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Douglas Gessner

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Tracked direct giving

$214,322

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The Money Trail

How money flowed from Douglas Gessner

$140K
15 transactions across 2 counterparties
sum of 15 tracked donations shown

Douglas Gessner directed $85K to United Democracy Project across 8 contributions between September 2022 and June 2024.

Sep 2022 – Jun 2024individual

Douglas Gessner directed $55K to AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE across 7 contributions between February 2023 and July 2025.

Feb 2023 – Jul 2025individual
$140K tracked across 2 counterparties (sum of 15 tracked donations shown)
PAC Chain Attribution

Where Douglas Gessner’s money ended up

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

$32K
modeled estimate
17 paths across 17 counterparties
$11Kmodeled estimateattributed to Jamaal Bowman
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$11Kmodeled estimateDouglas Gessner→United Democracy Project→Jamaal BowmanmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $5K

$5Kmodeled estimateattributed to Cori Bush
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$5Kmodeled estimateDouglas Gessner→United Democracy Project→Cori BushmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $5K

$4Kmodeled estimateattributed to Dave Min
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$4Kmodeled estimateDouglas Gessner→United Democracy Project→Dave MinmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $5K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$4Kmodeled estimateattributed to Sarah Elfreth
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$4Kmodeled estimateDouglas Gessner→United Democracy Project→Sarah ElfrethmediumSupportindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $5K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$3Kmodeled estimateattributed to Wesley Bell
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$3Kmodeled estimateDouglas Gessner→United Democracy Project→Wesley BellmediumSupportindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $5K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$1Kmodeled estimateattributed to John Hostettler
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$1Kmodeled estimateDouglas Gessner→United Democracy Project→John HostettlermediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $5K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$1Kmodeled estimateattributed to Brandon Herrera
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$1Kmodeled estimateDouglas Gessner→United Democracy Project→Brandon HerreramediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $5K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$911modeled estimateattributed to SCALISE FOR CONGRESS
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$911modeled estimateDouglas Gessner→AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE→SCALISE FOR CONGRESSmediumpac

smallest single documented leg $3K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

Plus 9 additional chains totaling $2K.

$32K attributed (modeled estimate) across 17 paths·Up to 1 hop deep·Source FEC filings (Schedules A, B, E)·How we compute this
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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.

RecipientAmountDateCycle
United Democracy Project$20,000Jan 4, 20232024
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$15,000Feb 24, 20252026
United Democracy Project$10,000Dec 2, 20222022
United Democracy Project$10,000Nov 1, 20222022
United Democracy Project$10,000Sep 29, 20222022
United Democracy Project$10,000May 16, 20242024
United Democracy Project$10,000Jun 16, 20242024
United Democracy Project$10,000Apr 16, 20242024
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$7,000Feb 10, 20252026
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$7,000May 12, 20252026
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$7,000Jul 23, 20252026
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$6,600Jun 7, 20232024
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$6,600Sep 29, 20232024
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$5,800Feb 17, 20232024
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$5,000Dec 4, 20252026
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$5,000Jun 27, 20232024
United Democracy Project$5,000Jul 5, 20232024
United Democracy Project$5,000Nov 14, 20232024
United Democracy Project$5,000Sep 14, 20232024
United Democracy Project$5,000Oct 14, 20232024
United Democracy Project$5,000Aug 14, 20232024
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$3,500Jun 8, 20252026
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$3,500Jun 8, 20252026
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$3,500Jun 8, 20252026
CITIZENS FOR BOYLE$3,300Mar 24, 20242024
BANKS FOR SENATE$3,300Sep 5, 20232024
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$3,300Mar 23, 20242024
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$3,300Jul 1, 20242024
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$3,300Jul 20, 20232024
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$3,300Aug 5, 20232024
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$3,300Jun 27, 20232024
KEVIN MCCARTHY FOR CONGRESS$2,500Jan 2, 20232024
RICK SCOTT FOR FLORIDA$2,000Sep 12, 20242024
CITIZENS FOR TURNER$1,111Aug 21, 20242024
IOWANS FOR ZACH NUNN$1,111Aug 15, 20242024
TONY GONZALES FOR CONGRESS$1,000Apr 17, 20242024
LORI CHAVEZ-DEREMER FOR CONGRESS$1,000Mar 8, 20242024
SHRI FOR CONGRESS$1,000Oct 18, 20232024
SHRI FOR CONGRESS$1,000Dec 27, 20232024