Why does Michigan have 861,129 awards next to 1,612 candidate committees?

They count different things. 861,129 is USAspending award actions. 1,612 is FEC candidate committees. Obligations of $388,893,503,198 and receipts of $107.6 million are unlike dollars. A larger award count does not mean donations created more awards.

How much have Michigan federal candidates raised?

FEC aggregates show $107.6 million across 1,612 committees. Democratic filers reported $65.7 million (61.1%); Republican filers reported $41.0 million (38.1%). Other filers reported $0.8 million. Party shares do not describe awards. LobbyVault joins the MI extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

What is Michigan’s federal obligation total?

USAspending.gov records $388,893,503,198 in obligations across 861,129 awards coded to Michigan. That is an agency-award extract, not an FEC spending extract. Campaign operating expenditures are not included. LobbyVault joins the MI extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

Where do I open the Michigan tables?

Michigan campaign finance on LobbyVault holds FEC receipts. Michigan USAspending holds obligations. All FEC ties lists other state joins. Later bulk files override this snapshot if they disagree. LobbyVault joins the MI extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

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Michigan campaign finance next to federal obligations

Michigan federal candidate committees reported $107.6 million across 1,612 committees. Federal agencies obligated $388,893,503,198 across 861,129 Michigan-coded awards — a high action count relative to several states with similar obligation totals. Democratic committees hold 61.1% of receipts. That share does not describe the award rows.

Key figures

Michigan FEC receipts: $107.6 million from 1,612 committees.
Michigan USAspending: $388,893,503,198 across 861,129 awards.
Cite award-row count with its dollar total, not as a standalone volume of deals.
Do not treat Michigan donations as the source of Michigan awards.

Michigan’s award-row count needs its dollar partner

861,129 USAspending awards is easy to misuse as a volume of deals. Cite it with $388,893,503,198. Large contracts and modest grants both add one row. Michigan USAspending is where to see the mix. This packet does not publish an agency split, so this page will not invent one.

The FEC side is a separate book: $107.6 million from 1,612 committees. MI is the join. Auto-industry folklore does not convert a Schedule A gift into a contract.

Michigan campaign finance, Michigan USAspending, and All FEC ties are the three doors. There is no fourth door that explains 861,129 with the Democratic receipt share.

Auto-bailout memory is not a packet series. $388,893,503,198 is a current USAspending obligation roll-up, not a historic rescue account. $107.6 million is candidate receipts, not a TARP footnote. Keep those histories out of this join.

Michigan FEC receipts and party labels

Democratic committees reported $65.7 million (61.1%). Republican committees reported $41.0 million (38.1%). Other filers reported $0.8 million (0.8%). 1,612 filers include residual committees. Sort the live hub by receipts rather than treating the roster as a ballot.

Lansing state campaigns file with Michigan’s state system, outside $107.6 million. Super PAC activity about Michigan candidates can be financed from elsewhere and sit outside this candidate-receipt total.

861,129 award rows can include many modest assistance actions. Pair the count with $388,893,503,198 every time you quote it. A bare row count sounds like a pile of deals the file never defined.

Obligations are agency promises

$388,893,503,198 on USAspending.gov is obligated award money coded to Michigan. FEC operating expenditures — ads, payroll, consultants — are a different schedule and are not this figure. If you need recipient names, open Michigan USAspending, not the list of 1,612 committees.

Universities, health systems, and manufacturers can appear as recipients without appearing as candidate committees. Name overlap is not a join key this page has.

Quote Michigan campaign finance for the live FEC roster of 1,612 committees and $107.6 million in receipts. Quote Michigan USAspending for $388,893,503,198 and 861,129 awards. All FEC ties keeps MI in a series of geographic joins. None of those pages adds receipts to obligations or assigns FEC party codes to awards.

Detroit, Grand Rapids, statewide roll-up

Those metros share MI. This packet does not split $107.6 million or $388,893,503,198 among them. 1,612 committees and 861,129 awards are statewide. A Big Three narrative is color unless you open industry fields on Michigan USAspending.

Do not divide $388,893,503,198 by 1,612 and call the result a take per campaign. That quotient has no meaning in either dataset.

Michigan’s 1,612 committees and 861,129 awards answer different questions. Keep $107.6 million on the FEC.gov sentence and $388,893,503,198 on the USAspending.gov sentence even when a headline wants a single number. A single number would mix statutes. This join will not publish one.

What Michigan’s join refuses

A combined Michigan federal-money sum. A partisan coloring of 861,129 awards. A claim that $107.6 million funded $388,893,503,198. Correlation of large-state receipts and large-state obligations is not causation.

Amended FEC reports move $107.6 million. USAspending restatements move $388,893,503,198. Rewrite the matching sentence only. This prose is a snapshot.

Amended candidate reports move $107.6 million. Award restatements move $388,893,503,198. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Michigan campaign finance and Michigan USAspending are the live tables; this prose is a packet snapshot for MI.

Michigan citation

FEC.gov: $107.6 million; 1,612 committees; Democratic $65.7 million; Republican $41.0 million; other $0.8 million. USAspending.gov: $388,893,503,198; 861,129 awards. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Do not rank Michigan as more influential because $107.6 million sits beside $388,893,503,198. Influence is not a field in this packet. The join is MI geography only.

Questions

Why does Michigan have 861,129 awards next to 1,612 candidate committees?: They count different things. 861,129 is USAspending award actions. 1,612 is FEC candidate committees. Obligations of $388,893,503,198 and receipts of $107.6 million are unlike dollars. A larger award count does not mean donations created more awards.
How much have Michigan federal candidates raised?: FEC aggregates show $107.6 million across 1,612 committees. Democratic filers reported $65.7 million (61.1%); Republican filers reported $41.0 million (38.1%). Other filers reported $0.8 million. Party shares do not describe awards. LobbyVault joins the MI extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.
What is Michigan’s federal obligation total?: USAspending.gov records $388,893,503,198 in obligations across 861,129 awards coded to Michigan. That is an agency-award extract, not an FEC spending extract. Campaign operating expenditures are not included. LobbyVault joins the MI extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.
Where do I open the Michigan tables?: Michigan campaign finance on LobbyVault holds FEC receipts. Michigan USAspending holds obligations. All FEC ties lists other state joins. Later bulk files override this snapshot if they disagree. LobbyVault joins the MI extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

Join of FEC.gov candidate receipts with USAspending.gov state obligations. These are different datasets — campaign contributions are not federal awards.