Federal contributions from ZIP 21403: $14.4M

Eastport is not all of Annapolis

$14,394,778 divided by 35,888 is about $401 per itemized line. Annapolis is a state capital; 21401 and 21409 are different roll-ups. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count or a citywide sum.

Thirty-five thousand eight hundred eighty-eight contributions is a working list. Waterfront streets, residential blocks, and any committee that prints 21403 add rows. Do not treat 35,888 as a census of Annapolis. LobbyVault does not assign motive to $14,394,778.

Capital-city mail, one ZIP field

A Eastport household and a committee suite can share 21403. $14,394,778 follows the form. Open the ZIP 21403 FEC page for named receipts. Maryland state-office filings are a different dataset even when the street is the same. Keep 21403 isolated unless you document a cluster with 21401.

What stays outside $14,394,778

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Maryland state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention an Anne Arundel race. Cite $14,394,778 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 21403. The mean of about $401 is arithmetic, not a median.

Live hub for 21403

The ZIP 21403 FEC page holds $14,394,778 and 35,888 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.

How 21403 should be quoted in a footnote

Quote the packet, not a vibe: ZIP 21403 covering Annapolis (eastport/south) shows $14,394,778 ($14.4M) across 35,888 FEC itemized contributions. That is a Schedule A ZIP roll-up. It is not a roster of Anne Arundel County residents and not a unique-donor count. Repeat gifts, household pairs, and committee addresses that type 21403 all add to 35,888. The line count is the line count.

Keep 21403 as five digits when joining files. Neighboring keys (21401 and 21409) are separate totals. Maryland state-office money is outside $14,394,778. Unitemized federal gifts are outside $14,394,778. About $401 per line is a ratio, useful only as a shape statistic next to ZIPs with similar dollars and different row counts.

The donor directory lists names on itemized receipts; filtering it to 21403 should reconcile to the ZIP hub rather than to a homemade average. This file is overlay copy for the hub and a standalone guide. It does not replace FEC.gov. Amendments can restate large transfers without rewriting most small lines, so recheck the live page after quarterly filings.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 21403 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering Annapolis (eastport/south). $14,394,778 is the itemized-dollar total. 35,888 is the itemized-line total. $14.4M is $14,394,778 rounded. About $401 is those dollars divided by those lines. Anne Arundel County is map context. 21401 and 21409 are other keys. Maryland 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 21403 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 21403 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/21403/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-21403-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,394,778 and 35,888 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 21403, $14,394,778, 35,888 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Itemized federal receipts tagged 21403 remain $14,394,778 on 35,888 lines in this extract. That is the whole quantitative claim. Geography labels do not add a third harvested number. Missing unique-donor counts stay missing.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 21403?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 21403 total $14,394,778 across 35,888 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 Annapolis. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 21403?

LobbyVault counts 35,888 itemized contributions for ZIP 21403. 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 $14,394,778. The mean of about $401 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 21403 cover all of Annapolis?

No. 21403 is an Eastport/south mail key. 21401 and 21409 are separate roll-ups. Committees that file 21403 can be part of $14,394,778. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a citywide 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 21403 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,394,778 and 35,888 lines for ZIP 21403. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Maryland state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.