Federal contributions itemized with ZIP 77002

Downtown Houston ZIP 77002 volume

$83,530,195 divided by 104,621 is about $798 per itemized line. A mean near $798 on 104,621 lines is a volume office-district mix. Energy-sector PACs and personal itemizations can share 77002. The hub table splits them; the ZIP sum does not. Large PAC or joint-fundraising itemizations can still sit inside $83,530,195. They show up when you sort the ZIP 77002 FEC page by amount.

104,621 contributions is an itemization count, not a unique-person count. Repeat givers, online itemized gifts, and memo entries can lengthen the list. This packet has no donor headcount. Cite 104,621 as a contribution-line total.

No party split is attached to $83,530,195. Local reputation is not an FEC field. The Commission stores a ZIP string. LobbyVault reports the roll-up of FEC.gov itemizations labeled 77002.

77002 as a contributor ZIP, not a tunnel system

A PAC or joint fundraising committee that lists an address in downtown Houston still posts 77002 when that is the ZIP on Schedule A. Individuals who list the ZIP add the same way. $83,530,195 is therefore not automatically what residents of downtown Houston gave. It is what was itemized with that five-digit code.

The 104,621-line count is the research lead. Open named receipts on the ZIP 77002 FEC page if you need committees. This guide will not infer a grassroots story or a bundler story from a $798 mean. downtown Houston geography explains the search query; the table decides the mix of payers.

What $83,530,195 omits

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Texas state office campaigns are omitted. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP are omitted. Cite $83,530,195 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 77002, from FEC.gov.

A restated joint-fundraising block can still move the headline. Recheck the live ZIP 77002 FEC page after large filings. This prose is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Committee mail in Houston core is why a purely residential reading of $83,530,195 fails. A PAC, a joint fundraising committee, or a work address that lists 77002 is counted. FEC.gov stored the ZIP that was filed. LobbyVault summed it. Recoding those rows out of $83,530,195 would be a new dataset.

77002 beside other Houston codes

The all-ZIP directory ranks the same series. Other houston core codes have their own dollar totals and line counts. Adding 77002 to those codes is a recode you must document; it is not this $83,530,195 figure. Compare 104,621 lines against neighboring codes as filing shape. FEC.gov does not rank which part of Houston core is more engaged.

Independent expenditures mentioning a race near downtown Houston can be paid by a committee with a different ZIP. Those disbursements do not move $83,530,195. Mixing independent-expenditure tables with this ZIP total double-counts some activity and misses other activity. Keep the series separate.

Source and next clicks

The ZIP 77002 FEC page holds $83,530,195 and 104,621 as currently indexed. The all-ZIP directory ranks other codes. The donor directory lists names on itemized rows. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls. No postcard narrative is attached to the ZIP field.

Title, H1, and table on the live hub should show the same $83,530,195 and 104,621 this guide cites. If they do not, the hub was rebuilt from a newer extract. Trust the hub over this paragraph. Guides are snapshots of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

How to cite ZIP 77002 without inflating downtown Houston

The accurate citation is: itemized federal receipts with contributor ZIP 77002 total $83,530,195 across 104,621 contributions, according to FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Shorthand such as “downtown Houston donated $83,530,195” drops the itemized-only limit and the PAC-address caveat. Keep both limits in the sentence at least once.

A mean of about $798 describes this ZIP’s filing shape. It does not describe a median resident. Because this packet has no unique-donor count, 104,621 stays a line count. Researchers who need persons must match names on the ZIP 77002 FEC page rather than dividing $83,530,195 by a guessed household count.

ZIP 77002 will keep attracting neighborhood-giving queries because searchers use ZIP as a proxy for downtown Houston. FEC.gov does not use ZIP that way. It stores a five-digit contributor field. $83,530,195 across 104,621 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. The PAC and joint-fundraising caveat is in the source note and belongs in any careful citation. Use the all-ZIP directory only to compare other codes on the same series. Use the donor directory for names. If the live hub reprints a different $83,530,195 or 104,621, the newer FEC extract wins and this snapshot is stale.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 77002?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 77002 total $83,530,195 across 104,621 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 downtown Houston. Joint fundraising committees and PAC addresses can appear in $83,530,195 when that five-digit code was filed. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 77002?

LobbyVault counts 104,621 itemized contributions for ZIP 77002. 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 104,621 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $83,530,195, a mean near $798.

Does ZIP 77002 include only residents of downtown Houston?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. PAC mail drops, joint fundraising committees, and office addresses in downtown Houston can be part of $83,530,195 when 77002 is what was filed. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 104,621-line count follows the same rule. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 77002 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $83,530,195 and 104,621 lines for ZIP 77002. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Texas state office campaigns are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $798 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.