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These are reported committee totals—not a measure of who benefited from every dollar. Candidate support and opposition appear separately in itemized spending records, which may cover later dates.
Through · Last successful import
Registration · not a corporate staff directory
Who is the committee’s reported treasurer?
VAN HALL, LAURIE is the treasurer listed for this political committee in the included FEC registration data.
This is the political committee’s treasurer—not necessarily the treasurer or finance director of an organization with a similar name. This record does not establish a current corporate or public-office appointment.
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through August 31, 2026.
Metric
Reported amount
What it means
Total receipts
$14,149,665.97
All receipts reported by the committee for the cycle.
Individual contributions
$11,194,256.66
Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Other committee contributions
$0.00
Contributions received from other political committees.
Total disbursements
$12,983,998.23
All disbursements reported by the committee for the cycle.
Contributions to other committees
$493,845.00
Contributions the committee reported making to federal candidate committees.
Independent expenditures
$2,392,241.53
Spending expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, made without coordination.
Cash on hand
$2,091,572.45
Cash reported at the end of the covered filing period.
Debts owed by committee
$0.00
Outstanding debts the committee reported owing.
Independent expenditures are distinct from contributions made directly to candidate committees.
Itemized political activity
Candidate giving and outside spending by LEADERS WE DESERVE
FEC ITEMIZED DATA
The categories below remain separate: contributions go to a recipient committee; independent expenditures are outside activity reported as supporting or opposing a candidate.
Direct candidate contributions$85,175.0021 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$2,346,347.6480 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$213,732.1310 transactions
Direct contribution
Money reported as given to a candidate or candidate committee. It enters the recipient committee’s campaign-finance record.
Coordinated party expenditure
Party spending reported in the FEC’s coordinated-expenditure category. It is separate from a direct contribution.
Independent expenditure
Outside spending expressly supporting or opposing a candidate. By definition, it is not made in coordination with the candidate or party.
Source: FEC contributions-from-committees-to-candidates and independent-expenditure bulk files, checked Oct 16, 2026. The totals shown here sum the itemized current-file rows displayed by category; they are not substituted for the committee’s official summary totals.
Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures
How money moved through LEADERS WE DESERVE
FEC ITEMIZED FILES
These panels show privacy-thresholded itemized individual-receipt activity and amendment-normalized operating expenditures. They are descriptive slices of filings—not a complete substitute for the official financial summary.
Itemized individual receipt activity over time
Monthly transaction activity from the FEC individual-contributions file. Current-cycle files can contain earlier-dated transactions; signed amendments, refunds, reattributions, and memo entries remain in the source-defined analysis.
20 calendar months · 20 published cells
Jan 25$43,501
Feb 25$159,290
Mar 25$112,978
Apr 25$185,744
May 25$319,863
Jun 25$261,478
Jul 25$330,127
Aug 25$223,796
Sep 25$336,198
Oct 25$201,399
Nov 25$351,515
Dec 25$299,654
Jan 26$80,946
Feb 26$279,333
Mar 26$333,125
Apr 26$287,299
May 26$413,236
Jun 26$439,672
Jul 26$290,156
Aug 26$615,968
Only committee/month cells with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. A missing cell can reflect source absence or the privacy threshold; it does not mean zero activity. Published amounts are unchanged.
Where itemized contributor addresses were reported
State is taken from the contributor address on the FEC row. It does not prove residence, citizenship, employer location, or the ultimate economic source of funds.
99.3% of published positive state-cell amounts outside District of Columbia
Only committee/state groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. Percentages divide by the sum of all positive published, privacy-thresholded committee/state cells, including cells beyond the top 12 shown. Zero and negative state cells are excluded from this denominator; these shares do not describe all contributions or all campaign receipts.
FEC filer-selected categories from Schedule B operating expenditures. Memo-code X rows are excluded because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.
1 published categories
Category not reported867 current organization-payment rows$7,980,687.05
Top organization payees in operating expenditures
Organization payees only. Electionpedia excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.
Accelerate Political Advisors17 current itemized payments · latest 2026-04-30
$125,405.59
Dc Health Link20 current itemized payments · latest 2026-08-03
$111,009.67
Kinship Methods LLC12 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-08
$96,048.77
Cat Eye Studios1 current itemized payment · latest 2026-02-05
$89,336.00
Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-10-16. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.
Reported employers among contributors to LEADERS WE DESERVE
FEC SCHEDULE A
This is not company money.
These totals combine itemized contributions from individuals who reported the same employer. They do not show that the employer directed, funded, or endorsed any contribution.
Google22 distinct reported contributors · 139 current itemized transactions
$34,873.00
Apple9 distinct reported contributors · 39 current itemized transactions
$3,278.00
Amazon5 distinct reported contributors · 22 current itemized transactions
$2,175.00
Va6 distinct reported contributors · 34 current itemized transactions
$1,155.00
Kaiser Permanente5 distinct reported contributors · 16 current itemized transactions
State Of California5 distinct reported contributors · 27 current itemized transactions
$475.00
Only employer/recipient groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published, with at most 50 groups per recipient committee. Individual names and addresses are not included. Totals are net current-file amounts after amendment normalization and may include refunds, reattributions, or memo entries.
Official registration
Committee details
2026 CYCLE
Committee type
Hybrid PAC — qualified · code W
Designation
Unauthorized committee · code U
Filing frequency
Monthly filer
Connected organization
NONE
Treasurer
VAN HALL, LAURIE
Mailing address
611 PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE #192, WASHINGTON DC 20003
FEC committee ID
C00843110
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