Federal contributions from ZIP 10163

Nine figures on 890 lines

Eight hundred ninety itemized receipts add to $26,179,782. The mean is about $29,415 per line ($26,179,782 / 890). That is not a household ZIP mean. It is the arithmetic you get when large committee transfers share a Midtown box ZIP with few personal itemizations. Comparing 10163 with a high-volume residential code without noting the 890-line gap will mislead a reader.

ZIP 10163 is used on Manhattan post-office boxes, not on a dense residential grid. FEC filers often list a committee at a box in such a facility. LobbyVault does not relabel those rows as non-residential; the ZIP field is whatever the committee reported. The $26,179,782 total therefore follows letterhead, not a residential occupancy file.

Box 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 nearby. Keep those questions out of a ZIP rollup that only contains dollars and a receipt count.

Why an 890-line ZIP distorts neighborhood stories

If you treat $26,179,782 as what people in 10163 gave, you invent a neighborhood that the form field does not describe. Eight hundred ninety rows is few enough that the largest lines are easy to inspect. Sort the ZIP 10163 FEC page by amount. A short list of payers likely accounts for most of the total. That is a reading of the table, not a motive claim.

A thin line count is the reason this ZIP does not behave like Park Slope or Lakeview. 890 receipts against $26,179,782 is a filing-address pattern until the named rows show otherwise. LobbyVault’s ZIP total follows the ZIP on each itemization it includes. It does not reconstruct the full path of every dollar.

What this packet will not tell you

There is no unique-donor count, no party split, and no industry rollup. Eight hundred ninety 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.

10163 is not a borough total and not a New York City Campaign Finance Board figure. It is federal itemizations only, from FEC.gov. Local and state filings use other databases. Mixing them with $26,179,782 would invent a combined number this packet does not contain.

Treat 10163 as letterhead until the table says otherwise

A mean near $29,415 is not a co-op average. It is a prompt to read the payer column. If the top rows are committee names, describe 10163 as a filing address. If personal itemizations dominate after all, the table will show that; the ZIP sum will not.

Do not rank 10163 against a residential ZIP on dollars alone. Include the 890-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 890 into people.

Where to continue from 10163

The ZIP 10163 FEC page holds the 890-row table behind $26,179,782. Rank other codes on the all-ZIP index, remembering that box ZIPs and residential ZIPs share a ranking but not a meaning. Use the donor directory for names. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls. Cite $26,179,782 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 10163.

Unitemized federal gifts never enter $26,179,782. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter it. Recheck after a restatement. Quote $26,179,782 with 890 contributions. The mean of about $29,415 is $26,179,782 divided by 890.

A Midtown box ZIP still has a public extract

Eight hundred ninety itemizations against $26,179,782 produce a mean of about $29,415. Rank 10163 against a residential ZIP on dollars alone and the comparison fails. Include the 890-receipt count. Sort the ZIP 10163 FEC page by amount. A short list of payers likely accounts for most of the total. That is a reading of the table, not a motive claim.

New York State Board of Elections filings never enter $26,179,782. Unitemized federal gifts never enter it. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter it. The packet has no unique-donor field, so 890 cannot be restated as people. Occupations on individual rows are outside these facts.

Box ZIPs and residential ZIPs share a ranking on the all-ZIP directory but not a meaning. Do not treat $26,179,782 as a Midtown neighborhood census. The donor directory remains the name-level table. Quote $26,179,782 with 890 contributions.

If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls. Recheck after a restatement. A mean near $29,415 is a prompt to read the payer column. Cite $26,179,782 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 10163. LobbyVault is the index, not the filing system.

Questions

What is the ZIP 10163 contribution total?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 10163 total $26,179,782 across 890 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Midtown residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $29,415 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 10163?

LobbyVault counts 890 itemized contributions for ZIP 10163. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. Those rows are itemized Schedule A lines, not people. The matching dollar total is $26,179,782.

Does ZIP 10163 include only Manhattan residents?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. Committee and box addresses in the 10163 grid can be part of $26,179,782 when that is what was filed. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 890-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 10163 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $26,179,782 and 890 lines for ZIP 10163. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. New York State filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.