ITHACA, NY

85,238 lines behind ITHACA's $17.0M

ITHACA shows 85,238 itemizations behind $16,995,820. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $17.0M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. Volume does not prove small-dollar giving. The implied mean is about $199.

Ithaca is a Tompkins Finger Lakes volume field: 85,238 lines behind $17.0 million. Syracuse is a different Onondaga string. Lansing and Dryden are neighboring keys, not subsets. 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 $16,995,820 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of ITHACA gave. The 85,238 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints ITHACA together with Lansing, Dryden, and Cortland, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,995,820 on 85,238 ITHACA, NY rows, mean near $199. Keep the stored spelling ITHACA in the citation.

Why ITHACA on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Ithaca give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ITHACA, NY total $16,995,820 across 85,238 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. ITHACA, NY is the stored Tompkins string. Syracuse is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,995,820. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $199 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city ITHACA, NY?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ITHACA, NY total $16,995,820 across 85,238 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 Ithaca. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $199 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Ithaca folded into Syracuse on this extract?

No. ITHACA, NY is the stored Tompkins string. Syracuse is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 85,238 itemized contributions for ITHACA, NY against $16,995,820. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 85,238 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Ithaca total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ITHACA with state NY. Office addresses and mail that list Ithaca can be part of $16,995,820 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 85,238-line count follows the same rule.

Are Ithaca numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,995,820 and 85,238 lines for ITHACA, NY. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from NY are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.