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The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

2019 Annual Report

National Institute on Money in Politics

Mission

The nonpartisan nonprofit National Institute on Money in Politics promotes an accountable democracy by gathering comprehensive campaign-donor lobbyist and other information from government disclosure agencies nationwide and making it freely available on FollowTheMoneyorg

The Institute compiles and analyzes one-of-a kind datasets that illustrate the role of money in political systems The data provides powerful insights into how money in politics affects policy agendas

The Institute empowers diverse collaborations by providing unparalleled data access to journalists scholars advocates and the public

FollowTheMoneyorgCFInstorg

CollaborationVision

+

Letter from Edwin

NIMP provides

clarity where chaos

otherwise reigns

The state of Montanarsquos campaign-contribution limits recently withstood a seven-year court battle over their constitutionality with the US Supreme Court deciding in January 2019 to let a lower courtrsquos affirmation stand

At the heart of the statersquos defense was a ldquocompelling recordrdquo of the effects of limits on donorsrsquo ability to participate in elections and on candidatesrsquo ability to be competitive That ldquocompelling recordrdquo was based on the National Institute on Money in Politicsrsquo comprehensive highly credentialed contribution data -- whatrsquos been called the Gold Standard for candidate and donor facts in all 50 states

That NIMPrsquos data has been cited before the Supreme Court in six other cases is further testimony of the foundational role it plays in the healthy evolution of our democracy

Journalists have long praised NIMP for the quality of its information and for staffrsquos expertise and enthusiasm in collaborating to ensure their investigations are based on solid facts And scholars studying the effectiveness of campaign regulations and their effects on the competitiveness of elections the role of donations in the development of legislation and how donors choose candidates and issues to support have relied on NIMPrsquos data for decades

Last year the highly respected Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) became a division of NIMP The combined power and ability of NIMPCFI to offer lawmakers unbiased fact-based analyses of the effects of

proposed campaign-finance rules is increasingly important For example New York State lawmakers are now considering whether to adopt public funding for candidates in its elections The policy recommendations are based on analyses done by CFI This comes after New York City voters in 2018 approved updates to its decades-old public funding policies with 80 percent of voters favoring the changes --again based on CFI analyses

While the country debates what constitutes the healthy evolution of our democracy high-quality data is essential to understanding the true impacts of any policy proposals As the Gold Standard for 50-state candidate and donor data dating back two decades NIMP provides clarity where chaos otherwise reigns

mdashEdwin Bender Executive Director

+

No one else does this

We build the data tools that

illuminate the relationships between

electoral activities and public policy

outcomes

Th

e G

old

Sta

nd

ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

+

The massive archive provides examples of judicial opinions using Institute data to develop arguments about what constitutes corruption and to defend disclosure

Investigative journalists work closely with Institute researchers to produce prize-winning deep-dive reports across a full range of policy arenas

The Institute works with policymakers in many states to help them weigh their options with solid facts instead of relying on anecdotal evidence or instincts

Institute Data Provides the Facts

FollowTheMoneyorg data empowers issue advocatesfrom across the country and across fields

Analyzing the Connections

FollowTheMoneyorg

The foundational 50-state information compiled and curated by the Institute since 2000 is the only archive that allows consistent comparison across states time and policy arenas

It is used freely by policymakers scholars journalists and advocates in many fields ndash well beyond campaign finance ndash to analyze the connections between money in politics and broader concerns about policy and political inequality

For example the data has been used by scholars to analyze topics such as small-dollar donors participation by minority and female candidates and donors immigration detention criminal justice vaccination e-cigarettes banking health care education and tax policy

Posted the 2018 elections data with a record number of 19507 federal state and local candidates who attracted record-breaking amounts

Researched and listed members of every standing state and federal legislative committee

Developed an independent spending tracking tool

Identified 320000 state clientlobbyist relationships across the country

Updated and created new functionality for the nationrsquos only database of contributions to sitting officeholders State officeholders since 2003 Federal officeholders since 2011 Local officeholders in select jurisdictions since 2011

FollowTheMoneyorgCFInstorg

FIRSTS

The

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tand

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Dat

a In

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691Academics

Follow

TheMoneyorg

downloaded 492 million records

597Advocates

downloaded 715 million records

438Journalists

downloaded 380 million records

3561Other Users

downloaded 577 million records

Just this year power users ran 69 million queries and obtained 5586 million records

220127326

5365 MyFollowTheMoney

account holders ran

69 million queriesand retrieved

559 million records

22012+ Twitter

followers 1961 new

followers this year

5316 links clicked

7326 Facebook followers

include journalists scholars

advocates and of

course the public

This fiscal year 271943 online users engaged with FollowTheMoneyorg

5365

171171 published

news citations of Institute data 970

970 views of the

Institutersquos many

instructional videos

+

The US Supreme Court let stand Montanarsquos contribution limits

Institute Data amp Testimony Informs the Courts amp Policy

FollowTheMoneyorg is the nationrsquos only permanent archive of campaign finance data for all 50 states

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of Alaskarsquos contribution limits

New York Statersquos commission uses NIMPCFI data and analyses as it considers a public

financing option for state campaigns

+

Every year the Institute invites journalists advocates scholars and others to Montana to showcase its newest tools and research

and to foster deep conversations that lead to innovative collaborations to further the

healthy evolution of our democracy

13th Annual Convening of Thought Leaders

Mission

The nonpartisan nonprofit National Institute on Money in Politics promotes an accountable democracy by gathering comprehensive campaign-donor lobbyist and other information from government disclosure agencies nationwide and making it freely available on FollowTheMoneyorg

The Institute compiles and analyzes one-of-a kind datasets that illustrate the role of money in political systems The data provides powerful insights into how money in politics affects policy agendas

The Institute empowers diverse collaborations by providing unparalleled data access to journalists scholars advocates and the public

FollowTheMoneyorgCFInstorg

CollaborationVision

+

Letter from Edwin

NIMP provides

clarity where chaos

otherwise reigns

The state of Montanarsquos campaign-contribution limits recently withstood a seven-year court battle over their constitutionality with the US Supreme Court deciding in January 2019 to let a lower courtrsquos affirmation stand

At the heart of the statersquos defense was a ldquocompelling recordrdquo of the effects of limits on donorsrsquo ability to participate in elections and on candidatesrsquo ability to be competitive That ldquocompelling recordrdquo was based on the National Institute on Money in Politicsrsquo comprehensive highly credentialed contribution data -- whatrsquos been called the Gold Standard for candidate and donor facts in all 50 states

That NIMPrsquos data has been cited before the Supreme Court in six other cases is further testimony of the foundational role it plays in the healthy evolution of our democracy

Journalists have long praised NIMP for the quality of its information and for staffrsquos expertise and enthusiasm in collaborating to ensure their investigations are based on solid facts And scholars studying the effectiveness of campaign regulations and their effects on the competitiveness of elections the role of donations in the development of legislation and how donors choose candidates and issues to support have relied on NIMPrsquos data for decades

Last year the highly respected Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) became a division of NIMP The combined power and ability of NIMPCFI to offer lawmakers unbiased fact-based analyses of the effects of

proposed campaign-finance rules is increasingly important For example New York State lawmakers are now considering whether to adopt public funding for candidates in its elections The policy recommendations are based on analyses done by CFI This comes after New York City voters in 2018 approved updates to its decades-old public funding policies with 80 percent of voters favoring the changes --again based on CFI analyses

While the country debates what constitutes the healthy evolution of our democracy high-quality data is essential to understanding the true impacts of any policy proposals As the Gold Standard for 50-state candidate and donor data dating back two decades NIMP provides clarity where chaos otherwise reigns

mdashEdwin Bender Executive Director

+

No one else does this

We build the data tools that

illuminate the relationships between

electoral activities and public policy

outcomes

Th

e G

old

Sta

nd

ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

+

The massive archive provides examples of judicial opinions using Institute data to develop arguments about what constitutes corruption and to defend disclosure

Investigative journalists work closely with Institute researchers to produce prize-winning deep-dive reports across a full range of policy arenas

The Institute works with policymakers in many states to help them weigh their options with solid facts instead of relying on anecdotal evidence or instincts

Institute Data Provides the Facts

FollowTheMoneyorg data empowers issue advocatesfrom across the country and across fields

