ZIP 98004: $43.4 million across 90,600 FEC lines

Ninety thousand receipts, a $480 mean

Divide $43,443,718 by 90,600 and the mean line is about $480. That average is a ratio. It is not a typical gift and it is not a median. A six-figure-adjacent itemization list can mix ordinary individual rows with committee rows on the same five digits. FEC Schedule A stores whatever ZIP the filer put on the receipt. LobbyVault sums those rows.

Ninety thousand six hundred itemized lines is enough volume that no single restatement is guaranteed to dominate the mean, and still small enough that large committee receipts can pull $43,443,718. The table can support that scale check. It cannot support a story about who lives in 98004 or why they gave.

A mean near $480 on 90,600 lines is a mid-band ratio on a volume ZIP. It does not prove a typical gift. FEC.gov did not publish a median for 98004. Keep $43,443,718 and 90,600 together so a reader can redo the division.

How FEC addressing works on 98004

Individual contribution files include a ZIP field taken from the contributor record. Committees and joint fundraising committees often use a business ZIP. When those entities appear as contributors or as the address on a transferred receipt, their ZIP is 98004 if that is what was filed. Treating $43,443,718 as what residents donated overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works.

Unitemized gifts below the federal itemization threshold never enter this total. Washington state filings never enter it. Independent expenditures paid by a committee with a different ZIP never enter it. The $43,443,718 figure is a ZIP roll-up of itemized federal receipts, sourced from FEC.gov.

On a ZIP with 90,600 lines, the temptation is to treat the count as a population. It is not. Repeat itemizations, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows. $43,443,718 remains the matching dollar total. Cite the pair, not a headcount the packet never published.

Reading 90,600 lines without a person count

Each of the 90,600 rows is a disclosed itemization, not a unique person. Repeat contributors, redesignations, and memo entries can add lines. LobbyVault’s packet for this ZIP does not publish a unique-donor count, so this guide does not invent one. If you need names, open the ZIP 98004 FEC page and follow receipts to committees.

Amendments still matter on a volume ZIP. One restated joint-fundraising schedule can move millions inside $43,443,718. The live hub is the place to check after an FEC amendment. This prose is a snapshot of the aggregate, not a live ticker.

Itemized-only scope still needs repeating. $43,443,718 never includes unitemized federal gifts and never includes Washington state-office money. A newspaper that adds those systems to $43,443,718 has left FEC.gov. This page stays on itemized receipts tagged 98004.

98004 beside other ZIP totals

The all-ZIP directory ranks contributor ZIPs by the same FEC series. 98004’s combination of $43,443,718 and 90,600 lines is a mid-mean volume pattern. Neighboring codes in that directory may show fewer receipts and a higher mean, or more receipts and a lower mean. Use the directory to compare, and keep the comparison inside itemized federal receipts.

FEC.gov does not publish a mean table. A mean of about $480 is arithmetic from $43,443,718 and 90,600 so a reader can redo the division. Ranking by mean is a derived view, not a Commission ranking.

Where the original filings live

LobbyVault indexes FEC.gov bulk data. The ZIP 98004 page is the table behind these figures. The donor directory is a name-level view of itemized contributors across ZIPs, not a substitute for the 98004 roll-up. If a later extract disagrees with $43,443,718 or 90,600, the FEC filing controls.

Memo entries and redesignations can sit inside 90,600. They are still itemizations. Deleting them by hand would create a homemade total that is no longer $43,443,718. Leave the count intact unless you document a filter.

How to cite 98004 without inflating a neighborhood

The accurate sentence is: itemized federal receipts with contributor ZIP 98004 total $43,443,718 across 90,600 contributions, according to FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Shorthand that converts 90,600 into people is not supported. The packet has no unique-donor count.

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 $43,443,718 or 90,600, the newer FEC extract wins and this snapshot is stale.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 98004?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 98004 total $43,443,718 across 90,600 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $480 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 98004?

LobbyVault counts 90,600 itemized contributions for ZIP 98004. 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. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $43,443,718.

Does $43.4 million mean people who live in 98004 gave that much?

The ZIP is the five-digit code on the FEC itemization. Joint fundraising and PAC addresses can appear in the same $43,443,718 total. 90,600 is a contribution-line count, not a unique-person count. Treating $43,443,718 as resident-only giving overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works. Open the ZIP 98004 hub for named receipts.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 98004 totals?

Figures come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $43,443,718 and 90,600 contributions for ZIP 98004. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are outside both numbers. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.