Buried public records, brought to the surface.
San Francisco, California. City and county elections, campaign money, lobbying, and officials' filings, from the San Francisco Ethics Commission and DataSF. Not state or federal races.
Reported contributions since July 2025.
The largest single contributions to San Francisco campaign committees (candidates and ballot measures) in the newest filings.
Who: 12 committees and 20 people in the newest filings. What: itemized contributions since July 2025. When: refreshed hourly from the city.
Who: Michael Moritz. What: $150,000 to Clean Up The Charter, Yes on A. When: filed Sep 3, 2026.
Who: every donor of $100 or more. What: each reported contribution. When: filings dated Sep 3 to 14, 2026.
Labor on the current ballot
Unions report like any other committee, so their giving is traceable by local and by measure.
The newest large contributions, split by whether the giver is a person, a company, a union, or another committee.
Campaign spending as filed on Schedule E: the payees, the amounts, and the purpose exactly as coded in each filing. Purpose codes are translated to plain words; where a filing carries no code, that absence is shown, not filled in.
Committees spending independently must report it within 24 hours in the run-up to an election, naming who the spending supports or opposes. Every row below is one such report, shown as filed. This page adds nothing to what the filing states.
Velocity and acceleration, from daily contribution totals
Velocity is money per day over the last seven days. Acceleration is the change from the week before, as a percentage, and appears once a prior week exists. A third figure, how that percentage moved against the week before it, appears once three weeks are on file; it is the number that flags a committee going from quiet to hot suddenly. Committees marked new this week had no money the week before, which is its own kind of signal.
People whose contributions to San Francisco candidates and ballot measure committees add up to the most this election cycle.
Every contribution has a floor of disclosure
Contributions of $100 or more must be itemized with the giver's name, employer, and occupation. Anything under that is reported only as a total, so the smallest givers are the least visible part of the record. This card keeps that asymmetry in view.
San Francisco candidate and ballot measure committees, by contributions received in the newest filings.
The city match, and who used it
San Francisco matches small contributions to qualifying candidates so a campaign can be built from the district rather than from large donors. The card names the ceiling and who has drawn on it in this cycle.
Contributions to San Francisco campaigns, grouped by the neighborhood of the donor's home zip code.
Where the housing money is, by side
Housing measures move the most money of any local question, and the filings show which side each giver is on. This card keeps the two sides of the current ballot beside each other.
Contributions by donor zip code, San Francisco only, as a single-hue density.
The same contributions to San Francisco campaigns, by the donor's exact zip code, including donors outside the city.
Independent spending aimed at each district race, drawn on the 2022 district map.
Independent spending reported for or against candidates in each San Francisco supervisor district race, with every candidate whose committee has filings on record. The full official candidate list is at sfelections.org.
The same money, seen from four records at once.
One measure, followed across every record on this page: who funds it, who runs it, and who is paid to make it happen.
Figures come from campaign filings dated Sep 3 to 14 and consultant reports covering Sep 2025 to Aug 2026. The Chamber's own donors to SF Forward appear only on SF Forward's filings, one step removed.
Financial interest statements, gifts and travel, and recusals, as filed.
Who: 16 officials, Mayor Breed first at $68,302. What: 58 trips paid by outside organizations. When: 2018 to June 2026.
Who: newest is Chyanne Chen. What: Las Vegas, paid by the Chinese American Elected Official Coalition. When: Jun 28, 2026.
Who: Mayor London Breed. What: Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, paid by the SF Special Events Committee. When: April 13, 2024.
The eleven supervisor districts and the member holding each seat, from the city boundary file.
Travel by San Francisco elected officials that an outside organization paid for, as the officials reported it. Trips paid by the city or by the official do not appear here, which is why the current mayor is absent from these 58.
Organizations that paid for San Francisco officials' travel, totaled across all trips on file.
San Francisco officials by the total value of travel that outside organizations paid for. The record holds only trips a third party paid for; none is on file under Mayor Lurie since he took office in January 2025, and his one reported gift, $451 for a mayors' conference, sits on his Form 700 instead.
Candidates for supervisor file the same Statement of Economic Interests as sitting officials when they declare. Every district with a race in the filings on this site is listed below; a zip code narrows it to yours.
Investments, property, outside income (Form 700).
