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Steve Nicholas

Tracked direct giving

$23,157

Connections

12

The Money Trail

How money flowed from Steve Nicholas

$23K
15 transactions across 10 counterparties
sum of 15 tracked donations shown

Steve Nicholas directed $7K to COMMITTEE TO ELECT SHOMARI FIGURES FOR CONGRESS across 2 contributions between November 2023 and September 2024.

Nov 2023 – Sep 2024individual

Steve Nicholas directed $6K to HARRIS VICTORY FUND across 2 contributions between October 2023 and July 2024.

Oct 2023 – Jul 2024individual

Steve Nicholas directed $6K to HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT across 2 contributions between October 2023 and July 2024.

Oct 2023 – Jul 2024individual

Steve Nicholas directed $1K to ELISSA SLOTKIN FOR MICHIGAN across 3 contributions between August 2023 and August 2024.

Aug 2023 – Aug 2024individual

Steve Nicholas directed $1K to CARTWRIGHT FOR CONGRESS.

Jun 2024individual

Steve Nicholas also gave to 5 other entities totaling $3K.

$23K tracked across 10 counterparties (sum of 15 tracked donations shown)
PAC Chain Attribution

Where Steve Nicholas’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

$11K
modeled estimate
3 paths across 3 counterparties
$9Kmodeled estimateattributed to Matt Cartwright
2024 cycle1 path1 hopLow confidenceCross-cycle
$9Kmodeled estimateSteve Nicholas→Cartwright Victory Fund→Matt Cartwrightlowdate order unverifiedpac

smallest single documented leg $1K

$2Kmodeled estimateattributed to HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidenceCross-cycle

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

$140modeled estimateattributed to FRIENDS OF SHERROD BROWN
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidenceCross-cycle

smallest single documented leg $294 (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$11K 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
COMMITTEE TO ELECT SHOMARI FIGURES FOR CONGRESS$3,300Nov 29, 20232024
COMMITTEE TO ELECT SHOMARI FIGURES FOR CONGRESS$3,300Sep 24, 20242024
HARRIS VICTORY FUND$3,000Oct 23, 20232024
HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT$3,000Oct 23, 20232024
HARRIS VICTORY FUND$2,500Jul 27, 20242024
HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT$2,500Jul 27, 20242024
ACTBLUE$1,000Jun 30, 20242024
Cartwright Victory Fund$1,000Jun 30, 20242024
CARTWRIGHT FOR CONGRESS$1,000Jun 30, 20242024
ELISSA SLOTKIN FOR MICHIGAN$500Aug 8, 20232024
ELISSA SLOTKIN FOR MICHIGAN$500Aug 6, 20242024
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMM. - BLDG FUND$471Jul 25, 20232024
JERRY CARL FOR CONGRESS$342Nov 15, 20232024
JUSTICE 2024 - UNITEMIZED$294Apr 28, 20232024
ELISSA SLOTKIN FOR MICHIGAN$250Dec 5, 20232024
ACTBLUE$200Sep 20, 20242024

Relationships

TypeConnected ToDetailsSource
Donated toHARRIS VICTORY FUNDDonated $5,500 to HARRIS VICTORY FUNDSource
Donated toCARTWRIGHT FOR CONGRESSDonated $1,000 to CARTWRIGHT FOR CONGRESSSource
Donated toJERRY CARL FOR CONGRESSDonated $342 to JERRY CARL FOR CONGRESSSource
Donated toCOMMITTEE TO ELECT SHOMARI FIGURES FOR CONGRESSDonated $6,600 to COMMITTEE TO ELECT SHOMARI FIGURES FOR CONGRESSSource
Donated toHARRIS FOR PRESIDENTDonated $5,500 to HARRIS FOR PRESIDENTSource
Donated toCartwright Victory FundDonated $1,000 to CARTWRIGHT VICTORY FUNDSource
Donated toAMERICAN HOTEL AND LODGING ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE ('HOTELPAC')Donated $2,000 to AMERICAN HOTEL AND LODGING ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE ('HOTELPAC')Source
Donated toJUSTICE 2024 - UNITEMIZEDDonated $294 to JUSTICE 2024Source
Donated toDEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMM. - BLDG FUNDDonated $471 to DCCCSource
Donated toACTBLUEDonated $1,200 to ACTBLUESource
Donated toELISSA SLOTKIN FOR MICHIGANDonated $1,250 to ELISSA SLOTKIN FOR MICHIGANSource
Donated toAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC)Donated $4,000 to AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC)Source