Federal contributions from ZIP 98102

Seventy thousand Eastlake and Capitol Hill lines

$19,950,592 divided by 70,171 is about $284 per itemized line. Eastlake, Capitol Hill fringe, and overlapping Portage Bay mail share those five digits on Schedule A. That $284 figure is arithmetic from the packet, not a median gift and not a typical Seattle household.

Seventy thousand one hundred seventy-one itemizations is a high-volume receipt list. Repeat gifts, small-dollar itemizations that still clear the FEC threshold, workplace itemizations, and bundled events can all add rows. 70,171 is not a headcount of people along Lake Union’s east shore.

A modest mean with a long line count often means many smaller rows plus some larger ones that do not dominate the average. The packet does not publish size bands. Sort the ZIP 98102 FEC page by amount to inspect the mix inside $19,950,592.

An inner-Seattle ZIP, still a federal string

98102 covers Eastlake and overlapping Capitol Hill / Portage Bay mail. A contributor who lists a home, an apartment, an office, or a committee that files 98102 adds to $19,950,592 when that ZIP is on the itemization. Treating the total as household-only giving recodes the field.

The 70,171-line count includes memo entries and redesignations. This guide does not invent a person count the packet omitted. Seattle geography is orientation only.

Do not treat 70,171 as people

Searchers seeing 70,171 may read it as a headcount. It is not. It is the number of itemized contribution rows tagged 98102 in the LobbyVault aggregate. Repeat payers and memo lines inflate the count without adding unique donors. This packet has no unique-donor field.

Do not infer turnout or engagement from 70,171 or from the $284 mean. Itemizations are Schedule A rows labeled 98102. FEC.gov stored the ZIP string. LobbyVault summed it. Names live on the receipts, not in this roll-up.

What $19,950,592 leaves out

Unitemized federal gifts are out. Washington Public Disclosure Commission filings are out. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP are out. Cite $19,950,592 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 98102, from FEC.gov.

A high-volume Seattle ZIP still moves when schedules are amended. Recheck the ZIP 98102 FEC page after a restatement. Compare extract dates before treating two published totals as a contradiction.

98102 next to other Seattle codes

The all-ZIP directory ranks the same FEC series. 98101, 98112, or 98122 may show different means on different line counts. Those contrasts describe filing shape. FEC.gov does not score neighborhoods.

Do not add 98102 to another Capitol Hill or downtown code into a core-plus total on this page. The file reports one key: 98102, $19,950,592, 70,171 contributions.

Live tables for 98102

Open the ZIP 98102 FEC page for $19,950,592 and 70,171 as currently indexed. Use the all-ZIP directory to compare codes and the donor directory for names. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls.

The accurate citation is: itemized federal receipts with contributor ZIP 98102 total $19,950,592 across 70,171 contributions, per FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. A mean of about $284 describes filing shape. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet.

Cite 98102 as $19,950,592 across 70,171 contributions, according to FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. A mean of about $284 is $19,950,592 ÷ 70,171. That arithmetic describes a high-volume, modest-mean Eastlake ZIP. It does not describe 70,171 unique residents. Repeat gifts, memo entries, and small itemizations that still clear the federal threshold can all stretch the list.

Do not add 98102 to 98101, 98112, or 98122 into a core-plus total on this page. Each key is a separate FEC string. If the live ZIP 98102 FEC page reprints a different pair, the newer extract wins. Washington Public Disclosure Commission filings sit outside $19,950,592. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside it. Named receipts answer who is on the rows; this roll-up answers the ZIP, the dollars, and the 70,171-line count.

A researcher who only quotes $19,950,592 without 70,171 hides the $284 mean and the volume that produced it. Quote both. If a committee later amends the ZIP field on a large Eastlake row, both figures move. Recheck the ZIP 98102 FEC page. This file is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault, not an amendment log.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 98102?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 98102 total $19,950,592 across 70,171 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Eastlake residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $284 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 98102?

LobbyVault counts 70,171 itemized contributions for ZIP 98102. That is a high line count for this dollar band. 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 $19,950,592.

Does ZIP 98102 include only Eastlake residents?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. Office and committee addresses in the 98102 grid can be part of $19,950,592 when that is what was filed. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 70,171-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 98102 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $19,950,592 and 70,171 lines for ZIP 98102. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Washington state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.