Analyzing the Connections

FollowTheMoneyorg

The foundational 50-state information compiled and curated by the Institute since 2000 is the only archive that allows consistent comparison across states time and policy arenas

It is used freely by policymakers scholars journalists and advocates in many fields ndash well beyond campaign finance ndash to analyze the connections between money in politics and broader concerns about policy and political inequality

For example the data has been used by scholars to analyze topics such as small-dollar donors participation by minority and female candidates and donors immigration detention criminal justice vaccination e-cigarettes banking health care education and tax policy

Posted the 2018 elections data with a record number of 19507 federal state and local candidates who attracted record-breaking amounts

Researched and listed members of every standing state and federal legislative committee

Developed an independent spending tracking tool

Identified 320000 state clientlobbyist relationships across the country

Updated and created new functionality for the nationrsquos only database of contributions to sitting officeholders State officeholders since 2003 Federal officeholders since 2011 Local officeholders in select jurisdictions since 2011

FollowTheMoneyorgCFInstorg

FIRSTS

The

Gol

d S

tand

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for

Dat

a In

teg

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691Academics

Follow

TheMoneyorg

downloaded 492 million records

597Advocates

downloaded 715 million records

438Journalists

downloaded 380 million records

3561Other Users

downloaded 577 million records

Just this year power users ran 69 million queries and obtained 5586 million records

220127326

5365 MyFollowTheMoney

account holders ran

69 million queriesand retrieved

559 million records

22012+ Twitter

followers 1961 new

followers this year

5316 links clicked

7326 Facebook followers

include journalists scholars

advocates and of

course the public

This fiscal year 271943 online users engaged with FollowTheMoneyorg

5365

171171 published

news citations of Institute data 970

970 views of the

Institutersquos many

instructional videos

+

The US Supreme Court let stand Montanarsquos contribution limits

Institute Data amp Testimony Informs the Courts amp Policy

FollowTheMoneyorg is the nationrsquos only permanent archive of campaign finance data for all 50 states

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of Alaskarsquos contribution limits

New York Statersquos commission uses NIMPCFI data and analyses as it considers a public

financing option for state campaigns

+

Every year the Institute invites journalists advocates scholars and others to Montana to showcase its newest tools and research

and to foster deep conversations that lead to innovative collaborations to further the

healthy evolution of our democracy

13th Annual Convening of Thought Leaders

+

Letter from Edwin

NIMP provides

clarity where chaos

otherwise reigns

The state of Montanarsquos campaign-contribution limits recently withstood a seven-year court battle over their constitutionality with the US Supreme Court deciding in January 2019 to let a lower courtrsquos affirmation stand

At the heart of the statersquos defense was a ldquocompelling recordrdquo of the effects of limits on donorsrsquo ability to participate in elections and on candidatesrsquo ability to be competitive That ldquocompelling recordrdquo was based on the National Institute on Money in Politicsrsquo comprehensive highly credentialed contribution data -- whatrsquos been called the Gold Standard for candidate and donor facts in all 50 states

That NIMPrsquos data has been cited before the Supreme Court in six other cases is further testimony of the foundational role it plays in the healthy evolution of our democracy

Journalists have long praised NIMP for the quality of its information and for staffrsquos expertise and enthusiasm in collaborating to ensure their investigations are based on solid facts And scholars studying the effectiveness of campaign regulations and their effects on the competitiveness of elections the role of donations in the development of legislation and how donors choose candidates and issues to support have relied on NIMPrsquos data for decades

Last year the highly respected Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) became a division of NIMP The combined power and ability of NIMPCFI to offer lawmakers unbiased fact-based analyses of the effects of

proposed campaign-finance rules is increasingly important For example New York State lawmakers are now considering whether to adopt public funding for candidates in its elections The policy recommendations are based on analyses done by CFI This comes after New York City voters in 2018 approved updates to its decades-old public funding policies with 80 percent of voters favoring the changes --again based on CFI analyses

While the country debates what constitutes the healthy evolution of our democracy high-quality data is essential to understanding the true impacts of any policy proposals As the Gold Standard for 50-state candidate and donor data dating back two decades NIMP provides clarity where chaos otherwise reigns

mdashEdwin Bender Executive Director

+

No one else does this

We build the data tools that

illuminate the relationships between

electoral activities and public policy

outcomes

Th

e G

old

Sta

nd

ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

+

The massive archive provides examples of judicial opinions using Institute data to develop arguments about what constitutes corruption and to defend disclosure

Investigative journalists work closely with Institute researchers to produce prize-winning deep-dive reports across a full range of policy arenas

The Institute works with policymakers in many states to help them weigh their options with solid facts instead of relying on anecdotal evidence or instincts

Institute Data Provides the Facts

FollowTheMoneyorg data empowers issue advocatesfrom across the country and across fields

Analyzing the Connections

FollowTheMoneyorg

The foundational 50-state information compiled and curated by the Institute since 2000 is the only archive that allows consistent comparison across states time and policy arenas

It is used freely by policymakers scholars journalists and advocates in many fields ndash well beyond campaign finance ndash to analyze the connections between money in politics and broader concerns about policy and political inequality

For example the data has been used by scholars to analyze topics such as small-dollar donors participation by minority and female candidates and donors immigration detention criminal justice vaccination e-cigarettes banking health care education and tax policy

Posted the 2018 elections data with a record number of 19507 federal state and local candidates who attracted record-breaking amounts

Researched and listed members of every standing state and federal legislative committee

Developed an independent spending tracking tool

Identified 320000 state clientlobbyist relationships across the country

Updated and created new functionality for the nationrsquos only database of contributions to sitting officeholders State officeholders since 2003 Federal officeholders since 2011 Local officeholders in select jurisdictions since 2011

FollowTheMoneyorgCFInstorg

FIRSTS

The

Gol

d S

tand

ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

691Academics

Follow

TheMoneyorg

downloaded 492 million records

597Advocates

downloaded 715 million records

438Journalists

downloaded 380 million records

3561Other Users

downloaded 577 million records

Just this year power users ran 69 million queries and obtained 5586 million records

220127326

5365 MyFollowTheMoney

account holders ran

69 million queriesand retrieved

559 million records

22012+ Twitter

followers 1961 new

followers this year

5316 links clicked

7326 Facebook followers

include journalists scholars

advocates and of

course the public

This fiscal year 271943 online users engaged with FollowTheMoneyorg

5365

171171 published

news citations of Institute data 970

970 views of the

Institutersquos many

instructional videos

+

The US Supreme Court let stand Montanarsquos contribution limits

Institute Data amp Testimony Informs the Courts amp Policy

FollowTheMoneyorg is the nationrsquos only permanent archive of campaign finance data for all 50 states

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of Alaskarsquos contribution limits

New York Statersquos commission uses NIMPCFI data and analyses as it considers a public

financing option for state campaigns

+

Every year the Institute invites journalists advocates scholars and others to Montana to showcase its newest tools and research

and to foster deep conversations that lead to innovative collaborations to further the

healthy evolution of our democracy

13th Annual Convening of Thought Leaders

+

No one else does this

We build the data tools that

illuminate the relationships between

electoral activities and public policy

outcomes

Th

e G

old

Sta

nd

ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

+

The massive archive provides examples of judicial opinions using Institute data to develop arguments about what constitutes corruption and to defend disclosure

Investigative journalists work closely with Institute researchers to produce prize-winning deep-dive reports across a full range of policy arenas

The Institute works with policymakers in many states to help them weigh their options with solid facts instead of relying on anecdotal evidence or instincts

Institute Data Provides the Facts

FollowTheMoneyorg data empowers issue advocatesfrom across the country and across fields

Analyzing the Connections

FollowTheMoneyorg

The foundational 50-state information compiled and curated by the Institute since 2000 is the only archive that allows consistent comparison across states time and policy arenas

It is used freely by policymakers scholars journalists and advocates in many fields ndash well beyond campaign finance ndash to analyze the connections between money in politics and broader concerns about policy and political inequality

For example the data has been used by scholars to analyze topics such as small-dollar donors participation by minority and female candidates and donors immigration detention criminal justice vaccination e-cigarettes banking health care education and tax policy

Posted the 2018 elections data with a record number of 19507 federal state and local candidates who attracted record-breaking amounts

Researched and listed members of every standing state and federal legislative committee

