ZIP 20005: $824.5 million in FEC itemizations

Volume and dollars on the same 20005 tape

$824,491,126 divided by 159,577 yields a mean of about $5,170 per itemized line. That average is useful as a scale check and useless as a portrait of a median donor. The distribution is not in this packet. A ZIP that hosts association offices, fundraising committees, and downtown D.C. mail drops will mix small itemized gifts with large transfers. FEC.gov records the ZIP that was filed. LobbyVault adds the amounts.

One hundred fifty-nine thousand five hundred seventy-seven lines is a different shape from ZIPs that post similar dollars on a few thousand receipts. 20005 is both a money ZIP and a paperwork ZIP. Researchers who only quote $824,491,126 miss the line count. Researchers who only quote 159,577 miss the dollars. Cite both.

This aggregate does not split the $824,491,126 by party, office, or employer. Those cuts live on other tables. The ZIP page is a geographic key on the contributor record, not a score of K Street influence and not a ranking of which committees “own” downtown Washington.

How FEC ZIP addressing works in 20005

Schedule A stores a contributor ZIP. In a dense D.C. ZIP, that field often belongs to a committee, a trade association, a law office, or a joint fundraising committee as often as it belongs to a home. Saying “20005 donated $824.5 million” collapses those categories. The accurate sentence is: itemized federal receipts listing ZIP 20005 sum to $824,491,126.

The 159,577-line count includes repeat givers, memo entries, and redesignations when those appear as separate itemizations. It is not a unique-person count. This packet does not publish a donor headcount, so none is cited here.

What $824,491,126 leaves out

Unitemized contributions under the federal threshold are omitted. State-office campaigns in the District, Maryland, and Virginia file under other disclosure systems. Independent expenditures paid by a committee with a different ZIP do not move this total even if the spending mentions a D.C. race. $824,491,126 is federal itemized receipts tagged 20005, from FEC.gov.

Amended reports can raise or lower both the dollar total and the 159,577-line count. Joint-fundraising reallocations are a common source of restatements in downtown ZIPs. Check the live ZIP 20005 FEC page after a large amendment rather than treating this guide as final.

Downtown Washington ZIPs share committee density. 20005 is not interchangeable with 20036 or 20006 even when the dollar ranks look similar. $824,491,126 and 159,577 belong to this five-digit key only. A researcher who wants “K Street” as a custom geography has to document which ZIPs they stacked. This page does not stack them.

Using the ZIP directory next to 20005

The all-ZIP list uses the same FEC series. Other 2000x ZIPs appear near 20005 on that list because downtown Washington mail codes cluster on committee and PAC addresses. Compare line counts as well as dollars. A ZIP with fewer receipts and a similar total is a different filing pattern, not a “more generous” neighborhood. FEC.gov does not rank generosity.

Line-count rank and dollar rank will disagree across the 2000x cluster. 20005’s 159,577 receipts are part of why it is a paperwork ZIP as well as a money ZIP. Cite both ranks if you compare. Citing only $824,491,126 hides how long the receipt list is.

Source and next tables

Figures are FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $824,491,126, 159,577 contributions, ZIP 20005. Open the ZIP 20005 FEC page for the live table, the all-ZIP directory to rank other codes, and the donor directory for name-level itemizations. If an extract disagrees with these printed numbers, the Commission’s filing wins.

Cache headers on the API do not freeze $824,491,126. A weekly extract can move the ZIP when committees amend. Treat this guide as a labeled snapshot. The ZIP 20005 FEC page is the live table. FEC.gov remains the underlying filing system.

Using 20005 without turning it into a K Street score

Downtown Washington hosts associations and fundraising committees that file 20005 when that is the mail ZIP. $824,491,126 therefore answers a filing question: how much itemized federal money carries this code. It does not answer how much “influence” sits on a block. Influence is not an FEC field.

The 159,577-line count is large enough that sampling a few famous committees will miss most rows. If you need recipients, follow named itemizations rather than reading $5,170 as a typical downtown gift. The mean is $824,491,126 divided by 159,577. It is not a median.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 20005?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 20005 total $824,491,126 across 159,577 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 downtown Washington. Joint fundraising committees and PAC addresses can appear in $824,491,126 when that five-digit code was filed. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 20005 mostly PAC money or individual gifts?

The ZIP is the five-digit code on the FEC itemization. Joint fundraising and PAC addresses can appear in the same $824,491,126 total. 159,577 is a contribution-line count, not a unique-person count. Treating $824,491,126 as resident-only giving in downtown Washington overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works. Open the ZIP 20005 hub for named receipts.

How many contributions are in the 20005 total?

159,577 itemized lines against $824,491,126 produces a high-dollar volume pattern with a mean near $5,170. That arithmetic is a scale check, not a typical household gift. Large committee and joint-fundraising receipts posted to downtown Washington can dominate the mean. The packet has no median and no unique-donor count. Cite both $824,491,126 and 159,577.

Where is the 20005 data from?

Figures come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $824,491,126 and 159,577 contributions for ZIP 20005. 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 20005 FEC page is the current table.