Political committee · Washington State

Courage PAC

Courage PAC is a political committee registered with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 cycle. It reported $3,585 from 11 contributors.

  • 2026 cycle
  • Political Committee
  • 11 contributors

$3,585

raised

$379

spent

$326

average contribution

The total divided by the reported contributor count.

Source Public Disclosure Commission committee filings · as of 2026-07-28

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Money in — who funds this committee

The largest reported contributions. Washington requires committees to itemise contributions above a threshold; smaller gifts are reported in aggregate.

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
SMALL CONTRIBUTIONS $1,185
Miyake Kenneth T Renton $500
Gilchrist Gary University Place $250
Nelson Scott Olympia $250
Carter Amber Olympia $250
BRONOSKE DAN Lakewood $250
Mgjurasic Mark Olympia $250
Baldwin Chester Olympia $250
Stauffacher Bill Steilacoom $250
Doty J Dylan Tacoma $150

Contributions are not broken down by size, and employers are not named. Washington collects an employer field for individual contributions, and gift-size banding is what separates a committee funded by a hundred neighbours from one funded by three donors. We store only the largest contributors, so neither analysis is possible here — and computing concentration from a top-ten list would produce a confident number that is simply wrong.

Last checked 2026-07-28

Source Public Disclosure Commission contribution filings · as of 2026-07-28 · $3,585 of $3,585 shown across 10 of 11 contributors

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How concentrated the money is

Computed from every itemised contribution rather than from the largest few, which is what makes the share meaningful.

100%

from the top 10 donors

Out of 11 itemised contributors in total.

11

itemised contributors

Who it came from

The PDC types every contributor. This does not follow a PAC’s own money back to a person — see what this page will not compute — but it does say how much arrived from individuals rather than from other organisations.

Contributions by contributor type
Contributor type Amount Share Gifts
Individual $2,400 100% 9

Source Public Disclosure Commission contribution filings · as of 2026-07-28

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Money out — where it went

$379

total spent

10.6%

of what it raised

Spending as a share of contributions received.

1

largest payees listed

Who it paid

Largest payees, with the category the committee chose when filing. A consultancy, printer or polling firm appearing across many committees is a fact about who runs campaigns in Washington.

Largest payees reported by this committee
Payee Amount Payments Category as filed
United States Postal Service $306 1 Rent, lease, mortgage, PO box rental

A further $73 was reported as small expenses. Washington lets a committee report spending below a threshold as a single lump with no payee. That money is in the total above and cannot be broken out by anyone, including us.

Last checked 2026-07-28

Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings · as of 2026-07-28

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Does it add up

The arithmetic, in the open. Reported contributions less reported spending is what the committee should still be holding.

Reported contributions $3,585
Reported expenditures − $379
Implied balance $3,206

This is what the two filings imply, not a bank balance. Committees also report cash on hand directly, and the two figures can differ where a report is outstanding.

Source Public Disclosure Commission committee filings · as of 2026-07-28

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Across cycles

Other filings under the same PDC committee id.

Only one cycle on file. We hold a single filing for committee 42207. That means it registered for one election, or that our sync covers only the cycles this one falls in — the filings do not distinguish the two.

Last checked 2026-07-28

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What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

Who is really behind a committee that funds this one
We show every contributor the committee reported, and how much of its money came from organisations rather than individuals. A committee funded by another committee is common, and following that chain to the people at the end of it means joining filings across organisations and cycles — a join we have not made, and one that would be wrong to guess at.
Who the independent spending was aimed at
The filings name the candidate or measure each independent expenditure supported or opposed. We hold the amounts and which way they cut, but have not joined them to those records, so the page says how much and not against whom.
Whether the spending worked
We hold what was raised, what was spent, and in some cases the result. Connecting them would be a causal claim from two numbers, and spending is not the only thing that moves an election.
Anything below the itemisation threshold
Washington lets small contributions and small expenses be reported as lump sums with no counterparty. That money is in the totals and cannot be broken out by anyone, including the PDC. Where a lump is large, the page says so.

Cite this page

This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.

“Courage PAC,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-07-28, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/committee/courage-pac/

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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.

Public Disclosure Commission committee filings
Registration, contribution and expenditure totals, and the largest reported contributors. The original record is at the PDC.
Not loaded
Itemised expenditures, contributor employers, gift-size banding, and independent expenditure filings. Each is named where the page would otherwise use it.