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

Where FOR OUR FUTURE's money came from — and went

⚑ Chain dead-ends in undisclosed source
← Entity pageFEC committee record ↗Backward walk over 2024-cycle receipts, 7 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
$8.0M
$7,959,198
Spent on this race (Schedule E)
$1.8M
35 vendors · 0 ads · 1 candidate targeted
Visibility of traced dollars
individuals 46%organizations 2%inferable 0%not walked 0%dark 53%
Ends in 22 dark terminals, 32 aggregated remainders, 474 individual donors, 10 business / union treasuries, 13 cycles, 51 FEC committees not walked.

Flow of money into the spender, and where it went

  • you are here — FOR OUR FUTURE, 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 2HOP 1SPENDERPAID VENDORSTARGETEDOther contributors to SEIU COPE(SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERN…other (3 smaller sources folded, 170…$31MNEA ADVOCACY FUND,ASSOCIATIONindividual$28MSEIU COPE (SERVICEEMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL U…PAC$31Mshow all its sources+NEA ADVOCACY FUNDSuper PAC$28MWAY TO LEAD PACHybrid PAC$6.3Mshow all its sources+FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUNDnon-committee organizationDARK WALLAdvocacy nonprofit — funders not on file$4.1MNEVADA ALLIANCE$100KOther contributors to FOR OURFUTURE (each <1% of rec…$68KFOR OUR FUTUREYOU ARE HERE · THE SPENDERSuper PAC$8.0MTHE OUTREACH TEAM$502Kcollapse downstream−SECOND STREETASSOCIATES, LLC$448Kcollapse downstream−FOR OUR FUTURE ACTIONFUND$321Kcollapse downstream−SHAWMUT SERVICES, LLCvendor · field$250Kcollapse downstream−NATIONAL CAMPAIGNRESOURCE GROUP$197Kcollapse downstream−DELIVER STRATEGIES, LLCvendor · field$58Kcollapse downstream−Meta Platforms$6Kcollapse downstream−SCALE TO WIN$2Kcollapse downstream−TODD, JENNIFER$1Kcollapse downstream−STERN, JASON$910collapse downstream−ORENDORF, DEBRA$800collapse downstream−DEWITT, ASHLEY$800collapse downstream−THOMPSON, JOAN$747collapse downstream−BRANT, MELISSA MARIEvendor · field$720collapse downstream−BRILL, ELIZABETH$720collapse downstream−BURDICK, PAMELA$720collapse downstream−GOUGHENOUR, CARA$720collapse downstream−ROMERO, DAHIANA$720collapse downstream−SAYLES, MARY CAROL$720collapse downstream−ASBURY, HEATH$560collapse downstream−DLUGOLECKI, PHIL$560collapse downstream−DOLMAN, MELISSA$560collapse downstream−ENILO, RONKE$560collapse downstream−HAIRSTON, PAULA$560collapse downstream−LEIMER, TAMMY$560collapse downstream−MAGEE, FELICE$560collapse downstream−REYES, NATHALIE$560collapse downstream−ROMERO, IVELISE$560collapse downstream−HALL, DAVID$373collapse downstream−WOODHOUSE, EMILY$373collapse downstream−BORELLI, MICHAEL$350collapse downstream−MADYUN, ABDUL$187collapse downstream−BROWN, DESIREE$187collapse downstream−FISSEL, JENNIFER$187collapse downstream−STAPLES$133collapse downstream−Bob Casey$1.8M
Drawn: the spender, its direct sources and every node carrying at least 2% of its receipts — 3 smaller sources ($202K) folded into dashed “other” nodes; 1 committee has sources not drawn — click + to show them; 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 FOR OUR FUTURE, 7 hop(s) deep; independent expenditures are targeting edges and never appear. The walk starts from $7,959,198 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. 51 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. 13 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.