Federal contributions from ZIP 10009: $14.7M

Alphabet City mail is not all of Lower Manhattan

$14,713,682 divided by 62,209 is about $237 per itemized line. Sixty-two thousand two hundred nine rows is a dense Manhattan list. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count or a boroughwide sum.

Do not treat 62,209 as a census of the East Village. Repeat gifts, roommate households, and any committee that prints 10009 all add rows. LobbyVault does not interpret $14,713,682 as a ranking of Lower East Side civic intensity. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 10009.

One Manhattan ZIP, many building types

A Avenue B walk-up, a Stuyvesant Town-adjacent listing, and a committee suite can share 10009. $14,713,682 follows the form. Open the ZIP 10009 FEC page for named receipts rather than guessing which of the 62,209 rows are households.

10003, 10002, and 10011 are different roll-ups. Adding them to 10009 and calling the sum a Lower Manhattan FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $14,713,682 for 10009 only.

What $14,713,682 leaves out

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. New York state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Manhattan race. Cite $14,713,682 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 10009. The mean of about $237 is arithmetic, not a median.

Live hub for 10009

The ZIP 10009 FEC page holds $14,713,682 and 62,209 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 10009 should be quoted in a footnote

Quote the packet, not a vibe: ZIP 10009 covering East Village / Alphabet City shows $14,713,682 ($14.7M) across 62,209 FEC itemized contributions. That is a Schedule A ZIP roll-up. It is not a roster of Manhattan residents and not a unique-donor count. Repeat gifts, household pairs, and committee addresses that type 10009 all add to 62,209. The line count is the line count.

Keep 10009 as five digits when joining files. Neighboring keys (10003, 10002, and 10011) are separate totals. New York state-office money is outside $14,713,682. Unitemized federal gifts are outside $14,713,682. About $237 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 10009 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. 10009 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering East Village / Alphabet City. $14,713,682 is the itemized-dollar total. 62,209 is the itemized-line total. $14.7M is $14,713,682 rounded. About $237 is those dollars divided by those lines. Manhattan is map context. 10003, 10002, and 10011 are other keys. New York 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 10009 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 10009 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/10009/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-10009-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,713,682 and 62,209 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.7M 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 10009, $14,713,682, 62,209 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 10009?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 10009 total $14,713,682 across 62,209 contributions. The compact headline is $14.7M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of the East Village. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 10009?

LobbyVault counts 62,209 itemized contributions for ZIP 10009. 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 $14,713,682. The mean of about $237 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 10009 cover all of Lower Manhattan?

No. 10009 is the East Village / Alphabet City mail key. 10003, 10002, 10011 and other codes are separate roll-ups. Committees that file 10009 can be part of $14,713,682. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a boroughwide book. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear. This packet still does not publish a unique-donor count.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 10009 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,713,682 and 62,209 lines for ZIP 10009. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and New York state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.