RIDGEWOOD, NJ

42,565 lines carrying $19,482,152

The headline pair is $19,482,152 and 42,565 lines. The implied average is about $458. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the RIDGEWOOD book. Bergen County filers typed RIDGEWOOD with state NJ.

Ridgewood is a Bergen County village string. Glen Rock and Paramus are neighboring keys, not subsets. New York City rows sit under NY, not under RIDGEWOOD, NJ. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string. Read $19,482,152 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of RIDGEWOOD gave. The 42,565 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints RIDGEWOOD together with Glen Rock, Ho-Ho-Kus, and Paramus, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $19,482,152 on 42,565 RIDGEWOOD, NJ rows, mean near $458. Keep the stored spelling RIDGEWOOD in the citation.

Why RIDGEWOOD on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Ridgewood give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city RIDGEWOOD, NJ total $19,482,152 across 42,565 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. New York City is a different state-and-city key. Glen Rock and Paramus are separate Bergen strings.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $19,482,152. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $458 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city RIDGEWOOD, NJ?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city RIDGEWOOD, NJ total $19,482,152 across 42,565 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in Ridgewood. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $458 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Does Ridgewood’s total include New York City donors?

No. New York City is a different state-and-city key. Glen Rock and Paramus are separate Bergen strings. LobbyVault counts 42,565 itemized contributions for RIDGEWOOD, NJ against $19,482,152. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 42,565 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Ridgewood total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed RIDGEWOOD with state NJ. Office addresses and mail that list Ridgewood can be part of $19,482,152 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 42,565-line count follows the same rule.

Are Ridgewood numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $19,482,152 and 42,565 lines for RIDGEWOOD, NJ. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from NJ are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.