Developed an independent spending tracking tool

Identified 320000 state clientlobbyist relationships across the country

Updated and created new functionality for the nationrsquos only database of contributions to sitting officeholders State officeholders since 2003 Federal officeholders since 2011 Local officeholders in select jurisdictions since 2011

FollowTheMoneyorgCFInstorg

FIRSTS

The

Gol

d S

tand

ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

691Academics

Follow

TheMoneyorg

downloaded 492 million records

597Advocates

downloaded 715 million records

438Journalists

downloaded 380 million records

3561Other Users

downloaded 577 million records

Just this year power users ran 69 million queries and obtained 5586 million records

220127326

5365 MyFollowTheMoney

account holders ran

69 million queriesand retrieved

559 million records

22012+ Twitter

followers 1961 new

followers this year

5316 links clicked

7326 Facebook followers

include journalists scholars

advocates and of

course the public

This fiscal year 271943 online users engaged with FollowTheMoneyorg

5365

171171 published

news citations of Institute data 970

970 views of the

Institutersquos many

instructional videos

+

The US Supreme Court let stand Montanarsquos contribution limits

Institute Data amp Testimony Informs the Courts amp Policy

FollowTheMoneyorg is the nationrsquos only permanent archive of campaign finance data for all 50 states

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of Alaskarsquos contribution limits

New York Statersquos commission uses NIMPCFI data and analyses as it considers a public

financing option for state campaigns

+

Every year the Institute invites journalists advocates scholars and others to Montana to showcase its newest tools and research

and to foster deep conversations that lead to innovative collaborations to further the

healthy evolution of our democracy

13th Annual Convening of Thought Leaders

+

The massive archive provides examples of judicial opinions using Institute data to develop arguments about what constitutes corruption and to defend disclosure

Investigative journalists work closely with Institute researchers to produce prize-winning deep-dive reports across a full range of policy arenas

The Institute works with policymakers in many states to help them weigh their options with solid facts instead of relying on anecdotal evidence or instincts

Institute Data Provides the Facts

FollowTheMoneyorg data empowers issue advocatesfrom across the country and across fields

Analyzing the Connections

FollowTheMoneyorg

The foundational 50-state information compiled and curated by the Institute since 2000 is the only archive that allows consistent comparison across states time and policy arenas

It is used freely by policymakers scholars journalists and advocates in many fields ndash well beyond campaign finance ndash to analyze the connections between money in politics and broader concerns about policy and political inequality

For example the data has been used by scholars to analyze topics such as small-dollar donors participation by minority and female candidates and donors immigration detention criminal justice vaccination e-cigarettes banking health care education and tax policy

Posted the 2018 elections data with a record number of 19507 federal state and local candidates who attracted record-breaking amounts

Researched and listed members of every standing state and federal legislative committee

Developed an independent spending tracking tool

Identified 320000 state clientlobbyist relationships across the country

Updated and created new functionality for the nationrsquos only database of contributions to sitting officeholders State officeholders since 2003 Federal officeholders since 2011 Local officeholders in select jurisdictions since 2011

FollowTheMoneyorgCFInstorg

FIRSTS

The

Gol

d S

tand

ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

691Academics

Follow

TheMoneyorg

downloaded 492 million records

597Advocates

downloaded 715 million records

438Journalists

downloaded 380 million records

3561Other Users

downloaded 577 million records

Just this year power users ran 69 million queries and obtained 5586 million records

220127326

5365 MyFollowTheMoney

account holders ran

69 million queriesand retrieved

559 million records

22012+ Twitter

followers 1961 new

followers this year

5316 links clicked

7326 Facebook followers

include journalists scholars

advocates and of

course the public

This fiscal year 271943 online users engaged with FollowTheMoneyorg

5365

171171 published

news citations of Institute data 970

970 views of the

Institutersquos many

instructional videos

+

The US Supreme Court let stand Montanarsquos contribution limits

Institute Data amp Testimony Informs the Courts amp Policy

FollowTheMoneyorg is the nationrsquos only permanent archive of campaign finance data for all 50 states

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of Alaskarsquos contribution limits

New York Statersquos commission uses NIMPCFI data and analyses as it considers a public

financing option for state campaigns

+

Every year the Institute invites journalists advocates scholars and others to Montana to showcase its newest tools and research

and to foster deep conversations that lead to innovative collaborations to further the

healthy evolution of our democracy

13th Annual Convening of Thought Leaders

Analyzing the Connections

FollowTheMoneyorg

The foundational 50-state information compiled and curated by the Institute since 2000 is the only archive that allows consistent comparison across states time and policy arenas

It is used freely by policymakers scholars journalists and advocates in many fields ndash well beyond campaign finance ndash to analyze the connections between money in politics and broader concerns about policy and political inequality

For example the data has been used by scholars to analyze topics such as small-dollar donors participation by minority and female candidates and donors immigration detention criminal justice vaccination e-cigarettes banking health care education and tax policy

Posted the 2018 elections data with a record number of 19507 federal state and local candidates who attracted record-breaking amounts

Researched and listed members of every standing state and federal legislative committee

Developed an independent spending tracking tool

Identified 320000 state clientlobbyist relationships across the country

Updated and created new functionality for the nationrsquos only database of contributions to sitting officeholders State officeholders since 2003 Federal officeholders since 2011 Local officeholders in select jurisdictions since 2011

FollowTheMoneyorgCFInstorg

FIRSTS

The

Gol

d S

tand

ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

691Academics

Follow

TheMoneyorg

downloaded 492 million records

597Advocates

downloaded 715 million records

438Journalists

downloaded 380 million records

3561Other Users

downloaded 577 million records

Just this year power users ran 69 million queries and obtained 5586 million records

220127326

5365 MyFollowTheMoney

account holders ran

69 million queriesand retrieved

559 million records

22012+ Twitter

followers 1961 new

followers this year

5316 links clicked

7326 Facebook followers

include journalists scholars

advocates and of

course the public

This fiscal year 271943 online users engaged with FollowTheMoneyorg

5365

171171 published

news citations of Institute data 970

970 views of the

Institutersquos many

instructional videos

+

The US Supreme Court let stand Montanarsquos contribution limits

Institute Data amp Testimony Informs the Courts amp Policy

FollowTheMoneyorg is the nationrsquos only permanent archive of campaign finance data for all 50 states

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of Alaskarsquos contribution limits

New York Statersquos commission uses NIMPCFI data and analyses as it considers a public

financing option for state campaigns

+

Every year the Institute invites journalists advocates scholars and others to Montana to showcase its newest tools and research

and to foster deep conversations that lead to innovative collaborations to further the

healthy evolution of our democracy

13th Annual Convening of Thought Leaders

Posted the 2018 elections data with a record number of 19507 federal state and local candidates who attracted record-breaking amounts

Researched and listed members of every standing state and federal legislative committee

Developed an independent spending tracking tool

Identified 320000 state clientlobbyist relationships across the country

Updated and created new functionality for the nationrsquos only database of contributions to sitting officeholders State officeholders since 2003 Federal officeholders since 2011 Local officeholders in select jurisdictions since 2011

FollowTheMoneyorgCFInstorg

FIRSTS

The

Gol

d S

tand

ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

691Academics

Follow

TheMoneyorg

downloaded 492 million records

597Advocates

downloaded 715 million records

438Journalists

downloaded 380 million records

3561Other Users

downloaded 577 million records

Just this year power users ran 69 million queries and obtained 5586 million records

220127326

5365 MyFollowTheMoney

account holders ran

69 million queriesand retrieved

559 million records

22012+ Twitter

followers 1961 new

followers this year

5316 links clicked

7326 Facebook followers

include journalists scholars

advocates and of

course the public

This fiscal year 271943 online users engaged with FollowTheMoneyorg

5365

171171 published

news citations of Institute data 970

970 views of the

Institutersquos many

instructional videos

+

The US Supreme Court let stand Montanarsquos contribution limits

Institute Data amp Testimony Informs the Courts amp Policy

FollowTheMoneyorg is the nationrsquos only permanent archive of campaign finance data for all 50 states

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of Alaskarsquos contribution limits

