ZIP 02118: $17.5 million across 40,064 FEC lines

South End dollars, not a Boston citywide total

$17,457,907 divided by 40,064 is about $436 per itemized line. The South End is one Boston neighborhood with one mail key. Other Boston ZIPs are separate roll-ups. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count or a citywide sum.

Forty thousand sixty-four contributions is a working list. Repeat givers, brownstone-address batches, medical-campus addresses, and any committee that files 02118 all add rows. Do not treat 40,064 as a census of the South End.

LobbyVault does not treat $17,457,907 as a ranking of Boston civic mood. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 02118.

The South End’s 02118 key is one Boston neighborhood. $17,457,907 across 40,064 contributions is not a citywide figure. Medical-campus addresses can appear in named receipts beside brownstones. Keep the leading zero. Keep 40,064 as a line count. This packet has no unique-donor count. Recheck the ZIP 02118 FEC page after quarterly filings. 02116 is Back Bay, a different key. FEC.gov controls.

Leading zeros and hospital-campus mail

02118 is a five-digit code. Spreadsheets that store 2118 will fail to match FEC itemizations. The South End mixes households with the Boston Medical Campus edge. A committee that lists a 02118 suite still posts that ZIP. $17,457,907 follows the form. It is not a resident-only book.

Open named receipts on the ZIP 02118 FEC page if you need to see which committees appear. This guide will not guess the mix inside 40,064 lines.

Exclusions from $17,457,907

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Massachusetts state-office campaigns are omitted. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP are omitted even if they mention a Suffolk race. Cite $17,457,907 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 02118.

Amendments can restated large transfers without touching most of the 40,064 small lines. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings. This prose is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

The South End’s 02118 key mixes brownstones with medical-campus addresses. $17,457,907 across 40,064 contributions is 02118 only, not Boston. Keep the leading zero. Keep 40,064 as a line count. This packet has no unique-donor count. The $436 mean is arithmetic.

Massachusetts local campaigns never enter this federal ZIP total. Recheck the ZIP 02118 FEC page after quarterly filings. Back Bay and Chinatown keys have their own totals. The donor directory lists names. FEC.gov remains the original filing if the snapshot and a later file disagree.

02118 beside 02116 and 02111

Back Bay and Chinatown are different mail keys. Adding them to 02118 and calling the sum a Boston FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $17,457,907 for 02118 only.

The all-ZIP directory is the inventory for that comparison. Compare 40,064 against those peers rather than against a Financial District ZIP with 27,000 lines. Filing shape is local to how addresses were entered.

Tables for the South End key

The ZIP 02118 FEC page holds $17,457,907 and 40,064 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.

Filtering the donor directory to 02118 should reconcile to the ZIP hub, not to a homemade $436 average. When a name search and 40,064 disagree, the ZIP roll-up is the geographic total.

South End mail without a Boston citywide total

02118 posts $17,457,907 across 40,064 contributions, about $436 per line. Brownstones and medical-campus addresses share that key. Keep the leading zero. Treating 40,064 as a census of the South End is a category error. This packet has no unique-donor count.

02116 and 02111 are adjoining keys. Adding them to 02118 manufactures a city figure. If you need that figure, list every ZIP. Keep 40,064 as the 02118 line count. The all-ZIP directory is the inventory.

Massachusetts state filings sit outside $17,457,907. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside. Recheck the ZIP 02118 FEC page after quarterly filings. Named receipts show which committees appear. The donor directory lists names. FEC.gov remains the original filing if the snapshot and a later file disagree.

If a later Commission extract reprints 02118, compare it to $17,457,907 and 40,064 on the live hub before quoting this snapshot. Keep the leading zero. The South End is not Boston. Named receipts remain the way to see committees. The donor directory is not a second copy of those two facts.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 02118?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 02118 total $17,457,907 across 40,064 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of South End residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $436 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 02118?

LobbyVault counts 40,064 itemized contributions for ZIP 02118. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and campus-address batches can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $17,457,907.

Does ZIP 02118 cover all of Boston?

No. 02118 is the South End mail key. Other Boston ZIPs are separate roll-ups. Keep the leading zero when matching files. Committees and medical-campus addresses that file 02118 can be part of $17,457,907. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a citywide or residential-only book. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 02118 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,457,907 and 40,064 lines for ZIP 02118. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Massachusetts state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.