ZIP 90004: $18.2 million across 50,955 FEC lines

One Los Angeles ZIP, two FEC counts

$18,222,083 divided by 50,955 is about $358 per itemized line. 90004 straddles neighborhoods that do not share a single demographic story. The FEC field does not care. It stores a five-digit code. The packet stores a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not store a unique-donor count.

Fifty thousand nine hundred fifty-five contributions is a long list. Repeat givers, apartment-address batches, entertainment-office addresses, and any committee that files 90004 all add rows. Do not treat 50,955 as a headcount of people between Hancock Park and Koreatown.

LobbyVault does not interpret $18,222,083 as a Hollywood or immigrant-community score. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 90004.

Hancock Park and Koreatown sharing 90004 is the structural fact. $18,222,083 across 50,955 contributions does not split those neighborhoods. A researcher who wants a Hancock Park-only book must recode named receipts, which this guide will not do. Keep 50,955 as a line count. The $358 mean is a ratio. Recheck the ZIP 90004 FEC page after quarterly filings. The donor directory lists names across ZIPs. FEC.gov remains the original.

A mixed-use mail code on Schedule A

90004 covers Hancock Park, a slice of Larchmont, and parts of Koreatown. Households, medical offices, and committees share the same five-digit key when that is what was filed. $18,222,083 follows the form. It is not a resident-only book.

Named receipts on the ZIP 90004 FEC page are the way to see which committees appear. This guide will not invent a neighborhood split inside 50,955 lines.

What the $18,222,083 total skips

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. California state-office campaigns are omitted. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP are omitted even if they mention a Los Angeles race. Cite $18,222,083 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 90004.

A long line list can hide a few large restated transfers. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings. This prose is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

A contributor who gives twice is two lines. Leave 50,955 as a contribution-line count.

90004 is a split-personality mail key: Hancock Park streets and Koreatown blocks share five digits. The FEC field does not store a neighborhood name. $18,222,083 is the roll-up for that key. Keep 50,955 as a contribution-line total. This packet has no unique-donor count.

Los Angeles has hundreds of ZIPs. Do not treat 90004 as a proxy for Mid-Wilshire. Recheck the ZIP 90004 FEC page after quarterly filings. Named receipts show which committees appear. The all-ZIP directory places the code among others. FEC.gov controls if a later extract disagrees with $18,222,083.

90004 beside 90036 and 90020

The all-ZIP directory ranks the same series. Nearby Miracle Mile and Mid-Wilshire codes often show different means. Compare 50,955 against those peers rather than against a Purchase, N.Y., ZIP with 32,000 lines. Filing shape is local to how addresses were entered.

Stacking central Los Angeles ZIPs is a common recode. This page does not perform it. $18,222,083 is the 90004 key only.

Tables for 90004

The ZIP 90004 FEC page holds $18,222,083 and 50,955 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 90004 should reconcile to the ZIP hub, not to a homemade $358 average. When a name search and 50,955 disagree, the ZIP roll-up is the geographic total.

One Los Angeles key, not a Mid-Wilshire sum

90004 posts $18,222,083 across 50,955 contributions, about $358 per line. Hancock Park and Koreatown share that key without sharing a single demographic story. The FEC field stores a five-digit code. It does not store a neighborhood flag. This packet has no unique-donor count.

90036 and 90020 are adjoining keys with their own totals. Stacking them with 90004 produces a Mid-Wilshire figure FEC.gov did not publish. If you build that figure, list every ZIP. Keep 50,955 as the 90004 line count. The all-ZIP directory is the inventory.

California state filings sit outside $18,222,083. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside. Recheck the ZIP 90004 FEC page after quarterly filings. Named receipts show which committees appear. The donor directory is not a second copy of $18,222,083. FEC.gov controls if a later extract disagrees.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 90004?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 90004 total $18,222,083 across 50,955 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 Hancock Park or Koreatown residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $358 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 90004?

LobbyVault counts 50,955 itemized contributions for ZIP 90004. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and apartment-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 $18,222,083.

Does ZIP 90004 count only Los Angeles residents?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. Committees and office addresses that file 90004 can be part of $18,222,083 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 90004 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $18,222,083 and 50,955 lines for ZIP 90004. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and California state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.