New York Statersquos commission uses NIMPCFI data and analyses as it considers a public

financing option for state campaigns

+

Every year the Institute invites journalists advocates scholars and others to Montana to showcase its newest tools and research

and to foster deep conversations that lead to innovative collaborations to further the

healthy evolution of our democracy

13th Annual Convening of Thought Leaders

691Academics

Follow

TheMoneyorg

downloaded 492 million records

597Advocates

downloaded 715 million records

438Journalists

downloaded 380 million records

3561Other Users

downloaded 577 million records

Just this year power users ran 69 million queries and obtained 5586 million records

220127326

5365 MyFollowTheMoney

account holders ran

69 million queriesand retrieved

559 million records

22012+ Twitter

followers 1961 new

followers this year

5316 links clicked

7326 Facebook followers

include journalists scholars

advocates and of

course the public

This fiscal year 271943 online users engaged with FollowTheMoneyorg

5365

171171 published

news citations of Institute data 970

970 views of the

Institutersquos many

instructional videos

+

The US Supreme Court let stand Montanarsquos contribution limits

Institute Data amp Testimony Informs the Courts amp Policy

FollowTheMoneyorg is the nationrsquos only permanent archive of campaign finance data for all 50 states

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of Alaskarsquos contribution limits

New York Statersquos commission uses NIMPCFI data and analyses as it considers a public

financing option for state campaigns

+

Every year the Institute invites journalists advocates scholars and others to Montana to showcase its newest tools and research

and to foster deep conversations that lead to innovative collaborations to further the

healthy evolution of our democracy

13th Annual Convening of Thought Leaders

220127326

5365 MyFollowTheMoney

account holders ran

69 million queriesand retrieved

559 million records

22012+ Twitter

followers 1961 new

followers this year

5316 links clicked

7326 Facebook followers

include journalists scholars

advocates and of

course the public

This fiscal year 271943 online users engaged with FollowTheMoneyorg

5365

171171 published

news citations of Institute data 970

970 views of the

Institutersquos many

instructional videos

+

The US Supreme Court let stand Montanarsquos contribution limits

Institute Data amp Testimony Informs the Courts amp Policy

FollowTheMoneyorg is the nationrsquos only permanent archive of campaign finance data for all 50 states

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of Alaskarsquos contribution limits

New York Statersquos commission uses NIMPCFI data and analyses as it considers a public

financing option for state campaigns

+

Every year the Institute invites journalists advocates scholars and others to Montana to showcase its newest tools and research

and to foster deep conversations that lead to innovative collaborations to further the

healthy evolution of our democracy

13th Annual Convening of Thought Leaders

+

The US Supreme Court let stand Montanarsquos contribution limits

Institute Data amp Testimony Informs the Courts amp Policy

FollowTheMoneyorg is the nationrsquos only permanent archive of campaign finance data for all 50 states

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of Alaskarsquos contribution limits

New York Statersquos commission uses NIMPCFI data and analyses as it considers a public

financing option for state campaigns

+

Every year the Institute invites journalists advocates scholars and others to Montana to showcase its newest tools and research

and to foster deep conversations that lead to innovative collaborations to further the

healthy evolution of our democracy

13th Annual Convening of Thought Leaders

+

Every year the Institute invites journalists advocates scholars and others to Montana to showcase its newest tools and research

and to foster deep conversations that lead to innovative collaborations to further the

healthy evolution of our democracy

13th Annual Convening of Thought Leaders

+

1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database

Federal state local candidates

Political parties

Independent spending

Ballot measures

LobbyingTh

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In the past decade $238 billion Federal candidatecommittee contributions

$23 billion State candidatecommittee contributions

$18 billion Independent spending on state races

$6 billion Independent spending on federal races

Not available in all 50 states

Following the money is critical to a healthy democracy

Top 10 Industry Giving in the Recent Election Cycle

+ CFI Impact NIMP Impact

CFI and NIMP accomplish more together than was possible separately

The July 2018 integration of The Campaign Finance Institute as a division of the Institute has already produced benefits

CFI and NIMP integrated all of their data acquisitions IT systems and websites immediately enabling enhanced analyses

Researchers updated CFIrsquos historical Laws database and integrated it into the new State at a Glance illustrated analyses

Data acquisition staff processed New York state data within days of its final

reporting in January 2019 allowing CFI to update a policy analysis that led to recommendations that may become New York law in December 2019 The Institute is exploring how to expand this capacity for a new policy-analysis tool that will cover all 50 states

Staff did this while continuing to produce all of the data and research for which the two organizations are known

+

In the past decade $238 billion Federal candidatecommittee contributions

$23 billion State candidatecommittee contributions

$18 billion Independent spending on state races

$6 billion Independent spending on federal races

Not available in all 50 states

Following the money is critical to a healthy democracy

Top 10 Industry Giving in the Recent Election Cycle

+ CFI Impact NIMP Impact

CFI and NIMP accomplish more together than was possible separately

The July 2018 integration of The Campaign Finance Institute as a division of the Institute has already produced benefits

CFI and NIMP integrated all of their data acquisitions IT systems and websites immediately enabling enhanced analyses

Researchers updated CFIrsquos historical Laws database and integrated it into the new State at a Glance illustrated analyses

Data acquisition staff processed New York state data within days of its final

reporting in January 2019 allowing CFI to update a policy analysis that led to recommendations that may become New York law in December 2019 The Institute is exploring how to expand this capacity for a new policy-analysis tool that will cover all 50 states

Staff did this while continuing to produce all of the data and research for which the two organizations are known

+ CFI Impact NIMP Impact

CFI and NIMP accomplish more together than was possible separately

The July 2018 integration of The Campaign Finance Institute as a division of the Institute has already produced benefits

CFI and NIMP integrated all of their data acquisitions IT systems and websites immediately enabling enhanced analyses

Researchers updated CFIrsquos historical Laws database and integrated it into the new State at a Glance illustrated analyses

Data acquisition staff processed New York state data within days of its final

reporting in January 2019 allowing CFI to update a policy analysis that led to recommendations that may become New York law in December 2019 The Institute is exploring how to expand this capacity for a new policy-analysis tool that will cover all 50 states

Staff did this while continuing to produce all of the data and research for which the two organizations are known

+ The Campaign Finance Institute

CFI and NIMP accomplish more together than was possible separately

Reports Fundraising by 2020 presidential candidates compared to historical data

Small-Donor Matching Funds for New York State Elections A Policy Analysis of the Potential Impact and Cost

A final analysis of the 2018 midterm elections

Post-election analysis of 2018 independent spending and candidate fundraising

Fundraising by the record number of women in competitive US House races

Briefings and testimony New York City Mayorrsquos Charter Revision Commission Analyzed the likely impacts of

potential revisions to the cityrsquos small-donor matching fund system

New York State Legislature Prepared models of the likely impact of a statewide matching fund system

American Political Science Association annual meeting Delivered a major paper on independent spending in state elections

Federal Election Commission public briefing Presented 2018 election finance analysis

Institute staff spent a year collecting cleaning and coding spending

reports to quantify 2017 amp 2018 political spending data

13 million records document $33 billion spent lobbying lawmakers in 20 states

100000+ records document$6123 million spent independently on races in 29 states

$13 billion spent independently on federal races

Institute staff spent a year collecting cleaning and coding spending

reports to quantify 2017 amp 2018 political spending data

13 million records document $33 billion spent lobbying lawmakers in 20 states

100000+ records document$6123 million spent independently on races in 29 states

$13 billion spent independently on federal races

168 million contribution records document

$54 billion raised at the federal level

$68 billion raised at the state level

$607 million raised in four local elections

2017 amp 2018 political spending dataR

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d-b

reak

ing

am

oun

ts

+Picture This State-at-a-Glance

The Institutersquos online tools display key metrics for any state you select

+ Unlock the DataThe Institutersquos home page showcases its new State-at-a-Glancetool which displays more than $10 billion in contributions nationally

given during the 2018 elections

by state

by types of races

by the sources of that cash including

top 10 donors by economic sectors and size of donations

Simply click on a state to see charts and graphs for how much was raised by

challengers vs incumbents

Democrats vs Republicans

men vs women and more

The Institutersquos research provides background for policy discussions that impact the health of our democracy

