Grand Rapids, MI political money — 2010 cycle

2010 receipts from Grand Rapids, MI donors

The join keeps donor city Grand Rapids in Michigan and election cycle 2010. The match is $386,825 across 210 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $91,070,736. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.4% of Grand Rapids, MI itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $90,683,911 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Grand Rapids, MI. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under GRAND RAPIDS. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Grand Rapids, MI with every other donor city in the United States. The 210 rows and $386,825 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Grand Rapids, MI here is the string that survived aggregation as GRAND RAPIDS in MI. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. This page does not split the $386,825 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Grand Rapids, MI is $91,070,736 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $386,825 from 2010 and the $90,683,911 from every other cycle in the same city file. Michigan campaign-finance pages still mix Grand Rapids with every other city in Michigan.

The stored city sits in Kent County, Michigan. Detroit, Lansing, and Wyoming, Michigan are not rolled into GRAND RAPIDS. State MI stays on the citation so Grand Rapids is not merged with Grand Rapids, Minnesota or another same-named place. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Grand Rapids, MI, the city stack is $91,070,736 while this cycle is $386,825 (0.4%). Use the city hub to see Grand Rapids, MI without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Grand Rapids in 2010. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2010 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Grand Rapids, MI donors itemized $386,825 on 210 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,842 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Michigan still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Grand Rapids × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 210 itemized rows is a thicker file than many suburb joins, still a receipt count rather than a unique-person census. Repeat givers and office addresses sit in the same 210-line stack. Adjacent pages for Grand Rapids, MI, 2010 election cycle, and Michigan campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Grand Rapids stack

0.4% of $91,070,736 is a modest slice. Most of the Grand Rapids, MI aggregate — $90,683,911 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.4% of Grand Rapids, MI's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $386,825 divided by $91,070,736 and $90,683,911 divided by $91,070,736. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.4%) and row volume (210 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a thicker contribution file than many suburb joins; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.4% as Grand Rapids's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

210 itemized contributions totaling $386,825 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of GRAND RAPIDS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Grand Rapids versus other Michigan cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,842 uses only the two numbers in the join: $386,825 and 210 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $386,825 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and Michigan state-office filings sit outside $386,825.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank Grand Rapids against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Michigan. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A MI address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Michigan candidate. A candidate who lives in Grand Rapids can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed GRAND RAPIDS is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood or a nearby suburb such as Detroit is not recoded into Grand Rapids. Treat 210 as lines that stored this string in 2010. See Grand Rapids, MI, the 2010 election cycle, Michigan campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Grand Rapids, MI donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Grand Rapids, MI total $386,825 in the 2010 cycle, across 210 contribution records. The same city label totals $91,070,736 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.4% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Grand Rapids, MI city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $91,070,736 covers every cycle in the table for GRAND RAPIDS. The 2010 filter is $386,825 from 210 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $90,683,911. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Grand Rapids, MI 2010 donations stay in Michigan?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Grand Rapids, MI; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $386,825 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MI city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Michigan races.

How many Grand Rapids, MI contributions were itemized in 2010?

210 itemized contribution records sum to $386,825. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,842 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.