Federal contributions from ZIP 59715: $14.7M

Bozeman’s 59715 key is not all of Gallatin

$14,677,797 divided by 49,054 is about $299 per itemized line. Forty-nine thousand fifty-four contributions is a long list for a mountain-west city ZIP. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count or a countywide sum.

59718 is a different Bozeman-area roll-up. Do not treat 49,054 as a census of Bozeman. LobbyVault does not treat $14,677,797 as a ranking of Gallatin County civic mood. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 59715.

University-town mail on a federal form

A downtown suite, a residential street, and a committee mailbox can share 59715. $14,677,797 follows the form. Open the ZIP 59715 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not guess which of the 49,054 rows are households.

Montana state-office filings are a different dataset. Keep 59715 isolated unless you document a cluster with 59718 or other Gallatin codes.

What $14,677,797 does not include

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Montana state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Bozeman or at-large race. Cite $14,677,797 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 59715. The mean of about $299 is arithmetic, not a median.

Live hub for 59715

The ZIP 59715 FEC page holds $14,677,797 and 49,054 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 59715 total is for, and what it is not for

$14,677,797 is for citing itemized federal receipts tagged 59715. 49,054 is for citing how many such lines the index holds. Bozeman is for telling a reader which mail key they opened. Gallatin County is not a substitute geography for a homemade metro sum. $14.7M is a rounded form of $14,677,797. Use the exact figure in a table; use $14.7M 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 Montana state-office activity. It is not for unitemized federal gifts. It is not a license to add 59718 and other Gallatin codes into $14,677,797. Those are other keys.

About $299 per line is a derived ratio from the two harvested numbers. Treat it as a shape note: 59715 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. 59715 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering Bozeman. $14,677,797 is the itemized-dollar total. 49,054 is the itemized-line total. $14.7M is $14,677,797 rounded. About $299 is those dollars divided by those lines. Gallatin County is map context. 59718 and other Gallatin codes are other keys. Montana 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 59715 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 59715 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/59715/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-59715-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,677,797 and 49,054 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 59715, $14,677,797, 49,054 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Itemized federal receipts tagged 59715 remain $14,677,797 on 49,054 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 59715?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 59715 total $14,677,797 across 49,054 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 Bozeman. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 59715?

LobbyVault counts 49,054 itemized contributions for ZIP 59715. 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 $14,677,797. The mean of about $299 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 59715 cover all of Bozeman?

No. 59715 is one Bozeman mail key; 59718 is a separate roll-up. Committees and office addresses that file 59715 can be part of $14,677,797. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a citywide or countywide 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 59715 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,677,797 and 49,054 lines for ZIP 59715. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Montana state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.