Federal contributions from ZIP 92612: $14.5M

One Irvine ZIP, not the planned-city total

$14,466,202 divided by 31,486 is about $459 per itemized line. Irvine uses several 926xx codes. 92614, 92618, and 92606 are different roll-ups. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count.

Thirty-one thousand four hundred eighty-six contributions is a working list. Campus-adjacent offices, residential villages, and any committee that prints 92612 all add rows. Do not treat 31,486 as a census of Irvine. LobbyVault does not interpret $14,466,202 as an Orange County political identity.

Master-planned mail still types five digits

A village household, a business-park suite, and a committee mailbox can share 92612. $14,466,202 follows the form. Open the ZIP 92612 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not split the 31,486 rows into household and office piles. California state-office filings are a different dataset.

Adding 92612 to other Irvine ZIPs and calling the sum an Irvine FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $14,466,202 for 92612 only.

What stays outside $14,466,202

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. California state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention an Orange County race. Cite $14,466,202 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 92612. The mean of about $459 is arithmetic, not a median.

Live hub for 92612

The ZIP 92612 FEC page holds $14,466,202 and 31,486 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.

Method notes for the 92612 roll-up

LobbyVault indexes FEC.gov itemized receipts and groups them by the five-digit contributor ZIP. For 92612 (Irvine), that group currently totals $14,466,202 on 31,486 lines. $14.5M is the rounded headline. Orange County is the map context. Neither the map nor the rounding creates a new fact. There is no unique-donor field in this packet. Writing one would be invention.

Itemization has a federal threshold. Small unitemized gifts never appear in $14,466,202. California state-office reports never appear in $14,466,202. Independent expenditures are a different schedule. If you need 92614, 92618, and 92606, open those hubs separately. Adding them to 92612 without saying so misstates the unit.

The mean of about $459 answers a narrow question: dollars divided by lines. It does not describe the median gift, the largest gift, or a typical household. Named receipts live on the ZIP 92612 FEC page. The all-ZIP directory is the inventory for rank and peer comparison. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if extracts diverge.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 92612 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering Irvine. $14,466,202 is the itemized-dollar total. 31,486 is the itemized-line total. $14.5M is $14,466,202 rounded. About $459 is those dollars divided by those lines. Orange County is map context. 92614, 92618, and 92606 are other keys. California 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 92612 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 92612 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/92612/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-92612-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,466,202 and 31,486 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.5M 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 92612, $14,466,202, 31,486 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Itemized federal receipts tagged 92612 remain $14,466,202 on 31,486 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 92612?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 92612 total $14,466,202 across 31,486 contributions. The compact headline is $14.5M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Irvine. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 92612?

LobbyVault counts 31,486 itemized contributions for ZIP 92612. 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 $14,466,202. The mean of about $459 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 92612 cover all of Irvine?

No. 92612 is one Irvine mail key. 92614, 92618, 92606 and other codes are separate roll-ups. Committees that file 92612 can be part of $14,466,202. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a citywide 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 92612 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,466,202 and 31,486 lines for ZIP 92612. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and California state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.