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Funding chain · Pennsylvania · U.S. Senate · 2024

Where VOTEVETS's money came from — and went

← Entity pageFEC committee record ↗Backward walk over 2024-cycle receipts, 5 hops deep. To the right: Schedule E payments to vendors, the ads it ran, and the candidate those dollars were aimed at.
Total receipts traced
$23M
$22,774,450
Spent on this race (Schedule E)
$224
1 vendor · 3 ads · 1 candidate targeted
Visibility of traced dollars
individuals 84%organizations 7%inferable 0%not walked 2%dark 7%
Ends in 494 individual donors, 9 business / union treasuries, 28 aggregated remainders, 5 dark terminals, 34 FEC committees not walked, 15 cycles.

Flow of money into the spender, and where it went

  • you are here — VOTEVETS, the spender this page is about
  • disclosed (FEC): individual
  • disclosed (FEC): business or union treasury
  • inferable (990, lagged)
  • not walked (FEC committee, receipts outside this race's neighborhood)
  • dark wall (no disclosure)
  • other (aggregated)
  • vendor / ad (spending side)
  • placement: solid = filed or verified · dashed = inferred
  • targeting (for / against) — no money reaches the candidate
HOP 3HOP 2HOP 1SPENDERPAID VENDORSADSTARGETEDFUND FOR POLICY REFORMnon-committee organizationDARK WALLAdvocacy nonprofit — funders not on file$60MUNITED BROTHERHOOD OFCARPENTERS AND JOIN…$33MOther contributors to SEIU COPE(SERVICE EMPLOYEES IN…$31MNEA ADVOCACY FUND,ASSOCIATION$28MOther contributors to ENGINEERSPOLITICAL EDUCATION C…$12MINTERNATIONAL UNION OFOPERATING ENGINEERS$11MGEOSOR CORPORATION$10MOther contributors to LABORERS'INTERNATIONAL UNION…$7.5MUNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIALWORKERS INTERNATIO…$7.4MOther contributors toDEMOCRACY PAC (each…$741KOther contributors to SMP (each<1% of receipts, or beyond the 4…other (1 smaller sources folded, 441…$118MOther contributors to HMP (each<1% of receipts, or beyond the 4…other (8 smaller sources folded, 407…$105MMAJORITY FORWARDnon-committee organizationDARK WALLAdvocacy nonprofit — funders not on file$82MDEMOCRACY PACSuper PAC$71Mshow all its sources+HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARDnon-committee organizationDARK WALL$47MWORKING FOR WORKINGAMERICANS - FEDERAL$33MSEIU COPE (SERVICEEMPLOYEES INTERNATI…$31Mshow all its sources+NEA ADVOCACY FUND$28MWORKING FOR WORKINGAMERICANS - FEDERAL$14MBLOOMBERG, MICHAEL R.$13MENGINEERS POLITICALEDUCATION COMMITTEE…$12Mshow all its sources+EARN INTERNATIONAL UNION OFOPERATING ENGINEERS$11MDEMOCRACY PAC$11MEYCHANER, FRED$10MEYCHANER, FRED$10MGREATER NEW YORK HOSPITALASSOCIATION MANAGE…$8.5MSIMONS, JAMES$7.5MLABORERS' INTERNATIONALUNION OF NORTH AMERI…$7.5Mshow all its sources+UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIALWORKERS INTERNATIO…$7.4MSKOLL, JEFF S.$7.0MDEMOCRACY PAC II$6.5MOther contributors to UA UNIONPLUMBERS & PIPEFITTE…$6.1MMANDEL, STEPHEN$6.0MSIMONS, JAMES H.$5.5MIBEW PAC EDUCATIONAL FUNDnon-committee organization$5.5MCHAN, MICHELLE$5.0MNEA ADVOCACY FUND$4.9MSCHMIDT, ERIC E.$4.8MSIMONS, MARILYN$4.5MSEIU COPE (SERVICEEMPLOYEES INTERNATI…$4.3MAMERICAN FEDERATION OFTEACHERS, AFL-CIO CO…$4.3MSIMON, DEBORAH J.$4.0MLABORERS' INTERNATIONALUNION OF NORTH AMERI…$4.0MHASTINGS, REED$4.0MSMPSuper PAC$329Mshow all its sources+HMPHybrid PAC$207Mshow all its sources+Other contributors to VOTEVETS(each <1% of receipts, or…$13MUA UNION PLUMBERS &PIPEFITTERS VOTE! PAC…$6.1Mshow all its sources+ARMSTRONG, FRANK$700KGRAND, MARCIA$550KSCHWARTZBERG, ANDREWNATHAN$525KSEALE, WILLIAM E SR$500KKLEIN FINANCIAL CORPORATIONnon-committee organization$450KHOSTETTER, AMOS B JR$400KDESJARDINS, DAVID$375KFRANCIS, JENNIFER A$350KIBEW PAC EDUCATIONAL FUNDnon-committee organization$326KSTAD, MARC$305KCONWAY, RONALD$250KJOHNSTON, JOCELYN H$250KSCRIPPS, SEBASTIAN$250KMANDEL, SUSAN Z$250KVOTEVETSYOU ARE HERE · THE SPENDERHybrid PAC$23MBUMPERACTIVE$224collapse downstream−Video ad · 2024-10-10 – 2024-11-05ad · spend is a range midpoint~$38KVideo ad · 2024-10-10 – 2024-11-05ad · spend is a range midpoint~$33KVideo ad · 2024-10-22 – 2024-11-05ad · spend is a range midpoint~$23KBob Casey$224
Drawn: the spender, its direct sources and every node carrying at least 2% of its receipts — 49 smaller sources ($38M) folded into dashed “other” nodes; to the right, what the spender paid for and whom it targeted. Hover for the basics; click any node for its details and evidence, any edge for its evidence and its row in the table below.

