ZIP 10150: $1.17 billion on 3,185 FEC lines

A billion-dollar ZIP on a short itemization list

Divide $1,174,395,711 by 3,185 and the mean line is about $368,700. That average is a ratio, not a typical household gift. A handful of large committee transfers, joint-fundraising allocations, or PAC receipts posted to a Manhattan mail ZIP can move the mean without describing how people in the neighborhood give. FEC Schedule A stores whatever five-digit ZIP the filer put on the receipt. LobbyVault sums those rows. It does not recode them into a residential-only book.

Three thousand one hundred eighty-five itemized lines is a small count next to other high-dollar ZIPs that show six-figure contribution counts. The contrast is the story the table can support: 10150 is a concentration ZIP on the FEC tape, not a volume ZIP. Sorting the ZIP hub by dollars puts 10150 near the top. Sorting by contribution count does not. Both sorts are the same public file.

Nothing in this aggregate assigns a party, a candidate, or a motive to the $1,174,395,711. Recipient committees sit on other LobbyVault pages. This page answers one question: how much itemized federal money is tagged to ZIP 10150 on FEC.gov filings indexed here.

What the 10150 field is on an FEC receipt

Individual contribution files include a ZIP field taken from the contributor record. Committees, joint fundraising committees, and PACs often use a business or post-office ZIP. When those entities appear as contributors or as the address on a transferred receipt, their ZIP is 10150 if that is what was filed. Treating $1,174,395,711 as “what residents of 10150 donated” overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works.

Unitemized gifts below the federal itemization threshold never enter this total. State and local filings never enter it. Independent expenditures that mention a candidate but were paid by a committee with a different ZIP never enter it. The $1,174,395,711 figure is a ZIP roll-up of itemized federal receipts, sourced from FEC.gov.

How to read 3,185 lines without over-reading them

Each of the 3,185 rows is a disclosed itemization, not a unique person. Repeat contributors, redesignations, and memo entries can add lines. LobbyVault’s packet for this ZIP does not publish a unique-donor count, so this guide does not invent one. If you need names, open the ZIP 10150 FEC page and follow receipts to committees.

Large mean lines also mean amendments matter. One restated joint-fundraising schedule can move tens of millions inside $1,174,395,711. The live hub is the place to check after an FEC amendment. This prose is a snapshot of the aggregate, not a live ticker.

Researchers sometimes treat a short list as a cleaner sample. On 10150 the opposite is true. 3,185 lines carrying $1,174,395,711 means each restatement can swing the ZIP more than a 200,000-line code would. Pull the original schedule when a line looks outsized. LobbyVault’s hub is a sum, not a substitute for the PDF on FEC.gov.

10150 beside other ZIP totals

The all-ZIP directory ranks contributor ZIPs by the same FEC series. 10150’s combination of $1,174,395,711 and 3,185 lines is unusual: high dollars, low line count. Neighboring Manhattan ZIPs in that directory often show more receipts and a lower mean. Use the directory to compare, and keep the comparison inside itemized federal receipts. Do not mix in state campaign money or modeled “influence” scores. FEC.gov does not publish those on this field.

If you rank ZIPs by mean instead of by $1,174,395,711, 10150 jumps because 3,185 is small. Ranking by mean is a derived view. FEC.gov did not publish a mean table. State it as arithmetic from $1,174,395,711 and 3,185 so a reader can redo the division.

Where the original filings live

LobbyVault indexes FEC.gov bulk data. The ZIP 10150 page is the table behind these figures. The donor directory is a name-level view of itemized contributors across ZIPs, not a substitute for the 10150 roll-up. If a later extract disagrees with $1,174,395,711 or 3,185, the FEC filing controls. This guide does not add geography, income, or party onto a ZIP code the Commission did not put there.

Memo entries and redesignations can sit inside 3,185. They are still itemizations. Deleting them by hand would create a homemade total that is no longer $1,174,395,711. Leave the count intact unless you document a filter. The donor directory is the place to inspect names, not a second ZIP total.

What a $368,700 mean does and does not prove

A mean of about $368,700 on ZIP 10150 is a warning label, not a lifestyle statistic. It says the $1,174,395,711 total is not built like a stack of $200 checks. It does not say every filer in a Manhattan mail ZIP wrote a six-figure check. FEC.gov itemizations can mix a few enormous committee rows with ordinary individual rows on the same five digits.

Because unique donors are not in this packet, you cannot convert 3,185 into a person count and you cannot convert $368,700 into a typical gift. The only two FEC facts on this page remain $1,174,395,711 and 3,185. Everything else is method: ZIP field, itemized-only scope, and the joint-fundraising caveat already stated.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 10150?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 10150 total $1,174,395,711 across 3,185 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 people who live in a Manhattan mail ZIP. Joint fundraising committees and PAC addresses can appear in $1,174,395,711 when that five-digit code was filed. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Does $1.17 billion mean people who live in 10150 gave that much?

The ZIP is the five-digit code on the FEC itemization. Joint fundraising and PAC addresses can appear in the same $1,174,395,711 total. 3,185 is a contribution-line count, not a unique-person count. Treating $1,174,395,711 as resident-only giving in a Manhattan mail ZIP overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works. Open the ZIP 10150 hub for named receipts.

Why are there only 3,185 contributions for such a large total?

3,185 itemized lines against $1,174,395,711 produces a concentration pattern with a mean near $368,700. That arithmetic is a scale check, not a typical household gift. Large committee and joint-fundraising receipts posted to a Manhattan mail ZIP can dominate the mean. The packet has no median and no unique-donor count. Cite both $1,174,395,711 and 3,185.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 10150 totals?

Figures come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $1,174,395,711 and 3,185 contributions for ZIP 10150. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are outside both numbers. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The live ZIP 10150 FEC page is the current table.