A primary-source view of American campaign finance.
Three jurisdictions live in closed beta — federal, California, Texas. Every dollar on the site traces back to a publicly-filed disclosure, with a one-click link to the source filing. No paraphrase, no aggregation we can't show our work on.
What we're building
A working tool for the people who actually deal with campaign finance professionally — media buyers, finance directors, compliance counsel, opposition researchers, party-committee staff, journalists on the money beat. Not a news site. Not a leaderboard for general audiences.
The premise is simple: campaign-finance disclosures are public, but they're scattered across a federal regulator and 50 state agencies, formatted inconsistently, and almost never linked to each other. We pull them, canonicalize vendor identities across filings, resolve people across committees, and present the result as profiles — one page per vendor, filer, campaign, and (where confidence allows) person — connected by an explorable network.
What's in the data, today
How we know what we know
Every disbursement row carries a source-filing ID, a retrieval timestamp, and a content hash. Vendors are canonicalized into a single profile per real entity using a combination of name normalization, address overlap, and human review for the high-volume tail. People are tier-tagged — verified / probable / name-match-only — and low-confidence matches are shown with their evidence so operators can judge for themselves.
What's not here, and what's coming
- Other states — FL, PA, NY, IL, OH, GA, others — post-beta. The platform pattern is reusable; each new state is an ingest + a CCO sign-off.
- 501(c)(4) dark money — out of scope. We can only show what's filed; donor-side opacity is real.
- In-kind valuations under $200 — suppressed (FEC threshold).
- People hub — in beta. Name resolution is the youngest surface; many records still carry only a name string today. We're showing the ambition, not claiming it's solved.
Closed beta
Access is invite-only while we get the data layer + canonicalization right. If you're a working operator on the money side of American politics and want in, email [email protected] with a one-liner about what you'd use it for.
Disagree with something we have wrong? Found a vendor merge that's actually two distinct firms? Flag it — that feedback is the most valuable input we get.
Pages
- Vendors hub — service-provider profiles, canonicalized across filers
- Filers hub — every committee that has filed
- Campaigns hub — federal candidate committees
- People hub — name-resolved operatives (beta)
- Research — unified filter / search across all of the above
- Methodology — the long version of how the data is built
- Data updates — every ingest, every refresh, what changed
- Changelog — feature additions + behavior changes