Federal contributions itemized with ZIP 98040

An island ZIP with 80,319 federal lines

Eighty thousand three hundred nineteen itemized receipts add to $37,747,848. The mean is about $470 per line ($37,747,848 / 80,319). That pairing is a high-volume Eastside pattern: many receipts, a mid-hundreds mean, eight-figure dollars. A mean in that band usually means many modest itemizations with a thinner tail of larger checks.

Sort the ZIP 98040 FEC page by amount to inspect the tail. The mean can look stable even if a few transfers are large, because 80,319 lines dilute them. Receipt count is not unique people. This packet has no donor-distinct figure. Treat 80,319 as lines on committee reports, not as a census of Mercer Island.

King County is not a single ZIP. 98040 is one island code. Seattle and Bellevue codes have their own hubs. Rank them on the all-ZIP index. Adding 98040 to those codes is a recode FEC.gov did not publish on this table.

What $37,747,848 leaves out

The aggregate is not a Washington Public Disclosure Commission total and not a city of Mercer Island campaign report. It is federal itemizations from FEC.gov. It is also not a party index. FEC schedules do not score ZIP codes by ideology, and this packet does not invent one.

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $37,747,848. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP are omitted even if they mention a Washington race. Occupation and employer strings live on individual receipts. This ZIP rollup does not tally them. Do not build a tech-employer story from a ZIP total that has no employer aggregate.

98040 versus other Eastside codes

Mercer Island is a place name. ZIP 98040 is a five-digit FEC field. $37,747,848 across 80,319 lines is the indexed pair. Lake geography is orientation. It is not an FEC finding about Eastside giving habits. Employer, occupation, and recipient tables sit elsewhere.

The all-ZIP directory ranks dollars. 98040’s rank on dollars will not automatically match its rank on line count. Compare 80,319 receipts against a thinner Washington ZIP as filing shape. FEC.gov publishes both. It does not crown a more engaged island.

Reading the $470 mean

Confirm the largest rows on the hub table. If they are committee names, note them. If they are personal names, note that instead. Either way, 80,319 remains a receipt count. The accurate comparison with another ZIP uses both dollars and line count, not dollars alone.

Cycle windows matter even when this packet does not print a cycle year. $37,747,848 is the indexed aggregate as harvested. An older clip with a different total is not a contradiction until extract dates are checked. FEC.gov amendments are expected on a ZIP with this many lines.

Source tables for 98040

The ZIP 98040 FEC page lists the table behind $37,747,848. The all-ZIP index ranks other codes. The donor directory is the name-level path. This copy uses only the packet’s total and contribution count. Cycle splits, party labels, and occupation tallies are omitted because they are not packet facts. If the live hub reprints a different total or 80,319-line count, the newer FEC extract wins. A mean near $470 follows from division and is not a median island resident. Source: FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Mercer Island 98040 between Seattle and Bellevue, still one ZIP

The island sits between two larger cities. The contributor field does not. $37,747,848 across 80,319 lines is 98040 only. Adding it to a Seattle or Bellevue ZIP is a recode. FEC.gov did not publish a combined Eastside figure on this table. Rank those codes on the all-ZIP index using both dollars and line count.

The $470 mean on 80,319 lines is a high-volume shape. A tech-employer story that cites $37,747,848 without row-level employer strings is using a ZIP total as a substitute for a table it does not have. Sort the ZIP 98040 FEC page by amount. This packet has no unique-donor count.

Washington PDC filings sit outside $37,747,848. Use the donor directory for names. If the live hub reprints a different total or 80,319-line count, FEC.gov controls. Cite $37,747,848 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 98040, according to FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 98040?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 98040 total $37,747,848 across 80,319 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 Mercer Island. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 98040?

LobbyVault counts 80,319 itemized contributions for ZIP 98040. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $37,747,848.

Does 98040 cover Seattle and Bellevue?

No. 98040 is one five-digit code used on Mercer Island. Seattle and Bellevue ZIPs have separate FEC hubs with their own dollar totals. Compare them on the all-ZIP index. The $37,747,848 figure is only the itemizations labeled 98040.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 98040 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $37,747,848 and 80,319 lines for ZIP 98040. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $470 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.