Out-of-State PACs in Nebraska Races

Who counts as out-of-state. An entity is included when its filing address is outside Nebraska: the state on its FEC committee registration (committee master file), or the contributor address state on the NADC receipt. Committees registered at a Washington, D.C. or other out-of-state address are included even when they focus on Nebraska.

What is counted. (1) Direct contributions: FEC committee-to-committee contributions and in-kind contributions (transaction types 24K/24Z) to Nebraska candidates' committees, and NADC monetary, in-kind, earmarked and pledge-payment receipts from non-individual out-of-state sources to Nebraska state and local committees. (2) Independent expenditures: FEC Schedule E filings on Nebraska candidates, separated into supporting and opposing. Amendments are de-duplicated by spender and transaction ID, keeping the latest filing. Pledges, loans and debt forgiveness are excluded to avoid double counting.

Transfers netted out. Transfers between affiliated committees (FEC 24G/18G) and self-transfers are excluded, so money is counted once as it enters Nebraska races.

Entity types. Every entity is assigned one of six types (PAC, Super PAC, Party, Union, Business/Trade, Nonprofit) using its FEC committee and organization type or its NADC source type. Where a name pattern was used, the type basis says “inferred”.

Name-only matches. NADC contributions do not carry a committee ID. Records that include an FEC ID in the name are linked by ID. Others are linked to an FEC committee by exact normalized name, or kept as their own entity; both are flagged ⚑ name-only match.

Issue & Foreign-Policy Advocacy tag. An additional tag, applied on top of the entity type, to committees whose registered name indicates an issue or foreign-policy advocacy focus (for example AIPAC, J Street, NORPAC, Republican Jewish Coalition, Justice Democrats, Ukrainian-American or Arab-American groups). All entities were searched, including small ones. The tag reflects the committee name only.

Candidate Breakdown. Contributions are attributed to the recipient candidate committee; independent expenditures to the candidate named on Schedule E. Committees and FEC candidate IDs for the same person and office are combined by normalized name (flagged ⚑). Negative values reflect refunds or amended filings.

Recipient types. Campaign = candidate committees and candidates named in independent expenditures; PAC/Committee = Nebraska PACs, party, ballot-question and independent committees; NGO = nonprofit organizations filing with NADC (from filer type, or name where marked inferred). Nebraska nonprofits receiving out-of-state 990 grants appear in the Nonprofit grants view.

Nonprofit grants. IRS Form 990 Schedule I grants are organization-to-organization transfers and are not campaign spending; they are shown separately and never added to the totals above.

Privacy. Only committees and organizations appear. No individual contributors are named, and no ZIP-level detail is shown.

Limits. State-level independent expenditures reported to NADC do not include the spender's address and are not in this view. Non-committee FEC filers (Form 5) are excluded. Figures follow transaction dates; the current year is partial. Sources: FEC bulk committee-to-committee (24K/24Z) + Schedule E files, NADC bulk contribution extracts 2015–2026; built 2026-10-23.