Federal contributions from ZIP 07417: $14.3M

Franklin Lakes is not all of Bergen County

$14,339,607 divided by 29,949 is about $479 per itemized line. 07417 is one Bergen County mail key, not a countywide total. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count.

Twenty-nine thousand nine hundred forty-nine contributions is a working list. Repeat gifts and any committee that prints 07417 add rows. Do not treat 29,949 as a census of Franklin Lakes. LobbyVault does not treat $14,339,607 as a ranking of Bergen civic mood.

Leading zeros on New Jersey mail

07417 is a five-digit code. Excel and some CSV parsers drop the leading zero and leave 7417. Those rows will not join to FEC itemizations. A committee that lists a local suite still posts 07417. $14,339,607 follows the form. Open the ZIP 07417 FEC page for named receipts.

New Jersey state-office filings are a different dataset. Other 074xx Bergen codes are separate FEC keys. Adding them to 07417 and calling the sum a Bergen FEC total is a recode you must document.

What $14,339,607 leaves out

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. New Jersey state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Bergen race. Cite $14,339,607 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 07417. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings.

Live hub for 07417

The ZIP 07417 FEC page holds $14,339,607 and 29,949 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.

How 07417 should be quoted in a footnote

Quote the packet, not a vibe: ZIP 07417 covering Franklin Lakes shows $14,339,607 ($14.3M) across 29,949 FEC itemized contributions. That is a Schedule A ZIP roll-up. It is not a roster of Bergen County residents and not a unique-donor count. Repeat gifts, household pairs, and committee addresses that type 07417 all add to 29,949. The line count is the line count.

Keep 07417 as five digits when joining files. Neighboring keys (other 074xx Bergen codes) are separate totals. New Jersey state-office money is outside $14,339,607. Unitemized federal gifts are outside $14,339,607. About $479 per line is a ratio, useful only as a shape statistic next to ZIPs with similar dollars and different row counts.

The donor directory lists names on itemized receipts; filtering it to 07417 should reconcile to the ZIP hub rather than to a homemade average. This file is overlay copy for the hub and a standalone guide. It does not replace FEC.gov. Amendments can restate large transfers without rewriting most small lines, so recheck the live page after quarterly filings.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 07417 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering Franklin Lakes. $14,339,607 is the itemized-dollar total. 29,949 is the itemized-line total. $14.3M is $14,339,607 rounded. About $479 is those dollars divided by those lines. Bergen County is map context. other 074xx Bergen codes are other keys. New Jersey 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 07417 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 07417 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/07417/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-07417-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,339,607 and 29,949 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.3M 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 07417, $14,339,607, 29,949 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Itemized federal receipts tagged 07417 remain $14,339,607 on 29,949 lines in this extract. That is the whole quantitative claim. Geography labels do not add a third harvested number. Missing unique-donor counts stay missing.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 07417?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 07417 total $14,339,607 across 29,949 contributions. The compact headline is $14.3M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Franklin Lakes. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 07417?

LobbyVault counts 29,949 itemized contributions for ZIP 07417. 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 $14,339,607. The mean of about $479 is dollars divided by lines.

Why does ZIP 07417 have a leading zero?

New Jersey ZIPs begin with 0. FEC itemizations store five digits. Spreadsheets that coerce the field to a number will store 7417 and fail to match. Keep 07417 as text. Committees that file 07417 can be part of $14,339,607. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a countywide book.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 07417 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,339,607 and 29,949 lines for ZIP 07417. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and New Jersey state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.