Federal contributions from ZIP 06902

Sixty-six thousand Stamford-area lines

$21,999,840 divided by 66,533 is about $331 per itemized line. Connecticut coastal codes often mix residences, offices, and committee letterhead on the same five digits. That $331 figure is arithmetic from the packet, not a median gift and not a typical household.

Sixty-six thousand five hundred thirty-three itemizations is a long receipt list. Repeat gifts, workplace itemizations, and bundled events can all add rows. 66,533 is not a headcount of people who live along the Stamford waterfront or inland from it.

No party share is attached to $21,999,840. 06902 is a geographic key on the contributor record. Cite 66,533 contributions with that total whenever the ZIP is quoted.

Why the leading zero on 06902 matters

FEC files store contributor ZIP as a five-character string. 06902 is not 6902. Exports that coerce the field to a number drop the zero and fail to match the ZIP 06902 FEC page. Researchers joining LobbyVault tables to other extracts should keep 06902 as text.

The $21,999,840 total is attached to that string as filed. Recoding 06902 into a city, a neighborhood, or a three-digit sectional center is a new dataset. LobbyVault reports the five-digit roll-up from FEC.gov.

What $21,999,840 leaves out

Unitemized federal contributions never enter the $21,999,840 sum. Connecticut state races that do not file with the FEC never enter it. Independent expenditures paid under a different ZIP do not move this receipt total.

Amended reports can still shift $21,999,840 and 66,533. Recheck the live hub after large filings. This guide is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Using the 06902 hub and directories

Open the ZIP 06902 FEC page for the current $21,999,840 and 66,533. Sort by amount if you need to see whether a few large itemizations sit inside the mean of about $331. The all-ZIP directory places 06902 next to other codes on the same series.

The donor directory is for names on itemized rows, not a second ZIP total. If the live table reprints different figures, the newer extract wins. Guides do not override the table.

Joins, zeros, and extract hygiene for 06902

Researchers who export ZIP 06902 into Excel as a number will silently create 6902 and then fail to match $21,999,840 and 66,533 on the hub. Store the field as text before any join. FEC.gov itemizations use five characters; LobbyVault’s overlay path keeps the zero in /zip-codes/06902/.

A clean citation for 06902 names the leading zero, the dollars, and the line count in one sentence: itemized federal receipts with contributor ZIP 06902 total $21,999,840 across 66,533 contributions. The mean of about $331 may follow as arithmetic. Nothing else in this packet supports a donor census, a party split, or a cycle year.

Citing 06902 without dropping the zero

The clean citation is one sentence: itemized federal receipts with contributor ZIP 06902 total $21,999,840 across 66,533 contributions, according to FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Keep the leading zero in every join, filename, and footnote. A mean of about $331 may follow as $21,999,840 ÷ 66,533. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet.

Stamford’s 06902 grid mixes waterfront, office, and residential mail. That mix is orientation, not a split of $21,999,840. FEC.gov did not tag rows as office versus home. Recoding 66,533 lines into a workplace census is a different project. The ZIP 06902 FEC page lists the current extract; sort by amount if you need to see whether large rows sit inside the $331 mean.

Spreadsheet exports remain the most common way to lose this ZIP. Numeric format creates 6902, then the join to /zip-codes/06902/ fails, then the researcher reports a missing $21,999,840. Store 06902 as text before any sort. If a committee amends the ZIP field on a large row, both the dollars and the 66,533-line count move. Recheck the live hub. Connecticut state filings never enter this federal roll-up.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 06902?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 06902 total $21,999,840 across 66,533 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. Keep the leading zero on 06902. The figure is a five-digit ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count. Unitemized gifts sit outside $21,999,840.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 06902?

LobbyVault counts 66,533 itemized contributions for ZIP 06902. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding new people. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $21,999,840, about $331 per line.

Why keep the leading zero on ZIP 06902?

FEC contributor ZIP is a five-character field. 06902 is not the same key as 6902. Number-formatted spreadsheets drop the zero and break joins to the ZIP 06902 FEC page. Store the code as text. The $21,999,840 and 66,533 facts attach to the five-digit string as filed on FEC.gov.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 06902 totals?

From FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $21,999,840 and 66,533 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Non-federal campaigns and unitemized federal gifts are outside both numbers. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.