DK STRATEGIES
$5.20M
2025-2026 cycle
DK STRATEGIES is a strategy & research vendor. In the 2025-2026 cycle DK STRATEGIES was paid $5.20M across 9 client committees, of which $3.87M 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
$5.20M
=
$1.33M
(Schedule B)
+
$3.87M
(Independent Expenditures)
| Schedule B direct committee payments |
$1,333,196 | 62 rows | 25.6% |
| Independent Expenditures money this entity spent supporting candidates, NOT a committee paying them |
$3,868,978 | 48 rows | 74.4% |
- Activity span ALL TIME
- Oct 16, 2019 → May 22, 2026
- spans 6.6 years
- Disbursements ALL TIME
- 62
- Schedule B + IE rows
- Client committees ALL TIME
- 9
- 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.
Jun 2025
May 2026
$4K
across 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.
No buyer activity in this window.
VIEW 1 DIAGRAM DECORATIVE
Top buyers last 3 months · top 3
VIEW 2 TABLE EXPORTABLE
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| SD 2026 C00935015 |
$580,000 IE $580,000 |
7 |
| CRUSH MAGA PAC C00879221 |
$230,000 IE $230,000 |
2 |
| NAMVAR FOR ASSEMBLY 2026; LEILA 1484350 |
$1,287 | 2 |
VIEW 1 DIAGRAM DECORATIVE
Top buyers last 6 months · top 4
VIEW 2 TABLE EXPORTABLE
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| SD 2026 C00935015 |
$580,000 IE $580,000 |
7 |
| CRUSH MAGA PAC C00879221 |
$230,000 IE $230,000 |
2 |
| SD PAC C00757419 |
$3,167 | 1 |
| NAMVAR FOR ASSEMBLY 2026; LEILA 1484350 |
$1,287 | 2 |
VIEW 1 DIAGRAM DECORATIVE
Top buyers last 12 months · top 4
VIEW 2 TABLE EXPORTABLE
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| SD 2026 C00935015 |
$580,000 IE $580,000 |
7 |
| CRUSH MAGA PAC C00879221 |
$230,000 IE $230,000 |
2 |
| SD PAC C00757419 |
$3,167 | 1 |
| NAMVAR FOR ASSEMBLY 2026; LEILA 1484350 |
$1,287 | 2 |
VIEW 1 DIAGRAM DECORATIVE
Top buyers last 18 months · top 4
VIEW 2 TABLE EXPORTABLE
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| CRUSH MAGA PAC C00879221 |
$682,000 IE $230,000 · SB $452,000 |
3 |
| SD 2026 C00935015 |
$580,000 IE $580,000 |
7 |
| SD PAC C00757419 |
$69,696 | 2 |
| NAMVAR FOR ASSEMBLY 2026; LEILA 1484350 |
$1,287 | 2 |
VIEW 1 DIAGRAM DECORATIVE
Top buyers last 24 months · top 5
VIEW 2 TABLE EXPORTABLE
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| SD PAC C00757419 |
$1,210,196 IE $1,140,500 · SB $69,696 |
10 |
| CRUSH MAGA PAC C00879221 |
$1,022,000 IE $570,000 · SB $452,000 |
5 |
| SD 2026 C00935015 |
$580,000 IE $580,000 |
7 |
| STOP PROJECT 2025 C00884874 |
$171,000 IE $171,000 |
2 |
| NAMVAR FOR ASSEMBLY 2026; LEILA 1484350 |
$1,287 | 2 |
By party
Revenue by party
D · 100%
R · 0%
| Party | Amount | % |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic | $3,023,258 | 58.12% |
| Republican | $0 | 0.00% |
| Non-partisan | $2,178,915 | 41.88% |
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.
