produced $48,580. Repeat gifts add receipts; 11 donors is the headcount in this extract for the join, not a census of everyone in Grand Rapids tied to that label. Arithmetic mean per receipt is about $2,208; per donor, about $4,416. Those means are division of packet facts, not typical salaries and not medians.

AMWAY CORP is an exact employer/industry string on the itemization, not a NAICS sector and not every person who works in a related job. Other spellings, parent-company names, job titles, and blank employer rows are other keys. $48,580 counts only rows that stored this string in Grand Rapids, MI. City labels are filer-entered.

The Grand Rapids side of the Amway Corp join

Grand Rapids, MI's all-industry itemized book in this extract is $91.1 million ($91,070,736) across 137,911 contributions. $48,580 is under 0.1% of that city book. A thin share is expected when the industry key is an exact string: most Grand Rapids receipts use other employer labels. Do not treat under 0.1% as the sector's weight in Grand Rapids unless the packet listed a sector roll-up. It lists AMWAY CORP only.

The stored city sits in Kent County, Michigan. Wyoming and Kentwood are other city strings. Michigan campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $48,580 to the state hub; the state extract already contains these rows when the same tape is used. All FEC ties lists other city-industry pages. None of them converts $48,580 into spending by Grand Rapids candidates.

The Amway Corp side outside Grand Rapids

The Amway Corp industry hub is the same stored string in every city, not a Michigan-only table. $48,580 is the Grand Rapids, MI slice of that string. A donor in another city who stored AMWAY CORP is not in this join. A donor in Grand Rapids who stored a different employer string is not in this join either. This packet publishes the industry-side dollars for the grouping as $48,580 with 22 contributions and 11 donors.

This packet does not name committees, parties, or cycles for the Amway Corp × Grand Rapids, MI overlap. Open the live Amway Corp page and the live Grand Rapids, MI page for those breakdowns if the extract publishes them. This prose stays on $48,580, 22 receipts, 11 donors, and the $91.1 million city book. Quote the join with both nouns in the same sentence so a downstream citation cannot drop a side.

What the Amway Corp × Grand Rapids dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $48,580. Michigan state-office filings sit outside it. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file. City labels and industry labels are both filer-entered; LobbyVault does not recode GRAND RAPIDS into a Census place or AMWAY CORP into a standardized occupation. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this pair of strings follow the same rule as household streets.

Do not read $48,580 as proof that Amway Corp controls Grand Rapids politics. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. If the live hubs disagree with $48,580 or 11 donors, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system. Do not treat the 11-donor cluster as a company-town finding or as a count of everyone who ever worked under a related name.

Using Grand Rapids, MI and Amway Corp links without mixing statutes

Internal links go to Grand Rapids, MI, Amway Corp, Michigan campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $48,580 to federal spending in Michigan. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes even when both mention Grand Rapids.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Amway Corp and Grand Rapids, MI. Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $48,580 across 22 receipts from 11 donors is the only overlap this extract published. Do not add $48,580 to $91,070,736; the first number is already inside the second.

How to cite the Grand Rapids × Amway Corp facts

Citation template: employer/industry grouping AMWAY CORP, contributor city Grand Rapids, MI, $48,580 on 22 itemized individual contributions from 11 donors, against a city-wide $91,070,736 on 137,911 contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.

Then send the reader to the live Grand Rapids, MI hub, the Amway Corp industry page, Michigan campaign finance, and All FEC ties. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live hubs control. If you need cycle cuts of Grand Rapids, those are city-cycle joins, not this file. If you need Amway Corp in a single even-year window, those are industry-cycle joins. This file stays on one city and one employer string.

Questions

How much did Amway Corp donors in Grand Rapids, MI give?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing industry AMWAY CORP and city GRAND RAPIDS total $48,580 across 22 receipts from 11 donors in this extract. That is the join, not Grand Rapids, MI's all-industry book of $91.1 million. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does Amway Corp in Grand Rapids include every related job title?

No. AMWAY CORP is the exact stored string. Other employer spellings are other keys and are omitted from $48,580. 11 donors and 22 receipts follow that exact-match rule. LobbyVault does not map the field to a standardized occupation list.

What share of Grand Rapids, MI itemized money is Amway Corp?

$48,580 is under 0.1% of the $91.1 million Grand Rapids, MI city book (137,911 city-field contributions). A thin share usually means other employer strings dominate the city tape, not that the grouping is absent. Quote both dollars. Do not upgrade under 0.1% into a sector ranking.

Do Amway Corp donations in Grand Rapids fund federal spending there?

No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $48,580 does not become a contract because both rows can mention Grand Rapids. Different statutes, different forms. This packet has no obligation dollars. Filings remain on FEC.gov.