Politicians' PACsPACs a politician sponsors or runs: a leadership PAC (the FEC’s designation D), a committee the FEC lists as sponsored by a candidate, or a super PAC the politician’s own team runs and press reports tie to them. One that exists only for that politician’s own race is under Groups spending on one race.Parties & politicians
PAC (qualified)Minneapolis, MinnesotaActive
Connected organization: AFS PAC
"We Fight for Middle Class Values & Democratic Candidates"
Senator Al Franken founded Midwest Values PAC (MVP) in the fall of 2005 in order to provide financial and organizational support to progressive candidates and causes in his home state of Minnesota, throughout the Midwest, and around the country. (Linked public record: LittleSis organization profile)
Quoted from the committee's site, or its sponsor's or funder's where its own says nothing. Any side it takes is in its own words.
No published list of positions
Its site sums up what it stands for in the statement above, and publishes no list of positions beyond it.
Who it gives to
Which candidates and committees get its money?
Each part reads different filings, so counts and totals can differ.
Party support distribution$115K to 27 candidates
Direct PAC contributions and independent expenditures explicitly reported as support, by the party of the candidate they went to.
For candidates $115,000
Democratic 100%
Contributions are reported money, not endorsements; a PAC giving to both parties is common.
Who this PAC gave to$245,000 in 54 payments
Every contribution on line 23 of the committee’s own Schedule B, which is the filing its summary totals are built from. That line covers federal candidates, party committees and other political committees alike, so a super PAC funding other super PACs appears here rather than under candidate giving.
By recipient
Line 23 contributions by kind and party of recipient
Recipient
Count
Amount
Democratic candidates
32
$140K · 57%
Democratic party committees
2
$10K · 4.1%
Other PACs and committees
8
$95K · 39%
All recipients
42
$245K
By the candidate’s state
Contributions to candidates by the candidate’s state
State
Candidates
Amount
Minnesota
4
$25K
New York
2
$15K
Michigan
3
$15K
Pennsylvania
5
$12.5K
Maine
2
$10K
Illinois
3
$10K
Kansas
2
$10K
Iowa
3
$10K
The largest 8 of 15 states.
Recipients 42
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Candidate and election activity as the recipients filed it
Josh Riley4 receipts, latest Feb 23, 2026Josh Riley for Congress · H8NY22177$10K
Margaret Flanagan2 receipts, latest Mar 24, 2025Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota · S6MN00440$10K
Alexander Vindman1 receipt, latest Mar 6, 2026Alex Vindman for Florida · S6FL00855$5K
Joshua Turek1 receipt, latest Aug 7, 2026Josh Turek for Iowa · S6IA00298$5K
Juliana Stratton1 receipt, latest Mar 18, 2026Juliana for Illinois · S6IL00458$5K
Candidate contribution rows come from candidate committee Schedule A filings, the same rows the party chart above counts.
Committee money network
Money moving between this committee and other committees, matched on FEC committee ID rather than the name each filing was typed under. Both sides exclude memo entries. The figures here count each committee once, from the itemized transfers read for this section, so they will not match the payment counts under Who this PAC gave to.
Committees funding this one
Committees that reported giving to this one on their own Schedule A filings, grouped by the giver’s committee ID.
A donor who gave several times appears once. The 12 largest donors by total given are listed. In all, 7,143 itemized contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $917.5K. FEC contributor lists are public records and cannot be used for commercial solicitation.
Other receiptsInterest, dividends and other income the committee files on a line of its own.$25,1560.7%
Refunds and rebatesMoney coming back to the committee: rebates and refunds of what it spent, contributions it made that were returned, and loans it made that were repaid.$14,0000.4%
Total reported receipts $3,803,900
Every dollar the committee reported receiving this cycle, split by the source the FEC filing attributes it to. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
Where the money traces to $3.8M followed back through up to 3 committees
7.5% to named individuals, 3% to organizations, 90% not itemized.
