What is Washington Needs to Compete?

Washington Needs to Compete is a political committee registered with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 election cycle.

How much money has Washington Needs to Compete raised?

Washington Needs to Compete reported $2,285,986 in contributions for the 2026 cycle from 10 contributors. The largest itemised contributions are listed in the money-in section above, and how that money was gathered is broken down by contributor type.

How much has Washington Needs to Compete spent?

Washington Needs to Compete reported $98,807 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 Washington Needs to Compete come from?

Every figure on this page is read from Washington Needs to Compete’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.

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Washington Needs to Compete

Washington Needs to Compete is a political committee registered with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 cycle. It reported $2,285,986 from 10 contributors.

2026 cycle
Political Committee
PDC ID 42339
$2.3M raised · 2026
$98,807 spent · 2026
10 contributors

$2.3M

raised

$98,807

spent

$228,599

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 2026-09-15

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
Washington Coalition for Responsible Taxes and Spending	Olympia	$1,014,000
Microsoft	Redmond	$15,475
People for an Affordable Washington	Olympia	$6,300

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 2026-09-15

Source WA PDC C-3 contributions · as of 2026-09-15 · rows $1,035,775 of $2,285,986 shown across 3 of 10 contributors · note amounts are printed, not charted; a sub-threshold aggregate is included in the total above and is not a giver

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	0	$0	no contribution fell in this band — an empty band, not missing data
$100 to $999	0	$0	no contribution fell in this band — an empty band, not missing data
$1,000 to $4,999	0	$0	no contribution fell in this band — an empty band, not missing data
$5,000 to $24,999	2	$21,775	1.0%
$25,000 and over	6	$2,264,000	99.0%
Reported in aggregate, not as gifts	2	$211	0.0%
All contributions reported	10	$2,285,986	100.0%

8 of the 8 gifts this committee reports one at a time — 100.0% of them — supplied $2,285,775, or 100.0% of the money it can be said to have raised gift by gift.

Contributions are not broken down by contributor type. The PDC C3 record types every contributor as an individual, a business, another committee, and so on. Our finance rebuild has not produced that breakdown for this committee, so the money-in totals stand without it rather than the page guessing a split.

Last checked 2026-09-15

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 $211 that way, in 2 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 2026-09-15

Source WA PDC C-3 contributions · as of 2026-09-15 · rows 10 contribution rows, every one on exactly one line above — the lines add to $2,285,986 · 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

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.

No same-day bundles were detected for this committee. No date shows three or more contributors sharing a stated employer giving together. That is what the filings hold, not proof no coordinated giving happened — the employer field below is blank on most gifts, so a bundle whose donors left it empty would not appear.

Last checked 2026-09-15

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.

No employer is shared by more than one contributor. Either no two itemised donors reported the same workplace, or the employer field was left blank on the gifts that would have matched. The field is optional and self-reported, so an empty table here is a gap in what donors disclosed, not a committee with no colleagues among its givers.

Last checked 2026-09-15

Source WA PDC C-3 contributions, employer field as self-reported by contributors · as of 2026-09-15 · caveat employer strings are normalised by us; no employer gave and none reported this

How concentrated the money is

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

The concentration share is not computed for this committee. The share of itemised money coming from the largest few donors is computed against every itemised contribution, not a top-N list. Where the finance rebuild has not produced that figure — usually a committee with no itemised giving — the page says so rather than estimating a share that would look authoritative and be wrong.

Last checked 2026-09-15

Money out — where it went

$98,807

total spent

4.3%

of what it raised

Spending as a share of contributions received.

Source WA PDC C-4 expenditures · as of 2026-09-15 · note independent expenditures and direct contributions are listed separately and never added together on a candidate’s page

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 2026-09-15

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.

Not enough dated activity to chart. This committee’s itemised transactions fall in fewer than two months. The totals above are complete; there is simply no timeline to draw.

Last checked 2026-09-15

Across cycles

Other filings under the same PDC committee id.

Only one cycle on file. We hold a single filing for committee 42339. 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 2026-09-15

Does it add up

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

Reported contributions $2,285,986

Reported expenditures − $98,807

Implied balance $2,187,178

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 2026-09-15 · note where our arithmetic and the committee’s filing disagree, both numbers are printed and neither is silently corrected

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.

Common questions

What is Washington Needs to Compete?: Washington Needs to Compete is a political committee registered with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 election cycle.
How much money has Washington Needs to Compete raised?: Washington Needs to Compete reported $2,285,986 in contributions for the 2026 cycle from 10 contributors. The largest itemised contributions are listed in the money-in section above, and how that money was gathered is broken down by contributor type.
How much has Washington Needs to Compete spent?: Washington Needs to Compete reported $98,807 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 Washington Needs to Compete come from?: Every figure on this page is read from Washington Needs to Compete’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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