Donors in Chattanooga, TN to SMP

How Chattanooga, TN meets SMP on the FEC tape

$2,715,102 is the overlap of two keys: contributor city CHATTANOOGA with state TN, and recipient committee C00484642 disclosed as SMP. LobbyVault keeps a Chattanooga, TN city hub and a committee hub for SMP. 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 C00484642. This page is only both filters at once.

SMP is the stored committee name on C00484642; the packet does not expand the acronym. The join does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or cycles. Do not invent a headcount from $2,715,102. 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. CHATTANOOGA 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 CHATTANOOGA and a different committee ID is in the leftover $38,165,109 of the city book, not in $2,715,102.

The Chattanooga, TN side of the SMP join

Chattanooga, TN’s all-committee itemized book in this extract is $40,880,211. $2,715,102 is 6.6% of Chattanooga, TN’s $40,880,211 all-committee book. That is a visible slice, not a finding that the city as a civic body directed gifts to SMP. The leftover $38,165,109 went to other committees under the same city string, or sits outside this recipient filter. Open the Chattanooga, TN hub for that remainder; do not subtract by hand from a different extract.

The stored city sits in Tennessee. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into CHATTANOOGA. Tennessee campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $2,715,102 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 $2,715,102 into spending by Chattanooga, TN candidates or into independent expenditures by SMP.

SMP (C00484642) as the recipient key

C00484642 is disclosed as SMP. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $2,715,102 is itemized individual receipts storing city CHATTANOOGA and committee C00484642. Other cities giving to SMP 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. SMP on another ID is a different page. This URL is Chattanooga, TN × C00484642, not Tennessee × C00484642 and not every spelling of CHATTANOOGA. If the overlay at the committee path disagrees with $2,715,102, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Chattanooga, TN book

6.6% of $40,880,211 is $2,715,102 to SMP (C00484642). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Chattanooga, TN as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $40,880,211 city book went to other committees unless 6.6% is read as a large slice — even then, the slice is still only the C00484642 filter.

The leftover $38,165,109 under the CHATTANOOGA city string went to other committees. The Chattanooga, TN hub holds that remainder. The SMP page holds receipts whose city field did not store CHATTANOOGA. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00484642; each join is its own filter.

What the Chattanooga, TN × SMP dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $2,715,102. Tennessee 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 $2,715,102 as proof that Chattanooga, TN “funded” SMP as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Tennessee. 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 $2,715,102 to federal spending in Tennessee.

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 Chattanooga, TN × SMP join

Internal links go to Chattanooga, TN, SMP, Tennessee campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $40,880,211 book and the committees that received the leftover $38,165,109. The committee page holds C00484642 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: Chattanooga, TN and SMP (C00484642). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $2,715,102 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 $2,715,102, $40,880,211, 6.6%, leftover $38,165,109, and C00484642. Keep both sides named: CHATTANOOGA as filer-entered city, SMP 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 Chattanooga, TN donors give SMP?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city CHATTANOOGA and recipient SMP (C00484642) total $2,715,102 in this extract. That is the join, not Chattanooga, TN’s all-committee book of $40,880,211. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Chattanooga, TN total include every spelling of the city name?

No. CHATTANOOGA is the exact stored city string with state TN. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $2,715,102. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Chattanooga, TN hub for the all-committee book of $40,880,211.

What share of Chattanooga, TN itemized money went to SMP?

$2,715,102 is 6.6% of the $40,880,211 Chattanooga, TN city book. The leftover $38,165,109 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00484642. Do not upgrade 6.6% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Chattanooga, TN SMP figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $2,715,102 for the Chattanooga, TN × C00484642 join and $40,880,211 for the city string. If a later extract or the committee overlay disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.