Cycle-over-cycle trajectory
current cycle earlier election cycle off-cycle year quarterly · 7 years
Per-quarter totals
| Year | Q | Cycle | Total | Txns | Top buyer · share | Top category · share | Cum. (cycle) | YoY % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Q4 | 2020 | $14K | 1 | WEBB, BRYANT CAMERON DR. 100% | Strategy & Research 100% | $14K | — |
| 2020 | Q1 | 2020 | $3K | 1 | VPP 100% | Strategy & Research 100% | $17K | — |
| 2020 | Q2 | 2020 | $54K | 12 | WEBB, BRYANT CAMERON DR. 66% | Strategy & Research 100% | $71K | — |
| 2020 | Q3 | 2020 | $100K | 7 | WEBB, BRYANT CAMERON DR. 87% | Strategy & Research 100% | $171K | — |
| 2020 | Q4 | 2020 | $130K | 7 | WEBB, BRYANT CAMERON DR. 76% | Strategy & Research 100% | $301K | — |
| 2021 | Q1 | 2022 | $23K | 3 | VPP 100% | Strategy & Research 100% | $23K | — |
| 2021 | Q2 | 2022 | $23K | 3 | VPP 100% | Strategy & Research 100% | $45K | — |
| 2021 | Q3 | 2022 | $15K | 2 | VPP 100% | Strategy & Research 100% | $60K | — |
| 2022 | Q1 | 2022 | $33K | 3 | DEFEAT REPUBLICANS PAC 100% | Strategy & Research 100% | $93K | +1200% |
| 2022 | Q2 | 2022 | $51K | 6 | ARBALLO FOR CONGRESS 41% | Strategy & Research 100% | $144K | -6% |
| 2022 | Q3 | 2022 | $40K | 4 | DEFEAT REPUBLICANS PAC 63% | Strategy & Research 100% | $184K | -60% |
| 2022 | Q4 | 2022 | $310K | 4 | SD PAC 90% | Strategy & Research 100% | $494K | +139% |
| 2022 | Q4 | 2024 | $6K | 2 | BAGBY FOR CONGRESS 100% | Strategy & Research 100% | $6K | — |
| 2024 | Q2 | 2024 | $10K | 2 | NEMBHARD FOR CONGRESS 100% | Strategy & Research 100% | $16K | -80% |
| 2025 | Q1 | 2026 | $452K | 1 | CRUSH MAGA PAC 100% | Media 100% | $452K | — |
| 2025 | Q2 | 2026 | $67K | 1 | SD PAC 100% | Media 100% | $519K | — |
| 2026 | Q1 | 2026 | $3K | 1 | SD PAC 100% | — | $522K | — |
| 2026 | Q2 | 2026 | $1K | 2 | NAMVAR FOR ASSEMBLY 2026; L… 100% | Digital 100% | $523K | -87% |
Revenue by service category
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Per-category breakdown · cycle-to-date
| Category | Total spend | Txns | Avg check | % of total | Top buyer · share | Last paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy & Research | $810,213 | 57 | $14K | 60.9% | SD PAC 38% | 2y ago |
| Media | $518,529 | 2 | $259K | 39.0% | CRUSH MAGA PAC 87% | 15mo ago |
| Digital | $1,287 | 2 | $644 | 0.1% | NAMVAR FOR ASSEMBLY 2026; L… 100% | 2mo ago |
Client retention
Sticky-relationship signal: how many clients keep coming back across cycles vs one-time buyers.
0
Anchor clients 3+ cycles
$0 · 0% of revenue
2
Repeat clients 2 cycles
$502,196 · 38% of revenue
7
One-time clients 1 cycle
$831,000 · 62% of revenue
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DC | $829,196 | 62.2% | 2 | |
| VA | $251,634 | 18.9% | 3 | |
| WA | $125,000 | 9.4% | 1 | |
| MI | $105,118 | 7.9% | 1 | |
| CA | $22,248 | 1.7% | 2 |
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 | 2025-01-24 | CRUSH MAGA PAC | Media | ADVERTISING | $452,000 |
| Largest all-time | 2022-10-26 | SD PAC | Strategy & Research | MEDIA PRODUCTION | $277,500 |
| Largest all-time | 2025-04-23 | SD PAC | Media | MEDIA PRODUCTION | $66,529 |
| Largest all-time | 2020-09-10 | WEBB, BRYANT CAMERON DR. | Strategy & Research | MEDIA PRODUCTION | $51,203 |
| Largest all-time | 2020-10-21 | WEBB, BRYANT CAMERON DR. | Strategy & Research | MEDIA PRODUCTION | $39,141 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-03-17 | SD PAC | — | MEDIA PRODUCTION | $3,167 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-05-05 | NAMVAR FOR ASSEMBLY 2026; LEILA | Digital | Digital Media | $750 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-05-05 | NAMVAR FOR ASSEMBLY 2026; LEILA | Digital | Text Messages | $537 |