+ Unlock the DataThe Institutersquos home page showcases its new State-at-a-Glancetool which displays more than $10 billion in contributions nationally

given during the 2018 elections

by state

by types of races

by the sources of that cash including

top 10 donors by economic sectors and size of donations

Simply click on a state to see charts and graphs for how much was raised by

challengers vs incumbents

Democrats vs Republicans

men vs women and more

The Institutersquos research provides background for policy discussions that impact the health of our democracy

The Institute builds specific data sets to enable investigative work

ExamplesCenter for Public IntegrityNPR Patients Drug Options Under Medicaid Heavily Influenced By Drugmakers won a Gerald Loeb award

Public Accountability Initiative Real Estatersquos Outsized Influence Over New York State Rent Laws

Dream Defenders Freedom Papers Toolkit

The Best of Nonprofit News 2018showcases Montana Free Press Campaign Spending State Auditor drops fines against top campaign donor

Genderwatch 2018 Money and Womenrsquos Races for Governor A First Look

Worth Rises The Prison Industrial Complex Mapping Private Sector Players17

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Institute data was cited in 171 news articles this year documented on In the News The data continues to be instrumental for advocates and the academic community with 27 Collaborations amp Outside Research

23 Research Reports amp Blog Posts

Fundraising to Kill or Save Californiarsquos Death Penalty

Nursing Washington Legislators

CFI- What to Make of the Presidential Candidates First Quarters Receipts and Small-Dollar Donors in Historical Perspective

CFI Early Presidential Fundraising ndash A Historical Reference Sheet

Elite Parents Spending on More Than College Admissions

CFI Small-Donor Matching Funds for New York State Elections - A Policy Analysis of the Potential Impact and Cost

CFI Massive Amounts Were Spent by the Candidates and Independent Spenders in the Races That Decided the 2018 Midterms

Women Step Up Record Number of Women Candidates in 2018 Midterm Races

CFI Democrats Outspending Republicans Two-to-One in Final Independent Spending Push

Darkness on the Edge of Town National Dark Money Targets States

Yet Another Record Broken

Women in Competitive House Races Are Outraising Male Opponents Record Number of Women Seems Likely in Next Congress

JB Pritzker writes big checks to himself and others

CFI What the latest campaign finance filings canmdashand cannotmdashtell us about the coming election

CFI Independent Spending Continues Record Pace Party Groups Lead the Way

CFI Independent Spending in the 2018 Congressional General Elections Up From Same Time in 2016

CFI Independent Spending in the 2018 Congressional Primaries Went Up (Again)

Independent Spending in State Elections 2006-2016

GEO Group gets SLAPP Happy

The Wide and Confusing World of Campaign Finance Reporting

A Koch-Fueled Blue Wave Not Likely

Lobbying Firm Takes Itself Out of the Game

Private Prisons Pour Millions Into Lobbying State Lawmakers

+

40000 organizations spent $33 billion lobbying in 20 statesOverall spending on 2017-2018 state lobbying eclipsed the $155 billion raised for legislative and gubernatorial campaigns and surpassed 2015-2016rsquos $3 billion lobbying

2017 and 2018

+

FollowTheMoneyorg provides the information needed to hold elected officials accountable for policies they support and how they spend taxpayersrsquo money

Journalists policy groups disclosure agencies legal advocates and academic researchers put the Institutersquos comprehensive empirical data to considerable use Here is a partial list

See Who Depends on NIMP Data

Academics amp Universities Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo Center for American Women and PoliticsRutgers University Columbia University Harvard University Louisiana State University Miami University New York University Princeton University Purdue University Rice University St Louis University Texas AampM University University of Chicago University of Michigan-Dearborn University of Rochester University of Texas at Austin University of Wisconsin Waseda University

AdvocatesACRE Arizona Advocacy Network Brennan Center for Justice Color of Change Convention of States Emilyrsquos List Every Voice Food amp Water Watch Gill Foundation

Illinois Policy Institute Little Sis Maplight Media Matters For America Middle East Forum Oil Change International Sustainable Investments Institute Vote Smart Young Americans For Liberty

JournalistsArkansas Democrat Gazette Associated Press Atlanta Journal Constitution Center for Public Integrity COPolitics Energy amp Policy Institute Environment and Energy Publishing Houston Chronicle McClatchy Newspapers New Hampshire Public Radio New York Times Oklahoma Watch Self St Louis Post-Dispatch The Daily Advertiser The Ole Buzzard The Oregonian Washington Post WRAL-TV WYPR-FM

FollowTheMoneyorg

ldquoIrsquom very much looking forward to a number of potential collaborations that were born during the [Institutersquos conference] You all are doing such valuable workrdquo mdashLawrence Norden Brennan Center for Justice

ldquoFollowTheMoneyorg has so much great information and your presentation helped explain how to find and wrangle so many different aspects of these datasets Great jobrdquomdashMichael Beckel Issue One

ldquoI have found your database to be an invaluable resource in my reporting on campaign finance lobbying and the influence of money in New Hampshire politics especially since much of the filings compiled and maintained by the state of New Hampshire are paper-based and therefore very difficult to aggregate and analyzerdquo mdashCasey McDermott NH Public Radio

ldquoACRE would like to acknowledge the critical role the National Institute on Money in Politics as well as the California State Lobbying Search tool play in supporting research that exposes who uses financial contributions to set policy at all scales of governmentrdquo mdash Maurice BP-Weeks Action Center on Race and the Economy

ldquoFollowTheMoneyorgs database helps us conduct pay-to-play analyses of state politicians which helps us identify wrongdoing and hold public officials accountable The breadth of information available on the database is extraordinarily helpfulrdquo mdash Bryan Dewan Campaign for Accountability

In O

ther

Wor

ds

The

Gol

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ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

+Fo

llow

TheM

oney

org

Essential Support

Arnold VenturesFord FoundationThe William and Flora Hewlett

FoundationMacArthur FoundationMertz Gilmore FoundationOpen Society FoundationRockefeller Brothers FundSustainable Grant Making

Partners FundThornburg Foundation

Alejandro Alvarez Anne Pope Aram Durphy Bert Brandenburg Beverly Weeks Blake Schmutz Brian McDaniel Candida Quinn Cassandra Mitchell Charles Altekruse Cobie Ann deLespinasse Cynthia Figueroa David Troeger Deborah Goldberg Dennis Osorio Dorothy Dean E M Rahn Elizabeth Daniels Ellen Coffey Geri Palast J Michael Deal Jacqueline Norris Jason Randall Jed Stern Jacqueline Costanzo Jeffrey Lankford Jeffrey LaRoche John Mitchell John Sloan Joseph Kotzin Joseph Reisdorf K Fujimoto Kathleen Morgan Kris Larson Kyle Matthews Lisa Tucker-Kellogg Mark Henry Mary and her Minis - Jamberry Maxwell Wood Michele Sponder Michelle Rodriguez Nancy Nehring Patrick Baker Richard Pyfer Robert amp Patricia Balhiser Robert Cinti Rosalind Gold S Wayne Chamberlin Shelley Brock Stanley Sandrowicz Suzanne Holt and YuinJen Hsu

The Institute gratefully acknowledges its funding partners and individual donors who provided vital support during the fiscal year July 1 2018ndashJune 30 2019

+ Board of Directors

Institute data provides verifiable facts for scholarly analyses policy debates and investigative news

Edwin Bender Executive Director National Institute on Money in State Politics Helena MT

Bert Brandenburg Senior Advisor Ward Circle Strategies Washington DC

Caroline Fredrickson President American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Washington DC

Christopher T Gates Philanthropic and Nonprofit Advisor Washington DC

Rosalind Gold Senior Director of Policy Research amp Advocacy National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Los Angeles CA

Charles Kolb former president Committee for Economic Development Washington DC

Jeff Malachowsky Philanthropic Advisor Washington DC

Jodeen Olguiacuten-Tayler Senior Philanthropic Advisor New York NY

Geri Palast Executive Director Israel Action Network New York NY

Ann M Ravel Fellow New America Professor UC Berkeley School of Law Los Gatos CA

Christine E Robertson Senior Advisor to the Institute for Advanced Technology amp Public Policy and the Digital Democracy project

