Ada, MI contributions to ESAFUND (C00489856)

$270,000 as a two-field overlap

This page is a JOIN. One side is the filer-entered city ADA in Michigan. The other side is ESAFUND on C00489856. $270,000 is what remains after both filters. Opening only the Ada, MI hub restates $19,271,873. Opening only the committee hub restates every city that gave to C00489856. Adding those hubs together double-counts.

City labels are filer-entered. ADA is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A neighboring municipality is another hub. A ADA line to a different committee ID sits in the leftover $19,001,873, not in $270,000. ADA in Michigan is a distinct city string from Ada, Oklahoma or other Ada keys. ESAFUND on C00489856 received a round $270,000 from that string — the published cell, not a rounded estimate of a different total. Grand Rapids and other West Michigan city keys are other hubs.

ADA without the C00489856 filter

Take the committee filter off and ADA still shows $19,271,873 itemized. $270,000 is the slice tagged to C00489856. Open the Ada, MI hub for the remainder $19,001,873. Do not subtract by hand from a different extract dated on another night.

Ada is displayed for readers; ADA is the grouping key. Titles use Ada, MI. The leftover $19,001,873 is $19,271,873 minus $270,000 on this extract only. The Michigan hub is a different roll-up.

Reading the ESAFUND label

C00489856 is disclosed as ESAFUND. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $270,000 is itemized individual receipts storing city ADA and committee C00489856. Other cities giving to ESAFUND appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Long or truncated FEC names stay as stored. DBA clauses, AKA clauses, slashes, and parentheticals are part of the label on C00489856. Short titles on this page still point at that ID. Do not invent a cleaner legal name.

1.40% is a share, not a ranking

1.40% of $19,271,873 is $270,000 to ESAFUND (C00489856). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Ada, MI as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $19,271,873 city book went to other committees. Even when 1.40% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00489856 filter.

The leftover $19,001,873 under the ADA city string went to other committees. The Ada, MI hub holds that remainder. The ESAFUND page holds receipts whose city field did not store ADA. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00489856; each join is its own filter.

Rows that never enter $270,000

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $270,000. Michigan state-office filings sit outside it. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file; the source note on this packet says these aggregates are not independent expenditures. City labels are filer-entered. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this city string follow the same rule as household streets.

Do not read $270,000 as proof that Ada, MI funded ESAFUND as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Michigan. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $270,000 to federal spending in Michigan.

Doors out of the Ada, MI × C00489856 page

Internal links go to Ada, MI, ESAFUND, Michigan campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $19,271,873 book and the committees that received the leftover $19,001,873. The committee page holds C00489856 receipts from every city. All FEC ties collects neighboring pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this cell.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Ada, MI and ESAFUND (C00489856). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $270,000 is the only overlap this extract published. A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot. Cite $270,000, $19,271,873, 1.40%, leftover $19,001,873, and C00489856.

Questions

What is the Ada × ESAFUND FEC total?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city ADA and recipient ESAFUND (C00489856) total $270,000 in this extract. That is the join, not Ada, MI's all-committee book of $19,271,873. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is ADA merged with nearby cities?

No. ADA is the exact stored city string with state MI. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $270,000. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Ada, MI hub for the all-committee book of $19,271,873.

How much of the $19.3M Ada book is C00489856?

$270,000 is 1.40% of the $19,271,873 Ada, MI city book. The leftover $19,001,873 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00489856. Do not upgrade 1.40% into a ranking of civic preference.

Do Ada donations to ESAFUND fund USAspending awards?

No. The series is FEC individual contributions. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This packet publishes no obligation dollars. Geography on a contribution line does not convert the gift into a federal award in Michigan. Cite FEC.gov for $270,000 from ADA to ESAFUND (C00489856) and $19,271,873 for the Ada, MI city book.