Wiley Nickel
Democratic · NC
Member of Congress
Tracked direct giving
$768,250
Tracked donations to candidate
$1,628,936
IE for this entity (not received)
$110,834
Connections
61
Votes
50
Donor-position vote alignment
100%
2/2 votes in donors' direction
Independent expenditures are paid by outside groups to ad and mail vendors. None of that money reached this entity's committee, and none of it is counted as a receipt.
Share of this legislator's yea/nay votes that went the same way as a cited advocacy position held by an entity that made a direct contribution to them. Independent expenditures and positions inferred from donations are excluded. Advocacy coverage in this database is almost entirely "for" positions, so the figure mostly reflects yes votes on bills a donor supported and says little about opposition. Correlation, not causation. Here, 2 of 2 scored votes went in the direction of a cited position held by one of this legislator's 179 tracked direct donors. The scored votes carry 2 donor “for” positions and 0 “against”.
How money associated with Wiley Nickel flowed
Wiley Nickel is the giver in some of these trails and the recipient in others. Each sentence names who gave and who received.
Wiley Nickel directed $765K to Wiley Nickel across 3 contributions between January 2023 and February 2024. Wiley Nickel voted YES on Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21, H.R.4763), which Wiley Nickel advocates for.
Fairshake spent $111K supporting Wiley Nickel. Fairshake advocates for CLARITY Act, Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
ACTBLUE directed $19K to Wiley Nickel across 3 contributions between June 2023 and September 2023.
Brian Armstrong directed $7K to Wiley Nickel.
Elizabeth Simons directed $7K to Wiley Nickel.
Wiley Nickel also is connected by money to 6 other entities totaling $32K.
Who funded Wiley Nickel
Attributed amounts are modeled estimates of how money flowed through intermediary PACs, computed by proportional apportionment of FEC-reported transactions. They are not reported transactions themselves. How we compute this
smallest single documented leg $111K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)
smallest single documented leg $111K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)
smallest single documented leg $111K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)
smallest single documented leg $250
smallest single documented leg $250
smallest single documented leg $2K
smallest single documented leg $3K
smallest single documented leg $3K
smallest single documented leg $5K
smallest single documented leg $5K
Plus 42 additional chains totaling $94K.
Outside Spending and Dark Money
Dark money is election spending by organizations that do not disclose their donors: 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations, 501(c)(6) trade associations, and similar non-committee filers (FEC Form 5 and Form 9). Registered super PACs also make independent expenditures. But they itemize their donors with the FEC, so their spending is not dark money. Figures below are never combined with disclosed-donor totals.
Outside Spending About This Entity
Every independent expenditure and electioneering communication in the tracked filings that names this entity, by any filer. Most filers here are super PACs that disclose their donors. Only the non-committee nonprofits among them are dark money.
| Filer | Amount | Type | Support/Oppose | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairshake | $110,834 | Form 5 IE | Supporting | Sep 29, 2023 |
Money spent by non-disclosing organizations on ads and communications referencing this candidate. These dollars do not flow to the candidate's committee.
Methodology Disclosure
Dark money figures are derived from FEC Form 5 (independent expenditures by non-committee organizations) and Form 9 (electioneering communications). These filings capture spending on ads and election communications but do not reveal the identity of the organization's donors. QPQ totals may differ from benchmarks like the Brennan Center's estimates. QPQ includes all Form 5 filers, while some benchmarks count only a subset of non-disclosing nonprofits. Grant chain data is from IRS Form 990 Schedule I and may not include all years or all grantee organizations.
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Donor-position vote alignment, vote by vote
Each row is a yea/nay vote on an outcome where a direct donor to this legislator holds a cited advocacy position. “In donors' direction” means the vote went the same way as that position. It records agreement, not a reason for the vote.
| Bill / Outcome | Vote | Donor Position | Donor | In donors' direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century A... | yea | Advocated for | Wiley Nickel | Yes |
| Disapproval of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 | yea | Advocated for | Wiley Nickel | Yes |
Election Results
| Year | Office | State | Party | Result | Total Raised | Tracked direct PAC giving |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | US House | NC | Result not sourced | $3,717,882 | — |
Donations Given and Outside Spending
Largest 50 records. Rows badged “Spent to support” or “Spent to oppose” are independent expenditures this entity paid to vendors for or against the named candidate. That money was not given to them.
| Recipient | Amount | Date | Cycle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wiley Nickel | $735,000 | Feb 13, 2024 | 2024 |
| Wiley Nickel | $20,000 | Feb 21, 2023 | 2024 |
| Wiley Nickel | $10,000 | Jan 24, 2023 | 2024 |
| COYOTE PAC | $3,000 | May 17, 2024 | 2024 |
| COYOTE PAC | $250 | Mar 31, 2024 | 2024 |
Donations Received and Outside Spending
Largest 50 records. Badged rows are independent expenditures other groups paid to vendors for or against this entity. That money did not reach its committee.