Money in Politics – Business, PACS, Super PACS, Non-Profits
One non-stop shop for researchers looking into, Dark Money, lobbying donors and how money affects politics and who is behind the contributions. Track Money in Politics, Federal Election Commission Records, Voter Records, Corporate Money Foreign and Domestic, Public Accountability, Money in PACS, Super Pacs, and Non-Profit-Organizations.
Charity Watch. Verify whether a charitable organization or fundraiser has complied with the Attorney General’s registration and reporting requirements.
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Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.
The Federal Election Commission is the independent regulatory agency charged with enforcing federal campaign finance law. It shows how candidates and committees raise and spend money in federal elections. This financial data helps voters make informed decisions. It also offers legal resources.
Huge open database of corporations displaying the company info, when and where it was registered, as well as its branches.
All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free.
Research power and corruption at the highest levels of business and government, follow the money, connects the dots, and support challenges to corporate power. Public Accountability: Research power and corruption at the highest levels of business and government, follows the money, connect the dots, and support challenges to corporate power.
LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.
Information on over 7,000 public policy influencers on demand.
Use this database to view summaries of 3 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations and see financial details such as their executive compensation and revenue and expenses. You can browse IRS data released in 2013 and access over 9.6 million tax filing documents going back as far as 2001.
Find out who’s behind more than 785,000 offshore companies, foundations and trusts from the Panama Papers, the Offshore Leaks, the Bahamas Leaks and the Paradise Papers investigations.
A nonpartisan oversight watchdog that uses FOIA and litigation to uncover the facts and hold the government accountable.
Ballotpedia connects people with politics by changing the way they access the information they need to be informed about federal, state, and local politics. Neutral, accurate, and verifiable information on government officials and the offices they hold, political issues and public policy, elections, candidates, and the influencers of politics.
MuckRock is a non-profit, collaborative news site that brings together journalists, researchers, activists, and regular citizens to request, analyze, and share government documents, making politics more transparent and democracies more informed.
Non-profit reports and forms 990 for donors, grantmakers, fundraisers, etc.
Search charities and organizations registered with the Office of the Attorney General.Charities Bureau Registry Search: Search charities and organizations registered with the Office of the Attorney General.
CharityWatch exposes nonprofit abuses and advocates for your interests as a donor. Detailed ratings and analytics for over 600 charities.
Verify whether a charitable organization or fundraiser has complied with the Attorney General’s registration and reporting requirements. You may also review and download records and public filings that a charitable organization or fundraiser has submitted to the Attorney General’s Registry of Charitable Trusts. This includes copies of annual registration renewal forms (Form RRF-1), IRS Forms 990, raffle reports and fundraising reports that are in the Registry’s database.
Charity Navigator has become the nation’s largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities. Its rating system examines two broad areas of a charity’s performance; its Financial Health and its Accountability & Transparency.
Nonprofits dedicated to finding evaluators aimed to determine how much good a given program accomplishes (in terms of lives saved, lives improved, etc.) per dollar spent.
Guide donors to high-impact nonprofits by producing ratings of cost-effectiveness at scale.
Look for charity reports at a national level. A-Z full list, and other guidance and tips.
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Money is a necessary component of any democracy: it enables political participation, campaigning and representation. However, if not effectively regulated, it can undermine the integrity of political processes and institutions and jeopardize the quality of democracy.
Money is necessary for a candidate to be competitive, but it doesn’t ensure success.
A lack of money can eliminate less capable candidates, but having money does not guarantee that a particular candidate’s message will resonate with the voters. As Campaign Finance Institute researchers Michael Malbin and Brendan Glavin write, “If voters do not like what they are hearing, telling them more of the same will not change their opinion.”
The purpose of this thesis is to explore Super PACs as a source of campaign finance and
their impact on the federal elections process. After explaining the history of federal
campaign finance law in the United States, the role of anonymity by Super PACs is
questioned. This thesis argues that two court case decisions are responsible for the
creation of Super PACs: Citizens United v. FEC and SpeechNOW.org v. FEC. The cases,
and their conflicting interests, are both summarized and analyzed. Next, using federal
campaign finance data from the past decade, the impact of Super PACs on campaign
finance is both described and analyzed. These data are used to draw conclusions about
the immense impact the dark money produced by Super PACs has had on recent election
cycles and on the modern era of campaign finance. The struggle between anonymous big
money donations and democracy is discussed. It is concluded that Super PACs are
incompatible with an open and equal democracy, as they allow unlimited, anonymous
donations to overpower the interests of individuals.
Money is a necessary component of any democracy: it enables political participation, campaigning and representation. However, if not effectively regulated, it can undermine the integrity of political processes and institutions and jeopardize the quality of democracy,
Money is necessary for a candidate to be competitive, but it doesn’t ensure success.
A lack of money can eliminate less capable candidates, but having money does not guarantee that a particular candidate’s message will resonate with the voters. As Campaign Finance Institute researchers Michael Malbin and Brendan Glavin write, “If voters do not like what they are hearing, telling them more of the same will not change their opinion