Businesses Involved in Politics

LayingTRACKS is working to bring together these resources into a a more complete view, but we wanted to get you started with some of the great below resources.

The Progressive Shopper is a resource that compiles records of corporate contributions and is run Engage for Good.


Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, Open Secrets is the nation’s premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Our mission is to track the flow of money in American politics and provide the data and analysis to strengthen democracy.


The Federal Election Commission maintains a database of individuals who have made contributions to federally registered political committees. Data on individual contributors enables searches such as:

  • Search an individual contributor by their last and/or first name.
  • Search an individual contributor by their employer or occupation.
  • Search an individual contributor by their city, state and/or zip code.
  • Search by the date of the contribution or by the amount of the contribution.
  • Search for a contribution by the committee receiving the contribution.