Money and Influence
Follow the flow of political money through PACs, lobbying registrations, and federal spending, surfaced from primary disclosure databases and translated into plain language.
What you can track
- Top PAC contributions into competitive races
- Lobbying spend by issue area and registrant
- Federal spending flows by agency, program, and recipient
Questions it answers
- Who is funding the candidates and committees in my state?
- Which industries are lobbying hardest on a given issue?
- Where are federal dollars actually landing?
Where this hub's cards come from
- AIPAC Tracker
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
- Data.gov
- Federal Harms Tracker (Partnership for Public Service)
- U.S. Department of the Treasury: Fiscal Data
- USAFacts
- USAspending.gov
- Yahoo Finance
- Carnegie Endowment Disaster Dollar Database
- eCFR (Electronic Code of Federal Regulations)
- FARA Foreign Agent Registry
- FEC Open Data (OpenFEC)
- Federal Apportionment (MAX.gov)
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
- FinCEN Beneficial Ownership Reporting
- General Services Administration
- Lobbying Disclosure (US Senate)
- ProPublica White House Financial Disclosures
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