--- title: "Money & Influence: contributions, lobbying, forecasts and reported figures" description: "Political contributions and federal lobbying as filed, the analyst forecasts on file, and the figures organizations report about themselves. Every figure links to the filing or the source it came from." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/money source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z --- > Political contributions and federal lobbying as filed, the analyst forecasts on file, and the figures organizations report about themselves. Every figure links to the filing or the source it came from. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/money The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Money & Influence Political contributions and lobbying as filed, the analyst forecasts on file, and the figures organizations report about themselves. Every figure links to the filing or the source it came from. Showing 542 of 1,317 money records on file, newest filing Nov 10, 2026. A money record is one of three things: a public filing, an analyst forecast, or a figure an organization reported about itself. ## Analyst forecasts on file, base year to target year 7 analyst forecasts on file, on a log scale. They cover four market definitions and six target years, so they are drawn side by side and never compared as one market. Each is a research firm's own published figure, linked to the firm's page. ## Contributions and lobbying, from the filings themselves Showing 42 of 1,292 public filings on file in these bars: the contributions and the lobbying filings that carry a quarter. Every filing on file, this one included, is in the list below. Each bar links to the filing or the committee page it is derived from. ## 1,317 money records on file, each linked to its source Showing 542 of 1,317 money records on file, newest filing Nov 10, 2026. A money record is one of three things: a public filing, an analyst forecast, or a figure an organization reported about itself. One row per public filing, per analyst forecast and per figure an organization reported about itself. Every row links to the filing or the source it came from. ## Three kinds of evidence, kept apart **A public filing** is a document filed with a government body: an FEC contribution, a Senate LDA lobbying filing, a securities filing. The amount is what the filing states, for the period the filing covers. **An analyst forecast** is a research firm's published projection of a market it defines itself. Two firms forecasting the same words can mean different markets, which is why the seven are shown side by side rather than averaged. **A reported figure** is a number or a sentence an organization published about itself: a foundation's expenses, an institute's budget, an insurer's product. It is reported, not audited here. Every row links to the filing or the source it came from. Nothing on this page is a Monitor estimate, and no two of the three kinds are summed into one figure. ## Cite this page AI News Monitor (2026), Paciva. Collected from publisher feeds, Google News, Hacker News, YouTube and the GDELT Project's Global Knowledge Graph. Money & influence. https://monitor.paciva.ai/money Snapshot 2026-11-11. Site layer CC BY 4.0. Quoted headlines, quoted passages and third party assets stay with their own rights holders and are not licensed by this. [What is licensed and what is not](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#rights).