ZIP Code 98004

Ninety thousand receipts, a $480 mean

Divide $43,443,718 by 90,600 and the mean line is about $480. That average is a ratio. It is not a typical gift and it is not a median. A six-figure-adjacent itemization list can mix ordinary individual rows with committee rows on the same five digits. FEC Schedule A stores whatever ZIP the filer put on the receipt. LobbyVault sums those rows.

Ninety thousand six hundred itemized lines is enough volume that no single restatement is guaranteed to dominate the mean, and still small enough that large committee receipts can pull $43,443,718. The table can support that scale check. It cannot support a story about who lives in 98004 or why they gave.

A mean near $480 on 90,600 lines is a mid-band ratio on a volume ZIP. It does not prove a typical gift. FEC.gov did not publish a median for 98004. Keep $43,443,718 and 90,600 together so a reader can redo the division.

How FEC addressing works on 98004

Individual contribution files include a ZIP field taken from the contributor record. Committees and joint fundraising committees often use a business ZIP. When those entities appear as contributors or as the address on a transferred receipt, their ZIP is 98004 if that is what was filed. Treating $43,443,718 as what residents donated overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works.

Unitemized gifts below the federal itemization threshold never enter this total. Washington state filings never enter it. Independent expenditures paid by a committee with a different ZIP never enter it. The $43,443,718 figure is a ZIP roll-up of itemized federal receipts, sourced from FEC.gov.

On a ZIP with 90,600 lines, the temptation is to treat the count as a population. It is not. Repeat itemizations, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows. $43,443,718 remains the matching dollar total. Cite the pair, not a headcount the packet never published.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 98004?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 98004 total $43,443,718 across 90,600 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $480 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 98004?

LobbyVault counts 90,600 itemized contributions for ZIP 98004. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $43,443,718.

Does $43.4 million mean people who live in 98004 gave that much?

The ZIP is the five-digit code on the FEC itemization. Joint fundraising and PAC addresses can appear in the same $43,443,718 total. 90,600 is a contribution-line count, not a unique-person count. Treating $43,443,718 as resident-only giving overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works. Open the ZIP 98004 hub for named receipts.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 98004 totals?

Figures come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $43,443,718 and 90,600 contributions for ZIP 98004. 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.