ZIP 33480: $186.3 million in FEC itemized receipts

A hundred thousand lines on $186 million

$186,308,957 divided by 100,357 is about $1,860 per itemized line. That mean sits between volume city ZIPs under $1,000 and concentration ZIPs above $10,000. Palm Beach hosts both household itemizations and event-driven committee receipts. FEC.gov does not split those groups in this ZIP total. LobbyVault reports $186,308,957 and 100,357.

One hundred thousand three hundred fifty-seven itemizations is a long list for a small island ZIP. Seasonal addresses, repeat givers, and any PAC that files a 33480 street or P.O. box all add rows. This packet has no unique-donor count. Cite 100,357 as a contribution-line total, not a census of the town.

No party split is published on $186,308,957. Island geography is orientation. It is not an FEC finding about Florida ideology. The Commission stores a ZIP string.

Seasonal mail and the 33480 field

A contributor who lists a Palm Beach winter address posts 33480 when that is the ZIP on Schedule A, even if another home is elsewhere. A joint fundraising committee that uses a 33480 event address does the same. $186,308,957 follows the form. It is not a year-round resident book unless you add a filter the file does not have.

The 100,357-line count can include memo entries and redesignations. Open the ZIP 33480 FEC page for named receipts rather than inferring a donor population from the line list.

What $186,308,957 leaves out

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Florida state-office campaigns are omitted. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP are omitted even if they mention a Florida race. Cite $186,308,957 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 33480, sourced from FEC.gov.

Event-heavy ZIPs can see lumpy amendments after a large fundraising weekend. Recheck the live ZIP 33480 FEC page after restatements. This prose is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Refunds and redesignations can lower a ZIP after a spike. If $186,308,957 later falls, that is consistent with FEC accounting, not a data outage. Watch the ZIP 33480 hub rather than caching this guide’s printed total. 100,357 can fall with it when lines are deleted or recoded on amendment.

33480 among Florida and national ZIPs

The all-ZIP directory ranks the same series. Other Florida codes may appear with different means and line counts. Compare 100,357 against those peers as filing shape. Do not convert the comparison into a claim about which coastal ZIP is more politically active. FEC.gov does not score activity.

Sorting the all-ZIP directory by $186,308,957 puts 33480 among other high-dollar codes. Sorting by 100,357 may move it. Publish which sort you used. A high-volume seasonal ZIP will change neighbors when the sort key changes. That is expected. It is not a ranking error.

Source tables

The ZIP 33480 FEC page holds $186,308,957 and 100,357 as currently indexed. The all-ZIP directory ranks other codes. The donor directory lists names on itemized rows. If a later extract disagrees, the FEC.gov filing controls. No mansion or club narrative is attached to the ZIP field.

Internal links on this page go only to the ZIP 33480 hub, the all-ZIP directory, and the donor directory. Those are the packet’s hrefs. Do not treat this guide as a sitemap of every committee that received money from Palm Beach, Florida. Recipient pages are a click away from named itemizations, not from this roll-up.

Keeping $186,308,957 attached to ZIP 33480

Every dollar figure on this guide is the same $186,308,957 from the packet. Every line count is the same 100,357. Derived means of about $1,860 are arithmetic from those two facts. No third FEC series is mixed in. State campaigns, unitemized gifts, and independent expenditures from other ZIPs stay out.

Palm Beach, Florida is orientation for readers who know the mail code. It is not an extra fact from FEC.gov. The Commission’s field is 33480. LobbyVault indexes that field. If a later extract reprints $186,308,957 with a different 100,357, both printed numbers here are stale. Check the live hub.

LobbyVault’s job on ZIP 33480 is narrow: index $186,308,957 and 100,357 from FEC.gov and explain what those two numbers are not. They are not a unique-donor census of Palm Beach. They are not a party split. They are not an independent-expenditure total. They are not a state-campaign total. They are itemized federal receipts tagged to five digits. A mean of about $1,860 is arithmetic, not a typical gift. Joint fundraising and PAC addresses can be inside $186,308,957. Researchers who need committees follow itemizations on the ZIP 33480 hub. Researchers who need names use the donor directory. Researchers who need a later extract should ignore this paragraph and reload the hub.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 33480?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 33480 total $186,308,957 across 100,357 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 Palm Beach, Florida. Joint fundraising committees and PAC addresses can appear in $186,308,957 when that five-digit code was filed. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 33480?

LobbyVault counts 100,357 itemized contributions for ZIP 33480. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 100,357 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $186,308,957.

Does ZIP 33480 include only residents of Palm Beach, Florida?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. PAC mail drops, joint fundraising committees, and office addresses in Palm Beach, Florida can be part of $186,308,957 when 33480 is what was filed. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 100,357-line count follows the same rule. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 33480 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $186,308,957 and 100,357 lines for ZIP 33480. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from Palm Beach, Florida are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $1,860 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.