Explore the data
Campaign money from the 2026 cycle to today — contributions, spending, loans, and totals, one file per cycle — in one queryable place. For reporters, researchers, and anyone digging across races.
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Ask a question in plain English and it writes the query for you, run a saved report, browse and filter any table, or write your own SQL — then download CSV or JSON. No account needed.
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The portal exports any table as CSV or JSON, but here are 6 ready-made files for the current cycle and the historical archive — stable links you can script against. Each file says exactly which cycle and records it covers.
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Contributions
contributions.csvItemized donor totals per candidate (monetary + in-kind). Aggregated per campaign; donors below the $200 per-candidate disclosure threshold are not named. The candidate's own contributions are included and flagged in the self_funding column.
Coverage: Contributions, expenditures, loans, candidate summaries, and filings for 2026 and 2027.
Columns (13)
candidate, office, party, status, donor_name, city, state, zip, employer, total_amount, num_contributions, kind, self_funding -
Expenditures
expenditures.csvEvery itemized expenditure reported by visible candidates this cycle. Refunds excluded. Payee city/state/ZIP are as filed.
Coverage: Contributions, expenditures, loans, candidate summaries, and filings for 2026 and 2027.
Columns (11)
candidate, office, party, status, payee, payee_city, payee_state, payee_zip, purpose, amount, date -
Loans
loans.csvOutstanding and repaid loans, deduplicated across filings. Self-loans are flagged. `amount` is everything ever drawn on the loan; `amount_this_cycle` is the part borrowed during these filings — the part that counts as money raised here.
Coverage: Contributions, expenditures, loans, candidate summaries, and filings for 2026 and 2027.
Columns (11)
candidate, office, party, status, lender, amount, amount_this_cycle, date_received, outstanding_balance, amount_repaid, is_self_loan -
Candidate summaries
candidate-summaries.csvOne row per candidate with totals: contributions, refunds, in-kind, self-funding, loans, expenditures, and cash on hand.
Coverage: Contributions, expenditures, loans, candidate summaries, and filings for 2026 and 2027.
Columns (20)
candidate, office, party, status, total_contributions, total_refunds, monetary_raised, inkind_received, total_self_contributions, total_loans, loans_received, total_unitemized, total_expenditures, total_expenditure_refunds, total_unitemized_spent, total_spent, cash_on_hand, contributor_count, filing_count, is_incumbent -
Filings & reconciliation status
filings.csvEvery live filing from visible candidates, INCLUDING the ones held back: each row carries our reconciliation status (review_status) and whether its money is published. Count the withheld set yourself with published = 0.
Coverage: Contributions, expenditures, loans, candidate summaries, and filings for 2026 and 2027.
Columns (11)
candidate, office, party, year, reporting_period, report_type, coverage_start, coverage_end, filing_date, review_status, published -
Claim receipts (gzipped JSON)
claim-receipts.json.gzEvery computed money figure on the site — candidate totals, insight shares, PAC spend mix — with the inputs and source filings behind it. Totals also carry per_filing: what each individual filing contributed, each part labeled filing-stated (the filing's own summary says so) or derived (we aggregated its itemized rows). The machine-readable receipts for our "Why this number?" panels. Gzipped — it is too large to host uncompressed; most tools read it directly, or `gunzip` it first.
Columns (9)
claim_id, type, subject_slug, value, formula, inputs, sources, per_filing, unattributed
Privacy & the contributions file
Contributions are exported in the same per-campaign aggregated form used on candidate pages: one row per donor per candidate, with the cumulative total and number of contributions. Individuals who gave less than $200 to a candidate in a single election are not named — they're counted in candidate summaries but not listed by name, and nothing is summed across elections to get them there. Organizations, businesses, and PACs are listed at any amount. This matches the disclosure threshold used across the site (see About).
Citing this data
The data, the CSVs, and the query portal are free to use under CC BY 4.0, including commercially. Credit us with a link and you’re done.
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Citing a specific number? Cite the original filing too. It’s the primary source, and every candidate page links it.
Spot a problem? Email tips@whofundstn.org with the candidate name and the row in question.