Merchant political contributions from Memphis, TN

What this Merchant × Memphis, TN join is

This page is a join. One dimension is contributor city Memphis, TN. The other is employer or industry grouping Merchant (stored as MERCHANT). $13,150 is the intersection — dollars on receipts that carry both labels. $81,045,423 is the city bucket before the employer filter, built from 214,100 itemized lines. The harvested donor count inside the intersection is 2 donors, not a census of everyone in Memphis, TN who ever worked under a related name.

LobbyVault does not add a third table and does not route these dollars through USAspending. A Form 3 itemization is not a federal award. Open the Memphis, TN city hub for the unfiltered city book, the Merchant industry hub for the grouping outside this city filter, Tennessee campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Each of those pages answers a different question. This one answers only the intersection.

Two donors on 10 receipts: the dollar total is concentrated, and the line count outruns the headcount. About $1,315 per receipt is $13,150 divided by 10. About $6,575 per harvested donor is $13,150 divided by 2. Those ratios describe shape. They are not medians and not typical salaries.

What the Memphis, TN city book holds

Memphis, TN indexes $81,045,423 ($81.0 million) on 214,100 itemized individual contributions. Memphis is a Shelby County, Tennessee city string. Germantown and Bartlett are other stored cities. Joint-fundraising and committee addresses that happen to list MEMPHIS can sit in the same bucket as residents. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for the city as a whole, so this page does not invent one from 214,100.

Tennessee campaign-finance pages cover the state, which is a larger geography than Memphis, TN. Do not treat $81,045,423 as the TN state total. Unitemized federal gifts never carry a published city in this roll-up, so they never enter $81,045,423. State-office campaigns in Tennessee file under state law and sit outside these FEC individual-contribution aggregates.

The Merchant slice inside Memphis, TN

Inside Memphis, TN, receipts tagged MERCHANT total $13,150 on 10 lines from 2 donors. That is under 0.1% of $81,045,423. MERCHANT is a generic employer/industry word, not a named store and not a retail NAICS code. $13,150 counts only rows that stored this string in Memphis, TN.

Repeat gifts, household pairs, and spelling variants of Merchant that did not match this key never enter $13,150. Repeat gifts that did match add to 10 without necessarily adding to 2. Keep line count and donor count attached to their nouns when citing Memphis, TN. This extract does not publish committee names for the overlap.

Limits of the Merchant Memphis, TN snapshot

Unitemized gifts, Tennessee state filings, and independent expenditures sit outside $13,150. LobbyVault does not recode MEMPHIS into a Census place. If the live Memphis, TN or Merchant hubs disagree with $13,150, the newer FEC extract controls. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this pair of strings follow the same exact-match rule as household streets. The packet does not split those address types.

Correlation is not causation. $13,150 does not prove that Merchant directs Memphis, TN elections. Do not mix these FEC dollars with USAspending obligations. This packet has no award counts. All FEC ties is the index of other two-dimension pages. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes even when both mention Memphis, TN.

Using Memphis, TN and Merchant links without mixing statutes

Internal links go to Memphis, TN, Merchant, Tennessee campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors (/cities/tn-memphis/, /industries/merchant/, /states/TN/, /ties/). FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars. Do not add $13,150 to federal spending in Tennessee.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Merchant and Memphis, TN. Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. Do not add $13,150 to $81,045,423; the first number is already inside the second.

Citing Merchant and Memphis, TN together

Keep both nouns in one sentence: Merchant and Memphis, TN, $13,150 on 10 receipts from 2 donors, against a city book of $81,045,423 (under 0.1%). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.

A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot. City-cycle and industry-cycle pages are other joins. This file stays on one employer string and one city string. If you need cycle cuts of Memphis, TN, those are city-cycle joins, not this file.

Questions

How much did Merchant donors in Memphis, TN give?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing industry MERCHANT and city MEMPHIS total $13,150 across 10 receipts from 2 donors in this extract. That is the join, not Memphis, TN’s all-industry book of $81.0 million. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does Merchant in Memphis, TN include every related job title?

No. MERCHANT is the exact stored string. Other employer spellings are other keys and are omitted from $13,150. 2 donors and 10 receipts follow that exact-match rule. LobbyVault does not map the field to a standardized occupation list or to NAICS.

What share of Memphis, TN itemized money is Merchant?

$13,150 is under 0.1% of the $81.0 million Memphis, TN city book (214,100 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 Merchant donations in Memphis, TN fund federal spending there?

No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $13,150 does not become a contract because both rows can mention Memphis, TN. Different statutes, different forms. This packet has no obligation dollars. Filings remain on FEC.gov.