NY, NY

Reading $88,285,550 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $88,285,550 and 98,353 lines. The implied average is about $898. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the NY book.

FEC stored the city as NY, not a spelled-out borough name. NY, NY is the contributor-city key on this page. Filers typed NY in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state NY. 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.

A NY total of $88,285,550 does not absorb NEW YORK, Brooklyn, or Manhattan. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NY stays on the citation so NY, NY is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 98,353 lines and the mean near $898 describe this key only.

Why NY on the receipt is not a census of NY

Searchers often want “how much did people in NY give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city NY, NY total $88,285,550 across 98,353 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $88,285,550. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to NY, NY?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city NY, NY total $88,285,550 across 98,353 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 NY. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to NY?

LobbyVault counts 98,353 itemized contributions for NY, NY. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 98,353 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $88,285,550.

Does the NY total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed NY with state NY. Office addresses and mail that list NY can be part of $88,285,550 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 98,353-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get NY totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $88,285,550 and 98,353 lines for NY, 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. The mean of about $898 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.