Federal contributions itemized with ZIP 10154

Nine figures on 19,307 lines

Nineteen thousand three hundred seven itemized receipts add to $104,640,966. The mean is about $5,420 per line ($104,640,966 / 19,307). That is not a typical household ZIP mean. It is the arithmetic you get when large committee transfers share a Midtown building ZIP with a smaller set of personal itemizations. Comparing 10154 with a high-volume residential code without noting the receipt gap will mislead a reader.

ZIP 10154 is used on Park Avenue office towers in Manhattan. FEC filers often list a PAC or joint-fundraising committee at a suite in such a building. LobbyVault does not relabel those rows as non-residential; the ZIP field is whatever the committee reported. The $104,640,966 total therefore follows letterhead, not a residential occupancy file.

Office ZIPs are still public records. They are useful for seeing where committees file. They are a poor proxy for how a neighborhood votes or how many people live in the tower. Keep those questions out of a ZIP rollup that only contains dollars and a receipt count.

Why office ZIPs distort neighborhood stories

If you treat $104,640,966 as what people in 10154 gave, you will overstate household giving. Money can be reported at the committee’s office even when the original checks came from other ZIPs through a joint-fundraising pass-through. The FEC itemization ZIP follows the form, not the true origin of every dollar. That is a feature of the disclosure system, not a LobbyVault choice.

Sort the ZIP 10154 FEC page by amount. If a short list of payers accounts for most of $104,640,966, the ZIP is functioning as a committee address more than as a residential cluster. That is a reading of the table, not a motive claim. Nineteen thousand rows is few enough that the largest lines are easy to inspect.

What this packet will not tell you

There is no unique-donor count, no party split, and no industry rollup in the packet. Nineteen thousand receipts are contribution lines, not people. Occupations on individual rows are outside these facts. Do not build an industry story from a ZIP total that does not include employer aggregates.

10154 is not a borough total and not a New York City Campaign Finance Board figure. It is federal itemizations only, from FEC.gov, rolled to a five-digit code. Local and state filings use other databases. Mixing them with $104,640,966 would invent a combined number this packet does not contain.

PAC and joint-fundraising addresses

Say it plainly: ZIP 10154 totals can include PAC and joint-fundraising addresses, not only residents. For a commercial ZIP with a $5,420 mean, that caveat is the main interpretive rule. Read contributor names before comparing 10154 with a residential Upper East Side code. The comparison is only fair if both sides are treated as mailing codes, not as household maps.

Treating 10154 as letterhead, then checking the rows

Midtown office ZIPs are where national PACs and joint-fundraising committees print an address. ZIP 10154’s $104,640,966 on 19,307 receipts fits that pattern until the table proves a broader mix. A mean near $5,420 is not a co-op average. It is a prompt to read the payer column. If the top rows are committee names, describe 10154 as a filing address. If personal itemizations dominate after all, the table will show that; the ZIP sum will not.

Pass-through fundraising is the other reason office ZIPs inflate. A joint-fundraising committee can report a large receipt at 10154 while the earmarked pieces sit on other lines or other ZIPs. LobbyVault’s ZIP total follows the ZIP on each itemization it includes. It does not reconstruct the full path of every dollar. Researchers who need that path have to open filings, not the ZIP rollup.

Do not rank 10154 against a residential ZIP on dollars alone. Include the 19,307-receipt count in the comparison. The all-ZIP index shows both facts. The donor directory remains the name-level table. This packet still has no unique-donor count to convert 19,307 into people.

Where to continue from 10154

The ZIP 10154 FEC page holds the 19,307-row table behind $104,640,966. Rank other codes on the all-ZIP index, remembering that office ZIPs and residential ZIPs share a ranking but not a meaning. Use the donor directory for names. This guide cites only the packet’s two volume facts.

Questions

What is the ZIP 10154 contribution total?

LobbyVault shows $104,640,966 across 19,307 FEC itemized contributions listing ZIP 10154, from FEC.gov. The mean is about $5,420 per receipt. That sparse, high-dollar pattern often reflects PAC and joint-fundraising addresses in a Manhattan office ZIP, not a dense residential donor list.

Is 10154 a residential Upper East Side ZIP?

10154 is a five-digit contributor ZIP used on Midtown Manhattan commercial addresses. Residents can appear, but committee offices are common. The $104,640,966 total on 19,307 receipts is a mailing-code sum with a mean near $5,420. Do not treat it as a household census of a residential neighborhood. Read payer names on the hub table.

How many unique donors are in 10154?

This packet does not include a unique-donor count. It reports 19,307 contribution lines and $104,640,966. One committee can generate large transfers that dwarf personal itemizations. Use the donor directory for name-level rows. Treat 19,307 as receipts, not as people who live at a Park Avenue office ZIP.

Where are the 10154 receipts listed?

On the ZIP 10154 FEC page, which holds the 19,307-row table behind $104,640,966. Compare other codes on the all-ZIP index, remembering that office ZIPs and residential ZIPs are not like-for-like. The donor directory is the person-level table. PAC and joint-fundraising addresses can dominate a commercial ZIP total.