Political firm · composite — 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us
KENNEDY FUND
Disclosed payments to 2 filed spellings of this payee name total $4,128,574 from 1 candidate committee and 114 political committees, 2021–2026. In 1 case a candidate and an independent-expenditure committee in the same race both paid it; section 03 lists each. A shared vendor is lawful; this page documents disclosed payments and nothing else.
$4,128,574
disclosed payments
to 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us · as filed, 2021–2026
115
paying committees
1 candidate, 114 political
1
same-race overlaps
lawful; each listed in section 03 with its gap in days
2
spellings merged
the size of the identity join behind every figure here; section 04
Sources Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp) · independent-expenditure filings (67cp-h962), data.wa.gov · as of 2026-09-05 · retrieved 2026-09-05 · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues · tier composite — joined by us on a stated key
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Who paid this firm
Every paying committee, largest disclosed total first. The total is what that committee reported paying to 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us; where a committee has a page here, its name links to it.
Showing 60 of 115 paying committees; the 55 not shown are in the total above and in the PDC file.
Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), 2021–2026 · as of 2026-09-05 · rows 60 · retrieved 2026-09-05 · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues · caveat a payment routed through this firm to a subvendor appears here under this firm, as filed
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Payments by cycle
Disclosed payments to 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us, by the election year the paying committee filed under. One bar scale; the figure beside each bar is the figure. Odd years are local elections and even years state and federal, so consecutive years are not comparable.
Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), election_year as filed · as of 2026-09-05 · scale $1,354,949 = full width · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues
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Same race, both sides of the wall
A candidate’s committee and a committee making independent expenditures in that candidate’s race may not coordinate; both may hire the same printer. Each row is a race where both paid this firm, with the days between the last candidate payment and the first independent expenditure, and whether that gap falls inside the twelve-month window in which WAC 390-05-210 presumes coordination unless rebutted. Overlap is lawful. This table is a list of coincidences in public filings, not a finding.
| Year | Race | Candidate client | IE committee client | Gap in days | In the window | Shared officer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | STATE SENATOR / LEG DISTRICT 47 – SENATE | Satwinder Kaur | WASHINGTON STATE DENTAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE | 22 | yes | none — both registrations read |
Source Same-race overlap layer over PDC expenditure (tijg-9zyp) and independent-expenditure (67cp-h962) filings; committee registrations for the officer column · as of 2026-09-01 · rows 1 · n 1 inside the twelve-month window · key race = the candidate’s office and jurisdiction as filed; the IE committee’s target is that candidate · caveat overlap is lawful and is not a finding of coordination
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How these records were merged
The PDC issues no vendor identifier. Every figure on this page is the sum of rows whose payee name normalises to one string: KENNEDY FUND. That is our join, not the state’s, and its size is 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us.
- The key
- payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues
- Spellings merged
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- KENNEDY FUND
- Kennedy Fund
- What a wrong merge looks like
- Two different firms whose names differ only in a suffix or punctuation would be one row here, and their totals would be added. Two spellings of one firm that differ in a word would be two rows, and this page would be short a spelling. Both errors are ours; neither is in the filings. Corrections are taken at the address in the cite block.
- Why this is not a graph node
- The entity graph’s vendor nodes are one per disclosed identity and are never merged by name. This profile is the opposite decision, made for reading, and it is kept out of the graph so a merge of ours never becomes an edge.
Source Payee names as filed in PDC expenditure reports, normalised by build-vendors.js · as of 2026-09-05 · n 2 spellings over 115 payer-year rows · tier composite — joined by us on the key above
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What this page will not compute
A firm page is where a reader expects a verdict about the firm. Each of these would be one, and none follows from payee rows on a form.
- No finding of coordination.
- Overlap is lawful. A candidate and an independent-expenditure committee hiring the same firm is two contracts, and the twelve-month window in section 03 is a presumption the law lets either party rebut. The table lists the coincidence and stops.
- No share of a race.
- What fraction of a race’s spending went through this firm would need every committee’s every payment, resolved to the same merge. We do not have that, and a share computed from part of it would be wrong with confidence.
- No “network”.
- Clients who share a vendor are not connected to each other by that fact. A diagram of them would draw relationships the filings do not record.
- No company facts.
- This page describes payments to spellings of a name. It does not say what the firm is, who owns it, or what it did for the money; the expenditure description field is not reliable enough to summarise.
- No connected-records section.
- A merged profile is not a node in the entity graph and draws no edges. The graph’s vendor nodes are one per disclosed identity; this page is deliberately not one of them.
Cite this page
This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.
“KENNEDY FUND — Washington political firm profile,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-05, accessed 2026-09-20. https://washingtonindependents.org/firms/kennedy-fund/
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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.
- Why this firm has a page
- Appears in the same-race overlap layer. Profiles exist for the firms in the independent-expenditures and coordination analysis, not for every payee; a listing is a description of disclosed payments.
- Identity
- payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues This profile merges 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us; section 04 lists them.
- Payments
- PDC expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), election years 2021–2026, summed per paying committee. Amounts as filed; subvendor pass-throughs appear under the reported payee.
- Overlaps
- the same-race overlap layer over the expenditure and independent-expenditure filings (67cp-h962), as of 2026-09-01. Gap in days is from the last candidate payment to the first independent expenditure; the window is WAC 390-05-210’s twelve months. A shared officer is named only where both committees’ registrations were read.
- Retrieved
- expenditures 2026-09-05 · independent expenditures 2026-09-05, from data.wa.gov, per the import log.