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FEC reported · Vendor / payee

HART RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Operating payments excluding identified noncash offsets. These entries identify a reported payee; they are not political contributions by this vendor.

Net operating payments$591,690Excludes identified noncash offsets

Positive payments$591,690Sum of positive reported amounts

Negative adjustments$0Not assumed to be refunds

Payment records2212 paying committees

Aug 6, 2025 to Jul 23, 2026 · Totals cover operating entries after excluding identified noncash offsets, regardless of payment-list filters. The remaining entries are not independently verified cash transfers and may include other in-kind activity.

Reconcile to reported entries

Same selected reports · 2025–2026

Selected FEC operating entries: $591,69022 records
Less: identified noncash offsets: $00 accounting entries
Operating payments shown: $591,690Reported entries minus identified offsets

This reconciles only the selected local operating records, not every FEC disbursement. Noncash offsets can balance receipt reporting while a committee holds an asset; they are not evidence of a payment back to the contributor or a vendor service. Asset quantities and reported values are historical disclosures, not verified current holdings or current market values.

Compliance review · No open linked indicators

Automated review indicators, not findings of a violation. Exact reported records are linked; identity is not independently verified. Reported lobbyist-bundling disclosures are not counted as issues.

Latest cycle-wide scan: Sep 12, 2026 · Index refreshed: Sep 12, 2026. Coverage is limited to loaded records and implemented checks.

Scan coverage and freshness

Receipt eligibility: last successful scan Sep 12, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Sep 12, 2026).
Integrity: last successful scan Sep 7, 2026 · indexed scan status completed.
Fundraising patterns: last successful scan Sep 7, 2026 · indexed scan status completed.

No open indicators are linked in the published index. This is not a compliance clearance.

Across the cycle, some findings could not be linked safely to entities; ambiguous identities are withheld.

What is known about this payee

Reported records, not verified company research

Industry: Not verified
Website: Not verified
Ownership / legal-company identity: Not verified
Vendor expenditures / downstream vendors: Not disclosed by these payment records

The purposes below describe services as reported by paying committees. They are not an independently verified industry classification. Payment records do not identify the vendor’s owners or reveal how it subsequently spent the money.

Payments received from committees

12 committees

10 committees per page, largest amount first by default. Column sorting applies to all paying committees. Open a committee’s profile, or select “View payments” to filter the full payment list below.

Operating payments excluding identified noncash offsets · full selected-cycle totals
Paying committee ↕	Net operating payments ↓	Positive payments ↕	Negative adjustments ↕	Payment records ↕	Latest payment ↕	Payment details
FAIRSHAKEC00835959	$187,000	$187,000	$0	5	Jun 25, 2026

Reported purposes / services

5 distinct descriptions

Exact reported descriptions; similar spellings are not combined into inferred services. 10 per page, largest amount first by default; column sorting applies to all descriptions.

Reported service descriptions · select a purpose to inspect its payments
Reported purpose / service ↕	Net operating payments ↓	Payment records ↕
POLLING	$404,500	14
RESEARCH	$57,500	2
CAMPAIGN CONSULTING	$53,690	3
POLLING/SURVEYS

Payment records

22 records

Identified noncash accounting offsets are excluded. Each row retains its reported payee name and location. Sort applies to every matching record, not only this page. Negative amounts are reported adjustments. FEC filing links open the source report; the filtered FEC search can help locate the specific entry.

All included operating-payment records · 2025–2026
Payment date ↕	Reported amount ↓	Paying committee ↕	Reported payee / location	Reported purpose ↕	Source & report details
Apr 30, 2026	$51,000	THE REED COMMITTEEC00238907	HART RESEARCH ASSOCIATESWASHINGTON · District of Columbia · 20036-2689	POLLING	FEC filing 2005024 Find payment at FEC Reported metadata & provenance Report type Q2 Election designation (reported code)

Reported names & locations

Identity evidence

Name case and whitespace are normalized, and ZIP+4 is ignored for grouping. Other spellings, company suffixes and punctuation are not assumed to identify the same firm. Records sharing a name, state and ZIP5 may still represent different payees. Locations below are reported city/state/ZIP, not verified registered addresses; this bulk source does not provide street addresses. Identity evidence retains all selected operating entries, including separated accounting offsets; its totals are not vendor-payment totals.

Reported name aliases (1)

Name spellings preserved from source records · most net amount first
Reported name	Net reported entries	Operating / accounting records
HART RESEARCH ASSOCIATES	$591,690	22

Reported locations (3)

Reported city, state and full ZIP · most net amount first
Reported location	Net reported entries	Operating / accounting records
WASHINGTON · District of Columbia · 20036-2689	$315,190	14
WASHINGTON · District of Columbia · 20036	$234,500	7
WASHINGTON · District of Columbia · 20036-2603	$42,000	1

Source coverage & interpretation

FEC reported

Partial coverage: These are reported operating-expenditure payees in the 2025–2026 cycle, not every FEC disbursement. Default payment amounts exclude identified noncash accounting offsets, which are retained separately on profiles. These operating entries are not political contributions by the payees or evidence of party support. A reported vendor is grouped by normalized payee name, state and five-digit ZIP; this is not a verified legal-company identity.

Source rows examined: 1,606,235
Selected operating rows, including accounting entries: 1,044,327
Rows excluded: 561,908
Eligible reports: 38,267
Reports omitted: 3,689
Index refreshed: Sep 12, 2026

This directory covers loaded FEC operating-expenditure payees, not all committee disbursements, all vendors, or the vendor's own finances.
Identity groups exact reported names after case/whitespace normalization, state and ZIP5. These are reported payee groups, not verified legal entities; missing location information makes identity less certain. Punctuation and company suffixes are not merged.
Only fixed-calendar electronic reports are included. The latest locally loaded file per committee/report-year/report-type is selected; paper, special-election, termination and unknown-source reports are excluded until their amendment chains can be verified. Later missing amendments remain unknown.
Memo and deleted rows, duplicate source versions, invalid amounts/dates and future-dated records are excluded. Explicitly identified noncash accounting offsets are separated from default payment totals, and retained on payee profiles with source evidence. Remaining operating entries are not independently verified cash transfers and may include other in-kind activity. Negative adjustments are not necessarily refunds.
Bulk operating-expenditure data provide reported city, state and ZIP, but no street address. A payee's party, industry, ownership and ultimate recipients are not inferred.

Amounts are nominal USD, displayed without cents. Negative adjustments are the magnitude of negative reported entries, not confirmed refunds. No industry, ownership or political affiliation is inferred from a payee name or its customers.