At Transparency USA, our mission is to provide clear, accurate, easy-to-understand information about the money in state politics.

What We Offer

Our database includes campaign finance data for 20 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. You can search all state-level candidates, political action committees (PACs) that are active in that state, and the donors that support them. Texas is our first state to also include lobbying data.

State-level politicians include your governor, state attorney general, and legislators who serve in your state House of Representatives and state Senate. If they serve in your state capital, you’ll find detailed data on their contributions and expenditures here.

You can see big-picture data, like the top 10 donors in your state this election cycle or total contributions and expenditures by party. You can also find detailed transaction history for a single person or organization.

How to Start

Select a state, then choose the election cycle you’d like to see. Our data is sorted by two-year election cycles from January of odd-numbered years through December of the following even-numbered year for most states. For example, the 2020 Election Cycle includes transactions from January 2019 through December 2020. Some states, like Virginia, have election cycles that begin in even-numbered years and hold elections in odd-numbered years.

Once you’ve chosen a state and election cycle, you can peruse lists of candidates, donors, PACs, and payees. If you need a place to start, each state profile includes a list of current politicians as well as the laws that regulate campaign finance in that state.

We also publish regular articles that highlight the latest updates in campaign finance. You can subscribe to our email list to receive regular updates when new articles are published or new data is available in the states you are interested in following.

Already know what you are looking for? You can also search by name or keyword. If you prefer to see a more specific set of data, you can narrow your search by using our Advanced Transaction Search for a specific date range or dollar amount. 

Can’t find the data set you need? We’re always adding the latest data as it becomes available from the state. If you are interested in a custom data range, please submit your request here for details on availability and pricing.

How It Works

Candidates and PACs in every state are required to submit detailed records of their donations and expenditures to a state agency. As soon as those reports are made available, we present the data to you in a way that’s easy-to-search and easy-to-understand. We know a lot of you are waiting to dive into the latest campaign finance data the day it’s released, so we are committed to making that raw data from the state agency available immediately upon receipt.

But our data is not just easier — it keeps getting better. More accurate, and more reliable. After making those initial reports available, our team then painstakingly combs through every line of data to remove duplicates, confusion, and errors. We continue to update our database to reflect corrections to any errors that we find in the raw report data. We feel confident that we give you the most accurate information available.

Find An Error?

We have the best available data, but with millions of transactions reflected on our site, you may still encounter an item that needs correction. Thanks in advance for bringing it to our attention. We want to fix it as quickly as possible. Submit your correction here. 

Transparency USA is a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization.