OpenSecrets state and select local data

OpenSecrets is an independent organization that compiles data about money in American politics. This resource includes state and select local (Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C.) data for campaign contributions to candidates, political parties and ballot measure committees; candidate expenditures and independent spending; and names of registered lobbyists, clients of lobbysits, and lobbying expenditures. Data fields and coverage years vary by state, as not all states make the same fields and levels of data available. OpenSecrets sources data from state and federal agencies, including the Federal Elections Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Senate Office of Public Records; they also enhance this data through independent research. 

This data is licensed for use by NYU users only. Please note that per NYU's license agreement you may not use this data for LLM training. If you wish to process any portion of this data using AI tools you may only use closed tools internal to NYU (such as NYU's licensed Google Gemini).  

NYU researchers can access the data by using a valid netID and mounting the cloud-based Research Workspace share on any local computer on the NYU network (i.e. on campus or via the NYU VPN if off campus). Follow these instructions to access Research Workspace and use ds_collections as the project name. The collection, opensecrets, can be found at ds_collections/opensecrets. Usage of this collection is subject to the terms provided in the README.