ZIP Code 20005

Volume and dollars on the same 20005 tape

$824,491,126 divided by 159,577 yields a mean of about $5,170 per itemized line. That average is useful as a scale check and useless as a portrait of a median donor. The distribution is not in this packet. A ZIP that hosts association offices, fundraising committees, and downtown D.C. mail drops will mix small itemized gifts with large transfers. FEC.gov records the ZIP that was filed. LobbyVault adds the amounts.

One hundred fifty-nine thousand five hundred seventy-seven lines is a different shape from ZIPs that post similar dollars on a few thousand receipts. 20005 is both a money ZIP and a paperwork ZIP. Researchers who only quote $824,491,126 miss the line count. Researchers who only quote 159,577 miss the dollars. Cite both.

This aggregate does not split the $824,491,126 by party, office, or employer. Those cuts live on other tables. The ZIP page is a geographic key on the contributor record, not a score of K Street influence and not a ranking of which committees “own” downtown Washington.

How FEC ZIP addressing works in 20005

Schedule A stores a contributor ZIP. In a dense D.C. ZIP, that field often belongs to a committee, a trade association, a law office, or a joint fundraising committee as often as it belongs to a home. Saying “20005 donated $824.5 million” collapses those categories. The accurate sentence is: itemized federal receipts listing ZIP 20005 sum to $824,491,126.

The 159,577-line count includes repeat givers, memo entries, and redesignations when those appear as separate itemizations. It is not a unique-person count. This packet does not publish a donor headcount, so none is cited here.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 20005?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 20005 total $824,491,126 across 159,577 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 people who live in downtown Washington. Joint fundraising committees and PAC addresses can appear in $824,491,126 when that five-digit code was filed. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 20005 mostly PAC money or individual gifts?

The ZIP is the five-digit code on the FEC itemization. Joint fundraising and PAC addresses can appear in the same $824,491,126 total. 159,577 is a contribution-line count, not a unique-person count. Treating $824,491,126 as resident-only giving in downtown Washington overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works. Open the ZIP 20005 hub for named receipts.

How many contributions are in the 20005 total?

159,577 itemized lines against $824,491,126 produces a high-dollar volume pattern with a mean near $5,170. That arithmetic is a scale check, not a typical household gift. Large committee and joint-fundraising receipts posted to downtown Washington can dominate the mean. The packet has no median and no unique-donor count. Cite both $824,491,126 and 159,577.

Where is the 20005 data from?

Figures come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $824,491,126 and 159,577 contributions for ZIP 20005. 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. The live ZIP 20005 FEC page is the current table.