Federal contributions from ZIP 02114: $14.6M

the West End and the hill district west of the Common is not all of Boston

$14,640,286 divided by 33,471 is about $437 per itemized line. 02114 covers the West End, the hill district west of the Common, and hospital-campus mail. 02108, 02109, and 02113 are different roll-ups. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count.

Thirty-three thousand four hundred seventy-one contributions is a working list. Medical-campus offices, residential streets, and any committee that prints 02114 all add rows. Do not treat 33,471 as a census of the hill district. LobbyVault does not treat $14,640,286 as a ranking of downtown Boston civic mood.

Leading zeros on Massachusetts mail

02114 is a five-digit code. Excel and some CSV parsers drop the leading zero and leave 2114. Those rows will not join to FEC itemizations. A committee that lists a Cambridge Street suite still posts 02114. $14,640,286 follows the form. It is not a resident-only book.

Open the ZIP 02114 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not guess which of the 33,471 rows are households. Massachusetts state-office filings are a different dataset even when the street is the same.

What stays outside $14,640,286

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Massachusetts state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Boston or 8th District race. Cite $14,640,286 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 02114. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings.

02114 beside 02108, 02109, and 02113

02108 on the hill west of the Common, the Financial District, and the North End are separate FEC keys. Adding them to 02114 and calling the sum a downtown Boston FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $14,640,286 for 02114 only. Compare 33,471 on the all-ZIP directory.

Live hub for 02114

The ZIP 02114 FEC page holds $14,640,286 and 33,471 as currently indexed. The all-ZIP directory places the code among others. The donor directory lists names on itemized receipts. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count.

Method notes for the 02114 roll-up

LobbyVault indexes FEC.gov itemized receipts and groups them by the five-digit contributor ZIP. For 02114 (the West End and the hill district west of the Common), that group currently totals $14,640,286 on 33,471 lines. $14.6M is the rounded headline. Suffolk County is the map context. Neither the map nor the rounding creates a new fact. There is no unique-donor field in this packet. Writing one would be invention.

Itemization has a federal threshold. Small unitemized gifts never appear in $14,640,286. Massachusetts state-office reports never appear in $14,640,286. Independent expenditures are a different schedule. If you need 02108, 02109, and 02113, open those hubs separately. Adding them to 02114 without saying so misstates the unit.

The mean of about $437 answers a narrow question: dollars divided by lines. It does not describe the median gift, the largest gift, or a typical household. Named receipts live on the ZIP 02114 FEC page. The all-ZIP directory is the inventory for rank and peer comparison. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if extracts diverge.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 02114 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering the West End and the hill district west of the Common. $14,640,286 is the itemized-dollar total. 33,471 is the itemized-line total. $14.6M is $14,640,286 rounded. About $437 is those dollars divided by those lines. Suffolk County is map context. 02108, 02109, and 02113 are other keys. Massachusetts state-office activity is out of scope. Unitemized federal gifts are out of scope. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count, so do not cite one. Open the ZIP 02114 FEC page for the live index, the all-ZIP directory for peers, and the donor directory for names on itemized receipts. If those tools and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls. Cite the ZIP, the dollars, and the line count together.

LobbyVault publishes this 02114 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/02114/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-02114-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,640,286 and 33,471 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.6M into a forecast. Readers who want the row list should use the hub. Readers who want the explanation should stay on the guide. The ZIP remains the five-digit contributor field on FEC itemizations, indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. A complete citation names ZIP 02114, $14,640,286, 33,471 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 02114?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 02114 total $14,640,286 across 33,471 contributions. The compact headline is $14.6M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of the West End or the hill district west of the Common. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 02114?

LobbyVault counts 33,471 itemized contributions for ZIP 02114. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts can add rows. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $14,640,286. The mean of about $437 is dollars divided by lines.

Why does ZIP 02114 have a leading zero?

Massachusetts ZIPs begin with 0. FEC itemizations store five digits. Spreadsheets that coerce the field to a number will store 2114 and fail to match. Keep 02114 as text. Committees that file 02114 can be part of $14,640,286. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a citywide book.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 02114 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,640,286 and 33,471 lines for ZIP 02114. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Massachusetts state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.