Donors in Grand Rapids, MI to PROGRESS FOR AMERICA VOTER FUND

How Grand Rapids, MI meets PFA Voter Fund on the FEC tape

$4,020,000 is the overlap of two keys: contributor city GRAND RAPIDS with state MI, and recipient committee C00435040 disclosed as PROGRESS FOR AMERICA VOTER FUND. LobbyVault keeps a Grand Rapids, MI city hub and a committee hub for PFA Voter Fund. Neither hub is this join. The city hub is every committee that received itemized gifts storing this city string. The committee hub is every city that gave to C00435040. This page is only both filters at once.

PROGRESS FOR AMERICA VOTER FUND is the stored name on C00435040. The join does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or cycles. Do not invent a headcount from $4,020,000. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them.

City labels are filer-entered. GRAND RAPIDS is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A donor who stored a neighboring city is on another hub. A donor who stored GRAND RAPIDS and a different committee ID is in the leftover $87,050,736 of the city book, not in $4,020,000.

The Grand Rapids, MI side of the PFA Voter Fund join

Grand Rapids, MI’s all-committee itemized book in this extract is $91,070,736. $4,020,000 is 4.4% of Grand Rapids, MI’s $91,070,736 all-committee book. That is a visible slice, not a finding that the city as a civic body directed gifts to PFA Voter Fund. The leftover $87,050,736 went to other committees under the same city string, or sits outside this recipient filter. Open the Grand Rapids, MI hub for that remainder; do not subtract by hand from a different extract.

The stored city sits in Michigan. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into GRAND RAPIDS. Michigan campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $4,020,000 to the state hub; the state extract already contains these rows when the same tape is used. All FEC ties lists other city-committee pages. None of them converts $4,020,000 into spending by Grand Rapids, MI candidates or into independent expenditures by PFA Voter Fund.

PROGRESS FOR AMERICA VOTER FUND (C00435040) as the recipient key

C00435040 is disclosed as PROGRESS FOR AMERICA VOTER FUND. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $4,020,000 is itemized individual receipts storing city GRAND RAPIDS and committee C00435040. Other cities giving to PFA Voter Fund appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Quote the committee with its FEC ID so a similarly named filing is not swapped in. PFA Voter Fund on another ID is a different page. This URL is Grand Rapids, MI × C00435040, not Michigan × C00435040 and not every spelling of GRAND RAPIDS. If the overlay at the committee path disagrees with $4,020,000, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Grand Rapids, MI book

4.4% of $91,070,736 is $4,020,000 to PROGRESS FOR AMERICA VOTER FUND (C00435040). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Grand Rapids, MI as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $91,070,736 city book went to other committees unless 4.4% is read as a large slice — even then, the slice is still only the C00435040 filter.

The leftover $87,050,736 under the GRAND RAPIDS city string went to other committees. The Grand Rapids, MI hub holds that remainder. The PFA Voter Fund page holds receipts whose city field did not store GRAND RAPIDS. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00435040; each join is its own filter.

What the Grand Rapids, MI × PFA Voter Fund dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $4,020,000. 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 $4,020,000 as proof that Grand Rapids, MI “funded” PFA Voter Fund 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 $4,020,000 to federal spending in Michigan.

Contribution lines can cluster in a few ZIPs or spread across many. This packet does not list those ZIPs or a donor headcount. Open the city hub and the committee hub rather than guessing a postal split from the city string alone.

How to cite the Grand Rapids, MI × PFA Voter Fund join

Internal links go to Grand Rapids, MI, PROGRESS FOR AMERICA VOTER FUND, Michigan campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $91,070,736 book and the committees that received the leftover $87,050,736. The committee page holds C00435040 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: Grand Rapids, MI and PROGRESS FOR AMERICA VOTER FUND (C00435040). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $4,020,000 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 $4,020,000, $91,070,736, 4.4%, leftover $87,050,736, and C00435040. Keep both sides named: GRAND RAPIDS as filer-entered city, PROGRESS FOR AMERICA VOTER FUND as recipient. Motive is outside the packet. Unitemized gifts never appear. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Questions

How much did Grand Rapids, MI donors give PFA Voter Fund?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city GRAND RAPIDS and recipient PROGRESS FOR AMERICA VOTER FUND (C00435040) total $4,020,000 in this extract. That is the join, not Grand Rapids, MI’s all-committee book of $91,070,736. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Grand Rapids, MI total include every spelling of the city name?

No. GRAND RAPIDS is the exact stored city string with state MI. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $4,020,000. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Grand Rapids, MI hub for the all-committee book of $91,070,736.

What share of Grand Rapids, MI itemized money went to PFA Voter Fund?

$4,020,000 is 4.4% of the $91,070,736 Grand Rapids, MI city book. The leftover $87,050,736 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00435040. Do not upgrade 4.4% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Grand Rapids, MI PFA Voter Fund figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $4,020,000 for the Grand Rapids, MI × C00435040 join and $91,070,736 for the city string. If a later extract or the committee overlay disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.