FORT LEE, NJ: $23.9M on 32,964 FEC receipts

32,964 lines carrying $23,882,964

Fort Lee shows 32,964 itemizations behind $23,882,964. That mix is a thinner stack with a high average line relative to volume books that post similar dollars on 70,000-plus rows. Committee receipts that list a Fort Lee address still sit in the same column as individual rows.

Bergen County’s Fort Lee string is separate from Palisades Park, Edgewater, and Englewood on the FEC city key. Totals can include PAC and joint-fundraising addresses, not only residents. Read $23,882,964 as tagged federal receipts, not as what Fort Lee residents gave. The 32,964 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

A mean near $725 is the shape of this extract. It does not prove a typical gift. Named receipts on the Fort Lee FEC page are the next click for researchers who need committee labels.

Why FORT LEE on the receipt is not a census of Fort Lee

Searchers often want “how much did people in Fort Lee give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city FORT LEE, NJ total $23,882,964 across 32,964 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim, especially on a high-mean book.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $23,882,964. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Fort Lee itemized book

$23,882,964 is not spending by Fort Lee candidates. A candidate who lives in Fort Lee can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged FORT LEE, NJ can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $725 does not describe a median resident of Fort Lee. Means move with a few large lines, and this packet’s line count leaves room for that effect.

Postal confusion with Palisades Park, Edgewater, or a New York mail stamp is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $23,882,964 counts rows that stored FORT LEE, NJ. 32,964 lines. About $725 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Fort Lee versus other Bergen County strings

Fort Lee sits at the George Washington Bridge on the map and as FORT LEE, NJ on the FEC key. 32,964 lines produce $23,882,964, a mean near $725. That line count is not a unique-donor count.

Comparing Fort Lee’s mean to Englewood is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in New Jersey state data breaks the comparison.

A Fort Lee total of $23,882,964 does not absorb Palisades Park, Edgewater, or Englewood. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NJ stays on the citation so FORT LEE, NJ is not merged with Fort Lee, another state.

City total versus postal codes in NJ

32,964 city-field lines can spread across many ZIPs or cluster in a few. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the ZIP directory and the live Fort Lee hub rather than guessing the split.

After an amendment wave, recheck both the city hub and any ZIP you compared. Snapshots drift independently.

Because this packet carries only city, state, dollar total, and contribution count, every other story about Fort Lee politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field.

Source tables for $23,882,964

A mean of about $725 is division of $23,882,964 by 32,964. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Fort Lee.

Internal links on this page go only to the Fort Lee city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

Fort Lee’s $23,882,964 across 32,964 contributions is a Bergen County city field, mean near $725. Palisades Park and Edgewater are neighboring strings, not subsets. Bergen County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. New Jersey state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $23,882,964 with 32,964 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Fort Lee should keep Bergen County and New York off the sentence unless they add those hubs on purpose. The live Fort Lee table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list; on a 32,964-line book those names matter more than on a volume file. A later FEC extract can move $23,882,964 or 32,964 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $725 as division only. New Jersey state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Fort Lee code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Palisades Park and Edgewater remain other strings. The 32,964-line count still is not a headcount of Fort Lee people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Fort Lee, NJ?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city FORT LEE, NJ total $23,882,964 across 32,964 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 Fort Lee. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Why is Fort Lee’s average line near $725?

LobbyVault counts 32,964 itemized contributions for FORT LEE, NJ against $23,882,964. Division produces a mean near $725. That is arithmetic, not a typical household gift. A lower line count can be dominated by a few large receipts. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 32,964 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Fort Lee total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FORT LEE with state NJ. Office addresses and mail that list Fort Lee can be part of $23,882,964 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 32,964-line count follows the same rule.

Are Fort Lee numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $23,882,964 and 32,964 lines for FORT LEE, 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. The mean of about $725 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.