Abby Wood Associate Professor of Law Political Science and Public Policy USC Gould School of Law Los Angeles CA

not pictured on board leave

Active during fiscal year 2019

+

Staff

At the core of the Institutes success is the staff Pictured here are some of the workforce at the Helena Montana office that houses eight data-acquisition staff who compile primary-source data from the 50 state disclosure agencies the FEC and select local jurisdictions six information systems staff who develop data-processing procedures computer code maintain and update the massive database servers and web page and design and program state-of-the-art data-mining tools three research staff who code and standardize the donors and spenders analyze trends write reports and maintain the Institutersquos social media presence and four communications and management staff Two Campaign Finance Institute staff work from metropolitan Washington DC and New York City

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

Fo

llow

TheM

oney

orgTackle the enormous task of collecting

reports that document the money contributed around the 2020 elections

Provide more ldquoreal time datardquo on 2020 fundraising and independent spending around federal races

Pay attention to states that will likely face partisan redistricting

Promote best practices and cutting-edge processes analyses and visualizations for disclosure

Add gender to candidates and donors to deepen the Institutersquos unique analyses

LookingAhead

In the coming year the Institute plans to

Intothe Future

FollowTheMoneyorg

The Institute will roll out new online features and tools

Power Mapping will use your parameters to forecast thelikelihood that a lawmaker will support a bill or issue

Congress-at-a-Glance will mirror all the analyses and lists shown on State-at-a-Glance

My Congress will mirror My Legislature to correlate congressional lawmakers their committee assignments legislation they sponsor and their campaign donors

The Institute will begin developing interactive tools to see the impact of hypothetical campaign finance policy or participation changes

+National Institute on Money in Politics

833 N Last Chance Gulch Helena MT 59601406-449-2480 informationfollowthemoneyorg

moneyinpolitics followthemoneySeptember 2019

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

+

FollowTheMoneyorg provides the information needed to hold elected officials accountable for policies they support and how they spend taxpayersrsquo money

Journalists policy groups disclosure agencies legal advocates and academic researchers put the Institutersquos comprehensive empirical data to considerable use Here is a partial list

See Who Depends on NIMP Data

Academics amp Universities Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo Center for American Women and PoliticsRutgers University Columbia University Harvard University Louisiana State University Miami University New York University Princeton University Purdue University Rice University St Louis University Texas AampM University University of Chicago University of Michigan-Dearborn University of Rochester University of Texas at Austin University of Wisconsin Waseda University

AdvocatesACRE Arizona Advocacy Network Brennan Center for Justice Color of Change Convention of States Emilyrsquos List Every Voice Food amp Water Watch Gill Foundation

Illinois Policy Institute Little Sis Maplight Media Matters For America Middle East Forum Oil Change International Sustainable Investments Institute Vote Smart Young Americans For Liberty

JournalistsArkansas Democrat Gazette Associated Press Atlanta Journal Constitution Center for Public Integrity COPolitics Energy amp Policy Institute Environment and Energy Publishing Houston Chronicle McClatchy Newspapers New Hampshire Public Radio New York Times Oklahoma Watch Self St Louis Post-Dispatch The Daily Advertiser The Ole Buzzard The Oregonian Washington Post WRAL-TV WYPR-FM

FollowTheMoneyorg

ldquoIrsquom very much looking forward to a number of potential collaborations that were born during the [Institutersquos conference] You all are doing such valuable workrdquo mdashLawrence Norden Brennan Center for Justice

ldquoFollowTheMoneyorg has so much great information and your presentation helped explain how to find and wrangle so many different aspects of these datasets Great jobrdquomdashMichael Beckel Issue One

ldquoI have found your database to be an invaluable resource in my reporting on campaign finance lobbying and the influence of money in New Hampshire politics especially since much of the filings compiled and maintained by the state of New Hampshire are paper-based and therefore very difficult to aggregate and analyzerdquo mdashCasey McDermott NH Public Radio

ldquoACRE would like to acknowledge the critical role the National Institute on Money in Politics as well as the California State Lobbying Search tool play in supporting research that exposes who uses financial contributions to set policy at all scales of governmentrdquo mdash Maurice BP-Weeks Action Center on Race and the Economy

ldquoFollowTheMoneyorgs database helps us conduct pay-to-play analyses of state politicians which helps us identify wrongdoing and hold public officials accountable The breadth of information available on the database is extraordinarily helpfulrdquo mdash Bryan Dewan Campaign for Accountability

In O

ther

Wor

ds

The

Gol

d S

tand

ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

+Fo

llow

TheM

oney

org

Essential Support

Arnold VenturesFord FoundationThe William and Flora Hewlett

FoundationMacArthur FoundationMertz Gilmore FoundationOpen Society FoundationRockefeller Brothers FundSustainable Grant Making

Partners FundThornburg Foundation

Alejandro Alvarez Anne Pope Aram Durphy Bert Brandenburg Beverly Weeks Blake Schmutz Brian McDaniel Candida Quinn Cassandra Mitchell Charles Altekruse Cobie Ann deLespinasse Cynthia Figueroa David Troeger Deborah Goldberg Dennis Osorio Dorothy Dean E M Rahn Elizabeth Daniels Ellen Coffey Geri Palast J Michael Deal Jacqueline Norris Jason Randall Jed Stern Jacqueline Costanzo Jeffrey Lankford Jeffrey LaRoche John Mitchell John Sloan Joseph Kotzin Joseph Reisdorf K Fujimoto Kathleen Morgan Kris Larson Kyle Matthews Lisa Tucker-Kellogg Mark Henry Mary and her Minis - Jamberry Maxwell Wood Michele Sponder Michelle Rodriguez Nancy Nehring Patrick Baker Richard Pyfer Robert amp Patricia Balhiser Robert Cinti Rosalind Gold S Wayne Chamberlin Shelley Brock Stanley Sandrowicz Suzanne Holt and YuinJen Hsu

The Institute gratefully acknowledges its funding partners and individual donors who provided vital support during the fiscal year July 1 2018ndashJune 30 2019

+ Board of Directors

Institute data provides verifiable facts for scholarly analyses policy debates and investigative news

Edwin Bender Executive Director National Institute on Money in State Politics Helena MT

Bert Brandenburg Senior Advisor Ward Circle Strategies Washington DC

Caroline Fredrickson President American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Washington DC

Christopher T Gates Philanthropic and Nonprofit Advisor Washington DC

Rosalind Gold Senior Director of Policy Research amp Advocacy National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Los Angeles CA

Charles Kolb former president Committee for Economic Development Washington DC

Jeff Malachowsky Philanthropic Advisor Washington DC

Jodeen Olguiacuten-Tayler Senior Philanthropic Advisor New York NY

Geri Palast Executive Director Israel Action Network New York NY

Ann M Ravel Fellow New America Professor UC Berkeley School of Law Los Gatos CA

Christine E Robertson Senior Advisor to the Institute for Advanced Technology amp Public Policy and the Digital Democracy project

Abby Wood Associate Professor of Law Political Science and Public Policy USC Gould School of Law Los Angeles CA

not pictured on board leave

Active during fiscal year 2019

+

Staff

At the core of the Institutes success is the staff Pictured here are some of the workforce at the Helena Montana office that houses eight data-acquisition staff who compile primary-source data from the 50 state disclosure agencies the FEC and select local jurisdictions six information systems staff who develop data-processing procedures computer code maintain and update the massive database servers and web page and design and program state-of-the-art data-mining tools three research staff who code and standardize the donors and spenders analyze trends write reports and maintain the Institutersquos social media presence and four communications and management staff Two Campaign Finance Institute staff work from metropolitan Washington DC and New York City

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

Fo

llow

TheM

oney

orgTackle the enormous task of collecting

reports that document the money contributed around the 2020 elections

Provide more ldquoreal time datardquo on 2020 fundraising and independent spending around federal races

Pay attention to states that will likely face partisan redistricting

Promote best practices and cutting-edge processes analyses and visualizations for disclosure

Add gender to candidates and donors to deepen the Institutersquos unique analyses

LookingAhead

In the coming year the Institute plans to

Intothe Future

FollowTheMoneyorg

The Institute will roll out new online features and tools

Power Mapping will use your parameters to forecast thelikelihood that a lawmaker will support a bill or issue

Congress-at-a-Glance will mirror all the analyses and lists shown on State-at-a-Glance

My Congress will mirror My Legislature to correlate congressional lawmakers their committee assignments legislation they sponsor and their campaign donors

