Connect Bay Area Transit
Connect Bay Area Transit is a political services vendor. In the 2025-2026 cycle Connect Bay Area Transit was paid $1.49M across 4 client committees, of which $900K flowed through Independent Expenditures rather than direct committee payments.
Part I Identity
Stable facts about this entity. These figures do not change as you adjust the timeframe in Part II.
Source split
| Schedule B direct committee payments |
$586,850 | 11 rows | 39.5% |
| Independent Expenditures money this entity spent supporting candidates, NOT a committee paying them |
$900,000 | 4 rows | 60.5% |
- Activity span ALL TIME
- Nov 13, 2025 → May 12, 2026
- spans 6 months
- Disbursements ALL TIME
- 11
- Schedule B + IE rows
- Client committees ALL TIME
- 4
- distinct payers
Part II Activity in selected window
One timeframe control governs all three panels below. Change it once and the trajectory, top buyers, and party breakdown all update together.
Spend trajectory
Monthly spend to this vendor over the last 12 months.
Top buyers
Two views of the same data — diagram and table share the time-window control and the same top-buyers slice. Click "View all buyers in research" to drill in with the matching date range.
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Top buyers last 3 months · top 3
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT 1483907 |
$140,000 | 3 |
| SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 521 ISSUES PAC 1297706 |
$100,000 | 1 |
| SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 1021 ISSUES PAC 1296947 |
$21,850 | 1 |
Top buyers last 6 months · top 3
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT 1483907 |
$215,000 | 6 |
| SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 521 ISSUES PAC 1297706 |
$100,000 | 1 |
| SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 1021 ISSUES PAC 1296947 |
$21,850 | 1 |
Top buyers last 12 months · top 4
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT 1483907 |
$1,240,000 IE $875,000 · SB $365,000 |
11 |
| SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 521 ISSUES PAC 1297706 |
$100,000 | 1 |
| 981455 981455 |
$100,000 | 1 |
| SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 1021 ISSUES PAC 1296947 |
$21,850 | 1 |
Top buyers last 18 months · top 4
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT 1483907 |
$1,240,000 IE $875,000 · SB $365,000 |
11 |
| SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 521 ISSUES PAC 1297706 |
$100,000 | 1 |
| 981455 981455 |
$100,000 | 1 |
| SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 1021 ISSUES PAC 1296947 |
$21,850 | 1 |
Top buyers last 24 months · top 4
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT 1483907 |
$1,240,000 IE $875,000 · SB $365,000 |
11 |
| SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 521 ISSUES PAC 1297706 |
$100,000 | 1 |
| 981455 981455 |
$100,000 | 1 |
| SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 1021 ISSUES PAC 1296947 |
$21,850 | 1 |
By party
| Party | Amount | % |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic | $0 | 0.00% |
| Republican | $0 | 0.00% |
| Non-partisan | $1,486,850 | 100.00% |
Part III Reference tables
Full all-time and cycle-to-date data.
Money flow through this vendor
Where their ad buys point
IE payers (left) → races the buys targeted (right) · independent-expenditure filings onlyNo activity in the last 1 months.
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Outflow is on record for the last 6 months, but no itemized payers are.
Cycle-over-cycle trajectory
current cycle earlier election cycle off-cycle year quarterly · 2 years
| Year | Q | Cycle | Total | Txns | Top buyer · share | Top category · share | Cum. (cycle) | YoY % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Q4 | 2024 | $200K | 2 | CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT 50% | — | $200K | — |
| 2026 | Q1 | 2026 | $125K | 4 | CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT 100% | — | $125K | — |
| 2026 | Q2 | 2026 | $262K | 5 | CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT 53% | — | $387K | — |
Revenue by service category
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| Category | Total spend | Txns | Avg check | % of total | Top buyer · share | Last paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | ||||||
Client retention
Sticky-relationship signal: how many clients keep coming back across cycles vs one-time buyers.
Geographic concentration
Where this vendor's clients are based — federal committees by state, plus implicit jurisdiction for CA and TX state filers.
| State | Total spend | % of revenue | Clients | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $586,850 | 100.0% | 4 |
Notable disbursements
5 largest all-time · 5 largest in the current cycle · 5 most recent. Each row earns its place.
| Reason | Date | Filer | Category | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Largest all-time | 2025-12-23 | 981455 | — | — | $100,000 |
| Largest all-time | 2026-05-01 | CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT | — | — | $100,000 |
| Largest all-time | 2026-05-01 | SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 521 ISSUES PAC | — | — | $100,000 |
| Largest all-time | 2025-12-23 | CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT | — | — | $100,000 |
| Largest all-time | 2026-01-21 | CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT | — | — | $50,000 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-05-05 | CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT | — | — | $30,000 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-01-26 | CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT | — | — | $25,000 |
| Recent | 2026-05-12 | SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 1021 ISSUES PAC | — | — | $21,850 |
| Recent | 2026-04-27 | CONNECT BAY AREA TRANSIT | — | — | $10,000 |