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Melinda Gates

Cycle

Tracked direct giving

$108,900

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The Money Trail

How money flowed from Melinda Gates

$89K
15 transactions across 7 counterparties
sum of 15 tracked donations shown

Melinda Gates directed $49K to WINRED across 7 contributions between April 2025 and April 2026.

Apr 2025 – Apr 2026individual

Melinda Gates directed $10K to VOTE MAMA across 2 contributions between April 2023 and March 2024.

Apr 2023 – Mar 2024individual

Melinda Gates directed $10K to ANN PAC across 2 contributions between August 2023 and May 2024.

Aug 2023 – May 2024individual

Melinda Gates directed $5K to THOMPAC.

Dec 2023individual

Melinda Gates also gave to 2 other entities totaling $10K.

$89K tracked across 7 counterparties (sum of 15 tracked donations shown)
PAC Chain Attribution

Where Melinda Gates’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

$5K
modeled estimate
18 paths across 17 counterparties
$509modeled estimateattributed to ANDY KIM FOR CONGRESS
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$509modeled estimateMelinda Gates→HOULAPAC→ANDY KIM FOR CONGRESSmediumpac

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

$469modeled estimateattributed to CHRIS DELUZIO FOR CONGRESS
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$469modeled estimateMelinda Gates→HOULAPAC→CHRIS DELUZIO FOR CONGRESSmediumpac

smallest single documented leg $1K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$446modeled estimateattributed to DON DAVIS FOR NC
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$446modeled estimateMelinda Gates→HOULAPAC→DON DAVIS FOR NCmediumpac

smallest single documented leg $1K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$377modeled estimateattributed to CARTWRIGHT FOR CONGRESS
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$377modeled estimateMelinda Gates→HOULAPAC→CARTWRIGHT FOR CONGRESSmediumpac

smallest single documented leg $1K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$314modeled estimateattributed to GALLEGO FOR ARIZONA
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$314modeled estimateMelinda Gates→HOULAPAC→GALLEGO FOR ARIZONAmediumpac

smallest single documented leg $2K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$301modeled estimateattributed to EMILIA SYKES FOR CONGRESS
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$301modeled estimateMelinda Gates→HOULAPAC→EMILIA SYKES FOR CONGRESSmediumpac

smallest single documented leg $1K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$298modeled estimateattributed to FRIENDS OF JAHANA HAYES
2024 cycle2 paths1 hopMedium confidence
$179modeled estimateMelinda Gates→HOULAPAC→FRIENDS OF JAHANA HAYESmediumpac

smallest single documented leg $1K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$119modeled estimateMelinda Gates→VOTE MAMA→FRIENDS OF JAHANA HAYESmediumpac

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

$295modeled estimateattributed to PAT RYAN FOR CONGRESS
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$295modeled estimateMelinda Gates→HOULAPAC→PAT RYAN FOR CONGRESSmediumpac

smallest single documented leg $1K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

Plus 9 additional chains totaling $2K.

$5K attributed (modeled estimate) across 18 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
WINRED$7,000Apr 22, 20252026
WINRED$7,000Apr 22, 20252026
WINRED$7,000Apr 23, 20252026
WINRED$7,000Apr 23, 20252026
WINRED$7,000Apr 23, 20252026
WINRED$7,000Apr 23, 20252026
WINRED$7,000Apr 27, 20262026
VOTE MAMA$5,000Mar 22, 20242024
VOTE MAMA$5,000Apr 12, 20232024
THOMPAC$5,000Dec 31, 20232024
TOGETHER EVERYONE REALIZES REAL IMPACT PAC AKA TERRI PAC$5,000Aug 7, 20242024
HOULAPAC$5,000Nov 26, 20232024
HOULAPAC$5,000Aug 18, 20242024
ANN PAC$5,000Aug 24, 20232024
ANN PAC$5,000May 17, 20242024
CA LUV PAC (CALIFORNIA LEADERSHIP UNITED FOR VICTORY PAC)$5,000Jun 5, 20242024
I GOT YOUR BACK PAC$5,000Aug 18, 20242024
FRIENDS OF MARIA$3,300Aug 10, 20232024
ALSOBROOKS FOR SENATE$3,300Nov 9, 20232024
FRIENDS OF JAHANA HAYES$3,300Oct 31, 20242024