"This tool will guide your team through a power mapping analysis to inform your campaign strategy with a thorough picture of the players, and their power.
It runs step by step through a collaborative exercise where your team can all contribute to a visual map of power holders and power relationships affecting your issue and campaign."

"This manual is designed to help researchers and activists gather essential information on any type of U.S.-based company -- whether small or large, privately held or publicly traded -- as well as foreign companies operating in the United States. It also provides a guide to the key information sources for all major U.S. industries."

"CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information parsed from SEC filings about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their foreign subsidiaries."

"OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Our mission is to track the flow of money in American politics and provide the data and analysis to strengthen democracy."

"By using WhaleWisdom’s tools to analyze 13F filings submitted by hedge funds, you can mimic the stock picks of the greatest money managers in the world. Every quarter the SEC requires that fund managers with over $100 million in AUM disclose their holdings. WhaleWisdom enables a user to see the positions of any manager in the U.S within minutes of their being disclosed."

"CitizenAudit simplifies learning about nonprofits by providing 15 years of disclosures for every charity in America and allowing you to search for any keyword inside the IRS filings (form 990s). You can perform these searches on all nonprofits including: foundations, hospitals, universities, political groups & more."

"Enjoy free public access to millions of informational documents filed by publicly traded companies and others in the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system."

"Power Search is a privately developed open source search engine which accesses raw data of state-level campaign contributions ranging from 2001 to the present as reported to the Secretary of State’s CAL-ACCESS campaign finance filing and disclosure system."

"Our database includes campaign finance data for 20 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. You can search all state-level candidates, political action committees (PACs) that are active in that state, and the donors that support them. Texas is our first state to also include lobbying data."

"The Fair Political Practices Commission is a five-member independent, non-partisan commission that has primary responsibility for the impartial and effective administration of the Political Reform Act. The Act regulates campaign financing, conflicts of interest, lobbying, and governmental ethics. The Commission’s objectives are to ensure that public officials act in a fair and unbiased manner in the governmental decision-making process, to promote transparency in government, and to foster public trust in the political system."

"Cal-Access provides financial information supplied by state candidates, donors, lobbyists, and others. Simply start by selecting either Campaign Finance Activity, Lobbying Activity, or Cal-Access Resources and we will guide you to the information."

"The Political Reform Act requires candidates and committees to file campaign statements by specified deadlines disclosing contributions received and expenditures made. These documents are public and may be audited by the FPPC and FTB to ensure that voters are fully informed and improper practices prohibited."