DonorGraph

Follow the donors behind Congress.

Every U.S. senator and representative: PAC and individual mega-donor money, outside spending, sponsored legislation status, and state economic context — sourced from FEC, Congress.gov, BEA, and BLS.

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Data
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AIPAC/PAC tracked $0
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Choose a senator or representative to inspect donations, laws, tenure, sources, and state economy markers.

Method notes

The included rows are a small demonstration dataset, not a complete official finding. For publication, import records from primary sources and keep every number tied to a URL, filing ID, or downloadable source file. The AIPAC PAC committee ID used by the template is C00797670; include affiliated super PAC or independent-expenditure groups only when your methodology explicitly defines them. FEC contributor data also carries legal-use limits, especially around solicitation and commercial reuse. Donor country ties and organization affiliations should be sourced as documented connections or self-descriptions, not inferred ethnicity.

FEC campaign finance data FEC AIPAC PAC committee page Congress.gov API BEA GDP by state BLS state employment data

Methodology & sources

What this is

DonorGraph aggregates publicly disclosed campaign finance and legislative data for every current U.S. senator and representative. Every dollar figure shown traces to a primary source: FEC filings, Congress.gov roll calls, or federal economic agencies (BEA, BLS).

Data sources

  • Donations (PAC and individual) — FEC schedule_a, aggregated per candidate by contributor.
  • Cycle totals — FEC /candidate/{id}/totals/ and the FEC all-candidates summary file (weball).
  • Outside spending — FEC schedule_e (independent expenditures filed for or against a candidate by outside committees, including Super PACs).
  • AIPAC PAC tag — committee C00797670 when present in schedule_a.
  • Sponsored legislation — Congress.gov member endpoints; status pulled directly from the latest action.
  • State economy — BEA SQGDP9 (GDP) and SQINC1 (personal income), annualized; BLS LAUS state unemployment, annual averages.

What we do not do

  • No editorial scoring of bills. Bills are shown with Congress.gov status only (Passed / In committee / Introduced / Other). DonorGraph does not assign "positive" or "negative" judgments.
  • No causal claims. Donor flows, votes, and state economic trends are presented side by side as factual context — not as proof of cause and effect.
  • No inferred identity attributes. Country ties and affiliations are sourced from documented connections or self-descriptions only.

Coverage limits

  • Cycle scope is the current federal cycle. Older cycle data is not surfaced unless explicitly noted.
  • FEC schedule_a is paginated; DonorGraph captures top contributors by amount, not every transaction.
  • Individual mega-donors are grouped by name + employer because FEC does not issue stable individual IDs.
  • Truly anonymous money (501(c)(4) original donors, ultimate beneficial owners of shell LLCs, undisclosed dark money) is by design not in FEC data and not in DonorGraph.
  • Members without a current FEC candidate registration (e.g., recent appointees who have not yet filed) cannot be enriched and are shown with empty donor data.

Pipeline notes

Pipeline notes load from the dataset.

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