Campaign Commonsreceipts, not conclusions

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

Where WORKERS VOTE'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
$23,470,212
Spent on this race (Schedule E)
$525K
21 vendors · 0 ads · 1 candidate targeted
Visibility of traced dollars
individuals 47%organizations 35%inferable 0%not walked 0%dark 18%
Ends in 24 dark terminals, 455 individual donors, 14 business / union treasuries, 33 aggregated remainders, 18 cycles, 42 FEC committees not walked.

Flow of money into the spender, and where it went

  • you are here — WORKERS VOTE, 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 5HOP 4HOP 3HOP 2HOP 1SPENDERPAID VENDORSTARGETEDUNITED BROTHERHOOD OFCARPENTERS AND JOINERSnon-committee organization$33MOther contributors to ENGINEERSPOLITICAL EDUCATION C…$12MOther contributors to SMP (each<1% of receipts, or beyond the 4…other (17 smaller sources folded, 53…$200MMAJORITY FORWARDnon-committee organizationDARK WALLAdvocacy nonprofit — funders not on file$82MFUND FOR POLICY REFORMnon-committee organizationDARK WALLAdvocacy nonprofit — funders not on file$60MWORKING FOR WORKINGAMERICANS - FEDERALSuper PAC$33MENGINEERS POLITICALEDUCATION COMMITTEE…$12Mshow all its sources+INTERNATIONAL UNION OFOPERATING ENGINEERS$11MDEMOCRACY PAC$11MEYCHANER, FRED$10MGEOSOR CORPORATION$10MGREATER NEW YORK HOSPITALASSOCIATION MANAGE…$8.5MOther contributors toDEMOCRACY PAC (each…$741KSMPSuper PAC$329Mshow all its sources+DEMOCRACY PACSuper PAC$71Mshow all its sources+Other contributors to WOMENVOTE (each <1% of receip…$24MEARN INTERNATIONAL UNION OFOPERATING ENGINEERS$11MWOMEN VOTESuper PAC$32Mshow all its sources+NEA ADVOCACY FUND,ASSOCIATION$28MOther contributors to AMERICAVOTES ACTION FUND (ea…$15MOther sources of UNITE HERE PACother (2 smaller sources fol…$9.6MNEA ADVOCACY FUNDSuper PAC$28MAMERICA VOTES ACTIONFUND$15Mshow all its sources+UNITE HERE PAC$9.6Mshow all its sources+FOR OUR FUTURE$8.0Mshow all its sources+AMERICAN FEDERATION OFTEACHERS, AFL-CIO CO…$3.5Mshow all its sources+NEVADA ALLIANCE$2.8MOther contributors to WORKERSVOTE (each <1% of recei…$2.1MGRANT, ANNA$720KUNITE HERE ACTION FUNDnon-committee organization$714KOUR AMERICAN FUTURE ACTIONnon-committee organization$300KAFT SOLIDARITY 527$266KAFSCME WORKING FAMILIESFUND$250KUAW - V - CAP (UAWVOLUNTARY COMMUNIT…$188Kshow all its sources+WORKERS VOTEYOU ARE HERE · THE SPENDERSuper PAC$23MUNITE HERE LOCAL 274$89Kcollapse downstream−LABOR CANVASS$85Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE Local 23$84Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE LOCAL 54$81Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE$78Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE Local 25$35Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE LOCAL 217$18Kcollapse downstream−NORTHERN LIBERTY PRESSvendor · mail$13Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE LOCAL 26$12Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE LOCAL 34$7Kcollapse downstream−NEW ENGLAND JOINT BOARDUNITE HERE$6Kcollapse downstream−SCALE TO WIN$3Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE LOCAL 100$3Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE Local 75(Toronto)$3Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE LOCAL 737$2Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE LOCAL 26POLITICAL CMTE$2Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE LOCAL 35$2Kcollapse downstream−UNITE HERE LOCAL 7$694collapse downstream−UNITE HERE LOCAL 634$233collapse downstream−UNITE HERE LOCAL 74$110collapse downstream−UNITE HERE Local 878$93collapse downstream−Bob Casey$525K
Drawn: the spender, its direct sources and every node carrying at least 2% of its receipts — 59 smaller sources ($141M) folded into dashed “other” nodes; 3 committees have 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 WORKERS VOTE, 5 hop(s) deep; independent expenditures are targeting edges and never appear. The walk starts from $23,470,212 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. 42 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. 18 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.