Gave directly$2.3M 62%
Gave directly
Name
Amount
Not itemized by this committee60%
$2,275,210
Drake BankOrganization · 0.7%
$25,156
Deborah SimonPerson · Carmel, IN · also behind 10 other groups · 0.6%
$22,000
Judith DunnPerson · Brooklyn, NY · 0.5%
$20,200
Through AFS PAC$1.2M 32%
Through AFS PAC
Name
Amount
Not itemized by AFS PAC30%
$1,129,530
Drake BankOrganization · 2.3%
Who donated: where they live, their employers and jobs
Where the donors live $955,265 placed by state
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under $7.6K
$7.6K+
$30.3K+
$68.1K+
$121.1K+
none
Top states
Top donor states
Name
Amount
California1,207 contributions · 20%
$189,187
Minnesota1,080 contributions · 14%
$134,123
New York
SpendingWhere does the money go?
How the spending splits $2,644,231 reported
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Operating expendituresThe committee's own running costs.$2,119,57780%
Paid to
Well & Lighthouse, LLC28 payments · latest Oct 6, 2026 · DIGITAL SERVICES$829,885
Contribution refundsMoney returned to the people and committees that gave it.$41,6541.6%
Total reported disbursements $2,644,231
Every dollar this committee reported spending this cycle, split by the lines it reports against. Open a line to see who was actually paid on it. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
What the payments were for $2,587,354 itemized
Tap a row with to see what was paid for.
OtherPayments whose filed description does not match any category above. Every one is listed so it can be read directly.$1,187,87146%
Filed as
DIGITAL SERVICES$829,885
MANAGEMENT SERVICES$310,611
CAGING SERVICES$36,492
T-SHIRTS$10,882
Paid to
Well & Lighthouse, LLC$829,885
Foxhole Communications & Strategies LLC$310,611
Engageusa$36,492
States Made LLC$10,882
Spending over time
$2.6M spent from Jan 2025 to Oct 2026. Most in one report: $752.5K, Jul 1 – Dec 31, 2025.
$2.6M
Jan 2025Oct 2026
The running total of what the committee’s FEC reports say it spent, independent expenditures included, with a point at the end of each report. The line is straight between reports because a report gives one total for its whole period.
Each report’s total
Oct 1 – Oct 14, 2026$126,142
September 2026$98,835
August 2026$104,067
July 2026$140,528
June 2026$98,354
May 2026$125,314
April 2026$191,918
March 2026$257,054
February 2026$87,900
January 2026$76,229
Jul 1 – Dec 31, 2025$752,452
Jan 1 – Jun 30, 2025$585,438
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Published by the Commission against this committee’s own FEC ID. An audit is a periodic examination that reports findings; an administrative fine is a penalty for filing a specific report late or not at all. They are separate instruments and are not combined into a score here.
Fines assessed
1
Penalties assessed
$7.2K
Administrative fines
Late 30G report, 2006$7.2K assessed
Determined Oct 12, 2007 · Paid In Full · Challenged: RTB Finding Upheld but Fine Reduced
Source: the Commission’s audit-case and administrative-fine records, joined on this committee’s FEC ID, imported Nov 1, 2026. Enforcement matters (MURs) are published only against respondent names, with no committee identifier, so they are not shown here rather than being matched by name.
LobbyingWhat does its sponsor lobby on?
No lobbying disclosures matched
A name search for “MIDWEST VALUES” in Lobbying Disclosure Act filings found no issues reported. FEC and the Senate share no organization identifier, so lobbying is matched by name; a sponsor that lobbies under another name is not found.
"We Fight for Middle Class Values & Democratic Candidates"
Senator Al Franken founded Midwest Values PAC (MVP) in the fall of 2005 in order to provide financial and organizational support to progressive candidates and causes in his home state of Minnesota, throughout the Midwest, and around the country. Linked public record: LittleSis organization profile.
