Federal contributions from ZIP 18940: $14.4M

Newtown is not all of Bucks County

$14,440,998 divided by 40,759 is about $354 per itemized line. Forty thousand seven hundred fifty-nine contributions is a long list for a single Bucks mail key. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count or a countywide sum.

Do not treat 40,759 as a census of Newtown. Repeat gifts and any committee that prints 18940 add rows. LobbyVault does not treat $14,440,998 as a ranking of suburban Philadelphia civic mood. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 18940.

Bucks County mail, one five-digit bucket

A borough address, a township street, and a committee mailbox can share 18940. $14,440,998 follows the form. Open the ZIP 18940 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not guess which of the 40,759 rows are households. Pennsylvania state-office filings are a different dataset.

Other 189xx codes are separate FEC keys. Adding them to 18940 and calling the sum a Bucks FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $14,440,998 for 18940 only.

What $14,440,998 leaves out

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Pennsylvania state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Bucks race. Cite $14,440,998 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 18940. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings.

Live hub for 18940

The ZIP 18940 FEC page holds $14,440,998 and 40,759 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.

Reading 18940 next to the rest of the ZIP directory

The all-ZIP directory exists so 18940 can be placed among other five-digit keys without turning $14,440,998 into a metro story. Newtown, Pennsylvania sits in Bucks County. Peers include other 189xx codes. Each peer has its own total. 40,759 lines at $14,440,998 ($14.4M) is the local shape. A peer with similar dollars and half the rows will show a higher mean; that contrast is the point of keeping keys separate.

Do not build a Bucks County FEC total by addition unless you list every ZIP you included. Pennsylvania state-office filings still sit outside every one of those keys. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside them too. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count for 18940, so a Bucks County donor census is also out of reach from these facts.

Citation template: contributor ZIP 18940, $14,440,998, 40,759 itemized contributions, FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Add that the mean is about $354 only if you also say it is dollars divided by lines. Then send the reader to the ZIP 18940 FEC page for names and to the donor directory for person-level itemizations.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 18940 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering Newtown, Pennsylvania. $14,440,998 is the itemized-dollar total. 40,759 is the itemized-line total. $14.4M is $14,440,998 rounded. About $354 is those dollars divided by those lines. Bucks County is map context. other 189xx codes are other keys. Pennsylvania 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 18940 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 18940 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/18940/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-18940-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,440,998 and 40,759 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.4M 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 18940, $14,440,998, 40,759 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 18940?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 18940 total $14,440,998 across 40,759 contributions. The compact headline is $14.4M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Newtown. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 18940?

LobbyVault counts 40,759 itemized contributions for ZIP 18940. 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 $14,440,998. The mean of about $354 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 18940 cover all of Bucks County?

No. 18940 is the Newtown mail key. Other Bucks ZIPs are separate roll-ups. Committees that file 18940 can be part of $14,440,998. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a countywide 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 18940 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,440,998 and 40,759 lines for ZIP 18940. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Pennsylvania state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.