ZIP 94305: $18.4 million across 46,239 FEC lines

A campus ZIP is still two FEC numbers

$18,440,501 divided by 46,239 is about $399 per itemized line. University geography tempts readers to treat the total as a faculty census. The packet does not support that. It publishes a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not publish a unique-donor count, an employer split, or a roster of people with Stanford addresses.

Forty-six thousand two hundred thirty-nine contributions is a substantial list. Campus mail rooms, household pairs, graduate-housing addresses, and any committee that files 94305 all add rows. Do not treat 46,239 as a headcount of faculty. This packet has no donor headcount.

LobbyVault does not interpret $18,440,501 as a university political identity. Motive language is out of scope. The source is FEC.gov itemized receipts tagged 94305.

94305 as a mail key, not a campus directory

94305 is the postal code for Stanford University and adjoining campus addresses. A joint fundraising committee that lists a campus suite, a PAC that uses a 94305 box, and an individual who lists faculty housing all post that ZIP when it is on Schedule A. $18,440,501 follows the form. It is not a payroll book and not a resident-only book.

The 46,239-line count can include memo entries and redesignations. Open the ZIP 94305 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not guess which rows are households.

What $18,440,501 does not include

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. California state-office campaigns are omitted. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP are omitted even if they mention a Bay Area race. Cite $18,440,501 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 94305, from FEC.gov.

Amendments can restated large transfers without touching most of the 46,239 small lines. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings. This prose is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Stanford’s campus ZIP is a mail-room magnet. Graduate housing, visiting-scholar addresses, and any committee that files 94305 land in $18,440,501. That is why 46,239 must stay a line count. A campus directory and an FEC ZIP roll-up answer different questions. This packet has no unique-donor count and no employer field.

Do not fold 94305 into a “Stanford community” total with Palo Alto without listing every ZIP. $18,440,501 is this key only. Recheck the ZIP 94305 FEC page after quarterly filings. The all-ZIP directory places the code among others. Named receipts show which committees appear. FEC.gov remains the original filing.

94305 next to Palo Alto and Menlo Park codes

The all-ZIP directory ranks the same series. Nearby 94301 and 94025 often show different line counts. Compare 46,239 against those peers rather than against a Midland ZIP with 35,000 lines and a higher mean. Filing shape is local to how addresses were entered. FEC.gov does not rank which campus is more engaged.

Stacking Stanford with Palo Alto is a common recode. This page does not perform it. $18,440,501 is the 94305 key only. If you build a peninsula total, list every ZIP you included.

Where to read named receipts

The ZIP 94305 FEC page holds $18,440,501 and 46,239 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. No employer map is attached to this ZIP total.

Filtering the donor directory to 94305 should reconcile to the ZIP hub, not to a homemade $399 average. When a name search and 46,239 disagree, the ZIP roll-up on the hub is the geographic total.

Filing shape: campus mail, mid-mean lines

Stanford appears on FEC Schedule A as ZIP 94305. The indexed total is $18,440,501 across 46,239 contributions. That mid-volume campus-mail pattern is the fact the two numbers support. It is not a ranking of academic politics and not a party split. FEC.gov did not attach those labels to this aggregate.

Use the ZIP 94305 FEC page as the live table. Use the all-ZIP directory to see where $18,440,501 sits among other codes. If an extract later prints a different dollar figure, the Commission’s filing wins.

Stanford’s 94305 key posts $18,440,501 across 46,239 contributions, about $399 per line. Campus mail rooms, faculty housing, and any committee that files 94305 share that key. Treating 46,239 as a faculty headcount is a category error. This packet has no employer field and no unique-donor count.

Palo Alto and Menlo Park are adjoining mail keys with their own totals. Adding them to 94305 and calling the sum a peninsula FEC figure is a recode you must document. $18,440,501 is 94305 only. Compare 46,239 in the all-ZIP directory rather than assuming campus ZIPs always look like this.

California state campaigns sit outside $18,440,501. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside. A later extract can restated a campus-address transfer. Recheck the ZIP 94305 FEC page. Named receipts there are the way to see which committees appear. FEC.gov remains the original filing if the snapshot and a later file disagree.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 94305?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 94305 total $18,440,501 across 46,239 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 Stanford faculty. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $399 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 94305?

LobbyVault counts 46,239 itemized contributions for ZIP 94305. 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 $18,440,501.

Does ZIP 94305 count only people who live on campus?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. Committees and office addresses that file 94305 can be part of $18,440,501 when that is what was entered. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only or faculty-only book. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 94305 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $18,440,501 and 46,239 lines for ZIP 94305. 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.