What has independent reporting revealed about Promethean PAC's donors and fundraising since 2024?
Executive summary
Promethean PAC’s donor and fundraising footprint since 2024 is visible mostly through FEC-derived aggregators: OpenSecrets reports the committee raised $418,243 in the 2023–2024 cycle and recorded 581 individual large ($200+) contributions, while FEC committee records show the PAC remains active and registered [1] [2] [3]. Independent reporting about the PAC is largely limited to financial aggregates and filings compiled by watchdog databases rather than investigative profiles revealing hidden backers or novel money flows [4].
1. How much money flowed through Promethean PAC in 2023–2024?
OpenSecrets’ PAC profile lists $418,243 raised by Promethean PAC in the 2023–2024 election cycle, a total reported by that transparency site based on FEC data [1] [4]. At the same time, OpenSecrets’ donor page tallies 581 large individual contributions of $200 or more to the PAC in that cycle, indicating a donor base recorded in FEC-reportable transactions rather than a few massive donors dominating the ledger [2].
2. What do filings show about where Promethean PAC spent or kept that money?
OpenSecrets’ expenditure breakdown for Promethean PAC shows a heavy tilt toward administrative costs (46.52%) and salaries (24.04%), with only modest shares for fundraising (4.59%), media (2.18%) and strategy/research (1.54%), signaling that a large portion of reported outlays were internal operating expenses rather than direct independent ads or external campaign buys [5]. OpenSecrets also notes the PAC made no large contributions to other PACs or party committees in 2023–2024, suggesting limited PAC-to-PAC redistribution during that cycle [6].
3. What has independent reporting identified about donors’ identities or affiliations?
OpenSecrets’ methodology page and the PAC record make clear the publicly visible figures are based on FEC disclosures of donors who gave $200 or more, but the sources available do not supply an investigative list of named wealthy benefactors or corporate sponsorships beyond those FEC-reportable transactions [4] [2]. OpenSecrets’ totals page further reports “no identified affiliates” for the PAC in 2024, implying researchers using that dataset did not find linked organizations or obvious institutional umbrellas in the cycle’s filings [7].
4. Are there contradictions or puzzling entries in the public record?
Some OpenSecrets entries create apparent inconsistencies that merit caution: a general organization profile lists “Contributions in the 2024 cycle: $1,000” in one place while the PAC page records $418,243 raised in 2023–2024 elsewhere, reflecting differences in how OpenSecrets aggregates or segments filings (for example candidate-facing contributions versus overall receipts) and underscoring that summary numbers can vary by page and methodology [8] [1]. Independent reporting relying on these secondary databases must therefore be read alongside raw FEC filings [3] to reconcile such discrepancies [4].
5. Context, limits of reporting, and the PAC’s public positioning
Promethean PAC’s own public pages state it was formerly LaRouche PAC, a fact disclosed on its site and update pages, which provides political context but does not itself explain donor identities or finances beyond required disclosures [9] [10]. Transparency outlets like OpenSecrets and the FEC provide the primary independent accounting of money in and out, and OpenSecrets flags that independent expenditure reporting is refreshed from FEC data, but the available reporting does not include investigative revelations of secret backers, money laundered through complex entities, or off-ledger contributions — areas where the public record is silent or beyond the scope of the sources cited here [11] [4].