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Shawn Steel

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Tracked direct giving

$51,291

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The Money Trail

How money flowed from Shawn Steel

$51K
13 transactions across 9 counterparties
sum of 13 tracked donations shown

Shawn Steel directed $32K to WINRED across 3 contributions between September 2023 and January 2026.

Sep 2023 – Jan 2026individual

Shawn Steel directed $8K to CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY FEDERAL ACCT. across 2 contributions between February 2023 and October 2024.

Feb 2023 – Oct 2024individual

Shawn Steel directed $3K to LORI CHAVEZ-DEREMER FOR CONGRESS.

Sep 2024individual

Shawn Steel directed $3K to TONY GONZALES FOR CONGRESS.

Mar 2024individual

Shawn Steel also gave to 4 other entities totaling $3K.

$51K tracked across 9 counterparties (sum of 13 tracked donations shown)
PAC Chain Attribution

Where Shawn Steel’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

$710
modeled estimate
3 paths across 3 counterparties
$468modeled estimateattributed to VIVEK 2024
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidenceCross-cycle
$468modeled estimateShawn Steel→WINRED→VIVEK 2024mediumpac

smallest single documented leg $15K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$131modeled estimateattributed to BERNIE MORENO FOR SENATE
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidenceCross-cycle
$131modeled estimateShawn Steel→WINRED→BERNIE MORENO FOR SENATEmediumpac

smallest single documented leg $15K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$111modeled estimateattributed to SCALISE FOR CONGRESS
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidenceCross-cycle
$111modeled estimateShawn Steel→WINRED→SCALISE FOR CONGRESSmediumpac

smallest single documented leg $15K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$710 attributed (modeled estimate) across 3 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$15,000Sep 13, 20232024
WINRED$10,000Oct 17, 20252026
WINRED$7,000Jan 3, 20262026
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY FEDERAL ACCT.$6,600Oct 15, 20242024
TONY GONZALES FOR CONGRESS$3,300Mar 22, 20242024
LORI CHAVEZ-DEREMER FOR CONGRESS$3,300Sep 23, 20242024
REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF LA COUNTY (FED)$1,800Jun 28, 20232024
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY FEDERAL ACCT.$1,375Feb 22, 20232024
RIVERSIDE COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE (FED)$1,000May 22, 20242024
FRIENDS OF BRUCE HOUGH$1,000Jun 26, 20232024
BUDD NC VICTORY FUND 2028$500May 17, 20232024
VAN ORDEN FOR CONGRESS$208May 13, 20242024
VAN ORDEN FOR CONGRESS$208Jun 13, 20242024