The circle
Direction of moneyEvery arrow is a sum of itemized rows in a filed report. Filing fees paid to a county executive committee under Election Code §172.024 can appear on the same schedule as voluntary gifts; see .
What this is
Read firstFort Bend County Democrats hold most of the county’s elected offices and two of its four commissioner precincts. This page is not a scorecard of who won. It follows the money that paid for the winning: every dollar that reached a Fort Bend County Democrat, the people and firms who sent it, and the county party sitting in the middle of the flow.
It is built from four public record systems, joined on names and dates. 994 campaign finance reports filed with Fort Bend County, released only as scanned PDFs and read here with layout-preserving text extraction. The Texas Ethics Commission bulk archive of every electronic filing since 2000. FEC bulk data for the three congressional districts covering the county. And 21,104 approved Commissioners Court actions across 523 meetings, assembled for an earlier investigation into county contracting.
Two things show up only when those four are read against each other. The first is where the county party’s own money comes from. It is not the small-dollar public the party raises on: 32.5% of its itemized receipts come from the candidates it nominates, from sitting officeholders, and from people on the county payroll. The second is that the firms holding the county’s engineering and construction work are not backing one commissioner against another. The same firms give across the slate.
Nothing here establishes that any contract was awarded, any vote cast, or any nomination granted in exchange for a contribution. Where the record supports only a sequence, this page reports a sequence.
Where the money sits
By filer, dollars raisedMoney map
Party at the centreThe county party sits at the centre. The inner ring is every Democrat who filed a campaign finance report with Fort Bend County, sized by what they raised. Beyond them sit their donors: a donor who gave to one candidate sits behind that candidate; a donor who gave to several is pulled inward, between them. Distance from the centre encodes how many campaigns a donor touched — not influence.
The slate
Click a name for the dossier| Filer | Party | Office(s) 2021–2026 | Raised | In‑kind | Spent | Gifts | Reports |
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Every donor
Click a name for the full recordEvery person and committee that gave to a Fort Bend Democrat in these filings, with what they gave, to whom, and — where their stated employer holds county work — every Commissioners Court action on that firm, linked to the county’s own minutes. Spellings are collapsed where the scan damaged a name; each record lists the variants it merges.
Authorized is what Commissioners Court approved for that firm; Paid is what the Court approved on invoices and pay applications. They are different money. An asterisk marks a firm whose restated amendment chains could not be collapsed, so its authorized figure is an upper bound. Payments the county auditor makes without a Court vote never appear in minutes, so Paid is a floor, not revenue.
| Donor | Employer | Given | Gifts | Dems | County contracts | Authorized | Paid |
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The party’s books
TEC filer 00056261 & affiliatesWho pays the county party
Itemized contributions to the Fort Bend County Democratic Party’s county executive committee account and its party corporation account, 2006–2026. Rows tagged insider are candidate committees, sitting officeholders, or donors whose stated employer is Fort Bend County or the State of Texas.
| Contributor | Total | Gifts | Years |
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What it spends
Itemized expenditures on the same accounts.
| Payee | Total | Payments |
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Where it sends money
Contributions reported by other committees naming a Fort Bend Democratic committee as the contributor — money leaving the county organisation, found by scanning the entire Texas archive.
| Recipient committee | Total | Rows | Years |
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The committees
Registered Democratic filers, Fort Bend County| Committee | Filer ID | Received | Spent | Rows in | Activity |
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Officers of record
Who runs it, per whomFindings
Ordered by weight of recordEach finding carries the strength of its own evidence. Filed record means every figure comes from a document a filer signed. Reported means it rests on news reporting or a party record, cited. Contested means the parties to it disagree and the dispute is live. Null means the record does not support a claim this page might otherwise be expected to make.