Entities with $5,000 or more in reported activity, 2015 through October 28, 2026. The data holds the 8,783 largest entities; the full view shows the dots that have a line, and search finds all of them. 851,348 graph-linked transactions. Candidates, PACs, donors, companies, vendors, political parties. Each dot is an entity. Each line is $10,000 or more that moved between two of them. Smaller filed rows are in the lists and the ring when you select a dot. City candidates (mayor and city council only) are not shown; their dollars stay in the totals of the other side as one row, "City candidates (not shown)". The bigger the dot, the more money moved through it.
Federal PAC data from the FEC is included where it connects to Idaho races. This means you can trace national money as it enters the state through intermediary PACs and lands on specific candidates.
Node totals count all recorded inflows and outflows, including federal filings. They can differ from the itemized state donation totals shown elsewhere on this site.
Rows under $10,000 on one line, and rows whose other side has under $5,000 in all filings, are not drawn as lines. They are in the lists and the ring of the selected dot.
Search: Type a name in the search bar. A dropdown shows matches. Click one to zoom to it.
Click a dot to lock it. The graph highlights every entity connected to it and dims everything else. The panel in the bottom right shows who sent money in and who received money out, ranked by amount. Click the same dot again to unlock.
Money Chain Trace: With a dot locked, slide the "Money Chain Trace" slider from 1 to 5. At 1, you see direct connections. At 2, you see who those connections connect to. At 3, three steps out. The edges change color by depth: gold (direct), orange (one step), red (two steps), purple (three), gray (four and five). Each connected entity shows a number in brackets indicating how many steps it is from the one you selected.
Print Report: Click this to open a formatted report showing every connection, grouped by degree, with amounts and flow direction.
Export CSV: Downloads the same data as a spreadsheet. Every row includes the degree, entity name, type, party, connection path, flow direction, and dollar amount.
Node Spacing: Slide to push dots apart or pull them together.
Min Activity: Filters out entities below a dollar threshold. Slide right to see only the biggest players.
Stories: The Stories button in the header opens a list of preset traces on known money networks. Pick one to load it. When a dot is locked, the info panel shows a Copy Link button that builds a link to that exact trace, so you can share it with anyone.
Red dots are Republican candidates. Blue dots are Democrats. Green dots are candidates with no party listed or a third party. Yellow dots are PACs. Orange dots are companies and corporate donors. Pink dots are vendors (people and firms that campaigns pay for services). Purple dots are political parties. Gray dots are individual people.
Idaho Secretary of State, Sunshine campaign finance portal. Federal Election Commission Schedule A and B filings. All records are public. Sunshine rows run through 10/28/2026. Pending 48-hour reports filed in October are included and shown as dashed lines; a regular report can later revise them. Federal funders of Government That Works PAC come from its FEC Schedule A filings. Where a funder is a nonprofit, its own donors are not disclosed in the public filings read.
Money paths mode also uses Sunshine independent expenditure reports, FEC Schedule A and B filings of the federal committees in the paths, and IRS Form 990 Schedule I grants. Each line in that mode is a filed transfer or a filed independent expenditure.
Way Back PAC to Hometown Heroes was shown as $410,000; the filed total is $205,000. Way Back PAC to Idaho First was shown as $200,000; the filed total is $100,000. The giver's FEC row and the receiver's Sunshine row of one transfer had both been counted. The same fix removes other transfers that were counted twice in the same way.
Some committees with similar names had been joined into one dot. They are now separate, by Sunshine filer: Idaho Liberty PAC (filer 182) and Idaho Conservatives for Liberty PAC (filer 1185); Idaho First PAC (2017 to 2018) and Idaho First (2026, filer 3907); Defend Idaho and Defend and Protect Idaho; Idaho Freedom PAC and Idaho Freedom Caucus PAC; Preserve Idaho PAC and Preserve Idaho Values PAC; Leadership for Idaho and Leadership for Idaho PAC; Yes for Ada and Yes for West Ada; Republican North Idaho PAC and NIPAC; Idaho 11 and Idaho District 11 Democratic Party; and two pairs of rural electrification and healthy kids committees. A name-matching step had also joined 452 other pairs of names with different cities, for example Idaho Power and Idaho County Light & Power Cooperative Association. Those pairs are now separate.
Some filers list one in-kind gift two times: once as the gift, and once as a spending line to the store that sold the goods. The store had been shown as a giver to the candidate. Each such pair now counts one time, as a gift from the giver. A candidate's own money counts one time, as money in, and is not drawn as a line. A giver and a receiver often file one transfer up to several weeks apart; a pair of rows with the same two parties and the same amount, up to 60 days apart, now counts one time.