$245K across 42 recipient committees, or 9.3% of everything this committee reports spending. The largest 12 are shown.
Built from FEC Schedule A and Schedule B filings for the selected cycle. A committee only appears here if the money was itemized under its FEC committee ID.
$88,394
48 smaller sources, $243.4K in all (6.4%), are not listed.
Each committee that gave is followed to where its own money came from, in proportion to what it received: a committee that got half its money from one person is counted as passing half of what it gave on to that person. Each channel shows the committee the money came through and its place in the money tree. It shows who stood behind the money, not what that money was for, and an organization that need not name its donors ends the trail. It stops at a person, an organization, a committee with nothing on file here, or 3committees deep. A person who gave by more than one route appears under each, a name filed two ways may appear twice, and a person's job and city are as they filed them. "Also behind" counts the other groups, among those that moved $100,000 or more into races, in which $100,000 or more traces to the same person, other than those this money came through or went on to.
514 contributions · 12%
$111,575
Massachusetts319 contributions · 4.7%
$44,670
Illinois321 contributions · 4.2%
$40,231
Washington364 contributions · 3.8%
$35,934
Indiana117 contributions · 3.5%
$33,650
Texas242 contributions · 2.5%
$24,336
By the state each contributor wrote on the filing. The FEC aggregates every Schedule A line together, so one committee or organization transfer can account for a whole state. Contributors who have given $200 or less this cycle are not itemized and cannot be placed on a map. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total.
Donors’ employers as filed
Donors’ employers
Employer as filed
Amount
Not employedWritten instead of an employer · 4,692 contributions · 70% of ranked
$561,147
Self-employedWritten instead of an employer · 595 contributions · 11% of ranked
$84,895
RetiredWritten instead of an employer · 171 contributions · 2.5% of ranked
$19,805
CEG Consulting LLC3 contributions · 0.9% of ranked
$7,000
GEC Consulting LLC2 contributions · 0.6% of ranked
$5,005
Padre LLC1 contribution · 0.6% of ranked
$5,000
University Of Washington3 contributions · 0.6% of ranked
$5,000
Panndora Productions31 contributions · 0.4% of ranked
$3,100
A further $144,620 came from donors whose answer names no employer (Information requested, N/A, None, blank), so it is not ranked. Ranked from the largest 200 of 201 employer spellings filed; each share is of the money in those. Itemized receipts grouped by the words contributors filed. The FEC aggregates every Schedule A line here, so committee and organization money sits alongside individuals; this is not an industry classification. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($1,561,838) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
Donors’ occupations as filed
Donors’ occupations
Occupation as filed
Amount
Not employedWritten instead of an occupation · 4,785 contributions · 62% of ranked
$567,359
RetiredWritten instead of an occupation · 526 contributions · 13% of ranked
$117,862
Lawyer44 contributions · 2.1% of ranked
$19,393
Attorney71 contributions · 1.6% of ranked
$14,950
Physician100 contributions · 1.6% of ranked
$14,601
Writer48 contributions · 1.5% of ranked
$13,260
Investor38 contributions · 0.7% of ranked
$6,685
Professor97 contributions · 0.7% of ranked
$6,581
A further $40,563 came from donors whose answer names no occupation (Information requested, N/A, None, blank), so it is not ranked. Ranked from the largest 200 of 201 occupation spellings filed; each share is of the money in those. Itemized receipts grouped by the words contributors filed. The FEC aggregates every Schedule A line here, so committee and organization money sits alongside individuals; this is not an industry classification. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($1,561,838) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
