+
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
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
+
1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database
Federal state local candidates
Political parties
Independent spending
Ballot measures
LobbyingTh
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
d S
tand
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+Fo
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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
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
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
+
1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database
Federal state local candidates
Political parties
Independent spending
Ballot measures
LobbyingTh
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
+
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
+
1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database
Federal state local candidates
Political parties
Independent spending
Ballot measures
LobbyingTh
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
+
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
+
1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database
Federal state local candidates
Political parties
Independent spending
Ballot measures
LobbyingTh
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
+
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
+
1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database
Federal state local candidates
Political parties
Independent spending
Ballot measures
LobbyingTh
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
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
+
1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database
Federal state local candidates
Political parties
Independent spending
Ballot measures
LobbyingTh
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
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
+
1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database
Federal state local candidates
Political parties
Independent spending
Ballot measures
LobbyingTh
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
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
+
1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database
Federal state local candidates
Political parties
Independent spending
Ballot measures
LobbyingTh
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
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
+
1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database
Federal state local candidates
Political parties
Independent spending
Ballot measures
LobbyingTh
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
+
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
+
1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database
Federal state local candidates
Political parties
Independent spending
Ballot measures
LobbyingTh
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
+
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
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
+
1325 BILLION DOLLARSCollected entered and archived in the Institutersquos entire database
Federal state local candidates
Political parties
Independent spending
Ballot measures
LobbyingTh
e G
old
Sta
nd
ard
for
Dat
a In
teg
rity
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
+
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
+ 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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
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
ecor
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
+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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
+ 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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
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
1 N
ews
Cit
atio
ns
amp 2
7 C
olla
bor
atio
ns
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
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
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
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
+
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
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 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
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
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