Exhibit 922 · Advocacy research report
Dark Money Hit a Record High of $1.9 Billion in 2024 Federal Races (Anna Massoglia)
The term dark money as used in this analysis refers to election spending and contributions by nonprofits and shell companies that are not legally required to — and do not — disclose the identities of their donors.
Publishes method: FEC data, Wesleyan Media Project TV data and platform ad archives; $1.9 billion in 2024, $1 billion in 2020, at least $4.3 billion since 2010; $1.3 billion to super PACs; Democratic-benefiting about $1.2 billion, Republican about $664 million.
- Source
- Brennan Center for Justice
- Date
- 7 May 2025
- Quoted from
- section Types of Dark Money Spending
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/dark-money-hit-record-high-19-billion-2024-federal-races
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Advocacy-organization tally with a published method (FEC data, Wesleyan Media Project television data, platform ad archives, shell-company classification). The television, online and shell-company components were not re-derived. The primary replacement is the underlying FEC, Wesleyan Media Project and platform-archive records.