EAST SETAUKET, NY: $18.8M on 7,733 FEC receipts

7,733 lines carrying $18,764,652

EAST SETAUKET shows 7,733 itemizations behind $18,764,652. That mix is a thinner stack with a high average line relative to volume books that post similar dollars on 70,000-plus rows. The implied mean is about $2,427. Committee receipts that list a EAST SETAUKET address still sit in the same column as individual rows.

EAST SETAUKET is a thin North Shore book: 7,733 lines against $18.8 million, a mean near $2,427. SETAUKET without EAST is a different stored spelling and stays on its own page. 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 $18,764,652 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of EAST SETAUKET gave. The 7,733 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints EAST SETAUKET together with Setauket, Stony Brook, and Port Jefferson, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $18,764,652 on 7,733 EAST SETAUKET, NY rows, mean near $2,427. Keep the stored spelling EAST SETAUKET in the citation.

Why EAST SETAUKET on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in East Setauket give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city EAST SETAUKET, NY total $18,764,652 across 7,733 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. Keep the EAST SETAUKET spelling. SETAUKET without EAST is a separate city string when filers typed it.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $18,764,652. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $2,427 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the EAST SETAUKET itemized book

$18,764,652 is not spending by EAST SETAUKET candidates. A candidate who lives in EAST SETAUKET can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged EAST SETAUKET, NY can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Setauket, Stony Brook, and Port Jefferson is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $18,764,652 counts rows that stored EAST SETAUKET, NY. 7,733 lines. About $2,427 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. NY state-office receipts are omitted.

EAST SETAUKET versus New York City on the FEC tape

EAST SETAUKET is a thin high-mean North Shore book. 7,733 lines produce $18,764,652, a mean near $2,427. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to New York City is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A EAST SETAUKET total of $18,764,652 does not absorb Setauket, Stony Brook, and Port Jefferson. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NY stays on the citation so EAST SETAUKET, NY is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in NY state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in NY

7,733 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 EAST SETAUKET 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 EAST SETAUKET 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: $18,764,652 and 7,733.

Source tables for $18,764,652

A mean of about $2,427 is division of $18,764,652 by 7,733. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of EAST SETAUKET. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the EAST SETAUKET city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

EAST SETAUKET’s $18,764,652 across 7,733 contributions is a Suffolk County city field, mean near $2,427. Setauket is a neighboring string, not a subset. Suffolk County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $18,764,652 with 7,733 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city EAST SETAUKET, NY?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city EAST SETAUKET, NY total $18,764,652 across 7,733 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 East Setauket. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $2,427 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is East Setauket the same FEC key as Setauket?

No. Keep the EAST SETAUKET spelling. SETAUKET without EAST is a separate city string when filers typed it. LobbyVault counts 7,733 itemized contributions for EAST SETAUKET, NY against $18,764,652. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 7,733 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the East Setauket total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed EAST SETAUKET with state NY. Office addresses and mail that list East Setauket can be part of $18,764,652 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 7,733-line count follows the same rule.

Are East Setauket numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $18,764,652 and 7,733 lines for EAST SETAUKET, 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.