Federal contributions from ZIP 95032: $14.4M

Los Gatos 95032 is not 95030

$14,431,410 divided by 40,561 is about $356 per itemized line. Los Gatos splits across more than one ZIP. 95030 is a different roll-up. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count for 95032 only. It does not have a unique-donor count.

Forty thousand five hundred sixty-one contributions is a long list. Repeat gifts and any committee that prints 95032 add rows. Do not treat 40,561 as a census of Los Gatos. LobbyVault does not interpret $14,431,410 as a South Bay political identity.

Foothill mail on a federal form

A hillside household, a downtown suite, and a committee mailbox can share 95032. $14,431,410 follows the form. Open the ZIP 95032 FEC page for named receipts. California state-office filings are a different dataset. Combining 95032 with 95030 or Campbell 95008 without naming each source total changes the unit.

What stays outside $14,431,410

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. California state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Santa Clara race. Cite $14,431,410 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 95032. The mean of about $356 is arithmetic, not a median.

Live hub for 95032

The ZIP 95032 FEC page holds $14,431,410 and 40,561 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.

Reading 95032 next to the rest of the ZIP directory

The all-ZIP directory exists so 95032 can be placed among other five-digit keys without turning $14,431,410 into a metro story. Los Gatos sits in Santa Clara County. Peers include 95030 and 95008. Each peer has its own total. 40,561 lines at $14,431,410 ($14.4M) is the local shape. A peer with similar dollars and half the rows will show a higher mean; that contrast is the point of keeping keys separate.

Do not build a Santa Clara County FEC total by addition unless you list every ZIP you included. California state-office filings still sit outside every one of those keys. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside them too. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count for 95032, so a Santa Clara County donor census is also out of reach from these facts.

Citation template: contributor ZIP 95032, $14,431,410, 40,561 itemized contributions, FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Add that the mean is about $356 only if you also say it is dollars divided by lines. Then send the reader to the ZIP 95032 FEC page for names and to the donor directory for person-level itemizations.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 95032 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering Los Gatos. $14,431,410 is the itemized-dollar total. 40,561 is the itemized-line total. $14.4M is $14,431,410 rounded. About $356 is those dollars divided by those lines. Santa Clara County is map context. 95030 and 95008 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 95032 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 95032 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/95032/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-95032-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,431,410 and 40,561 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.4M 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 95032, $14,431,410, 40,561 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Itemized federal receipts tagged 95032 remain $14,431,410 on 40,561 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 95032?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 95032 total $14,431,410 across 40,561 contributions. The compact headline is $14.4M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Los Gatos. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 95032?

LobbyVault counts 40,561 itemized contributions for ZIP 95032. 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 $14,431,410. The mean of about $356 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 95032 cover all of Los Gatos?

No. 95032 is one Los Gatos mail key; 95030 is a separate roll-up. Committees that file 95032 can be part of $14,431,410. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a townwide 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 95032 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,431,410 and 40,561 lines for ZIP 95032. 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.