Funding Entity Lookup — cited FEC committees and candidates

Look up an FEC committee or candidate by id, or prefix-search either by name — returned with a full citation receipt. This is the directory the money-family actors pivot on: every result carries citature's stable entity_id next to the FEC id, so you can go from "which committee is this?" to "where did its money come from?" on the same key.

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

What you can ask

• Look up committee C00401224 — what is it, what type, what state?
• Look up candidate H8TX01234.
• Search committees whose name starts with "ACME".
• Search candidates whose name starts with "SMITH".

Keywords: FEC committee lookup, candidate lookup, campaign committee search, PAC directory, political committee id, candidate id, FEC entity resolution, committee name search, campaign finance directory.

Input

One query selects the operation; supply the field it needs.

query	Needs	Returns
committee_lookup	committee_id	one committee or null
candidate_lookup	candidate_id	one candidate or null
committee_search	name_prefix, optional limit	ranked committees
candidate_search	name_prefix, optional limit	ranked candidates

{ "query": "committee_search", "name_prefix": "ACME", "limit": 5 }

Output — an answer with a receipt

The actor returns one receipt object (also stored as the run's OUTPUT).

{
  "answer": [
    {
      "entity_id": "cmte_9a1c…",
      "committee_id": "C00401224",
      "name": "ACME PAC",
      "committee_type": "Q",
      "designation": "U",
      "party": null,
      "state": "DC",
      "cycle": 2024
    }
  ],
  "citations": [
    {
      "source": "fec",
      "source_label": "U.S. Federal Election Commission",
      "query_url": "https://www.fec.gov/files/bulk-downloads/2024/cm24.zip",
      "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."
  ],
  "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"
}

A lookup that finds nothing returns answer: null with a citation — an honest empty, never a fabricated record.

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.