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PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 PAC

PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 PAC is a political committee registered with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 cycle. It reported $332,595 from 3,220 contributors.

  • 2026 cycle
  • Political Committee
  • PDC ID 15435
  • $333K raised · 2026
  • $296K spent · 2026
  • 3,220 contributors

$333K

raised

$296K

spent

$103

average contribution

The total divided by the reported contributor count.

Registration

type
Political Committee · 2026 cycle
filings
Contribution and expenditure filings at the PDC
treasurer
Named on the C-1 registration, which is not in the extract we hold — it is in the PDC filings linked above.

A political committee is not a legislative committee. For the four kinds of committee on file and why they are never ranked together, see the committee directory.

Source Public Disclosure Commission committee filings · as of 2026-10-22

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Money in — who funds this committee

The contributors this site names — organisations, and individuals whose own public conduct already puts them in the record — largest first, with a count and total of those it does not name. Washington requires committees to itemise contributions above a threshold; smaller gifts are reported in aggregate.

No contributors we can name. The committee reports $332,595 from 3,220 contributors. Either our sync holds no itemised rows for it, or every itemised contributor is a private individual — and private individuals are not named on this site unless their own public conduct already makes them a public figure. The full itemised record is public at the PDC.

Last checked 2026-10-22

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How the money was gathered

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

Contributions by size band
Band Gifts Dollars Share of dollars
Under $100 2,797 $171,483 51.6%
$100 to $999 911 $113,822 34.2%
$1,000 to $4,999 1 $2,318 0.7%
$5,000 to $24,999 0 $0 no contribution fell in this band — an empty band, not missing data
$25,000 and over 0 $0 no contribution fell in this band — an empty band, not missing data
Reported in aggregate, not as gifts 14 $54,847 16.5%
Corrections and refunds 3 $-9,875 -3.0%
All contributions reported 3,726 $332,595 100.0%

0 of the 3,709 gifts this committee reports one at a time — 0.0% of them — supplied $0, or 0.0% of the money it can be said to have raised gift by gift.

Corrections are counted, not banded. 3 of the rows filed under this committee are negative — refunds and amendments to earlier filings, $-9,875 in all. A correction is not a gift of any size, so it is kept out of the bands and shown on its own line; banded by its amount it would land under $100 and drive that band, the one a reader reads as small givers, below zero.

Last checked 2026-10-22

Contributions by contributor type
Contributor type Amount Share Gifts
Individual $166,185 101.6% 2,082
Other $-2,580 -1.6% 1

The aggregated small giving cannot be split into givers. Washington lets gifts below the itemisation threshold be reported as a single total with no contributor named. This committee reports $54,847 that way, in 14 rows. The total is in the band table above and in the amount raised; the people behind it are in no public record, so no analysis of them — count, average, geography — is possible for anyone, including the PDC.

Last checked 2026-10-22

Source WA PDC C-3 contributions · as of 2026-10-22 · rows 3,726 contribution rows, every one on exactly one line above — the lines add to $332,595 · bands the cut points are ours, not the state’s — Washington’s itemisation rule turns on one aggregate per contributor, not on a five-way split. An empty band is a fact, not missing data · note amounts are printed, not charted

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Employers behind the individual gifts

The employer of each individual contribution, as self-reported by the contributor. A company named here did not give and did not report — the string is the donor’s, normalised by us.

Colleagues who gave on the same day

Three or more people sharing an employer, giving to this committee on a single date. Money arriving together is the pattern; a shared employer on its own is not.

Same-day contributions from colleagues at one employer
Date Employer Donors Total
2026-06-08 Wa Treatment Completion C 44 $5,262
2026-07-08 Wa Treatment Completion C 43 $3,726
2026-04-08 Wa Treatment Completion C 42 $4,181
2026-05-08 Wa Treatment Completion C 41 $3,795
2026-03-06 Wa Treatment Completion C 41 $3,507
2026-02-06 Wa Treatment Completion C 29 $3,456
2026-03-06 Mckinstry Company LLC 25 $2,940
2026-04-08 Apollo Sheet Metal 25 $2,713
2026-04-08 Mckinstry Company LLC 25 $2,571
2026-05-08 Mckinstry Company LLC 25 $2,329

This shows money arriving together, not who arranged it. An office collection, a fundraiser one colleague hosted, a firm’s partners each writing a cheque on the day they were asked — all three look identical in the filings, and all three are legal. Nothing here says the employer knew, still less that it directed anyone.

Last checked 2026-10-22

Employers behind more than one donor

Across the whole cycle rather than a single day. Weaker than the table above, and included because a slow accumulation from one workplace is still worth being able to see.

Employers with more than one contributor
Employer Donors Total
Wa Treatment Completion C 44 $23,927
Apollo Sheet Metal 26 $13,994
Mckinstry Company LLC 26 $13,079
Intermech,Inc. 10 $5,565
Southland Industries 8 $4,319
Plumbers & Steamfitters L 6 $3,053
J H Kelly, LLC 3 $2,914
J A T C 5 $2,385
Applied Process Cooling 5 $2,243
Bnb Mechanical LLC 3 $1,451

Only 32.3% of itemised donors stated an employer. The field is filled in by the donor and left blank more often than not, so both tables above show what we can see rather than everything that exists. Treat the counts as a floor. Occupations reported in the employer box — “retired”, “self-employed” — are excluded, because they are not a shared workplace.

