New York City Campaign Contribution Records

Campaign Contributions data from data.cityofnewyork.us details financial donations to election campaigns. The dataset includes fields for donor, recipient, amount, date, and occupation, with a last update timestamp of December 19, 2025. It is published by the City of New York.

Use Cases

• Analyzing donation patterns by OCCUPATION and ZIP code to identify donor demographics.
• Tracking contribution flows from specific EMPNAME entities to COMMITTEE recipients over DATE.
• Investigating refund activity by correlating REFUNDDATE with MATCHAMNT and ADJTYPECD.
• Mapping donor geographic concentration using CITY, STATE, and ZIP columns.
• Classifying transaction types using PAY_METHOD and PURPOSECD for campaign finance reporting.

Strengths

• Dataset contains 30 distinct columns detailing donor, recipient, transaction, and location information.
• Data is actively maintained, with a recorded last update in December 2025.

Limitations

• Sample data and total row count are unavailable, preventing assessment of dataset scale and representativeness.
• Key metadata like license, author, and temporal coverage (time_range) are unknown.
• Geographic coverage is implied but not explicitly confirmed, potentially limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Freshness

Last updated on 2025-12-19.

Geography

New York City (implied from source domain)