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ZIP Code 98101

SEATTLE, WA

Total Donations

$26,994,102

Contributions

56,028

Unique Donors

0

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 98101 total $26,994,102 across 56,028 contributions. Downtown Seattle’s retail and office core shares those five digits on Schedule A. Totals can include joint fundraising and PAC addresses, not only residents.

Key figures

  • ZIP 98101 FEC itemizations total $26,994,102 across 56,028 contributions.
  • The mean line is about $482; the packet has no median or unique-donor count.
  • 98101 is a five-digit FEC contributor ZIP, not a resident roster.
  • Source: FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Fifty-six thousand downtown Seattle lines

$26,994,102 divided by 56,028 is about $482 per itemized line. Downtown codes often mix residential towers, offices, and committee letterhead on the same five digits. That $482 figure is arithmetic from the packet, not a median gift and not a typical Belltown-edge household.

Fifty-six thousand twenty-eight itemizations is a long receipt list. Repeat gifts, workplace itemizations, and bundled events can all add rows. 56,028 is not a headcount of people who live near Pike Place or along Third Avenue.

No party share is attached to $26,994,102. Employer strings sit on other LobbyVault views. 98101 is a geographic key on the contributor record. Cite 56,028 contributions with that total whenever the ZIP is quoted.

A commercial-residential ZIP on FEC forms

98101 covers downtown Seattle and overlapping First Hill fringe mail. A contributor who lists a downtown office, a tower address, or a committee that files 98101 adds to $26,994,102 when that ZIP is on the itemization. Treating the total as household-only giving misstates the field.

The 56,028-line count includes memo entries and redesignations. This guide does not invent a person count the packet omitted. Seattle geography is orientation only.

Full analysis: Federal contributions from ZIP 98101 β†’

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 98101?
FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 98101 total $26,994,102 across 56,028 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 downtown Seattle residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $482 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.
How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 98101?
LobbyVault counts 56,028 itemized contributions for ZIP 98101. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. Those rows are itemized Schedule A lines, not people. The matching dollar total is $26,994,102.
Does ZIP 98101 include only downtown Seattle residents?
No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. Office and committee addresses in the 98101 grid can be part of $26,994,102 when that is what was filed. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 56,028-line count follows the same rule.
Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 98101 totals?
The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $26,994,102 and 56,028 lines for ZIP 98101. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Washington state filings are outside both figures. LobbyVault is the index, not the filing system. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.

ZIP is the 5-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations. Totals can include joint fundraising and PAC addresses, not only residents.

Donation Trend by Cycle

1980
$258K
1982
$97K
1984
$184K
1986
$115K
1988
$136K
1990
$100K
1992
$176K
1994
$129K
1996
$171K
1998
$153K
2000
$240K
2002
$149K
2004
$237K
2006
$180K
2008
$418K
2010
$228K
2012
$303K
2014
$213K

Top Donors

Top individual donors in ZIP code 98101 (SEATTLE, WA), ranked by total donated.
#NameTotalContributionsEmployerOccupationCycles
1BOEING, WILLIAM E JR$9,0008RETIREDβ€”1980
2CLARKE, RICHARD S MRS$7,6256HOMEMAKERβ€”1980
3GOLUB, STANLEY$7,0002β€”β€”1980
4BUMPUS, HELEN M$5,8702RETIREDβ€”1980
5CARLSON, EDWARD E$5,5007UAL INC & WESTERN INT'L HOTELSβ€”1980
6BULLITT, STIMSON$4,5007ATTORNEYβ€”1980
7HAUBERG, JOHN H$4,5005PACIFIC DENKMANNβ€”1980
8HAGLUND, IVAR$4,0004IVARS RESTβ€”1980
9GLUCK, JOSEPH (ESTATE OF)$3,9542β€”β€”1980
10CLARKE, RICHARD S$3,0002RETIRED/WRITERβ€”1980
11CLARKE, AMY P$3,0002RETIREDβ€”1980
12GRAHAM, JOHN$2,9006JOHN GRAHAM COβ€”1980
13HODGE, JAMES R$2,7504NORTHERN TIER PIPELINE COβ€”1980
14BOULLION, E H MR$2,2003BOEING COMMERCIAL AIRLINEβ€”1980
15JOHNSON, RICHARD A$2,1257β€”β€”1980
16MULLIKIN, HARRY$2,0002WESTERN INTERNATIONAL HOTELSβ€”1980
17ALLISON, JAMES$2,0003β€”β€”1980
18BELL, WILLIAM L JR$2,0003β€”β€”1980
19MILLER, PENDLETON$2,0002LANE, POWELL, MOSS & MILLERβ€”1980
20JOHNSON, PHILIP GUSTAV$2,0002CALT ENTERPRISESβ€”1980
21FRIEDLANDER, PAUL S$2,0005JEWELERβ€”1980
22MURPHY, JOHN A$2,0005β€”β€”1980
23MASSART, JAMES E$2,0005MECH CONTRACTORβ€”1980
24MCDONALD, ALLEN R$2,0002ARCHITECTβ€”1980
25MIDGETT, ROBERT$2,0001RETIREDβ€”1980