Back-office providers

The PAC-management industry's scorecard. Providers are detected from each committee's own e-filings (the .fec header names the software that produced it) and from Schedule B payments to known management firms. A committee served by both a software shop and a paid vendor counts as a client of each. Cycle columns sum the clients' reported disbursements from their F3X summaries. Committee-branded in-house systems are grouped, and providers with fewer than three visible clients are omitted.

Findings and penalties belong to the client committees, not the provider — a big client book accumulates more history. Read the columns per client for a fair comparison.

Fees are the Schedule B payments each committee itemized to the provider since the 2022 cycle (average and median per client). Corporate SSFs often have their connected organization pay administration costs directly — those engagements show no visible fee, so fee stats cover only clients who pay from PAC funds.

Average donation per individual, by provider

The average individual donation per year at each provider's client committees. Based on itemized receipts (donations over $200/yr).

Client books

Every visible client committee per provider, with what the committee paid the provider (Schedule B, since 2022), its findings, and its FEC penalties. Detection method and caveats are described at the top of this page.