# GOPAC 18.8M to GOPAC Election Fund **[[GOPAC Election Fund]]** (FEC **C00559740**) itemised five receipts from **"GOPAC INC"** on its September 2026 monthly report, file **2033407**, received 2026-10-20. Together they are **$18,795,000.00**. | Date | Amount | Line | |---|---|---| | 2026-09-01 | $6,000,000.00 | `SA17` | | 2026-09-10 | $3,870,000.00 | `SA17` | | 2026-09-18 | $2,600,000.00 | `SA17` | | 2026-09-22 | $4,150,000.00 | `SA17` | | 2026-09-29 | $2,175,000.00 | `SA17` | | **total** | **$18,795,000.00** | | Payer and recipient file from the **same address and suite**: 1000 Wilson Blvd Ste 2000, Arlington VA. ## What the committee did with it | Line | Figure | |---|---| | Cash on hand, 2026-09-01 | $408,249.56 | | Total receipts, September | $20,528,134.01 | | Total disbursements, September | **$18,377,313.36** | | Cash on hand, 2026-09-30 | $2,559,070.21 | The committee started the month with roughly $400,000, took in $20.5 million — **91.56% of it from GOPAC Inc** — and spent $18.4 million before the month closed. It is a pass-through on a monthly cycle rather than a war chest. ## Why it matters **It is a funding structure the federal record only half-covers.** The five payments are fully disclosed: amount, date, payer name, address. What is not on the federal record is where **GOPAC Inc** got $18.8 million, because the payer is a political organisation rather than a federal committee and files its finances elsewhere. The last mile is public; the first mile is not. That is the standard shape of [[Dark Money]] in federal elections, and this is a clean, large, recent instance of it. **The scale is new for this organisation.** GOPAC is historically known as a candidate-training operation rather than a top-tier spender. An $18.8 million September, nearly all of it spent inside the month, places its election fund in the same bracket as the better-known independent-expenditure committees of this cycle. **It is one of the largest single-payer funding blocks on the September monthly reports.** Only a handful of September concentrations recorded here are larger as a share of a committee's income. ## Open questions - The source of GOPAC Inc's $18.8 million; its own tax filings are the route. - The payees behind the $18.4 million of September disbursement. - Whether the October reports show the same monthly pass-through. ## See Also - [[GOPAC]] · [[GOPAC Election Fund]] - [[Dark Money]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Independent Expenditure]] - [[Donor Network Hub]] · [[Deals Hub]] · [[2026 Midterms Hub]]