Ribbon width is proportional to dollars; color is how the money is disclosed. Read left to right: sources → intermediaries → spender → vendors paid → ads ⇢ candidate targeted. Zoom with the buttons above the map or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll, drag to pan; plain scrolling still scrolls the page. Hover a node or edge for the basics. Click a node for its details, the evidence behind each link, and the page or record behind it; click an edge for its evidence and its row in the table below; + / − expands or folds what hangs off it.

Assumptions on the spending side. Vendor dollars are Schedule E payments as filed. Ad dollars are the midpoint of the range Google reports, not a filed figure. A vendor → ad edge is drawn only when a person verified it from a source naming both (solid), or the vendor was the only digital vendor the spender paid in the week before and while the ad ran (dashed, inferred). FEC does not record which buy placed which ad, so an ad with no such link hangs off the spender alone; vendors merely paid in that window are named on the ad's page as a sentence, never drawn as an edge. Targeting edges never carry money to the candidate.

Every edge, with its record — receipts, then spending

Method. Backward walk over money edges only (Schedule A receipts from individuals and organizations, committee-to-committee transfers) into VOTEVETS, 5 hop(s) deep; independent expenditures are targeting edges and never appear. The walk starts from $22,774,450 of itemized 2023–2024 receipts as loaded from FEC bulk data (unitemized receipts, loans and offsets are not edges), and every expanded committee conserves dollars: its inbound edges sum to its receipts. Inbound edges under 1% of a committee's receipts are rolled into one 'other contributors' node, which counts as disclosed except for the organization dollars inside it. Each dollar takes the visibility of where the walk stopped: named individuals (including earmarks through ActBlue/WinRed, attributed to the person) are disclosed to a person. Organizations that are not registered committees are classified from their name alone (no IRS lookup): a union or a business giving from its own treasury is disclosed to an organization — the named entity is the source, but its own funders are not walked; an LLC, trust, advocacy nonprofit (501(c)(4)-style names) or unclassifiable organization is dark, because whoever funds it is not on file with the FEC. The disclosed share is reported in total and split into the part that resolves to people and the part that stops at a named business or union. 34 committee node(s) stop with reason depth_cap: they are FEC-registered committees whose own receipts were not loaded into this race's neighborhood (or the hop or node cap was reached). The committee files donor lists with the FEC, but this walk did not read them, so its dollars are counted as 'not walked' — neither disclosed nor dark — and a dark layer behind such a committee would not show here. 15 edge(s) point at a committee already expanded elsewhere in this chain and reuse its visibility mix instead of being walked twice. Visibility shares are preliminary; no 990 lookups were performed, so nothing is marked inferable. Spending side (right of the spender): Schedule E payments to vendors are money edges; vendor → ad and spender → ad edges are placement (no dollars) and carry the evidence basis they were drawn on; edges into a candidate are targeting (for/against) and never carry money to the candidate. Ad dollars are the midpoint of the Google-reported spend range.