ITHACA, NY: $17.0M on 85,238 FEC receipts
FEC.gov itemizations listing contributor city ITHACA, NY sum to $17.0M across 85,238 contributions. Ithaca is a Finger Lakes volume book in Tompkins County in New York’s Finger Lakes: 85,238 lines against $17.0M produces a mean near $199 from those two packet facts. The table is a contributor-city aggregate, not a unique-donor census and not a party score. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.
Key figures
- $16,995,820 and 85,238 lines are the ITHACA, NY packet facts.
- Mean near $199 is arithmetic, not a median resident.
- Ithaca is not Syracuse on the FEC city key.
- If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.
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.
ITHACA receipts versus local campaigns
A ITHACA, NY tag records the contributor city on a federal itemization. It does not record where a ITHACA candidate spent money. $16,995,820 can leave town. Unitemized federal gifts and NY state-office receipts sit outside the 85,238 lines.
Mail and office addresses that store ITHACA still count. That is why Lansing, Dryden, and Cortland should not be treated as the same book. About $199 per line is arithmetic on $16,995,820 and 85,238.
Reading ITHACA against Syracuse
Place ITHACA next to Syracuse only if both figures are contributor-city itemized federal receipts. A finger lakes volume book: 85,238 lines, $16,995,820, mean near $199.
Lansing, Dryden, and Cortland remain other keys. Keep state NY so ITHACA, NY is not added to a twin elsewhere. NY state-campaign totals are a different filing system than this FEC city extract.
NY ZIPs are not a substitute for ITHACA
Do not back into a ITHACA story from a ZIP you assume belongs there. This packet does not publish those codes. 85,238 city-field lines wait on the live hub and the ZIP directory for any geographic split.
Candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results are not in the packet. The extract’s numbers are $16,995,820 and 85,238 from FEC.gov for the city field ITHACA, NY.
Packet facts for ITHACA
$16,995,820 divided by 85,238 is about $199. Quote the pair. Quoting only the mean hides the line count. Repeat gifts add rows. Tompkins County is the geography of the string, not a summed county total.
Lansing is next door on a map and separate on the tape. Cite $16,995,820 with 85,238 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live ITHACA hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.
Researchers citing ITHACA should keep state NY in the sentence so readers do not hunt a same-named place. The live city table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $16,995,820 or 85,238 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $199 as division only. Lansing, Dryden, and Cortland remain other strings. The 85,238-line count still is not a headcount.
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.
City is the contributor city on FEC itemizations. Totals can include PAC and joint-fundraising addresses, not only residents.