SYRACUSE, NY: $16.1M on 65,360 FEC receipts

65,360 lines behind SYRACUSE's $16.1M

SYRACUSE shows 65,360 itemizations behind $16,121,585. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $16.1M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. The implied mean is about $247.

SYRACUSE, NY is an Onondaga County city field, not Syracuse, Utah. State NY is required in the citation. Rochester and Albany are other New York keys. This is not a statewide New York roll-up. 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 $16,121,585 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Syracuse gave. The 65,360 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Syracuse together with Rochester, Albany, and Syracuse, Utah, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,121,585 on 65,360 SYRACUSE, NY rows, mean near $247. Keep the stored spelling SYRACUSE in the citation.

Why SYRACUSE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Syracuse give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city SYRACUSE, NY total $16,121,585 across 65,360 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. This extract is SYRACUSE with state NY. Syracuse, UT is a different FEC city-and-state key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,121,585. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $247 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the SYRACUSE itemized book

$16,121,585 is not spending by Syracuse candidates. A candidate who lives in Syracuse can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged SYRACUSE, NY can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Rochester, Albany, and Syracuse, Utah is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $16,121,585 counts rows that stored SYRACUSE, NY. 65,360 lines. About $247 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. NY state-office receipts are omitted.

SYRACUSE versus Rochester on the FEC tape

SYRACUSE is a central-New York volume book in Onondaga County in central New York. 65,360 lines produce $16,121,585, a mean near $247. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Rochester is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Syracuse total of $16,121,585 does not absorb Rochester, Albany, and Syracuse, Utah. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NY stays on the citation so SYRACUSE, 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

65,360 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 Syracuse 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 Syracuse 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: $16,121,585 and 65,360.

Source tables for $16,121,585

A mean of about $247 is division of $16,121,585 by 65,360. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Syracuse. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Syracuse city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Syracuse’s $16,121,585 across 65,360 contributions is a Onondaga County city field, mean near $247. Rochester is a neighboring string, not a subset. Onondaga County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $16,121,585 with 65,360 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 SYRACUSE, NY?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city SYRACUSE, NY total $16,121,585 across 65,360 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 Syracuse. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $247 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is this Syracuse, Utah?

No. This extract is SYRACUSE with state NY. Syracuse, UT is a different FEC city-and-state key. LobbyVault counts 65,360 itemized contributions for SYRACUSE, NY against $16,121,585. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 65,360 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Syracuse total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed SYRACUSE with state NY. Office addresses and mail that list Syracuse can be part of $16,121,585 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 65,360-line count follows the same rule.

Are Syracuse numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,121,585 and 65,360 lines for SYRACUSE, 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.