FEC Contributions — cited campaign-finance totals

Federal campaign-contribution totals for a U.S. election cycle, aggregated by contributor state or by recipient committee type, returned with a full citation receipt. Built for AI agents and analysts who need a number they can defend: every answer carries the exact public source it came from, when it was retrieved, what it covers, and what it does not.

Data comes straight from the Federal Election Commission — the primary, public-domain federal record. No aggregator, no opinion, no scoring.

What you can ask

• How much did individual contributions total in the 2024 cycle, broken down by the contributor's state?
• Which committee types (PACs, party committees, candidate committees) took in the most individual contributions in a cycle?

Keywords: FEC, campaign finance, political contributions, donations by state, PAC money, election cycle, committee type, federal election data, campaign donations, money in politics, contribution totals.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Notes
cycle	integer	yes	Even election-cycle year, e.g. 2024.
group_by	"state" | "committee_type"	no (default state)	How to aggregate.
limit	integer 1–500	no (default 50)	Max ranked rows.

{ "cycle": 2024, "group_by": "state", "limit": 5 }

Output — an answer with a receipt

The actor returns one receipt object (also stored as the run's OUTPUT). The answer is the ranked totals; the rest is provenance you can verify yourself.

{
  "answer": [
    { "cycle": 2024, "state": "CA", "total_cents": 4820100000, "contribution_count": 91234 },
    { "cycle": 2024, "state": "TX", "total_cents": 3110450000, "contribution_count": 60112 }
  ],
  "citations": [
    {
      "source": "fec",
      "source_label": "U.S. Federal Election Commission",
      "query_url": "https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/by_state/totals/?cycle=2024",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-01-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "as_of": null,
      "cache": "cached",
      "record_id": null
    }
  ],
  "coverage": [
    "Coverage reflects records currently in citature's dataset, not the full upstream history.",
    "Contribution figures are entity-level aggregates; citature ships no individual-person contribution records."
  ],
  "guardrails": [
    "Research over public-domain federal records — not legal, financial, or eligibility advice.",
    "citature reports what the record says. It never renders a compliance verdict, a screening pass/fail, or a recommendation.",
    "Entity-level records only (committees, candidates, recipients, agencies, contracts). No individual-person data."
  ],
  "matches": [],
  "schema_version": "0.1.0"
}

Money is always integer cents (total_cents) — no floats, no rounding surprises. retrieved_at is when citature fetched the record; a source's own as-of date, when it publishes one, is a separate field.

Guardrails

• Research over public-domain federal records — not legal, financial, or eligibility advice.
• citature reports what the record says. It never renders a compliance verdict, a screening pass/fail, or a recommendation.
• Entity-level records only. No individual-person data is ever returned.

Pricing

Pay per successful answer. You are charged only when an answer is served; a rejected or failed request is never billed.