Money map: outside groups, vendors and Republican legislative candidates, Colorado 2026
Who paid whom
Each band is money between two entities, as wide as its dollars. Donors of $10,000 or more give to the outside groups; the groups pay vendors, spend independently for the listed candidates and against their primary opponents; candidate committees pay vendors too. Dashed loops are transfers between groups in the same column. Point at a band or a name for amounts and dates.
- Contributions and transfers
- Payments to vendors
- Spending supporting a listed candidate
- Spending against a primary opponent
- Transfer within a column
Help for each listed candidate
Outside spending that supported each listed candidate, plus spending against that candidate's primary opponents, set beside what the candidate's own committee raised. Spending against general-election opponents is not counted.
- Support, primary
- Support, general
- Against primary opponents
- Raised by the candidate's committee
Month by month
The same flows by month, stacked by kind. The dashed line marks the June 30 primary.
- Contributions and transfers
- Payments to vendors
- Supporting a listed candidate
- Against a primary opponent
Primary and general overlap
Each bar runs from the first to the last payment in one relationship, colored by phase. Grouped by recipient, it shows a vendor or candidate passed from primary-season groups to general-season groups; grouped by payer, where each group's money went over time. Recipients or payers active in both phases come first.
- Primary
- General
Hand-offs after the primary
For each recipient, who paid, funded or backed it before and after June 30. The last column lists who appears only after the primary: the indirect links where one set of groups picked up where another left off.
Donors of $10,000 or more to these groups
Every donor whose gifts to one of the listed outside groups or other committees reached $10,000. These groups have no contribution limits.
Donors on both sides
Donors who gave to a listed outside group and to one or more listed candidate committees.
Maxed-out donors to the listed candidate committees
A legislative candidate may take $225 per election from a person, political committee, business or federal political action committee, so $450 covers the primary and the general; a small donor committee may give $3,100 per election. Bars count donors at one or both limits; the figure at the end is their dollars to that committee.
- Maxed out for both elections
- Maxed out for one election
- Above the combined limit (check refunds or name matches)
Maxed out to two or more listed committees
Every maxed-out donor, by committee
Shared vendors
Vendors paid by two or more of the listed committees, by payer and phase, from their own expenditure filings. Vendors that several of these committees share are included even if they weren't on the original list; Anedot, Facebook, Mailchimp and the US Postal Service are left out.
Every listed entity
Totals across each entity's own filings, not only money among the listed entities.
How this was made
- Source: the 2026 contribution, expenditure and loan downloads, the independent expenditure report (008), the electioneering communications report (010), the candidate registry and the committee registry from the Colorado Secretary of State's TRACER system. Primary means dated on or before June 30, 2026; general means after.
- Listed entities were matched to the filings by name. Three needed judgment: "Bob O'regan" is filed as Rob O Regan; "New Day Colorado IEC" is New Day Colorado Fund IEC; "Elect Jull Haffley" is Elect Jill Haffley. Victor's Canvassing is filed with and without the apostrophe; both are counted. Terri Carver (State Senate District 9) was added through Carver for Colorado.
- Spending supporting a candidate and spending against a primary opponent come from the independent expenditure and electioneering reports filed by the listed outside groups and other committees. Each communication's amount is split evenly among the candidates it names. A primary opponent is a candidate of the same party registered for the same seat. Spending against general-election opponents is not counted.
- Donors of $10,000 or more are counted when their total to one listed group reached $10,000; all of that donor's gifts to that group are shown.
- A transfer between two listed committees is counted once, from the recipient's contribution record. Payments to vendors come from expenditure filings, or from a group's independent expenditure report where its expenditure filings show no payment to that vendor.
- Maxed out compares each donor's total to a committee against the per-election limit ($225, or $3,100 for a small donor committee; $20,500 per cycle for a political party), from the Secretary of State's contribution limits page, current through 2027. The filings don't say which election a gift was for, so a $450 gift counts as both elections. Individuals are matched by name and ZIP code; unitemized contributions are left out.