Follow the Money — cited contribution inflows

Trace itemized contribution dollars flowing into an FEC committee, aggregated by the contributor's state of origin, largest first — returned with a full citation receipt. Built for AI agents and analysts asking "where did this committee's money come from?" and needing an answer with the source attached.

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

What you can ask

• Which states did the money flowing into committee C00401224 come from in the 2024 cycle?
• Across all cycles in coverage, what is the geographic origin of a committee's itemized contributions?

Keywords: follow the money, campaign finance, FEC committee, contribution inflows, donor geography, money in politics, PAC funding sources, where does the money come from, committee contributions by state, election funding.

Input

{ "committee_id": "C00401224", "cycle": 2024, "limit": 5 }

Output — an answer with a receipt

The actor returns one receipt object (also stored as the run's OUTPUT). Each row is a contributor state of origin flowing to the committee entity — no individual-person detail. matches declares the committee-id crosswalk the answer relied on.

{
  "answer": [
    {
      "cycle": 2024,
      "committee_entity_id": "cmte_9a1c…",
      "committee_id": "C00401224",
      "contributor_state": "CA",
      "total_cents": 128400000,
      "contribution_count": 5120
    }
  ],
  "citations": [
    {
      "source": "fec",
      "source_label": "U.S. Federal Election Commission",
      "query_url": "https://www.fec.gov/files/bulk-downloads/2024/indiv24.zip",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-01-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "as_of": null,
      "cache": "cached",
      "record_id": "C00401224"
    }
  ],
  "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": [
    {
      "match_method": "exact",
      "match_confidence": 1,
      "left_key": "fec.recipient_committee_id",
      "right_key": "citature.entity_committee.committee_id",
      "note": "recipient committee resolved to a citature entity on the FEC committee id"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "0.1.0"
}

Money is always integer cents (total_cents). The flow is a geographic origin into a committee entity; citature ships no individual-contributor 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. 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.