ZIP 80401: $17.5 million across 44,770 FEC lines

A foothills city ZIP, two FEC numbers

$17,479,641 divided by 44,770 is about $390 per itemized line. Golden sits west of Denver at the base of the Front Range. That geography does not add a third packet fact. The file has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count or a Mines-faculty split.

Forty-four thousand seven hundred seventy contributions is a substantial list. Repeat givers, campus-adjacent addresses, and any committee that files 80401 all add rows. Do not treat 44,770 as a census of Golden.

LobbyVault does not interpret $17,479,641 as a ranking of Jefferson County civic mood. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 80401.

Golden’s 80401 key sits at the Front Range without being a Front Range total. $17,479,641 across 44,770 contributions is this five-digit field. Mines-adjacent addresses can appear in named receipts. This packet has no unique-donor count. The $390 mean is arithmetic. Recheck the ZIP 80401 FEC page after quarterly filings. Other Golden-area keys have their own totals. FEC.gov remains the original.

Table Mesa and downtown Golden share one key

80401 covers Golden households, Colorado School of Mines-adjacent addresses, and small offices. A joint fundraising committee that lists a 80401 suite still posts that ZIP. $17,479,641 follows the form. It is not a resident-only book.

Open named receipts on the ZIP 80401 FEC page if you need to see which committees appear. This guide will not guess the mix inside 44,770 lines.

What $17,479,641 leaves out

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Colorado state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter. Cite $17,479,641 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 80401.

A restated joint-fundraising block can move the dollar headline more than hundreds of small lines. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings. This prose is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Golden’s 80401 key mixes foothills households with Mines-adjacent addresses. $17,479,641 across 44,770 contributions is that key only, not Jefferson County. Keep 44,770 as a line count. This packet has no unique-donor count. The $390 mean is a ratio of the two packet facts.

Colorado local campaigns never enter this federal roll-up. Recheck the ZIP 80401 FEC page after quarterly filings. Other Golden-area keys have their own totals in the all-ZIP directory. Named receipts show which committees appear. FEC.gov controls if a later extract disagrees with $17,479,641.

80401 beside 80403 and 80419

North Golden and Lookout Mountain are different mail keys. Adding them to 80401 and calling the sum a Golden FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $17,479,641 for 80401 only.

The all-ZIP directory is the inventory for that comparison. Compare 44,770 against those peers rather than against a Boulder ZIP with 77,000 lines. Filing shape is local to how addresses were entered.

Live hub for Golden

The ZIP 80401 FEC page holds $17,479,641 and 44,770 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.

Filtering the donor directory to 80401 should reconcile to the ZIP hub, not to a homemade $390 average. When a name search and 44,770 disagree, the ZIP roll-up is the geographic total.

Golden without a Front Range roll-up

80401 posts $17,479,641 across 44,770 contributions, about $390 per line. Foothills households and Mines-adjacent addresses share that key. Treating 44,770 as a faculty headcount or a Jefferson County census is a category error. This packet has no unique-donor count.

80403 and other Golden-area keys are separate roll-ups. Adding them to 80401 manufactures a town figure. If you need that figure, list every ZIP. Keep 44,770 as the 80401 line count. The all-ZIP directory is the inventory.

Colorado state filings sit outside $17,479,641. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside. Recheck the ZIP 80401 FEC page after quarterly filings. Named receipts show which committees appear. The donor directory is not a second copy of $17,479,641. FEC.gov controls if a later extract disagrees.

If a later Commission extract reprints 80401, compare it to $17,479,641 and 44,770 on the live hub before quoting this snapshot. Golden is not a Front Range sum. Named receipts remain the way to see committees. The donor directory is not a second copy of those two facts. Unitemized gifts still sit outside both numbers.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 80401?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 80401 total $17,479,641 across 44,770 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 Golden residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $390 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 80401?

LobbyVault counts 44,770 itemized contributions for ZIP 80401. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and campus-address batches can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $17,479,641.

Does ZIP 80401 include only Golden residents?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. Campus-adjacent offices and committees that file 80401 can be part of $17,479,641 when that is what was entered. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 80401 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,479,641 and 44,770 lines for ZIP 80401. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Colorado state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.