Federal contributions from ZIP 98006: $14.8M

Ninety thousand lines, a small mean

$14,753,074 divided by 90,631 is about $163 per itemized line. That is the opposite shape of a short-list ZIP with the same dollars. The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count. Do not treat 90,631 as a census of Bellevue. Repeat gifts, household pairs, and any committee that prints 98006 all add rows.

Bellevue uses several ZIPs. 98004, 98005, and 98007 are different roll-ups. LobbyVault does not interpret $14,753,074 as an Eastside political identity. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 98006.

Eastside mail versus a citywide Bellevue total

A hillside household, a Factoria office, and a committee suite can share 98006. $14,753,074 follows the form. Open the ZIP 98006 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not guess which of the 90,631 rows are households. Adding 98006 to 98004 and calling the sum a Bellevue FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $14,753,074 for 98006 only.

What $14,753,074 does not include

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Washington state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Bellevue race. Cite $14,753,074 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 98006. The mean of about $163 is arithmetic, not a median. A long list of modest itemized gifts will pull the average down. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings.

98006 beside 98004, 98005, and 98007

Downtown Bellevue and adjoining Eastside codes are separate FEC keys. Keep them separate unless you are building a documented cluster. Compare 90,631 against those peers rather than against a downtown ZIP with 3,000 lines. Filing shape is local to how addresses were entered.

Live hub for 98006

The ZIP 98006 FEC page holds $14,753,074 and 90,631 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. Cite ZIP 98006, $14,753,074, 90,631 contributions, and FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Method notes for the 98006 roll-up

LobbyVault indexes FEC.gov itemized receipts and groups them by the five-digit contributor ZIP. For 98006 (Bellevue eastside), that group currently totals $14,753,074 on 90,631 lines. $14.8M is the rounded headline. King County is the map context. Neither the map nor the rounding creates a new fact. There is no unique-donor field in this packet. Writing one would be invention.

Itemization has a federal threshold. Small unitemized gifts never appear in $14,753,074. Washington state-office reports never appear in $14,753,074. Independent expenditures are a different schedule. If you need 98004, 98005, and 98007, open those hubs separately. Adding them to 98006 without saying so misstates the unit.

The mean of about $163 answers a narrow question: dollars divided by lines. It does not describe the median gift, the largest gift, or a typical household. Named receipts live on the ZIP 98006 FEC page. The all-ZIP directory is the inventory for rank and peer comparison. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if extracts diverge.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 98006 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering Bellevue eastside. $14,753,074 is the itemized-dollar total. 90,631 is the itemized-line total. $14.8M is $14,753,074 rounded. About $163 is those dollars divided by those lines. King County is map context. 98004, 98005, and 98007 are other keys. Washington 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 98006 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 98006 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/98006/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-98006-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,753,074 and 90,631 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.8M 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.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 98006?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 98006 total $14,753,074 across 90,631 contributions. The compact headline is $14.8M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Bellevue. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 98006?

LobbyVault counts 90,631 itemized contributions for ZIP 98006. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. The mean of about $163 follows from dividing $14,753,074 by that line count. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure.

Does ZIP 98006 cover all of Bellevue?

No. 98006 is one East Bellevue mail key. 98004, 98005, 98007 and other codes are separate roll-ups. Committees and office addresses that file 98006 can be part of $14,753,074. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a citywide 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 98006 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,753,074 and 90,631 lines for ZIP 98006. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Washington state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.