Behested payments, often serious money.
152 bodies, about 1,200 seats, one public database, and the appointments that connect City Hall
Every seat on a city board or commission is an appointment by someone, usually the Mayor or the Board of Supervisors, and every member files a Form 700. That makes the roster the strongest map of influence the city keeps. The public database runs on SF311's Granicus portal, which does not allow automated reading, so this site folds the roster in by hand from the city's own reports and from published appointments, each with its source and date.
Sources: Commission Streamlining Task Force, final report, January 2026 (media.api.sf.gov); SF.gov boards and commissions database page; appointments as reported by Ballotpedia, ABC7, the Chronicle, the Examiner, and SFMTA, dated on each line. Membership changes often; every seat here carries its as-of date.
The mayor is not a giver in the campaign record. His footprint is the two ballot measure committees he controls, the money moving into them, and the consultants they pay.
Open Daniel Lurie across every filingWhat the city must provide, and where
San Francisco elections are conducted in English, Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino under the federal Voting Rights Act and city law, and ballots, guides, and phone help are available in all four. This site carries twelve interface languages and marks what is still English only.
Recusal notices: who stepped aside, from what, and why
A commissioner with a financial interest in a matter must say so in public, leave the room, and file a notice with the Ethics Commission within 15 days, even if they missed the meeting. Members of the Board of Supervisors are exempt from the filing. The commission publishes each notice as a document rather than as data, so what follows is read from the filings themselves, newest first, with the notice linked.
Sources: San Francisco Ethics Commission, Notification of Recusal filings and the guidance for filing SFEC 3.209b, both read September 16, 2026; Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code section 3.209.
The professionals who help campaigns, permits, and large projects move forward.
Relational entities, from campaign filings, consultant reports, and lobbyist contacts
Committees, the people and firms paying them, and the consultants they pay, drawn as one map. Hover a name for its figures; open it for the full record.
Hover on a name to see some connections. Click it to open the full record.
A city contract, the vote, the money, and who was in the room
On September 15, 2026 the Board of Supervisors approved, 10 to 1, an extension of the city's contract with OpenGov, the software behind PermitSF, Mayor Lurie's permit portal. What follows is the reported record of that contract beside what the city's own filings hold on the company and the people around the decision.
10 yes, 1 no. Jackie Fielder the no, and the supervisor who asked the analyst how OpenGov was chosen.
Committees and candidates, by what they paid registered consultants this cycle.
Registered consultants by reported payments received this cycle.
The newest quarterly reports, as they arrive.
Consultants must report any city officeholder or employee they employ.
Contributions of $100 or more that consultants made or delivered.
City contracts held by consultants or their clients, as reported.
Appointments to boards and commissions that consultants report.
Gifts to city officers reported by consultants.
Vendors consultants report paying on behalf of campaigns.
Employees reported by each registered consultant.
Paid permit consultants and their contacts.
Filings and donations from large projects.
Every person, company, union, and committee in the records on this page whose filings list an address outside the city: who they are, the address as filed, and what they did here. Outside money and lobbying is legal and common; this section only makes it visible in one place.
Nodes sized and shaded by money or contacts; one color, more of it where there is more
Each node is a place a donor, lobbying client, travel funder, or committee is based. Hover a node for who is there and what they did in San Francisco. The Bay Area inset holds the near neighbors.
Contributions with an address outside the country, by year
Federal law bars foreign nationals from giving in any United States election, local ones included, and San Francisco requires an address on every contribution. This card draws no conclusion about anyone’s nationality: it shows the contribution rows whose country field, as the filer wrote it, names a place outside the United States. Rows whose country field holds a United States entry written in the wrong box (a state name, a state code, a US spelling variant) or that carry a US state elsewhere on the same row are set aside, because the conservative reading wins. Address fields carry filer errors; every itemized contribution in the city's record for a non-US address and ranks what it finds by year. An address outside the country is not itself a violation: US citizens abroad may give, and companies organized here may have foreign parents, which the filings do not show.
Givers whose filings list an address outside San Francisco, in the newest large contributions, with the address as filed and what they funded.
Lobbying clients whose filings list an address outside the city, by contacts made on their behalf this summer, with the matter at hand.
Organizations whose filings list an address outside San Francisco and that paid for officials' travel, by total on file.
