STATEN ISLAND, NY: $26.9M on 102,382 FEC receipts

Staten Island as a city field, not a borough recode

One hundred two thousand three hundred eighty-two lines produce $26,895,341. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $263. That is a high-volume borough string on this extract. NEW YORK CITY as a separate key carries fewer lines on a similar dollar total; that contrast is a filing-string fact, not a ranking of boroughs.

Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, and NEW YORK CITY keep separate hubs. Adding them to Staten Island would invent a five-borough total the Commission does not store on this key. This packet publishes STATEN ISLAND, NY only: $26,895,341 and 102,382 lines.

Not a New York City roll-up

Filers who live on Staten Island sometimes type NEW YORK or NEW YORK CITY. Those rows never enter $26,895,341. Only receipts that stored STATEN ISLAND as the contributor city sit here. LobbyVault does not recode borough names into a metro hub. A St. George mail room typed as STATEN ISLAND sits inside the pair; an island household typed as NEW YORK does not. That split is why 102,382 can exceed the thinner NEW YORK CITY string on similar dollars.

Office addresses can share the Staten Island city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 102,382 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

City string versus island map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. STATEN ISLAND plus NY is the match. Recoding into a Census place, a Richmond County map, or a five-borough label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Staten Island ZIPs can diverge from $26,895,341 when some receipts used NEW YORK as the city. The 102,382-line count follows the city field.

What $26,895,341 from Staten Island omits

Unitemized federal contributions do not appear in $26,895,341. Many small gifts never become Schedule A city rows. Citing $26,895,341 as “all federal money from Staten Island” overstates the series.

New York state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $26,895,341 and outside 102,382. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts. City Council and state legislative gifts that never become federal Schedule A rows sit outside both facts as well.

Citing STATEN ISLAND, NY

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $26,895,341 with 102,382 together. Dropping the line count hides Staten Island’s volume relative to a thinner New York string on similar dollars. Richmond County and “the five boroughs” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

Staten Island will keep attracting queries that treat the borough as a proxy for New York residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $26,895,341 across 102,382 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $263 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Staten Island receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Staten Island hub

Start on the live Staten Island city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $26,895,341 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 102,382 is the matching line count. Filers typed STATEN ISLAND. LobbyVault indexed STATEN ISLAND. A household on the island typed as NEW YORK does not sit inside this pair. A mail room typed as STATEN ISLAND does. Compare that shape with the thinner NEW YORK CITY string on its own hub; do not add the two.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city STATEN ISLAND, NY, $26,895,341, 102,382 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. A mean near $263 is only $26,895,341 divided by 102,382. It is not a typical Staten Island household gift. Occupation, recipient, and party are other FEC fields. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that Staten Island is more politically active than NEW YORK CITY because 102,382 is larger than that other string’s line count. Those are different keys. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov. New York non-federal filings never enter either fact.

Questions

What is Staten Island’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city STATEN ISLAND, NY total $26,895,341 across 102,382 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a five-borough census. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Staten Island’s 102,382 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 102,382 itemized lines for STATEN ISLAND, NY. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $26,895,341.

Does Staten Island’s total include Brooklyn or NEW YORK CITY?

Only if the filer typed STATEN ISLAND. Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, and NEW YORK CITY are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $26,895,341 is the STATEN ISLAND, NY match. The 102,382 lines follow the same rule.

Where do the Staten Island facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $26,895,341 and 102,382 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. New York non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $263 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.