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Typo-tolerant search across donors, payees, recipients, direct-expenditure candidates, and committees. The URL is shareable.
How search works — read this before citing anything
- A contribution is not a direct expenditure. A contribution goes into a committee's account for that committee to spend. A direct expenditure is money a PAC spent itself, for or against a candidate, that the candidate's committee never receives. A PAC can do both for the same candidate — 21st Century St. Louis PAC contributed $2,600 at a time to Michael Browning's committee while separately spending $52,172.70 supporting him. Adding the two together, or reporting one as if it were the other, is the most common way to misstate these filings.
- Broad match casts a wide net on purpose. It forgives typos —
Schweizerfinds Schweitzer,Aldrigefinds Aldridge — which means it will also return people you did NOT search for whose names merely look similar. - Pink rows may be a different person entirely. Any row shaded pink and tagged maybe different person matched only by similar spelling. A similar name is never proof it's the same person.
- Want only literal matches? Switch Match to Exact terms only — every pink row disappears and you get only rows containing your actual search words.
- Always check the source. Every dollar figure links to the official MEC filing it came from. Before you repeat a number or connect a name to a person, open the link and confirm it says what you think it says.
- Partial words work.
thompfinds Thompson;anne schwfinds Anne Schweitzer. Best matches rank first. - Dates: Year is the quick filter; From/To narrow to any exact date window (they combine with Year if both are set).
- PAC spending: the Support / oppose filter narrows only the “Direct expenditures” section — money PACs spent about a candidate, not the candidate’s own raising and spending.
- Sort: click any column header to sort that table — click again to reverse. Amounts sort by dollar value and dates by calendar order (not by how they read).
- Export: the Download CSV button saves exactly the rows shown — same filters, up to 100 per section — with a source-link column for every row.
- What’s searched: donor names & employers, vendor payees & purposes, contribution recipients, direct-expenditure candidates & offices, and committee names. A committee name matches in three places: the Committees table, any row where another filer named it (as donor, payee, or recipient), and the Direct expenditures it made. Money paid into that committee is not listed by committee name — the Received figure in the Committees table links to it.
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Heads up: pink rows tagged
“maybe different person” matched only by similar spelling — they may have
nothing to do with who you searched. Switch Match to
Exact terms only to hide them, and always confirm against the linked filing.
Committees (1)
What each committee raised and spent over its whole filing history. These four totals are lifetime figures and ignore the filters above — the itemized sections below are what your filters narrowed. Open a committee for the line items behind each number, including its spending broken out by candidate.
| Committee | MEC ID | Treasurer | Received | Spent (vendors) | Given to others | For/against candidates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cara Spencer for Mayor | C242988 | — | $1,168,582.14 | $1,137,761.49 | $35.00 | $0.00 |
Direct expenditures — spent for or against a candidate (15)
Not contributions. This is money a committee spent itself — mailers, ads, consultants — to support or oppose the candidate named. The candidate's own committee never receives it. Matches either the candidate named or the committee that did the spending, so searching a PAC lists what it spent on candidates.
| Candidate / measure | Office | S/O | By committee | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cara Spencer | Mayor - City of St. Louis | oppose | 314 Forward | $55,000.00 | Mar 18, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | Mayor | support | Gateway to Progress PAC | $26,500.00 | Feb 23, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | Mayor | support | Gateway to Progress PAC | $24,000.00 | Feb 18, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | Mayor | support | Gateway to Progress PAC | $22,000.00 | Feb 11, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | St Louis City Mayor | support | Gateway to Progress PAC | $22,000.00 | Mar 15, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | Mayor | support | Gateway to Progress PAC | $11,000.00 | Feb 17, 2021 |
| CARA SPENCER | ST. MAYOR | oppose | Voters for Good Government | $5,750.00 | Mar 2, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | mayor | support | 28th Ward Democrats Campaign Committee | $1,025.00 | Mar 29, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | Mayor City of St. Louis | support | 16th Ward Democratic Organization | $1,000.00 | Mar 31, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | Mayor City of St. Louis | support | Planned Parenthood Votes-St Louis and Southwest Missouri | $477.30 | Feb 15, 2021 |
| CARA SPENCER | MAYOR | support | 12th Ward Regular Democratic Organization | $361.07 | Mar 25, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | Mayor City of St. Louis | support | Planned Parenthood Votes-St Louis and Southwest Missouri | $357.02 | Feb 15, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | Mayor City of St. Louis | support | Planned Parenthood Votes-St Louis and Southwest Missouri | $125.00 | Feb 9, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | Mayor | support | 15th Ward Democrats | $88.10 | Mar 2, 2021 |
| Cara Spencer | Mayor of St. Louis | support | 13th Ward Regular Democratic Club | $60.99 | Mar 22, 2021 |
| Total shown | $169,744.48 | ||||