Features, BallotBase Campaign Finance Analytics

The Today Screen

One screen, every morning: where the campaign stands.

Yesterday's take. Pace against your goal and the filing deadline. Money that moved against you overnight, outside spending, 24-hour reports, late filings across every disclosure layer. A call list of your biggest lapsed donors, with pledges that clear themselves when the gift lands. All of it emailed to you at 6:30am, too.

Filing-deadline countdown with raised-this-period tracking
"Money moved in your race", 48-hour late-money banner
Workable call list: outcomes, pledges, auto-fulfillment
Refcode attribution, know which ask actually raised money
Morning email digest with the urgent stuff in the subject line

Today, Tuesday, July 7

FEC Q2 deadline9 days

Yesterday$4,310 · 38 gifts

Goal paceON PACE · 61%

Money Moved In Your Race

Outside IE, opposing$25,000

Call List

Lapsed donors to ring8

Open pledges$3,400

Donor Insights

Know your donors better than your opponents know theirs.

See who your top contributors are, how much they have left to give, and which donors from prior cycles have gone quiet. BallotBase breaks down your donor file by contribution size, repeat giving behavior, and geographic concentration, so you know exactly where to focus your next ask.

Top donors ranked by total contribution amount
First-time vs. returning donor breakdown
Repeat donor rate by city
Contribution size distribution across FEC-relevant thresholds
Lapsed donor count from the prior cycle

Donor Breakdown

Repeat donor rate 34.2%

First-time donors 41,208

Returning donors 21,304

Lapsed from prior cycle 18,940

Top Donor Cities

New York, NY

$1.2M

Los Angeles, CA

$890K

Chicago, IL

$576K

Spend Analysis

See exactly where campaign money is going, and whether it's working.

BallotBase categorizes every disbursement by type, advertising, payroll, consulting, fundraising, and more, so you can see at a glance how a campaign is allocating resources. Compare spend patterns across committees to spot over-investment in overhead or under-investment in voter contact.

Disbursements categorized by expense type
Fundraising cost as a percentage of total raised
Cost-per-dollar raised across filing periods
Top vendors by total spend
For PACs and Super PACs: spend by candidate target

Spend by Category

Advertising

$4.1M

Fundraising

$2.5M

Consulting

$1.6M

Payroll

$920K

Cost to raise $1 $0.21

Fundraising % of total spend 26%

Geographic Intelligence

Map where your money comes from, and where it isn't.

For federal campaigns, BallotBase shows in-state vs. out-of-state donor breakdowns by congressional district. For California committees, it tracks in-district vs. out-of-district ratios. Donor density normalized per 100k residents helps you find untapped markets where you're underleveraging your support.

Donor totals by state and city
In-district vs. out-of-district breakdown
Donors per 100k residents by geography
In-state vs. out-of-state ratio for federal committees
Zip-level donor capacity score, partisan lean, and top industries
Census-based "Messaging Signals" flagging local issues by zip, housing, healthcare, immigration, and more

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BallotBase Prospect Map showing Messaging Signals by issue area (Immigration, Housing & Affordability, Healthcare, and more) and a zip code breakdown with capacity score, median income, partisan lean, top industries, and messaging signals

Fundraising Momentum

See where a campaign is accelerating, and where it's stalling.

BallotBase tracks fundraising performance across every filing period, showing month-over-month and quarter-over-quarter trends. Spot the campaigns building momentum heading into election season, and identify the ones burning through cash without a sustainable donor base.

Fundraising by filing period across the full election cycle
Month-over-month growth rate
Donor count trends alongside dollar totals
Full two-year cycle view for federal and state committees

Quarterly Fundraising, 2025–2026

Q1 '25

Q2 '25

Q3 '25

Q4 '25

Q1 '26

Q2 '26

MoM growth (latest) +34%

Competitive Intelligence

Know what your opponents are doing before they deploy it.

Pull analytics on any committee in the same race and compare side by side. See where opponents are fundraising, how efficiently they're spending, and which donors they share with you. Track IE committee activity targeting your race before it hits the airwaves.

Side-by-side fundraising comparison for any two committees
Shared donor analysis across competing campaigns
IE committee spend tracking by targeted candidate
Cash-on-hand position vs. opponents
AI-assisted contradiction analysis between a candidate's platform and their donor base

Add-on feature

ballotbase.io/competitive/insights

BallotBase Analysis panel flagging contradictions between a candidate's stated platform and their itemized donor base, including industry concentration and out-of-district funding

California Filing Compliance

Know what to file, when to file it, and what's missing, before the deadline hits.

BallotBase includes a built-in California filing tracker that understands FPPC rules. Log contributions and expenditures, and the system automatically determines which form applies, flags missing required fields, and alerts you when a transaction triggers a 24-hour late filing requirement. Export is gated until your filing is clean.