The Institute will begin developing interactive tools to see the impact of hypothetical campaign finance policy or participation changes

+National Institute on Money in Politics

833 N Last Chance Gulch Helena MT 59601406-449-2480 informationfollowthemoneyorg

moneyinpolitics followthemoneySeptember 2019

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

FollowTheMoneyorg

ldquoIrsquom very much looking forward to a number of potential collaborations that were born during the [Institutersquos conference] You all are doing such valuable workrdquo mdashLawrence Norden Brennan Center for Justice

ldquoFollowTheMoneyorg has so much great information and your presentation helped explain how to find and wrangle so many different aspects of these datasets Great jobrdquomdashMichael Beckel Issue One

ldquoI have found your database to be an invaluable resource in my reporting on campaign finance lobbying and the influence of money in New Hampshire politics especially since much of the filings compiled and maintained by the state of New Hampshire are paper-based and therefore very difficult to aggregate and analyzerdquo mdashCasey McDermott NH Public Radio

ldquoACRE would like to acknowledge the critical role the National Institute on Money in Politics as well as the California State Lobbying Search tool play in supporting research that exposes who uses financial contributions to set policy at all scales of governmentrdquo mdash Maurice BP-Weeks Action Center on Race and the Economy

ldquoFollowTheMoneyorgs database helps us conduct pay-to-play analyses of state politicians which helps us identify wrongdoing and hold public officials accountable The breadth of information available on the database is extraordinarily helpfulrdquo mdash Bryan Dewan Campaign for Accountability

In O

ther

Wor

ds

The

Gol

d S

tand

ard

for

Dat

a In

teg

rity

+Fo

llow

TheM

oney

org

Essential Support

Arnold VenturesFord FoundationThe William and Flora Hewlett

FoundationMacArthur FoundationMertz Gilmore FoundationOpen Society FoundationRockefeller Brothers FundSustainable Grant Making

Partners FundThornburg Foundation

Alejandro Alvarez Anne Pope Aram Durphy Bert Brandenburg Beverly Weeks Blake Schmutz Brian McDaniel Candida Quinn Cassandra Mitchell Charles Altekruse Cobie Ann deLespinasse Cynthia Figueroa David Troeger Deborah Goldberg Dennis Osorio Dorothy Dean E M Rahn Elizabeth Daniels Ellen Coffey Geri Palast J Michael Deal Jacqueline Norris Jason Randall Jed Stern Jacqueline Costanzo Jeffrey Lankford Jeffrey LaRoche John Mitchell John Sloan Joseph Kotzin Joseph Reisdorf K Fujimoto Kathleen Morgan Kris Larson Kyle Matthews Lisa Tucker-Kellogg Mark Henry Mary and her Minis - Jamberry Maxwell Wood Michele Sponder Michelle Rodriguez Nancy Nehring Patrick Baker Richard Pyfer Robert amp Patricia Balhiser Robert Cinti Rosalind Gold S Wayne Chamberlin Shelley Brock Stanley Sandrowicz Suzanne Holt and YuinJen Hsu

The Institute gratefully acknowledges its funding partners and individual donors who provided vital support during the fiscal year July 1 2018ndashJune 30 2019

+ Board of Directors

Institute data provides verifiable facts for scholarly analyses policy debates and investigative news

Edwin Bender Executive Director National Institute on Money in State Politics Helena MT

Bert Brandenburg Senior Advisor Ward Circle Strategies Washington DC

Caroline Fredrickson President American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Washington DC

Christopher T Gates Philanthropic and Nonprofit Advisor Washington DC

Rosalind Gold Senior Director of Policy Research amp Advocacy National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Los Angeles CA

Charles Kolb former president Committee for Economic Development Washington DC

Jeff Malachowsky Philanthropic Advisor Washington DC

Jodeen Olguiacuten-Tayler Senior Philanthropic Advisor New York NY

Geri Palast Executive Director Israel Action Network New York NY

Ann M Ravel Fellow New America Professor UC Berkeley School of Law Los Gatos CA

Christine E Robertson Senior Advisor to the Institute for Advanced Technology amp Public Policy and the Digital Democracy project

Abby Wood Associate Professor of Law Political Science and Public Policy USC Gould School of Law Los Angeles CA

not pictured on board leave

Active during fiscal year 2019

+

Staff

At the core of the Institutes success is the staff Pictured here are some of the workforce at the Helena Montana office that houses eight data-acquisition staff who compile primary-source data from the 50 state disclosure agencies the FEC and select local jurisdictions six information systems staff who develop data-processing procedures computer code maintain and update the massive database servers and web page and design and program state-of-the-art data-mining tools three research staff who code and standardize the donors and spenders analyze trends write reports and maintain the Institutersquos social media presence and four communications and management staff Two Campaign Finance Institute staff work from metropolitan Washington DC and New York City

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

Fo

llow

TheM

oney

orgTackle the enormous task of collecting

reports that document the money contributed around the 2020 elections

Provide more ldquoreal time datardquo on 2020 fundraising and independent spending around federal races

Pay attention to states that will likely face partisan redistricting

Promote best practices and cutting-edge processes analyses and visualizations for disclosure

Add gender to candidates and donors to deepen the Institutersquos unique analyses

LookingAhead

In the coming year the Institute plans to

Intothe Future

FollowTheMoneyorg

The Institute will roll out new online features and tools

Power Mapping will use your parameters to forecast thelikelihood that a lawmaker will support a bill or issue

Congress-at-a-Glance will mirror all the analyses and lists shown on State-at-a-Glance

My Congress will mirror My Legislature to correlate congressional lawmakers their committee assignments legislation they sponsor and their campaign donors

The Institute will begin developing interactive tools to see the impact of hypothetical campaign finance policy or participation changes

+National Institute on Money in Politics

833 N Last Chance Gulch Helena MT 59601406-449-2480 informationfollowthemoneyorg

moneyinpolitics followthemoneySeptember 2019

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

+Fo

llow

TheM

oney

org

Essential Support

Arnold VenturesFord FoundationThe William and Flora Hewlett

FoundationMacArthur FoundationMertz Gilmore FoundationOpen Society FoundationRockefeller Brothers FundSustainable Grant Making

Partners FundThornburg Foundation

Alejandro Alvarez Anne Pope Aram Durphy Bert Brandenburg Beverly Weeks Blake Schmutz Brian McDaniel Candida Quinn Cassandra Mitchell Charles Altekruse Cobie Ann deLespinasse Cynthia Figueroa David Troeger Deborah Goldberg Dennis Osorio Dorothy Dean E M Rahn Elizabeth Daniels Ellen Coffey Geri Palast J Michael Deal Jacqueline Norris Jason Randall Jed Stern Jacqueline Costanzo Jeffrey Lankford Jeffrey LaRoche John Mitchell John Sloan Joseph Kotzin Joseph Reisdorf K Fujimoto Kathleen Morgan Kris Larson Kyle Matthews Lisa Tucker-Kellogg Mark Henry Mary and her Minis - Jamberry Maxwell Wood Michele Sponder Michelle Rodriguez Nancy Nehring Patrick Baker Richard Pyfer Robert amp Patricia Balhiser Robert Cinti Rosalind Gold S Wayne Chamberlin Shelley Brock Stanley Sandrowicz Suzanne Holt and YuinJen Hsu

The Institute gratefully acknowledges its funding partners and individual donors who provided vital support during the fiscal year July 1 2018ndashJune 30 2019

+ Board of Directors

Institute data provides verifiable facts for scholarly analyses policy debates and investigative news

Edwin Bender Executive Director National Institute on Money in State Politics Helena MT

Bert Brandenburg Senior Advisor Ward Circle Strategies Washington DC

Caroline Fredrickson President American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Washington DC

Christopher T Gates Philanthropic and Nonprofit Advisor Washington DC

Rosalind Gold Senior Director of Policy Research amp Advocacy National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Los Angeles CA

Charles Kolb former president Committee for Economic Development Washington DC

Jeff Malachowsky Philanthropic Advisor Washington DC

Jodeen Olguiacuten-Tayler Senior Philanthropic Advisor New York NY

Geri Palast Executive Director Israel Action Network New York NY

Ann M Ravel Fellow New America Professor UC Berkeley School of Law Los Gatos CA

Christine E Robertson Senior Advisor to the Institute for Advanced Technology amp Public Policy and the Digital Democracy project

