ZIP 94301: $129.2 million across 138,108 FEC lines

A Peninsula ZIP with a long receipt list

$129,249,144 divided by 138,108 is about $936 per itemized line. That mean is closer to volume city ZIPs than to San Francisco financial-district 94104, which posts a much higher average on fewer lines. 94301 is a long list. Large PAC or joint-fundraising rows can still sit inside $129,249,144. They are diluted in the average by 138,108 lines.

One hundred thirty-eight thousand one hundred eight contributions is an itemization count, not a unique-person count. Repeat givers, University Avenue office addresses, and household pairs can lengthen the list. This packet has no donor headcount. Cite 138,108 as a contribution-line total.

No party split is published on $129,249,144. Tech-corridor geography is orientation. It is not an FEC finding about Silicon Valley ideology. The Commission stores a ZIP string.

94301 is not 94022 or 94104

Los Altos 94022 and San Francisco 94104 are separate FEC keys. This page cites only 94301: $129,249,144 and 138,108. Adding Peninsula and city ZIPs is a recode. FEC.gov did not publish a combined Bay Area figure here.

A PAC or joint fundraising committee that lists a Palo Alto address still posts 94301 when that is the ZIP on Schedule A. Household rows add the same way. Open the ZIP 94301 FEC page for named receipts rather than inferring the mix from the mean.

What $129,249,144 omits

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. California state-office campaigns are omitted. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP are omitted even if they mention a California race. Cite $129,249,144 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 94301, sourced from FEC.gov.

A long line list can absorb small amendments. A restated joint-fundraising block can still move the headline. Recheck the live ZIP 94301 FEC page after large filings. This prose is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Cycle windows matter even when this packet does not print a cycle year. $129,249,144 is the indexed aggregate for ZIP 94301 as harvested. An older news clip with a different total is not a contradiction until you check extract dates. FEC.gov amendments are expected on a high-volume ZIP with 138,108 lines.

94301 in the ZIP ranking

The all-ZIP directory ranks dollars. Compare 138,108 lines against 94104’s shorter, higher-mean list if you are studying Bay Area filing shape. Do not convert that comparison into a claim about which ZIP is more politically active. FEC.gov does not score activity.

Palo Alto is a familiar tech-corridor label. FEC.gov still stores ZIP 94301 as five digits on Schedule A. $129,249,144 across 138,108 lines is the roll-up. Employer and occupation strings are other views. This guide does not import a Silicon Valley story the packet does not contain.

Source tables

The ZIP 94301 FEC page holds $129,249,144 and 138,108 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 campus or venture-capital narrative is attached to the ZIP field.

Palo Alto’s 94301 total of $129,249,144 across 138,108 lines can change when committees amend. This prose will not update itself. Use the live ZIP 94301 FEC page after a restatement. Independent expenditures and California state filings still sit outside both printed numbers.

ZIP 94301 as a geographic key, not a community survey

FEC contributor ZIP 94301 covers mail in downtown Palo Alto. Geocoding those five digits to parcels, precincts, or income maps is extra work this aggregate does not do. $129,249,144 follows the form field. 138,108 counts itemized rows. Neither number is a poll of people who sleep in downtown Palo Alto.

Joint fundraising and PAC addresses can be in $129,249,144. That caveat is the same for every ZIP on this wave and still has to be said on this page. Combined with a high-volume mean of about $936, it tells a reader not to treat ZIP 94301 as a household checkbook. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Because 138,108 and $129,249,144 are large enough to quote in isolation, they get quoted in isolation. That is how ZIP 94301 gets misread. A dollar total without a line count hides whether Palo Alto is a concentration ZIP or a volume ZIP. A line count without $129,249,144 hides scale. A mean of about $936 without the PAC-address caveat hides how FEC mail works. Quote the pair, then the caveat, then the source: FEC.gov itemized receipts indexed on LobbyVault. Skip motive language. Skip stacking neighboring ZIPs into a metro total unless you document the recode. The ZIP 94301 FEC page remains the live table for both printed facts.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 94301?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 94301 total $129,249,144 across 138,108 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 Palo Alto. Joint fundraising committees and PAC addresses can appear in $129,249,144 when that five-digit code was filed. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 94301?

LobbyVault counts 138,108 itemized contributions for ZIP 94301. 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 138,108 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $129,249,144.

Does ZIP 94301 include only residents of downtown Palo Alto?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. PAC mail drops, joint fundraising committees, and office addresses in downtown Palo Alto can be part of $129,249,144 when 94301 is what was filed. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 138,108-line count follows the same rule. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 94301 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $129,249,144 and 138,108 lines for ZIP 94301. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from downtown Palo Alto are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $936 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.