Last checked 2026-10-22

Source WA PDC C-3 contributions, employer field as self-reported by contributors · as of 2026-10-22 · caveat employer strings are normalised by us; no employer gave and none reported this

04

How concentrated the money is

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

5.5%

from the top 10 donors

Out of 3,220 itemised contributors in total.

Source WA PDC C-3 contributions · as of 2026-10-22 · note concentration is a fact about how the money was gathered, not a verdict on the committee

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Money out — where it went

$296K

total spent

89%

of what it raised

Spending as a share of contributions received.

Who it paid

Payees are not listed yet. This page’s payee list was written before payees were checked against the site’s naming policy, so none of it is shown until the next sync. The spending total above includes every payment, and the itemised record is public at the PDC.

Last checked 2026-10-22

Source WA PDC C-4 expenditures · as of 2026-10-22 · note independent expenditures and direct contributions are listed separately and never added together on a candidate’s page

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Independent expenditures

Money this committee reported spending for or against someone without coordinating with them. Kept apart from its ordinary spending, because folding the two together would misstate both.

No independent expenditures are on file for this committee this cycle. Most committees never make one — independent spending is concentrated in a few hundred filers. An empty section here is the PDC record, not a gap in ours.

Last checked 2026-10-22

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When the money moved

Itemised contributions in and expenditures out, by the month on the filing. Unitemised small-dollar totals carry no dates and are not in this chart — the money-in section states them.

Monthly money in and out for PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 PAC; bars are scaled to the largest month, $103K
Month In   Out  
Jan 2026 $50 $17,168
Feb 2026 $31,647 $20,980
Mar 2026 $30,467 $17,122
Apr 2026 $32,101 $29,509
May 2026 $32,443 $27,729
Jun 2026 $38,434 $103K
Jul 2026 $36,015 $18,359

Source WA PDC C-3 + C-4 + C-6, bucketed by transaction date · as of 2026-10-22 · scale all bars share one scale, longest = $103K

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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 15435. 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 2026-10-22

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Connected records

Everything below is a link some document draws for us. Nothing here is our inference. Grouped by how well the record supports it, always in this order, never sorted by interest.

This record’s page in the entity graph: /graph-committees/pdc-committee-15435/

On the record · 12

One document states the relation in its own words.

Nothing on file

Contribution and spending edges are drawn for every committee with a page, one per contributor-year and one per vendor-year, and only where the giver or payee clears this site’s donor-naming policy, which does not name a private individual unless their own public conduct makes them a public figure (SEO-PLAN §7). A giver or payee the policy withholds gets no node and no edge, and that money stays in the committee’s totals above. No coordination edge exists anywhere in this graph: Washington has no coordination filing, so there is no document to read.

Source the edge table, counted and paged by tier · edges 12 filed, 0 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

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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 $332,595
Reported expenditures − $295,900
Implied balance $36,695

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 WA PDC committee filings, as reported · as of 2026-10-22 · note where our arithmetic and the committee’s filing disagree, both numbers are printed and neither is silently corrected

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What this page does not show

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.
Money that never had to be reported
Everything here is money the law required someone to disclose. Spending that fell below a threshold, arrived after the last report, or was never reportable at all is absent, and nothing on this page can measure it. A committee’s reported total is a floor, not a ceiling.
Whether committees on the same side are working together
An independent expenditure that was coordinated with anyone would not be independent. Committees spending the same way in the same race may be allies, rivals for the same donors, or strangers; the filings record none of that, so we draw no bloc, alliance or network from them. No coordination edge exists anywhere in this graph — Washington has no coordination filing, so there is no document to read and no field to join on.

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Common questions

What is PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 PAC?
PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 PAC is a political committee registered with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 election cycle.
How much money has PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 PAC raised?
PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 PAC reported $332,595 in contributions for the 2026 cycle from 3,220 contributors. The contributors this site names are listed in the money-in section above, with a count and total of those it does not name, and how the money was gathered is broken down by contributor type.
How much has PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 PAC spent?
PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 PAC reported $295,900 in expenditures. The “Does it add up” section subtracts reported spending from reported contributions in the open, and prints the residual even when the two filings do not yet reconcile.
Where does the data on PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 PAC come from?
Every figure on this page is read from PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 PAC’s own filings with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, published at the PDC. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a filing is silent or late, the page says so rather than filling the gap.
What is a political committee in Washington?
A political committee is any person or group, other than an individual, that raises or spends money to support or oppose a candidate or ballot measure in Washington. State law requires it to register with the Public Disclosure Commission and to file regular contribution and expenditure reports, which are the records this page is built from.

Answers are generated from the same 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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Where this page comes from

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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.

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