ZIP 94104: $683.5 million on 34,442 FEC receipts

High dollars, a mid-size line list

$683,549,187 on 34,442 lines is a concentration pattern, not a mass-small-dollar pattern. A financial-district mail ZIP can collect firm PACs, partnership addresses, and joint fundraising committees on the same five digits that also appear on individual Schedule A rows. FEC.gov does not label which of those categories produced the mean. LobbyVault reports the sum and the count.

Thirty-four thousand four hundred forty-two itemizations is enough volume to be a real filing stream and small enough that a few large transfers still dominate the mean. Do not read $19,850 as “what a 94104 donor typically gives.” The typical line is not in this packet. The mean is arithmetic.

No party split is published on this ZIP total. Employer and occupation strings live on other LobbyVault views. 94104 is a geographic key, not a sector score for San Francisco finance.

The 94104 ZIP field versus a neighborhood census

USPS 94104 covers a small slice of downtown San Francisco. FEC contributor ZIPs are not geocoded to parcels. A committee that lists a Montgomery Street or California Street address will post 94104 if that is the ZIP on the form. Individuals who live elsewhere and use an office address can do the same. $683,549,187 is therefore not “resident giving in 94104.”

The 34,442-line count is an itemization count. Unique people are not totaled in this packet. Repeat gifts, reallocations, and memo items can inflate the line list without adding new contributors.

Boundaries of the $683,549,187 figure

Unitemized federal gifts are out. California state-office campaigns are out. Independent expenditures by a committee filing a different ZIP are out even if the communication mentions a Bay Area race. Cite $683,549,187 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 94104 on FEC.gov.

Joint-fundraising restatements can move this ZIP more than a residential ZIP of similar size, because large committees cluster on downtown mail codes. After a major amendment, use the live ZIP 94104 FEC page rather than this snapshot.

Committee mail in San Francisco’s financial district is why the residential reading of $683,549,187 fails. A PAC, a joint fundraising committee, or a work address that lists 94104 is counted. FEC.gov stored the ZIP that was filed. LobbyVault summed it. Recoding those rows out of $683,549,187 would be a new dataset.

Comparing 94104 to other ZIP totals

The all-ZIP directory ranks the same FEC series. 94104’s mean is higher than many ZIPs that show more than 100,000 lines and a similar or smaller dollar total. That comparison describes filing shape. It does not describe who is more politically active. FEC.gov publishes receipts, not activity scores.

Independent expenditures mentioning a race near San Francisco’s financial district can be paid by a committee with a different ZIP. Those disbursements do not move $683,549,187. Mixing independent-expenditure tables with this ZIP total double-counts some activity and misses other activity. Keep the series separate.

How to follow the receipts

Open the ZIP 94104 FEC page for the current table. Use the all-ZIP directory to place $683,549,187 and 34,442 among other codes. Use the donor directory when you need names attached to itemized rows. Source for every dollar on this page: FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Title, H1, and table on the live hub should show the same $683,549,187 and 34,442 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 94104 without inflating San Francisco’s financial district

The accurate citation is: itemized federal receipts with contributor ZIP 94104 total $683,549,187 across 34,442 contributions, according to FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Shorthand such as “San Francisco’s financial district donated $683,549,187” drops the itemized-only limit and the PAC-address caveat. Keep both limits in the sentence at least once.

A mean of about $19,850 describes a high-mean commercial ZIP. It does not describe a median resident. Because this packet has no unique-donor count, 34,442 stays a line count. Researchers who need persons must match names on the ZIP 94104 FEC page rather than dividing $683,549,187 by a guessed household count.

ZIP 94104 will keep attracting “how much did San Francisco financial district give” queries because searchers use ZIP as a proxy for a neighborhood. FEC.gov does not use ZIP that way. It stores a five-digit contributor field. $683,549,187 across 34,442 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $19,850 follows from division. 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 $683,549,187 or 34,442, the newer FEC extract wins and this snapshot is stale.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 94104?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 94104 total $683,549,187 across 34,442 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 San Francisco’s financial district. Joint fundraising committees and PAC addresses can appear in $683,549,187 when that five-digit code was filed. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 94104?

LobbyVault counts 34,442 itemized contributions for ZIP 94104. 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 34,442 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $683,549,187.

Does ZIP 94104 include only residents of San Francisco’s financial district?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. PAC mail drops, joint fundraising committees, and office addresses in San Francisco’s financial district can be part of $683,549,187 when 94104 is what was filed. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 34,442-line count follows the same rule. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 94104 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $683,549,187 and 34,442 lines for ZIP 94104. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from San Francisco’s financial district are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $19,850 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.