Jesse Watts

Who stands behind the outside spending $7.3M traced back through the groups that spent it

Each group that spent in this race is followed to where its own money came from, and what it spent is split by those shares: a group whose money was 60% one person's counts as 60% of its spending theirs. Of what traced, 66% to named individuals, 21% to organizations, 4.8% to tax-exempt organizations that need not name their donors, 0.6% to committees nothing more could be followed from, 8.2% not itemized in the filings.

Read for the 18 largest groups of 33, 95% of the $7.7M spent. Shares are of what each group received, not a record of which dollar went where; an organization that need not name its donors ends the trail; a person who gave by more than one route is counted once here. It shows who stood behind the money, not what it was for.