Committees active on San Francisco's ballot whose filings list an address beyond the city.
Where San Francisco's money comes from and where it goes, from the Controller's budget data on DataSF. Every figure is live from the city and links to the record.
Spending for the latest fiscal year, grouped the way the city groups its own departments (public protection, public works and transit, health, culture and recreation, general administration).
Departments by spending budget in the latest fiscal year.
Each fiscal year on file, spending beside revenue, so the gap is visible.
Latest-year spending by kind: salaries, benefits, services, materials, debt, and transfers.
Latest-year revenue by fund type: the general fund, enterprise funds like the airport and the port, and special revenue.
Departments whose budget grew most from the prior year, in dollars.
The Ethics Commission's own list of officials and employees who had not filed their 2026 Form 700, ethics training, or Sunshine training by the deadline.
Who: 171 officials and employees, SFMTA 40 of them. What: 2026 statements not received. When: due April 1, listed June 1, 2026.
Who: Board of Examiners, Fine Arts Museums, Police Commission, Workforce Investment Board. What: disqualified from participating in or voting on their board's agenda matters until they file, under Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code 3.1-102.5(c). When: as of June 1, 2026.
Who: from permit technicians to a deputy police chief. What: the financial interest statement itself. When: due April 1, 2026.
Board and commission members and senior roles first, because they hold decisions. Line staff appear in the full list, exactly as the city published it, not here.
Where the gaps cluster. SFMTA alone is nearly a quarter of the list.
The 171 people on the city's list, by which required filing was not received by May 31, 2026.
Each person can be missing up to three required filings.
Everyone here is on the city's own list without a 2026 financial interest statement. They are ordered by how much the role decides: board and commission members first, then department heads and deputies, then managers and attorneys, then everyone else, with people missing more than one requirement ranked higher inside each group.
Information that would change what you can understand about your block, and why it is not here yet.
Stories that only appear when the records are read together. Every figure below is from a filing already on this page; the connections are ours, the numbers are the city's.
Lobbyist contacts by department this summer, set against the number of people in each department the Ethics Commission listed as unfiled on June 1. Two records that are never shown together.
Contact counts are a hand tally of the city's lobbyist record (313 contacts across 28 clients for Jul 22 to Aug 31, 2026), replaced by exact counts on the live site; unfiled counts are exact, from the commission's published list. A person on the unfiled list may have filed after May 31, 2026; a lobbied department is not a compromised one. The two records are shown side by side so you can ask the question, not so we can answer it for you.
Housing, surveillance and cameras, AI and data centers, development, transit
Pick a topic to see everything in the records that touches it: lobbyist contacts whose matter mentions it, committees and donors tied to it, consultant reports, and what the budget funds. On the live site each topic is searched across the city's datasets by keyword; here it shows what is already on the page.
Three records, two sides, side by side
The same city, read from the developer's side and from the side of people without housing: who is paying for campaigns, who is in the room at City Hall, and what the budget actually funds. Each column is a real figure from the filing it names.
What this can and cannot say: campaign money and lobbying are what the filings show, counted as described on their cards. The budget figures come live from the Controller's data on the published site. None of this measures outcomes, only who spends, who speaks, and what is funded. The two columns are a reading, not a verdict on either side.
Who moved to affect what, and when: Board votes, contributions, money paid out, lobbyist contacts, and gifts of travel on one clock, set against the election calendar. The city stopped publishing votes as machine-readable data around 2018, so this project’s own reader visits the Board’s legislative site a few times a day and carries the votes here; every event links to the city’s own record.
Dates side by side. The record speaks; this page draws no conclusion. Matches include filings where the name appears as the giver, the giver’s stated employer, a committee, or a contract team member.
Follow up to five names: a donor, a committee, an official, a company. When new filings naming them appear in the city’s data, they surface here. Watches live only in this browser; nothing is sent anywhere, this page has no accounts and keeps no lists.
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Settlements and resolutions on record.
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Official charts per election.
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The dataset this page reads.
Candidates can accept a voluntary spending cap. Groups outside the campaigns can spend without limits as long as they don't coordinate, and enough outside money lifts the cap for everyone in that race.
Newest filings on the city's record, from its expenditure ceiling dataset.
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