Federal contributions from ZIP 67201

Four thousand lines against $27,743,437

Four thousand one hundred forty-two itemized receipts add to $27,743,437. The mean is about $6,698 per line ($27,743,437 / 4,142). That is a high mean for a downtown ZIP. It is the arithmetic you get when large committee transfers share a Wichita core code with a shorter personal-itemization list. Comparing 67201 with a high-volume residential code without noting the 4,142-line gap will mislead a reader.

ZIP 67201 is used on downtown Wichita mail, including office towers and committee letterhead. LobbyVault does not relabel those rows as non-residential; the ZIP field is whatever the filer reported. The $27,743,437 total therefore follows the form, not a residential occupancy file.

A shorter downtown list is still a public record. It is useful for seeing where committees file. It is a poor proxy for how downtown Wichita votes. Keep those questions out of a ZIP rollup that only contains dollars and a receipt count.

Why a 4,142-line ZIP distorts neighborhood stories

If you treat $27,743,437 as what people in 67201 gave, you invent a neighborhood that the form field does not describe. Four thousand one hundred forty-two rows is short enough that the largest lines are easy to inspect. Sort the ZIP 67201 FEC page by amount. A handful of payers can account for a large share of the total. That is a reading of the table, not a motive claim.

A mean near $6,698 is a prompt to read the payer column, not a typical household check. LobbyVault’s ZIP total follows the ZIP on each itemization it includes. It does not reconstruct the full path of every dollar.

What this packet will not tell you

There is no unique-donor count, no party split, and no industry rollup. Four thousand one hundred forty-two receipts are contribution lines, not people. Occupations on individual rows are outside these facts. Do not build an industry story from a ZIP total that does not include employer aggregates.

67201 is not a Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission figure and not a Sedgwick County total. It is federal itemizations only, from FEC.gov. Local and state filings use other databases. Mixing them with $27,743,437 would invent a combined number this packet does not contain.

Treat 67201 as a mixed downtown key

A mean near $6,698 is not a condo average. It is a prompt to read the payer column. If the top rows are committee names, describe 67201 as a filing address. If personal itemizations dominate after all, the table will show that; the ZIP sum will not.

Do not rank 67201 against a residential ZIP on dollars alone. Include the 4,142-receipt count in the comparison. The all-ZIP index shows both facts. The donor directory remains the name-level table. This packet still has no unique-donor count to convert 4,142 into people.

Where to continue from 67201

The ZIP 67201 FEC page holds the 4,142-row table behind $27,743,437. Rank other codes on the all-ZIP index, remembering that downtown codes and residential codes share a ranking but not a meaning. Use the donor directory for names. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls. Cite $27,743,437 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 67201.

Unitemized federal gifts never enter $27,743,437. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter it. Recheck after a restatement. Quote $27,743,437 with 4,142 contributions. The mean of about $6,698 is $27,743,437 divided by 4,142.

Downtown Wichita as a short-list ZIP

Four thousand one hundred forty-two itemizations against $27,743,437 produce a mean of about $6,698. Rank 67201 against a residential ZIP on dollars alone and the comparison fails. Include the 4,142-receipt count. Sort the ZIP 67201 FEC page by amount. A handful of payers can account for a large share of the total.

Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission filings never enter $27,743,437. Unitemized federal gifts never enter it. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter it. The packet has no unique-donor field, so 4,142 cannot be restated as people. Occupations on individual rows are outside these facts.

Do not add 67201 to another Wichita code into a downtown-plus total on this page. Downtown codes and residential codes share a ranking on the all-ZIP directory but not a meaning. FEC.gov does not score Sedgwick County neighborhoods. Quote $27,743,437 with 4,142 contributions.

If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls. Recheck after a restatement. A mean near $6,698 is a prompt to read the payer column. The donor directory remains the name-level table. Cite $27,743,437 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 67201.

Questions

What is the ZIP 67201 contribution total?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 67201 total $27,743,437 across 4,142 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of downtown Wichita residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $6,698 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 67201?

LobbyVault counts 4,142 itemized contributions for ZIP 67201. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. Those rows are itemized Schedule A lines, not people. The matching dollar total is $27,743,437.

Does ZIP 67201 include only downtown Wichita residents?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. Office and committee addresses in the 67201 grid can be part of $27,743,437 when that is what was filed. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 4,142-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 67201 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $27,743,437 and 4,142 lines for ZIP 67201. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Kansas state filings are outside both figures. LobbyVault is the index, not the filing system. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.