Federal contributions from ZIP 11238: $14.6M

Seventy-seven thousand Brooklyn lines

$14,561,261 divided by 77,030 is about $189 per itemized line. That modest mean next to 77,030 rows is the shape of this code. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count. Do not treat 77,030 as a census of Prospect Heights.

Park Slope 11217, 11215, and 11216 are different roll-ups. LobbyVault does not interpret $14,561,261 as a ranking of central Brooklyn civic intensity. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 11238.

Prospect Heights is not all of central Brooklyn

A Vanderbilt Avenue walk-up, a Flatbush-adjacent listing, and a committee suite can share 11238. $14,561,261 follows the form. Open the ZIP 11238 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not guess which of the 77,030 rows are households.

Adding 11238 to neighboring Brooklyn codes and calling the sum a central Brooklyn FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $14,561,261 for 11238 only. Compare line volume on the all-ZIP directory.

What stays outside $14,561,261

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 Brooklyn race. Cite $14,561,261 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 11238. The mean of about $189 is arithmetic, not a median.

Live hub for 11238

The ZIP 11238 FEC page holds $14,561,261 and 77,030 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.

Citing 11238 without inventing a fourth fact

A usable public-record sentence names the exact key: contributor ZIP 11238 (Prospect Heights) in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sums to $14,561,261 on 77,030 itemized lines. The compact headline $14.6M is that same dollar total rounded to one decimal million. It is not a second extract and not a forecast. Brooklyn geography explains where the mail code sits. It does not add a donor headcount. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so do not back into one from 77,030.

Unitemized federal receipts never carry a published ZIP in this roll-up, so they never enter $14,561,261. New York state-office campaigns are a different filing system. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP are not contributions and are not inside $14,561,261. The arithmetic mean of about $189 is $14,561,261 divided by 77,030. Means are not medians. Compare 11238 to 11217, 11215, and 11216 on the all-ZIP directory if you need a peer set. Do not add those keys to $14,561,261 unless you are building a documented cluster with named sources.

LobbyVault does not infer motive from a ZIP column. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. Researchers who need employer text, recipient committees, or cycle cuts should leave this guide and open the ZIP 11238 FEC page, where $14,561,261 and 77,030 are the live indexed totals.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 11238 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering Prospect Heights. $14,561,261 is the itemized-dollar total. 77,030 is the itemized-line total. $14.6M is $14,561,261 rounded. About $189 is those dollars divided by those lines. Brooklyn is map context. 11217, 11215, and 11216 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 11238 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 11238 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/11238/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-11238-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,561,261 and 77,030 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.6M 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 11238, $14,561,261, 77,030 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 11238?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 11238 total $14,561,261 across 77,030 contributions. The compact headline is $14.6M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Prospect Heights. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 11238?

LobbyVault counts 77,030 itemized contributions for ZIP 11238. 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 $14,561,261. The mean of about $189 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 11238 cover all of Brooklyn?

No. 11238 is the Prospect Heights mail key. Other Brooklyn ZIPs are separate roll-ups. Committees that file 11238 can be part of $14,561,261. 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 11238 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,561,261 and 77,030 lines for ZIP 11238. 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.