# Political Finance

IRS 527 and FEC committee, filing, contribution, expenditure, and identity data.

## Access

- Kind: api
- Audience: public
- Access: open
- Authentication: No authentication is required for documented public read operations.
- Lifecycle: active
- Observed health: degraded

## Integration links

- Base URL: https://politicalfinance.datasourceapi.com
- Documentation: https://politicalfinance.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/docs
- OpenAPI: https://politicalfinance.datasourceapi.com/openapi.yaml
- Status: https://politicalfinance.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
- Repository: https://github.com/coopalliance/cca-politicalfinance
- Catalog metadata: https://services.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/services/political-finance

## Capabilities

- campaign-finance
- committees
- contributions
- filings

## Provenance and freshness

- Internal Revenue Service: Political organization notices, reports, and public 527 data. (https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/political-organizations)
- Federal Election Commission: Committee, filing, contribution, and expenditure data. (https://www.fec.gov/data/)

Update cadence: Immutable source releases are indexed and promoted after validation.. Metadata last verified: 2026-09-03.


## Agent readiness

partial (63/100): Documentation, OpenAPI, and status are published; donor and contribution releases were still indexing at the last audit.

## Examples

### Service status

Inspect current promoted releases and indexing progress.

```http
GET https://politicalfinance.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
```