Federal contributions from ZIP 27104: $14.7M

West Winston-Salem, not the whole Twin City

$14,651,888 divided by 39,449 is about $371 per itemized line. Forsyth County uses several 271xx codes. 27104 is one west-side key, not downtown and not a citywide total. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count.

Thirty-nine thousand four hundred forty-nine contributions is a working list. Repeat gifts and any committee that prints 27104 add rows. Do not treat 39,449 as a census of Winston-Salem. LobbyVault does not assign $14,651,888 a partisan meaning.

Contributor ZIP versus city limits

A west-side household and a committee suite can share 27104. $14,651,888 follows the form. Open the ZIP 27104 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not guess which of the 39,449 rows are households. North Carolina state-office filings are a different dataset.

Other 271xx codes are separate FEC keys. Adding them to 27104 and calling the sum a Winston-Salem FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $14,651,888 for 27104 only.

What $14,651,888 leaves out

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. North Carolina state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Forsyth or 5th District race. Cite $14,651,888 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 27104. The mean of about $371 is arithmetic, not a median.

Live hub for 27104

The ZIP 27104 FEC page holds $14,651,888 and 39,449 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.

Method notes for the 27104 roll-up

LobbyVault indexes FEC.gov itemized receipts and groups them by the five-digit contributor ZIP. For 27104 (Winston-Salem), that group currently totals $14,651,888 on 39,449 lines. $14.7M is the rounded headline. Forsyth County is the map context. Neither the map nor the rounding creates a new fact. There is no unique-donor field in this packet. Writing one would be invention.

Itemization has a federal threshold. Small unitemized gifts never appear in $14,651,888. North Carolina state-office reports never appear in $14,651,888. Independent expenditures are a different schedule. If you need other 271xx codes, open those hubs separately. Adding them to 27104 without saying so misstates the unit.

The mean of about $371 answers a narrow question: dollars divided by lines. It does not describe the median gift, the largest gift, or a typical household. Named receipts live on the ZIP 27104 FEC page. The all-ZIP directory is the inventory for rank and peer comparison. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if extracts diverge.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 27104 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering Winston-Salem. $14,651,888 is the itemized-dollar total. 39,449 is the itemized-line total. $14.7M is $14,651,888 rounded. About $371 is those dollars divided by those lines. Forsyth County is map context. other 271xx codes are other keys. North Carolina 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 27104 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 27104 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/27104/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-27104-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,651,888 and 39,449 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.7M 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 27104, $14,651,888, 39,449 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Itemized federal receipts tagged 27104 remain $14,651,888 on 39,449 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 27104?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 27104 total $14,651,888 across 39,449 contributions. The compact headline is $14.7M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Winston-Salem. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 27104?

LobbyVault counts 39,449 itemized contributions for ZIP 27104. 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 $14,651,888. The mean of about $371 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 27104 cover all of Winston-Salem?

No. 27104 is one west-side mail key. Other Forsyth ZIPs are separate roll-ups. Committees and office addresses that file 27104 can be part of $14,651,888. 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 27104 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,651,888 and 39,449 lines for ZIP 27104. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and North Carolina state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.