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FEC Campaign Finance

FEC campaign finance data: candidate fundraising, donors, and spending

Should I use this

Quality & Safety

A
Description quality
100%
Schema completeness
90%
Naming quality
100%
Poisoning risk
100%
Permission match
100%
Protocol compliance
100%

Based on automated analysis of tool definitions and protocol compliance.

Context Cost

~520Tokens (tool definitions)
~1.6 KBTypical response size
Minimal attention impact (0.41% of 128k context)

This is the approximate number of tokens consumed each time the server's tools are loaded into a model's context. Higher counts reduce the attention available for other tasks.

Install

One-Click Install

Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fec": {
      "url": "https://fec.memoryapi.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Remote endpoints

https://fec.memoryapi.org/mcpstreamable-http

What it can do

Tool inventory

Tools (3)

🟢 Read-only🟡 Write🔴 Delete⚪ Unknown
🟢get_fec_candidates(office, state, party, election_year, name, ...)

Get FEC campaign finance data for federal election candidates. Returns fundraising totals, cash on hand, and spending by office (President/Senate/House), state, or party.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "office": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "P=President, S=Senate, H=House"
    },
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "2-letter state code (TX, CA, NY)"
    },
    "party": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "DEM, REP, IND"
    },
    "election_year": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Election cycle year (default: 2026)",
      "default": "2026"
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Candidate name search"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Number of results (max 50)",
      "default": 20
    }
  }
}
🟢get_fec_donors(candidate_id, committee_id, employer, state, min_amount, ...)

Get individual donor/contribution data for a candidate or committee from FEC Schedule A filings. Find who is funding campaigns.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "candidate_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "FEC candidate ID (e.g. P80001571)"
    },
    "committee_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "FEC committee ID (e.g. C00703975)"
    },
    "employer": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Donor employer to search (e.g. \"Google\", \"Goldman Sachs\")"
    },
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Donor state filter"
    },
    "min_amount": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Minimum donation amount"
    },
    "election_year": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Election cycle (default: 2026)",
      "default": "2026"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Number of results",
      "default": 20
    }
  }
}
🟢get_fec_spending(type, candidate_id, committee_id, election_year, limit)

Get campaign spending data. Type=independent for Super PAC / outside group spending for/against candidates. Type=expenditures for direct campaign spending.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "independent (Super PAC spending) or expenditures (campaign disbursements)",
      "default": "independent"
    },
    "candidate_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Filter by candidate ID"
    },
    "committee_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Committee ID (required for type=expenditures)"
    },
    "election_year": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Election cycle (default: 2026)",
      "default": "2026"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Number of results",
      "default": 20
    }
  }
}

Recommended Prompts

retrieve_data
Get details about [item] from FEC Campaign Finance
Expected tools: get_fec_candidates
fetch_info
Fetch [information type] using FEC Campaign Finance
Expected tools: get_fec_candidates

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