Federal contributions from ZIP 00646

Two thousand lines, $21.3 million

$21,345,408 divided by 2,006 is about $10,641 per itemized line. That is filing shape, not a typical Dorado household. A short list with a five-figure mean usually means large Schedule A rows — committee transfers, memo entries, or a handful of high-dollar itemizations — dominate the roll-up.

Two thousand six is still a contribution-line count, not a unique-person count. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding new people. It is also not a single check. This packet has no donor headcount and no size bands.

Do not read $10,641 as what a typical payer gave. Sort the ZIP 00646 FEC page by amount. A few large rows can account for most of $21,345,408 while smaller itemizations fill out 2,006.

Puerto Rico ZIP, two leading zeros

00646 is a Dorado, Puerto Rico five-digit ZIP. FEC files store contributor ZIP as a five-character string. 00646 is not 646 and is not 04646. Exports that coerce the field to a number drop both zeros and fail to match the ZIP 00646 FEC page.

Puerto Rico contributors file federal itemizations under the same FEC rules as stateside ZIP codes. $21,345,408 follows the filed string. Recoding 00646 into a municipality or an island-wide total is a different dataset.

Why a short Puerto Rico list still needs the field rule

A 2,006-line ZIP with a $10,641 mean is a pattern where a few large Schedule A rows can move the headline. The total is the contributor ZIP as filed, not a census of Dorado residents. Do not convert $21,345,408 into a municipal giving rank.

Unitemized federal gifts never enter $21,345,408. Puerto Rico local races that never reach the FEC never enter it. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP do not move this receipt total.

What $21,345,408 leaves out

Cite $21,345,408 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 00646, from FEC.gov. Mixing local races or unitemized federal gifts with this sum double-counts some activity and misses other activity.

Amended reports can still shift $21,345,408 and 2,006. On a short list, a single restated transfer can move the mean by thousands of dollars. Recheck the ZIP 00646 FEC page after a restatement.

Joins, zeros, and the 00646 hub

Researchers who export ZIP 00646 into Excel as a number will silently create 646 and then fail to match $21,345,408 and 2,006 on the hub. Store the field as text before any join. LobbyVault’s overlay path keeps both zeros in /zip-codes/00646/.

Open the ZIP 00646 FEC page and sort by amount first. With 2,006 rows, the largest itemizations are inspectable. The accurate citation names both zeros, the dollars, and the line count: itemized federal receipts with contributor ZIP 00646 total $21,345,408 across 2,006 contributions. The mean of about $10,641 may follow as arithmetic.

Citing 00646 with both leading zeros

Puerto Rico ZIPs lose both zeros in numeric exports. The citation must keep them: itemized federal receipts with contributor ZIP 00646 total $21,345,408 across 2,006 contributions, per FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. A mean of about $10,641 is $21,345,408 ÷ 2,006. That is filing shape on a short Dorado list, not a typical household. Sort the ZIP 00646 FEC page by amount before writing about large rows.

On 2,006 lines, one restated transfer can move the mean by thousands of dollars. Recheck the hub after amendments. Do not convert $21,345,408 into a Dorado municipal rank. Local Puerto Rico races that never reach the FEC sit outside this federal sum. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside it. Store 00646 as text so joins to /zip-codes/00646/ survive. Named receipts on those 2,006 rows answer identity; this guide answers only the five-digit string and the two packet facts.

A researcher who only quotes $21,345,408 without 2,006 hides the $10,641 mean that makes this Dorado ZIP a short-list roll-up. Quote both, and keep both leading zeros. If a committee later amends the ZIP field on a large row, both figures move. Recheck the ZIP 00646 FEC page.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 00646?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 00646 total $21,345,408 across 2,006 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. Keep both leading zeros on 00646. The figure is a five-digit ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count. The mean of about $10,641 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Why does ZIP 00646 have so few FEC contributions?

LobbyVault counts 2,006 itemized contributions for ZIP 00646 against $21,345,408. That is a short line list for this dollar band. Committee letterhead can concentrate large rows. The packet does not split those rows from individual itemizations and does not publish a unique-donor figure.

Why keep both leading zeros on ZIP 00646?

FEC contributor ZIP is a five-character field. 00646 is not 646. Number-formatted spreadsheets drop the zeros and break joins to the ZIP 00646 FEC page. Store the code as text. The $21,345,408 and 2,006 facts attach to the five-digit string as filed on FEC.gov.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 00646 totals?

From FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $21,345,408 and 2,006 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Local Puerto Rico races and unitemized federal gifts are outside both numbers. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.