Federal contributions itemized with ZIP 94612

Downtown Oakland as a filing address

Thirty-four thousand twenty-five itemized lines add to $42,114,089. The mean is about $1,238 per receipt ($42,114,089 / 34,025). That is thicker than a high-volume residential East Bay mean. Downtown ZIPs often mix personal itemizations with committee letterhead. LobbyVault does not relabel those rows as non-residential; the ZIP field is whatever the committee reported.

If you treat $42,114,089 as what people who sleep in 94612 gave, you will overstate household giving. Money can be reported at a committee’s office even when original checks came through a pass-through. The FEC itemization ZIP follows the form. That is a feature of the disclosure system, not a LobbyVault choice.

Oakland is not a single ZIP. 94612 is one downtown code. Other Oakland codes have separate hubs. Rank them on the all-ZIP index. Do not fold 94612 into a homemade Alameda County total.

Why 34,025 lines still need a name check

Thirty-four thousand rows is few enough that the largest lines are inspectable. Sort the ZIP 94612 FEC page by amount. If a short list of payers accounts for most of $42,114,089, the ZIP is functioning as a committee address more than as a residential cluster. That is a reading of the table, not a motive claim.

Receipt count is not unique people. This packet has no donor-distinct figure. Treat 34,025 as contribution lines. Repeat itemizers and memo entries add rows without adding new residents.

What this packet will not tell you

There is no unique-donor count, no party split, and no industry rollup in the packet. Occupations on individual rows are outside these facts. Do not build an industry story from a ZIP total that does not include employer aggregates.

94612 is not a California Fair Political Practices Commission figure and not a city of Oakland campaign report. It is federal itemizations only, from FEC.gov, rolled to a five-digit code. Local and state filings use other databases. Mixing them with $42,114,089 would invent a combined number this packet does not contain.

Comparing downtown and hillside Oakland codes

Do not rank 94612 against a residential Oakland ZIP on dollars alone. Include the 34,025-receipt count in the comparison. A downtown mean near $1,238 and a hillside ZIP with more lines and a lower mean are different filing shapes. FEC.gov publishes both. It does not crown a more engaged neighborhood.

Lake Merritt geography is orientation. It is not an FEC finding. $42,114,089 follows the form field. 34,025 counts itemized rows. Neither number is a poll of people who work in downtown towers.

Where to continue from 94612

The ZIP 94612 FEC page holds the 34,025-row table behind $42,114,089. Rank other codes on the all-ZIP index, remembering that office ZIPs and residential ZIPs share a ranking but not a meaning. Use the donor directory for names. This guide cites only the packet’s two volume facts. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls. A mean near $1,238 follows from division and is not a median downtown resident.

Downtown Oakland as one code in a multi-ZIP city

Oakland’s downtown grid is not the hills and not East Oakland. 94612 is the five-digit field for this downtown cluster. $42,114,089 across 34,025 lines is the indexed pair. A citywide Oakland story that cites only 94612 is quoting a mailing code, not a municipal census. Other Oakland codes belong on the all-ZIP index with their own totals.

The $1,238 mean is a downtown shape marker. Committee suites in civic and office buildings can thicken a mean without proving that every row is a PAC. Thirty-four thousand lines are still few enough to sort. Open the ZIP 94612 FEC page. If the largest payers are committees, say so. If they are personal names, say that instead. Either reading stays inside the packet’s two facts.

California FPPC filings sit outside $42,114,089. Alameda County local reports sit outside it. Do not mix them. Use the donor directory for names. Recheck the live hub after large filings. If a later extract disagrees with $42,114,089 or 34,025, the newer FEC.gov file wins. LobbyVault indexes; it does not replace the Commission.

Questions

What is the ZIP 94612 contribution total?

LobbyVault shows $42,114,089 across 34,025 FEC itemized contributions listing ZIP 94612, from FEC.gov. The mean is about $1,238 per receipt. That pairing often reflects a downtown mix of personal itemizations and committee addresses, not a dense residential donor list alone.

Is 94612 all of Oakland?

No. 94612 is a five-digit contributor ZIP used on downtown Oakland addresses. Other Oakland codes have separate FEC hubs. The $42,114,089 total on 34,025 receipts is a mailing-code sum. Do not treat it as a citywide Oakland census. Read payer names on the hub table.

How many unique donors are in 94612?

This packet does not include a unique-donor count. It reports 34,025 contribution lines and $42,114,089. One committee can generate transfers that dwarf personal itemizations. Use the donor directory for name-level rows. Treat 34,025 as receipts, not as people who live downtown.

Where are the 94612 receipts listed?

On the ZIP 94612 FEC page, which holds the 34,025-row table behind $42,114,089. Compare other codes on the all-ZIP index, remembering that downtown and residential ZIPs are not like-for-like. The donor directory is the person-level table. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault.