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Edward Merchant

Cycle

Tracked direct giving

$64,850

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The Money Trail

How money flowed from Edward Merchant

$64K
15 transactions across 7 counterparties
sum of 15 tracked donations shown

Edward Merchant directed $40K to DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMM. - BLDG FUND across 2 contributions between October 2023 and June 2024.

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024individual

Edward Merchant directed $7K to DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE across 2 contributions between October 2025 and June 2026.

Oct 2025 – Jun 2026individual

Edward Merchant directed $5K to Senate Majority PAC.

Jun 2024individual

Edward Merchant directed $5K to THE FIRST ASK across 2 contributions between October 2024 and October 2024.

Oct 2024 – Oct 2024individual

Edward Merchant directed $4K to JOHN BURROWS FOR CONGRESS across 6 contributions between August 2023 and September 2024.

Aug 2023 – Sep 2024individual

Edward Merchant also gave to 2 other entities totaling $4K.

$64K tracked across 7 counterparties (sum of 15 tracked donations shown)
PAC Chain Attribution

Where Edward Merchant’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

$8K
modeled estimate
23 paths across 23 counterparties
$574modeled estimateattributed to Mazi Melesa Pilip
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $20K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$533modeled estimateattributed to John S. Duarte
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $20K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$529modeled estimateattributed to Joseph Kent
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $20K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$474modeled estimateattributed to David Schweikert
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $20K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$456modeled estimateattributed to Marcus J. Molinaro
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $20K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$417modeled estimateattributed to Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$417modeled estimateEdward Merchant→DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMM. - BLDG FUND→Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.mediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $20K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$396modeled estimateattributed to Michelle Steel
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $20K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$388modeled estimateattributed to Tom Barrett
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $20K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

Plus 15 additional chains totaling $4K.

$8K attributed (modeled estimate) across 23 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
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMM. - BLDG FUND$20,000Oct 31, 20232024
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMM. - BLDG FUND$20,000Jun 4, 20242024
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE$5,000Jun 10, 20262026
Senate Majority PAC$5,000Jun 4, 20242024
THE FIRST ASK$2,500Oct 16, 20242024
THE FIRST ASK$2,500Oct 14, 20242024
EQUALITY PAC$2,500Oct 14, 20242024
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE$2,000Oct 6, 20252026
KAINE FOR VIRGINIA$1,000Oct 30, 20242024
JOHN BURROWS FOR CONGRESS$1,000Sep 8, 20242024
JOHN BURROWS FOR CONGRESS$1,000Sep 8, 20242024
JOHN BURROWS FOR CONGRESS$1,000Sep 22, 20242024
JOHN BURROWS FOR CONGRESS$250Sep 15, 20242024
JOHN BURROWS FOR CONGRESS$250Feb 25, 20242024
JOHN BURROWS FOR CONGRESS$250Feb 25, 20242024
JOHN BURROWS FOR CONGRESS$250Aug 7, 20232024
JOHN BURROWS FOR CONGRESS$250Sep 23, 20232024
JOHN BURROWS FOR CONGRESS$100Dec 7, 20232024