Democratic Association of Secretaries of State$25,000
MN Progress$20,000
Back Forty Action$15,000
Printing, mail, and shippingPrinted literature, direct mail, postage, design, and delivery.$370,37714%
Filed as
DIRECT MAIL$268,853
DIRECT MAIL SERVICES$90,998
POSTAGE$5,065
POSTAGE - MAILING SERVICES$2,707
PRINTING & POSTAGE$2,020
PRINTING$734
Paid to
RWT Production LLC$268,853
BF Direct LLC$55,000
Names in the News$22,988
Big SKY Copywriting, Inc.$8,400
Usps$5,065
Mmidirect$4,610
Consulting and strategyStrategic, political, legal, and compliance consulting, and campaign management.$352,76014%
Filed as
CONSULTING - STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT$213,260
CONSULTING - COMMUNICATIONS$80,000
COMPLIANCE SERVICES$59,500
Paid to
Petersen Group$198,260
Campaign Compliance LLC$59,500
Grunwald Communications$40,000
Shelleby, Edward$40,000
Lomonaco, Jeff$15,000
Digital and technologyWebsites, hosting, software subscriptions, databases, email, and texting platforms.$105,4304.1%
Filed as
DATABASE SERVICES$103,875
COMPUTER SOFTWARE$1,556
Paid to
NGP VAN, Inc.$103,875
Intuit$1,556
Card paymentsPaid to a card processor with no itemisation filed beneath it, so the purchases behind it are not on the record.$75,6152.9%
Filed as
CREDIT CARD PROCESSING FEES$75,615
Paid to
ActBlue Technical Services$73,702
First BK Merch SVC$817
GAM Payments$622
First Bank Merchant Service$474
Taxes, fees, and bank chargesPayroll and income taxes, filing fees, bank and merchant processing charges.$25,2091%
Filed as
LEGAL FEES$15,690
INCOME TAXES$7,070
BANK FEES$2,449
Paid to
Elias Law Group$15,690
US Treasury$4,768
Drake Bank$2,449
Minnesota Revenue$2,302
TravelAirfare, lodging, mileage, and ground transport.$489<0.1%
Filed as
TRAVEL$489
Paid to
Delta$489
Office and administrativeRent, utilities, phones, supplies, equipment, security, food, and campaign merchandise.$462<0.1%
Filed as
PO BOX RENT$462
Paid to
Usps$462
Not broken out by the committeeReported as a lump sum, with memo entries pointed to for the detail. Where those entries were filed and read, this page counts the payees they name instead; what is left here was never itemised.$140<0.1%
Filed as
REIMBURSEMENT - SEE MEMO$140
Paid to
Petersen, Alana$140
Total itemized disbursements $2,587,354
Every itemized payment the committee reported this cycle, sorted by what it said each one was for. The categories are ours; the wording they are matched against is the committee’s own. Open a category to read the filed descriptions and who was paid. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
All 636 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.
1 payment was reported as a lump sum, such as a card or payroll bill, with the detail filed underneath as memo entries. Those entries, $489 in all, are counted under the payee and purpose they name rather than under the processor that was paid. The total is the same either way.
Largest vendors
Largest vendors
Name
Amount
Well & Lighthouse, LLC28 payments · 31% of all spending
$829,885
Foxhole Communications & Strategies LLC28 payments · 12% of all spending
$310,611
RWT Production LLC8 payments · 10% of all spending
$268,853
Petersen Group10 payments · 7.5% of all spending
$198,260
NGP VAN, Inc.26 payments · 3.9% of all spending
$103,875
ActBlue Technical Services111 payments · 2.8% of all spending
$73,702
Campaign Compliance LLC22 payments · 2.3% of all spending
$59,500
BF Direct LLC4 payments · 2.1% of all spending
$55,000
The people, firms and committees paid the most, across every kind of payment. Each share is of everything the committee reported spending this cycle, not only the itemized payments above. A payee that is itself a committee links to its own profile.
Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association1 payment, latest Mar 6, 2026DONATION$50K
Win Minnesota2 payments, latest Oct 6, 2026CONTRIBUTION$50K
Democratic Association of Secretaries of State1 payment, latest May 13, 2025CONTRIBUTION$25K
