Candidate · PDC filing · 2026 cycle · filer ZAHIG 102
Girmay Zahilay
Girmay Zahilay is running for County Council Member in King Co in 2026. This page is the campaign’s own filings with the Public Disclosure Commission: what it raised, who gave it, where it went, and what others spent about the candidate. It is not a record of holding office; that is a different page.
- Office, as filed
- COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER · KING CO
- Party preference
- none stated
Source Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings (C-1) and reports (C-3, C-4) · as of 2026-09-12 · key PDC filer id — the one identifier the state issues a campaign · note names, office and party are copied from the filing; only the capitalisation is ours
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What the campaign raised and spent
Reported to the Public Disclosure Commission by the campaign itself. Figures are as filed — the PDC publishes what candidates report, and a late or amended filing changes them.
$244K
raised
$326K
spent
$-81,600
cash on hand
As of the most recent report, not today.
818
contributors
$299
average contribution
Total divided by reported contributors.
Source Washington Public Disclosure Commission, candidate C-3 contribution and C-4 expenditure filings · as of 2026-09-12 · contributors 818 reported · note independent expenditures are filed by the spending committee, are not in these figures, and are in section 04 · how candidate money is tracked
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Largest reported contributors
Individual contributions above the itemisation threshold. Smaller giving is reported as a lump and is included in the total above but cannot be broken out.
| Contributor | Amount | City | Employer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olive Goh | $2,400 | Seattle | JPMorgan Chase |
| Rod Dembowski | $2,400 | Seattle | King County |
| David Perez | $2,400 | Seattle | Perkins Coie |
| Jason Fiorito | $2,400 | Lake Tapps | Pacific Raceways Track LLC |
| Will Daugherty | $2,400 | Seattle | Pacific Science Center |
| Nicolas Hanauer | $2,400 | Seattle | Second Avenue Partners |
| Suzanne Hittman | $2,400 | Seattle | Not Employed |
| Employer stated by contributors | Contributors | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Bendo | 1 | $2,400 |
| Rhodes For Recovery PLLC | 1 | $2,400 |
| Hanauer Foundation | 1 | $2,400 |
| Perkins Coie LLP | 1 | $2,400 |
| Nava PBC | 1 | $2,400 |
| No employer stated | 7 | $18,800 |
Why some contributors are not named. Private individuals are not named on this site unless their own public conduct — holding or seeking office, running an agency, or testifying to the legislature — already makes them a public figure. Their giving is shown here aggregated by the employer they stated. The full itemised record is public at the PDC.
Source Public Disclosure Commission contribution reports · as of 2026-09-12 · 7 named, 6 aggregated
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Where the money went
Largest reported expenditures. The category is the code the campaign chose when filing, not our classification of it.
| Vendor | Amount | Category as filed |
|---|---|---|
| Friends of Girmay | $165,523 | Monetary contributions to PAC or candidate |
| Newman Partners | $53,000 | Management and consulting services |
| Jessica Frahs | $35,705 | Fundraising events and related costs |
| Upper Left Strategies | $12,400 | Management and consulting services |
| Blue Wave Political Partners | $12,000 | Accounting, legal, regulatory compliance, etc. |
| Girmay Zahilay Surplus Funds | $11,930 | |
| NGP VAN, Inc. | $8,525 | Utilities, phone, and other overhead costs |
| Paragon | $6,209 | Bank and payment processing charges |
| KMM Strategies | $5,000 | |
| Seattle Theatre Group | $2,500 | |
| Mailchimp | $2,472 | Utilities, phone, and other overhead costs |
| Madrona Bureau | $900 | |
| Rainier Arts Center | $790 | Charity |
| Abracadabra Printing | $769 | |
| Actblue Technical Services | $568 | |
| Plymouth Housing | $500 | Charity |
| BLUE WAVE POLITICAL PARTNERS LLC | $497 | Accounting, legal, regulatory compliance, etc. |
| Trophies2Go | $455 | |
| Beniam Yetbarek | $399 |
Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure reports · as of 2026-09-12 · top 19 shown
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Money spent about this candidate by others
Independent expenditures and electioneering communications — money spent about this candidate by committees that are barred by law from coordinating with the campaign. It is not the candidate’s money and is not in the figures above. Spending for a candidate is not money from the candidate, and spending for and against are two facts, shown as two figures.
No independent expenditure or electioneering communication in the PDC feed names this candidate. That is what the feed held when the record was last read. It is not a finding that none was made: C-6 reports are filed within days of the spending, and the record is re-read on a schedule.
Last checked 2026-09-12
Source Public Disclosure Commission, C-6 independent expenditure and electioneering communication reports naming this candidate · as of 2026-09-12 · key the candidate the spender named on the C-6, matched by PDC candidate id · caveat for and against are not netted
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What this page will not compute
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- No prediction.
- Money is not a forecast. The better-funded candidate frequently loses, and this page shows who paid for a campaign, not who will win.
- No net money.
- Spending for and spending against a candidate are two facts. Subtracting one from the other manufactures a third that nobody reported.
- No donor we cannot name by rule.
- A private individual is named only when their own public conduct clears them; everyone else is aggregated by employer. The rule is applied at sync and again at render, and no page relaxes it.
- No connected-records section.
- A candidate is not a node in the entity graph. Their money is on their committee’s filings, which is where the record lives; this page is a reading of those filings, not a second record.
- No record of office.
- What someone says while running and how they vote once serving are separate questions on separate pages. Where this person also holds office, the methodology links their record.
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Common questions
- What office is Girmay Zahilay running for?
- County Council Member, as filed with the Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 cycle.
- How much has Girmay Zahilay raised?
- $244,246 reported raised and $325,847 reported spent, from 818 reported contributors, as of the last filing we read. Figures change as reports are filed and amended.
- What party is Girmay Zahilay?
- The filing states no party preference.
- Who is spending money about Girmay Zahilay?
- Independent expenditures and electioneering communications total $0 supporting and $0 opposing, as two separate figures. The spenders are filed on the C-6 and are named in section 04 where the sync has carried them.
Answers are generated from the same filing fields as the sections above and emitted as FAQPage structured data, so a machine reader gets the identical text a person sees.
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“Girmay Zahilay,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-12, accessed 2026-09-23. https://washingtonindependents.org/candidate/girmay-zahilay/
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Where this page comes from
Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.
- A filing, not a live balance
- campaigns report on a schedule and amend afterwards. The figures are what had been filed when we last read the record (2026-09-12), and the PDC is authoritative where it disagrees.
- Identity
- the PDC filer id (ZAHIG 102) — the one identifier the state issues a campaign. Two candidates sharing a name are two filer ids and two pages.
- Money
- C-3 contributions and C-4 expenditures reported by the campaign, 2026 cycle. Contributors are named only where the donor-naming rule clears them; the rest are aggregated by employer.
- Outside money
- C-6 independent expenditures and electioneering communications naming the candidate, by the spender’s filed stance. For and against are never netted.
- Not a record of office
- what someone says while running and how they vote once serving are separate questions on separate pages. This person also holds office: their voting record.