Abby Wood Associate Professor of Law Political Science and Public Policy USC Gould School of Law Los Angeles CA

not pictured on board leave

Active during fiscal year 2019

+

Staff

At the core of the Institutes success is the staff Pictured here are some of the workforce at the Helena Montana office that houses eight data-acquisition staff who compile primary-source data from the 50 state disclosure agencies the FEC and select local jurisdictions six information systems staff who develop data-processing procedures computer code maintain and update the massive database servers and web page and design and program state-of-the-art data-mining tools three research staff who code and standardize the donors and spenders analyze trends write reports and maintain the Institutersquos social media presence and four communications and management staff Two Campaign Finance Institute staff work from metropolitan Washington DC and New York City

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

Fo

llow

TheM

oney

orgTackle the enormous task of collecting

reports that document the money contributed around the 2020 elections

Provide more ldquoreal time datardquo on 2020 fundraising and independent spending around federal races

Pay attention to states that will likely face partisan redistricting

Promote best practices and cutting-edge processes analyses and visualizations for disclosure

Add gender to candidates and donors to deepen the Institutersquos unique analyses

LookingAhead

In the coming year the Institute plans to

Intothe Future

FollowTheMoneyorg

The Institute will roll out new online features and tools

Power Mapping will use your parameters to forecast thelikelihood that a lawmaker will support a bill or issue

Congress-at-a-Glance will mirror all the analyses and lists shown on State-at-a-Glance

My Congress will mirror My Legislature to correlate congressional lawmakers their committee assignments legislation they sponsor and their campaign donors

The Institute will begin developing interactive tools to see the impact of hypothetical campaign finance policy or participation changes

+National Institute on Money in Politics

833 N Last Chance Gulch Helena MT 59601406-449-2480 informationfollowthemoneyorg

moneyinpolitics followthemoneySeptember 2019

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

+ Board of Directors

Institute data provides verifiable facts for scholarly analyses policy debates and investigative news

Edwin Bender Executive Director National Institute on Money in State Politics Helena MT

Bert Brandenburg Senior Advisor Ward Circle Strategies Washington DC

Caroline Fredrickson President American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Washington DC

Christopher T Gates Philanthropic and Nonprofit Advisor Washington DC

Rosalind Gold Senior Director of Policy Research amp Advocacy National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Los Angeles CA

Charles Kolb former president Committee for Economic Development Washington DC

Jeff Malachowsky Philanthropic Advisor Washington DC

Jodeen Olguiacuten-Tayler Senior Philanthropic Advisor New York NY

Geri Palast Executive Director Israel Action Network New York NY

Ann M Ravel Fellow New America Professor UC Berkeley School of Law Los Gatos CA

Christine E Robertson Senior Advisor to the Institute for Advanced Technology amp Public Policy and the Digital Democracy project

Abby Wood Associate Professor of Law Political Science and Public Policy USC Gould School of Law Los Angeles CA

not pictured on board leave

Active during fiscal year 2019

+

Staff

At the core of the Institutes success is the staff Pictured here are some of the workforce at the Helena Montana office that houses eight data-acquisition staff who compile primary-source data from the 50 state disclosure agencies the FEC and select local jurisdictions six information systems staff who develop data-processing procedures computer code maintain and update the massive database servers and web page and design and program state-of-the-art data-mining tools three research staff who code and standardize the donors and spenders analyze trends write reports and maintain the Institutersquos social media presence and four communications and management staff Two Campaign Finance Institute staff work from metropolitan Washington DC and New York City

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

Fo

llow

TheM

oney

orgTackle the enormous task of collecting

reports that document the money contributed around the 2020 elections

Provide more ldquoreal time datardquo on 2020 fundraising and independent spending around federal races

Pay attention to states that will likely face partisan redistricting

Promote best practices and cutting-edge processes analyses and visualizations for disclosure

Add gender to candidates and donors to deepen the Institutersquos unique analyses

LookingAhead

In the coming year the Institute plans to

Intothe Future

FollowTheMoneyorg

The Institute will roll out new online features and tools

Power Mapping will use your parameters to forecast thelikelihood that a lawmaker will support a bill or issue

Congress-at-a-Glance will mirror all the analyses and lists shown on State-at-a-Glance

My Congress will mirror My Legislature to correlate congressional lawmakers their committee assignments legislation they sponsor and their campaign donors

The Institute will begin developing interactive tools to see the impact of hypothetical campaign finance policy or participation changes

+National Institute on Money in Politics

833 N Last Chance Gulch Helena MT 59601406-449-2480 informationfollowthemoneyorg

moneyinpolitics followthemoneySeptember 2019

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

+

Staff

At the core of the Institutes success is the staff Pictured here are some of the workforce at the Helena Montana office that houses eight data-acquisition staff who compile primary-source data from the 50 state disclosure agencies the FEC and select local jurisdictions six information systems staff who develop data-processing procedures computer code maintain and update the massive database servers and web page and design and program state-of-the-art data-mining tools three research staff who code and standardize the donors and spenders analyze trends write reports and maintain the Institutersquos social media presence and four communications and management staff Two Campaign Finance Institute staff work from metropolitan Washington DC and New York City

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

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orgTackle the enormous task of collecting

reports that document the money contributed around the 2020 elections

Provide more ldquoreal time datardquo on 2020 fundraising and independent spending around federal races

Pay attention to states that will likely face partisan redistricting

Promote best practices and cutting-edge processes analyses and visualizations for disclosure

Add gender to candidates and donors to deepen the Institutersquos unique analyses

LookingAhead

In the coming year the Institute plans to

Intothe Future

FollowTheMoneyorg

The Institute will roll out new online features and tools

Power Mapping will use your parameters to forecast thelikelihood that a lawmaker will support a bill or issue

Congress-at-a-Glance will mirror all the analyses and lists shown on State-at-a-Glance

My Congress will mirror My Legislature to correlate congressional lawmakers their committee assignments legislation they sponsor and their campaign donors

The Institute will begin developing interactive tools to see the impact of hypothetical campaign finance policy or participation changes

+National Institute on Money in Politics

833 N Last Chance Gulch Helena MT 59601406-449-2480 informationfollowthemoneyorg

moneyinpolitics followthemoneySeptember 2019

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

Fo

llow

TheM

oney

orgTackle the enormous task of collecting

reports that document the money contributed around the 2020 elections

Provide more ldquoreal time datardquo on 2020 fundraising and independent spending around federal races

Pay attention to states that will likely face partisan redistricting

Promote best practices and cutting-edge processes analyses and visualizations for disclosure

Add gender to candidates and donors to deepen the Institutersquos unique analyses

LookingAhead

In the coming year the Institute plans to

Intothe Future

FollowTheMoneyorg

The Institute will roll out new online features and tools

Power Mapping will use your parameters to forecast thelikelihood that a lawmaker will support a bill or issue

Congress-at-a-Glance will mirror all the analyses and lists shown on State-at-a-Glance

My Congress will mirror My Legislature to correlate congressional lawmakers their committee assignments legislation they sponsor and their campaign donors

The Institute will begin developing interactive tools to see the impact of hypothetical campaign finance policy or participation changes

+National Institute on Money in Politics

833 N Last Chance Gulch Helena MT 59601406-449-2480 informationfollowthemoneyorg

moneyinpolitics followthemoneySeptember 2019

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

Intothe Future

FollowTheMoneyorg

The Institute will roll out new online features and tools

Power Mapping will use your parameters to forecast thelikelihood that a lawmaker will support a bill or issue

Congress-at-a-Glance will mirror all the analyses and lists shown on State-at-a-Glance

My Congress will mirror My Legislature to correlate congressional lawmakers their committee assignments legislation they sponsor and their campaign donors

The Institute will begin developing interactive tools to see the impact of hypothetical campaign finance policy or participation changes

+National Institute on Money in Politics

833 N Last Chance Gulch Helena MT 59601406-449-2480 informationfollowthemoneyorg

moneyinpolitics followthemoneySeptember 2019

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity

+National Institute on Money in Politics

833 N Last Chance Gulch Helena MT 59601406-449-2480 informationfollowthemoneyorg

moneyinpolitics followthemoneySeptember 2019

The Gold Standard for Data Integrity