Which individuals and organizations were the largest disclosed donors to Promethean PAC in the 2023–2024 cycle according to FEC itemized receipts?
Executive summary
Promethean PAC reported $418,243 in receipts for the 2023–2024 cycle according to OpenSecrets’ summary of FEC filings [1], and OpenSecrets shows that 581 itemized individual contributions of $200 or more were recorded for that cycle [2]; however, the specific largest individual and organizational donors named in FEC itemized receipts are not enumerated in the provided source snippets, and the full FEC itemized receipts dataset must be consulted to extract the names and ordered totals [3] [4].
1. What the public data says about Promethean PAC’s haul
Promethean PAC’s reported 2023–2024 receipts are summarized by OpenSecrets at $418,243, which is derived from Federal Election Commission filings [1]; OpenSecrets also reports that there were 581 large individual contributions ($200+) to the PAC in that cycle, indicating a mix of many mid-sized individual donors rather than a handful of massive single contributions in the aggregated total [2].
2. Where the authoritative donor names live — and why they matter
The Federal Election Commission’s itemized receipts files are the primary source for "who gave how much" to any federal committee in a given cycle, and the FEC’s data tools and downloadable itemized committee contributions and miscellaneous transactions files contain each reported contribution and contributor name where disclosure rules apply [3] [4]; to produce a definitive ranked list of the largest disclosed donors to Promethean PAC in 2023–2024, those FEC itemized records must be queried and summed by contributor name across the cycle.
3. What OpenSecrets provides and its limitations for a ranked donor list
OpenSecrets aggregates and republishes FEC data and offers a convenient donors page for Promethean PAC that shows the number of large contributions and the overall fundraising total—useful for rapid context—but the OpenSecrets snippets provided here do not include a ready-made top-donor list in the quoted excerpts, so while OpenSecrets signals the scale and composition of receipts it does not replace the granular FEC itemized receipts file when the question demands exact ranked donor names and totals [2] [1].
4. Why the FEC itemized receipts file is required to answer the question directly
FEC itemized receipts are the legal disclosure record: they contain contributor names, employer/self-employed listings where provided, dates and amounts for each contribution, and transaction codes; the FEC committee page for Promethean PAC points to these financial summaries and filings [4], and the FEC’s browse-data and individual contributions endpoints are the programmatic entry points for extracting and aggregating those records to compute the largest disclosed donors [3] [5].
5. Reporting next steps and transparency caveats
A definitive answer—an ordered list of the largest disclosed individual and organizational donors to Promethean PAC in 2023–2024 with exact dollar amounts—requires downloading or querying the FEC’s 2023–2024 itemized receipts (contributions) dataset and aggregating by contributor name; the sources provided confirm the PAC’s total and the number of itemized individual contributions but do not include the explicit ranked donor names in the excerpts supplied here [2] [4] [1].
6. Alternative explanations and potential pitfalls in interpretation
Even after extracting FEC itemized receipts, analysts must watch for technical issues that can skew "largest donor" tallies—duplicate name variants, joint contributions, contributions routed through intermediary committees or non-disclosing “non-contribution” accounts, and independent expenditures not tied to disclosed donor names—which is why relying solely on a summary page without checking original FEC itemized files can mislead researchers [3] [6].