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2025–2026 federal committee · official FEC data

JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS

Receipts, contributions, spending, cash, committee classification, and connected records from Federal Election Commission filings.

Political action committeeFEC C00139659
Direct answer · 2025–2026 cycle

How much money has JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS reported?

$820,121.00 in total receipts and $734,810.66 in total disbursements.

These are committee filing totals. They do not establish who benefited from every dollar; candidate support and opposition require transaction-level independent-expenditure records.

Source: Federal Election Commission · data through .

Total receipts$820,121
Total spending$734,811
Independent expenditures$0
Campaign money

Committee finance details

FEC COMMITTEE SUMMARY
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through July 31, 2026.
MetricReported amountWhat it means
Total receipts$820,121.00All receipts reported by the committee for the cycle.
Individual contributions$799,837.00Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Other committee contributions$0.00Contributions received from other political committees.
Total disbursements$734,810.66All disbursements reported by the committee for the cycle.
Contributions to other committees$193,300.00Contributions the committee reported making to federal candidate committees.
Independent expenditures$0.00Spending expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, made without coordination.
Cash on hand$168,877.31Cash reported at the end of the covered filing period.
Debts owed by committee$0.00Outstanding debts the committee reported owing.

“Not reported” means the current committee-summary file has no value for that field; it does not mean zero. Independent expenditures are distinct from contributions made directly to candidate committees.

Itemized political activity

Candidate giving and outside spending by JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS

FEC ITEMIZED DATA

The categories below remain separate: contributions go to a recipient committee; independent expenditures are outside activity reported as supporting or opposing a candidate.

Direct candidate contributions$158,905.0099 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$0.000 transactions
Direct contribution

Money reported as given to a candidate or candidate committee. It enters the recipient committee’s campaign-finance record.

Coordinated party expenditure

Party spending reported in the FEC’s coordinated-expenditure category. It is separate from a direct contribution.

Independent expenditure

Outside spending expressly supporting or opposing a candidate. By definition, it is not made in coordination with the candidate or party.

Direct contributions by candidate

Daniel Goldman11 itemized transactions · latest Apr 16, 2026
$15,350.00FEC filing ↗
Ritchie John Torres2 itemized transactions · latest May 28, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Angela Dawn Craig3 itemized transactions · latest May 1, 2026
BELL FOR MISSOURI5 itemized transactions · latest Jun 18, 2026
Nikki Budzinski9 itemized transactions · latest Jan 30, 2026
DANIEL FOR ARIZONA1 itemized transaction · latest Jun 18, 2025
Greg Landsman2 itemized transactions · latest Apr 16, 2026
Haley Stevens2 itemized transactions · latest Apr 30, 2026
Kristen Mcdonald Rivet2 itemized transactions · latest Jun 22, 2026
Maggie Goodlander2 itemized transactions · latest Feb 2, 2026
Thomas Suozzi2 itemized transactions · latest Oct 27, 2025
Roy Cooper3 itemized transactions · latest May 4, 2026

Source: FEC contributions-from-committees-to-candidates and independent-expenditure bulk files, checked Aug 24, 2026. The totals shown here sum the itemized current-file rows displayed by category; they are not substituted for the committee’s official summary totals.

Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures

How money moved through JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS

FEC ITEMIZED FILES

These panels show privacy-thresholded itemized individual-receipt activity and amendment-normalized operating expenditures. They are descriptive slices of filings—not a complete substitute for the official financial summary.

Itemized individual receipt activity over time

Monthly transaction activity from the FEC individual-contributions file. Current-cycle files can contain earlier-dated transactions; signed amendments, refunds, reattributions, and memo entries remain in the source-defined analysis.

18 months

Where itemized contributor addresses were reported

State is taken from the contributor address on the FEC row. It does not prove residence, citizenship, employer location, or the ultimate economic source of funds.

17.5% outside Illinois
Illinois510 distinct reported contributors · 1,083 rows$763,845.0082.5%
Michigan62 distinct reported contributors · 80 rows$51,318.005.5%
California27 distinct reported contributors · 76 rows$50,059.005.4%
Florida20 distinct reported contributors · 28 rows$16,715.001.8%
Maryland8 distinct reported contributors · 26 rows$10,920.001.2%
New York11 distinct reported contributors · 18 rows$9,058.001.0%
Arizona9 distinct reported contributors · 13 rows$8,290.000.9%
Pennsylvania14 distinct reported contributors · 19 rows$8,040.000.9%
District of Columbia7 distinct reported contributors · 17 rows$7,712.000.8%

Only committee/state groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. The percentages use only the displayed dataset’s publishable, state-coded itemized rows; they are not a percentage of all campaign receipts.

Reported operating-expenditure categories

FEC filer-selected categories from Schedule B operating expenditures. Memo-code X rows are excluded because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.

1 published categories
Category not reported194 current organization-payment rows$347,752.82

Top organization payees in operating expenditures

Organization payees only. Election.org excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.

Browse vendor graph →
American Express18 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-15
$64,166.50
Internal Revenue Service22 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-10
$52,359.57
Bryn Mawr3 current itemized payments · latest 2025-09-29
$46,813.80
Catering By Michael S2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-01
$43,345.28
Beal Properties11 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-22
$37,500.00
Actblue Technical Services83 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-30
$24,574.91
Chelsea Handler Incorporated1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-04-10
$15,000.00
Maxx Multimedia1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-05-14
$14,616.80
Kehoe Designs1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-05-02
$14,053.09
Illinois Dept Of Revenue17 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-10
$9,580.88
Wendy Gale12 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-04
$6,560.00
Coby Resnick Production2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-04
$5,700.00
Il Dept Of Employment Security5 current itemized payments · latest 2026-04-22
$5,306.44
Sheri Whitko Photography2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-04
$2,100.00
Elizabeth Kole Design4 current itemized payments · latest 2025-05-14
$1,680.00

Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-08-24. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.

Aggregated individual giving · privacy threshold applied

Reported employers among contributors to JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS

FEC SCHEDULE A
This is not company money.

These totals combine itemized contributions from individuals who reported the same employer. They do not show that the employer directed, funded, or endorsed any contribution.

Not Emplyed9 distinct reported contributors · 10 current itemized transactions
$9,120.00

Only employer/recipient groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published, with at most 50 groups per recipient committee. Individual names and addresses are not included. Totals are net current-file amounts after amendment normalization and may include refunds, reattributions, or memo entries.

Official registration

Committee details

2026 CYCLE
Committee type
PAC — qualified · code Q
Designation
Unauthorized committee · code U
Filing frequency
Monthly filer
Party affiliation
Not listed
Connected organization
NONE
Organization type
Not listed
Treasurer
MICHELON, STACEY
Mailing address
P.O. BOX 105, HIGHLAND PARK IL 60035
FEC committee ID
C00139659
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