Campaign Finance Dashboard
The big picture: how money moves through US federal elections across cycles, industries, and players.
Where individual donations went
Schedule A money flow, by recipient committee type. Hover for breakdown; click a cycle to drill into top candidates.
Outside spending by race
Schedule E Independent Expenditures routed to House / Senate / Presidential races via target candidate's office. Click a cycle to drill into top PACs.
Industry / lobby spending by cycle
Our 10 tracked topics. Total spending = direct contributions + independent expenditures.
Top 20 PACs by total disbursements
Contributions to candidates plus independent expenditures, all cycles.
Top individual donors (normalized)
Collapses raw Schedule A name variants — honorifics (DR./M.D.), middle initials, and nicknames (TOM↔THOMAS, MIKE↔MICHAEL) — into one canonical donor per state. Names suffixed with * have multiple raw variants merged. Breakdown shows where each donor's Schedule A dollars went: direct to candidates, to party committees, or to Super PACs.
Top 20 candidates by amount raised
PAC + individual contributions via committee linkages.
Top 20 campaign vendors
Where committees send operating expenditure dollars (oppexp).
Full money flow: donor → committee → target
Top 15 normalized donors, their top 3 recipient committees, and each committee's top 3 candidate targets grouped by office and party (House / Senate / President / Party · D / R). Hover any flow for the dollar amount.