Automatic Form 460, 497, and 496 classification per transaction
Employer and occupation validation at the $100 threshold
Form 497 alerts for contributions ≥ $1,000 within 90 days of election
Inline compliance flags on every entry, edit and fix without starting over
Export blocked until all required fields are complete
Cal-Access .CAL file export, ready to submit

California · Beta

Filing Compliance, Jane Smith for City Council

Current filing period Semi-Annual Jan–Jun

Days to election 62 days · Form 497 window open

Entries

RCPT

Maria Rodriguez

2026-04-10 · Acme Corp

F497 +$1,500.00

RCPT

James Okafor

2026-04-12

Employer required Occupation required

F460 +$250.00

1 error · export blocked fix to export .CAL

Data Methodology

We do the data engineering so you don't have to.

BallotBase pulls directly from government disclosure systems and applies the filtering and deduplication logic that makes the numbers actually usable.

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FEC Schedule A & B

Individual contributions and disbursements pulled directly from the FEC API. Top-line totals use official FEC committee totals, not aggregated receipt rows, so the numbers are always accurate regardless of filing volume.

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Cal-Access Deduplication

California amendment filings create duplicate rows that inflate totals if naively summed. BallotBase tracks amendment chains and counts only the most recent version of each filing. Schedule E only for expenditures, F460 only for receipts.

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Smart Caching

Data is cached and revalidated on a rolling basis so dashboards load instantly. Background fetches keep data fresh without blocking your analysis. First load for a new committee typically takes under 10 seconds.

How it works

From raw FEC data to client-ready intelligence

BallotBase fits into your existing workflow, from understanding your donor base to briefing your clients, without the manual work.

Donor & competitive analysis

Understand your donor base and the field around you

Donor breakdown Repeat giving behavior Geographic concentration Field rankings

Donor analysis dashboard showing contributions by donor type, geographic breakdown, and repeat donor metrics

Donor Intelligence

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Prospect Map

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Prospect Map

Find your next donors before your opponents do

Know where to target your fundraising before you spend a dollar. The Prospect Map scores every zip code in your district by donor capacity, partisan lean, and historical FEC giving patterns. Issue signals derived from Census data show you what matters most to residents in each geography, so you can match your message to the market and build a targeted donor list directly on the platform.

Donor capacity scoring Partisan lean by zip Issue signals Donor list builder

MoneyMap & contradiction analysis

Map the money. Surface what doesn't add up.

MoneyMap traces the full donor network for any candidate in your race, who gave, where they're from, and who employs them. BallotBase then runs AI-powered contradiction analysis, comparing each candidate's stated platform against their observed financial patterns. When a candidate's donors tell a different story than their messaging, it gets flagged, automatically, sourced from public data, and ready to use.

Donor network mapping AI contradiction detection IE tracking Opposition research

Contradiction analysis showing flagged discrepancies between candidate platform statements and donor network patterns

MoneyMap + Contradiction Analysis

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Client-ready PDF memo showing race overview, master fundraising leaderboard, and candidate analysis

Client-Ready Briefings

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Client-ready briefings

One click. A briefing your client can read in the car.

Everything BallotBase surfaces, donor networks, contradiction flags, geographic analysis, IE activity, compiles into a formatted PDF memo ready to send. Stat cards, donor tables, race overview, and analysis labeled clearly as AI-generated synthesis. Sourced from public FEC filings. No formatting required on your end.

PDF memo generation Sourced from FEC Client-ready format One-click output

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BallotBase automatically detects committee type and applies the right data source and analytics.

Federal

FEC, All 50 States

House, Senate, presidential campaigns, PACs, and Super PACs. Any committee with an FEC ID.

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California

Cal-Access

State Assembly, State Senate, statewide offices, local races, and IE committees.

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City & County

221 CA Local Agencies

Campaign finance for city council, mayor, supervisor, and school board races across 221 California cities and counties, the races nobody else covers. Synced daily, including 24-hour late-money filings.

Legislation

Bills, Votes & Lobbying

CA bills back to 2013, federal bills, 850K+ lobbying disclosure records, and city-level lobbyist filings, joined to the money.

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Coming Soon

Texas & New York

State-level disclosure systems for Texas and New York are in development.

Know your morning numbers.

One screen, every morning: where the campaign stands.

Know your donors better than your opponents know theirs.

See exactly where campaign money is going, and whether it's working.

Map where your money comes from, and where it isn't.

See where a campaign is accelerating, and where it's stalling.

Know what your opponents are doing before they deploy it.

Know what to file, when to file it, and what's missing, before the deadline hits.

We do the data engineering so you don't have to.

From raw FEC data to client-ready intelligence

Understand your donor base and the field around you

Find your next donors before your opponents do

Map the money. Surface what doesn't add up.

One click. A briefing your client can read in the car.

Campaign finance, legislation, and lobbying. Joined.

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