NY, NY: $88.3M on 98,353 FEC receipts

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.

Outside the NY itemized book

$88,285,550 is not spending by NY candidates. A candidate who lives in NY can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged NY, NY can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $898 does not describe a median resident of NY. Means move with a few large lines.

Keep NEW YORK, Brooklyn, and Manhattan off the NY citation unless the receipt actually stored those cities. $88,285,550 is the NY, NY string alone. 98,353 itemized rows and about $898 per row are the shape of that string, not of the metro map.

Volume and average on the NY book

NY sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $898 from $88,285,550 divided by 98,353. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

Comparing NY’s mean to another city is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in state data breaks the comparison.

Metro shorthand that folds NEW YORK or Brooklyn into NY is a recode. FEC.gov stored NY, NY. $88,285,550 across 98,353 contributions, mean near $898, belongs to that spelling. Manhattan is a different key if it appears as the city field.

City total versus postal codes in NY

98,353 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 NY 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 NY politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. Those subjects have other documents. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field.

Source tables for $88,285,550

A mean of about $898 is division of $88,285,550 by 98,353. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of NY.

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

NY, NY is an abbreviation key, not a borough roll-up. Filers who typed NEW YORK sit in a different city string if that is how FEC stored it. This page cites only NY: $88,285,550 across 98,353 contributions, mean near $898. Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens are not dimensions on this aggregate. New York state-office campaigns are omitted. The short city field is easy to over-read as all of New York City. It is the two-letter string plus state NY. Ninety-eight thousand three hundred fifty-three lines is a mid-length list with a higher average than many large-city volume books. Cite NY, NY exactly. The NY FEC page holds the live $88,285,550 / 98,353 pair.

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.