ZIP Code 20016

What the $114.3 million ZIP 20016 total includes

The headline dollar figure is the arithmetic sum of contribution amounts on FEC itemizations that carry ZIP 20016. Each of the 218,414 receipts is a line in a committee report: an individual gift above the itemization threshold, a transfer between committees, a memo entry, or another transaction type the treasurer coded with that ZIP. LobbyVault rolls those lines into one ZIP total so a searcher can see the scale of money attached to this code without opening every filing by hand.

Washington ZIP 20016 covers neighborhoods such as American University Park, Spring Valley, and Tenleytown, but the FEC record does not certify that every dollar came from a household there. A committee treasurer types a ZIP; the Commission does not geocode the address against a voter file or a property roll. Treat $114,288,148 as money labeled 20016, then use the underlying receipts if you need to separate a resident from a committee mail drop.

The 218,414-line count is large even among high-dollar East Coast codes. High volume usually means many modest itemizations sitting under the same five digits as a thinner set of large transfers. Nothing in the ZIP rollup tags which rows are which. That split appears only when you open the table and sort by amount.

How 218,414 receipts shape the average

Divide $114,288,148 by 218,414 receipts and the mean itemized amount is about $523. That average mixes small repeated gifts with larger checks. It is not a median, and it is not a unique-person average. One contributor can appear on many lines across cycles; one joint-fundraising transfer can dwarf a stack of payroll deductions reported on separate dates.

High receipt counts with a mid-hundreds mean often signal a ZIP that mixes residential itemizations with committee traffic. The table on the ZIP 20016 FEC page lists the raw rows behind the total. Sort by amount if you want the large transfers first; sort by date if you are reconstructing a filing period. Neither sort changes the $114,288,148 sum, but both change what a reader notices first.

Because this packet has no unique-donor field, you cannot convert 218,414 into people who live in 20016. Repeat itemizers, bundled events reported as separate receipts, and memo entries all inflate the count. Keep the figure labeled as contribution lines.

Questions

How much in federal contributions is tied to ZIP 20016?

LobbyVault’s ZIP aggregate shows $114,288,148 across 218,414 FEC itemized contributions that list 20016 as the contributor ZIP. The dollars come from FEC.gov reports, not from a separate survey of residents. PAC and joint-fundraising addresses can sit in the same five-digit code, so the total is a mailing-code sum rather than a neighborhood census.

Does ZIP 20016 mean only D.C. residents donated?

No. The FEC stores the ZIP the filer entered on each itemized line. Northwest Washington neighborhoods use 20016, but a committee headquarters or joint-fundraising account can use the same digits. Confirm the contributor name and street on the receipt if you need to know whether a line is a household or a political committee.

How many unique donors live in 20016?

This ZIP packet does not publish a unique-donor count. It reports 218,414 contribution lines and $114,288,148. One person can generate many itemized receipts, and one committee can generate large transfers. Use the donor directory for name-level rows instead of treating the receipt count as a headcount.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 20016 numbers?

The figures are sums of FEC itemizations indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk and committee reports. ZIP is the five-digit contributor ZIP on those itemizations. Open the ZIP 20016 FEC page to see the table, and compare other codes on the all-ZIP index if you are ranking mailing codes by dollars.