Federal contributions from ZIP 55401: $14.3M

Downtown Minneapolis is not 55402 and not the city

$14,326,947 divided by 32,091 is about $446 per itemized line. 55402, 55403, and 55415 are different roll-ups. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count or a Hennepin County sum.

Thirty-two thousand ninety-one contributions is a working list. Office towers, North Loop lofts, and any committee that prints 55401 add rows. Do not treat 32,091 as a census of downtown. LobbyVault does not treat $14,326,947 as a ranking of Twin Cities civic mood.

Riverfront mail on a federal form

A North Loop residence and a downtown suite can share 55401. $14,326,947 follows the form. Open the ZIP 55401 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not split the 32,091 rows into household and office piles. Minnesota state-office filings are a different dataset.

Adding 55401 to other Minneapolis ZIPs and calling the sum a city FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $14,326,947 for 55401 only.

What $14,326,947 leaves out

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Minnesota state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Minneapolis race. Cite $14,326,947 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 55401. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings.

Live hub for 55401

The ZIP 55401 FEC page holds $14,326,947 and 32,091 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.

What a 55401 total is for, and what it is not for

$14,326,947 is for citing itemized federal receipts tagged 55401. 32,091 is for citing how many such lines the index holds. downtown Minneapolis is for telling a reader which mail key they opened. Hennepin County is not a substitute geography for a homemade metro sum. $14.3M is a rounded form of $14,326,947. Use the exact figure in a table; use $14.3M in a sentence that needs a short headline.

The total is not for counting unique people. This packet has no donor headcount. It is not for Minnesota state-office activity. It is not for unitemized federal gifts. It is not a license to add 55402, 55403, and 55415 into $14,326,947. Those are other keys.

About $446 per line is a derived ratio from the two harvested numbers. Treat it as a shape note: 55401 may look different from a ZIP with the same dollars and twice the rows. Open the live hub for the current index. This prose is a snapshot. If the hub and this file disagree, FEC.gov and the live index win.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 55401 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering downtown Minneapolis. $14,326,947 is the itemized-dollar total. 32,091 is the itemized-line total. $14.3M is $14,326,947 rounded. About $446 is those dollars divided by those lines. Hennepin County is map context. 55402, 55403, and 55415 are other keys. Minnesota 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 55401 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 55401 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/55401/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-55401-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,326,947 and 32,091 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.3M 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 55401, $14,326,947, 32,091 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Itemized federal receipts tagged 55401 remain $14,326,947 on 32,091 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 55401?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 55401 total $14,326,947 across 32,091 contributions. The compact headline is $14.3M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of downtown Minneapolis. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 55401?

LobbyVault counts 32,091 itemized contributions for ZIP 55401. 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 $14,326,947. The mean of about $446 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 55401 cover all of Minneapolis?

No. 55401 is a downtown/North Loop mail key. Other Minneapolis ZIPs are separate roll-ups. Committees that file 55401 can be part of $14,326,947. 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 55401 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,326,947 and 32,091 lines for ZIP 55401. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Minnesota state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.