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Waterfront Strategies

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Tracked direct giving

$2,031,126

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The Money Trail

How money flowed from Waterfront Strategies

$2.0M
15 transactions across 8 counterparties
sum of 15 tracked donations shown

Waterfront Strategies directed $705K to HOUSE MAJORITY PAC across 2 contributions between April 2023 and October 2023.

Apr 2023 – Oct 2023corporate

Waterfront Strategies directed $527K to EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND across 2 contributions between March 2022 and February 2024.

Mar 2022 – Feb 2024corporate

Waterfront Strategies directed $366K to Senate Majority PAC across 3 contributions between January 2023 and February 2024.

Jan 2023 – Feb 2024corporate

Waterfront Strategies directed $245K to LCV VICTORY FUND.

Aug 2023corporate

Waterfront Strategies directed $108K to NEA ADVOCACY FUND across 3 contributions between August 2019 and February 2023.

Aug 2019 – Feb 2023corporate

Waterfront Strategies also gave to 3 other entities totaling $78K.

$2.0M tracked across 8 counterparties (sum of 15 tracked donations shown)
PAC Chain Attribution

Where Waterfront Strategies’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

$1.4M
modeled estimate
162 paths across 50 counterparties
$130Kmodeled estimateattributed to Mazi Melesa Pilip
2024 cycle3 paths1–2 hopsMedium confidence
$79Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Mazi Melesa PilipmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $6K

$51Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→NEA ADVOCACY FUND→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Mazi Melesa PilipmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $6K

$318modeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→LCV VICTORY FUND→Mazi Melesa PilipmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

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

$51Kmodeled estimateattributed to Austin Theriault
2024 cycle2 paths1–2 hopsMedium confidence
$31Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Austin TheriaultmediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $9K

$20Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→NEA ADVOCACY FUND→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Austin TheriaultmediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $9K

$46Kmodeled estimateattributed to Tom Barrett
2024 cycle2 paths1–2 hopsMedium confidence
$28Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Tom BarrettmediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $9K

$18Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→NEA ADVOCACY FUND→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Tom BarrettmediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $9K

$44Kmodeled estimateattributed to Laurie Buckhout
2024 cycle2 paths1–2 hopsMedium confidence
$27Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Laurie BuckhoutmediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $6K

$18Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→NEA ADVOCACY FUND→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Laurie BuckhoutmediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $13K

$41Kmodeled estimateattributed to Kamala Harris
2024 cycle7 paths1–3 hopsMedium confidence
$22Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→LCV VICTORY FUND→Kamala HarrismediumSupportmultiple

smallest single documented leg $8K

$16Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND→Kamala HarrismediumSupportindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $11K

$3Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→Senate Majority PAC→WOMEN VOTE!→Kamala HarrismediumSupportindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $42K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

smallest single documented leg $7K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$293modeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND→Kamala HarrismediumSupportindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $105K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

+ 2 more paths

$41Kmodeled estimateattributed to Ryan Mackenzie
2024 cycle6 paths1–3 hopsMedium confidence
$23Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Ryan MackenziemediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $8K

$15Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→NEA ADVOCACY FUND→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Ryan MackenziemediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $12K

smallest single documented leg $12K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$1Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→LCV VICTORY FUND→Ryan MackenziemediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $6K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

smallest single documented leg $13K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

+ 1 more path

$40Kmodeled estimateattributed to Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.
2024 cycle4 paths1–3 hopsMedium confidence
$23Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.mediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $6K

smallest single documented leg $10K

smallest single documented leg $12K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

smallest single documented leg $13K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$40Kmodeled estimateattributed to Garcia, Mike
2024 cycle5 paths1–2 hopsMedium confidence
$21Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Garcia, MikemediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $11K

$14Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→NEA ADVOCACY FUND→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→Garcia, MikemediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $13K

smallest single documented leg $11K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$1Kmodeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→LCV VICTORY FUND→Garcia, MikemediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $10K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$200modeled estimateWaterfront Strategies→HOUSE MAJORITY PAC→GIFFORDS PAC→Garcia, MikemediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $75K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

Plus 42 additional chains totaling $934K.

$1.4M attributed (modeled estimate) across 162 paths·Up to 3 hops 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
HOUSE MAJORITY PAC$600,000Oct 3, 20232024
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND$458,313Mar 3, 20222022
LCV VICTORY FUND$245,216Aug 17, 20232024
Senate Majority PAC$213,701Jan 27, 20232024
Senate Majority PAC$110,227Feb 22, 20242024
HOUSE MAJORITY PAC$105,270Apr 3, 20232024
NEA ADVOCACY FUND$78,000Sep 30, 20212022
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND$68,594Feb 13, 20242024
TRUTH AND JUSTICE FUND COMPANY$42,898Jul 19, 20232024
Senate Majority PAC$42,162Jul 17, 20232024
EDF ACTION VOTES$25,883Feb 9, 20232024
NEA ADVOCACY FUND$16,524Aug 2, 20192020
NEA ADVOCACY FUND$13,238Feb 27, 20232024
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY & MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES PEOPLE (AFSCME)$7,291Mar 13, 20232024
EDF ACTION VOTES$2,287Oct 23, 20232024
LCV VICTORY FUND$1,521Dec 12, 20232024

Relationships

TypeConnected ToDetailsSource
Funder ofAMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY & MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES PEOPLE (AFSCME)Waterfront Strategies donated $7,291 to AFSCME PEOPLE (QPQ tracked total)Editorial