Candidate · PDC filing · 2026 cycle · filer JENKN–778

Nilu Jenks

Nilu Jenks is running for City Council Member in City Of Seattle 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.

—No party listedCity Council MemberCity Of Seattle
Filed as
Neeloofar Jenks legal name on the declaration; the ballot name is above
Office, as filed
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER · CITY OF SEATTLE
Party preference
none stated

Source Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings (C-1) and reports (C-3, C-4) · as of 2026-10-21 · 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.

$197K

raised

$144K

spent

$53,281

cash on hand

As of the most recent report, not today.

237

contributors

$832

average contribution

Total divided by reported contributors.

Source Washington Public Disclosure Commission, candidate C-3 contribution and C-4 expenditure filings · as of 2026-10-21 · contributors 237 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

02

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.

Largest reported contributors to this campaign
Contributor Amount City Employer
Protec 17 PAC $350 Seattle
425 Action PAC $350 Seattle
Karim Sarah $350 Mercer Island
WA Bikes PAC $350 Seattle
UFCW Active Ballot Club – WA $350 Washington
Individual contributors, grouped by stated employer
Employer stated by contributors Contributors Amount
Natus Medical Inc 1 $450
Wechsler Becker LLP 1 $450
Community Environmental Health Strategies LLC 1 $400
Theresa Preston-Werner 1 $350
Aerovel Corporation 1 $350
Gray swan 1 $350
Oracle 1 $350
Microsoft 1 $350
Ryan McKamie 1 $350
Donna Breske 1 $350
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways 1 $350
Fortive 1 $350
No employer stated 2 $700

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.

0 of 5 listed contributors stated an employer. The field is filled in by the donor, and a blank means only that it was left blank. It doubles as an occupation box, so “retired” and “self-employed” appear in it too and are not a shared workplace.

Last checked 2026-10-21

Source Public Disclosure Commission contribution reports · as of 2026-10-21 · 5 named, 13 aggregated

03

Where the money went

The largest payees this site names. The category is the code the campaign chose when filing, not our classification of it.

Largest named payees of this campaign
Vendor Amount Category as filed
Capitol City Press $57,710 Printing campaign signs,Postage costs, mail permits, purchase of stamps,Printing literature, fliers, postcards, etc.
WinPower Strategies $12,000 Other,Management and consulting services
Overnight Printing $10,312 Printing literature, fliers, postcards, etc. ,Campaign merchandise/paraphernalia
Washington State Democratic Central Committee $2,500 Computers, printers, software, phones, etc.,Inkind contribution
Elliot Bay Brewing Co. $1,389 Rent, lease, mortgage, PO box rental,Other
Eight Bells Winery $553 Other
(Nilu Jenks) $60 Inkind contribution
Boxwala Fatema $41 Inkind contribution
House Democratic Campaign Committee $41 Inkind contribution
Electrical workers 46 PAC $0 Contribution Refunds
Washington Teamsters Legislative League $0 Contribution Refunds

16 payees are not named. 4 are filed under a private individual’s name, paid $13,568 in all. Private individuals paid by a political committee or a campaign are not named on this site unless their own public conduct already puts them in the record. 12 could not be shown to be either a person or an organisation — the expenditure filing carries no payee type, and neither the PDC’s contributor file nor a legal form such as LLC or Inc. settles it — and are withheld until the record shows which; they were paid $44,482 in all. The money is in the campaign’s spending total above, and every itemised payment is public at the PDC.

Last checked 2026-10-21

Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure reports · as of 2026-10-21 · 11 named payees shown

04

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.

  1. Spent supporting

    stance filed as “for”

    $42,100
  2. Spent opposing

    stance filed as “against” · not subtracted from the row above

    $13,380
  • Progressive People Power for · $23,466
  • BUILDING OWNERS AND MANAGERS ASSOCIATION PAC OF WASHINGTON for · $18,202
  • North Seattle Neighbors against · $13,380
  • Fuse Votes for · $432

Source Public Disclosure Commission, C-6 independent expenditure and electioneering communication reports naming this candidate · as of 2026-10-21 · scale $42,100 = full width · 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

A candidate page is where a reader expects a verdict about the person. Each of these is a verdict the filings do not support.

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.

06

Common questions

What office is Nilu Jenks running for?
City Council Member, as filed with the Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 cycle.
How much has Nilu Jenks raised?
$197,166 reported raised and $143,885 reported spent, from 237 reported contributors, as of the last filing we read. Figures change as reports are filed and amended.
What party is Nilu Jenks?
The filing states no party preference.
Who is spending money about Nilu Jenks?
Independent expenditures and electioneering communications total $42,100 supporting and $13,380 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.

Cite this page

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“Neeloofar Jenks (Nilu Jenks),” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-10-21, accessed 2026-11-08. https://washingtonindependents.org/candidate/neeloofar-jenks-nilu-jenks/

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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 (2026-10-21), and the PDC is authoritative where it disagrees.
Identity
the PDC filer id (JENKN–778) — 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.