# Purple Good Government PAC **Purple Good Government PAC** is the political committee [[David Sacks]] uses to move his own money into campaigns. It registered with the [[Federal Election Commission]] on November 23, 2021, as Purple PAC, with Sacks's financial adviser [[James Kull]] as treasurer. Through September 2026 it had raised $3.16 million, and $3 million of that came from Sacks and his wife, Jacqueline. **Why it matters:** The committee is a pass-through for one household's political money. When it pays another group, that group's donor list shows the committee's name, not Sacks's. In June 2026 it sent $1 million to [[MAGA Inc]], three days after the Sackses put $2 million in and two months after Sacks stepped down as White House AI and crypto czar. ## At a glance | Item | Detail | |---|---| | FEC ID | C00795534 | | Type | [[Hybrid PAC]], not tied to any candidate | | Registered | November 23, 2021, as Purple PAC | | Treasurer | [[James Kull]] from November 2021; Cabell Hobbs since an amended filing on October 27, 2022 | | Based | Austin, Texas | | Raised | $3,158,497.50, from 2021 through September 30, 2026 | | Spent | $2,124,420.41 | | Cash on hand | $1,034,077.09 on September 30, 2026 | News reports often call it a super PAC. It works like one for its large gifts, which pass through an account that can take unlimited sums. It also keeps a conventional account that gives capped contributions directly to candidates. All figures on this page come from the committee's own FEC reports unless another source is named. ## Who funds it | Cycle | Total receipts | From David and Jacqueline Sacks | Other donors | |---|---|---|---| | 2021–22 | $780,275.00 | $625,000 | [[EarthLink]] founder [[Sky Dayton]], [[BeachMint]] founder [[Diego Berdakin]] and the [[Dohring Family Trust]], $50,000 each; two $2,500 gifts, one of them from James Kull | | 2023–24 | $377,900.00 | $375,000 | None; the balance is a refunded contribution | | 2025–26, through September 30 | $2,000,322.50 | $2,000,000 | None | | **Total** | **$3,158,497.50** | **$3,000,000** | | The Sackses give in matched pairs, each writing the same amount, usually on the same day. Each has put in $1.5 million. No one outside the household has given since April 2022. The largest gifts by far came on May 29, 2026, when each of them gave $1,000,000. That one day brought in more than the committee had raised in its first four and a half years. ## Where the money goes | Date | Recipient | Amount | What it is | |---|---|---|---| | March–April 2022 | Sens. [[Marco Rubio]], John Kennedy of Louisiana and [[Kyrsten Sinema]] | $5,800 each | Candidate contributions; Sinema's campaign refunded $2,900 in November 2024 | | April 13, 2022 | Friends of Ron DeSantis | $100,000 | The Florida committee behind [[Ron DeSantis]]'s reelection as governor | | September 21 and October 28, 2022 | [[Saving Arizona PAC]] | $500,000 | Super PAC backing [[Blake Masters]] for Senate, paid in two halves | | October 21, 2022 | [[Congressional Leadership Fund]] | $50,000 | The main outside group for House Republicans | | October 26, 2022 | Catalina for Congress | $2,900 | Republican House candidate Catalina Lauf of Illinois | | June 27, 2023 | Common Sense | $93,400 | A PAC that reported its own contributions to the Kennedy campaign | | June 27, 2023 | Team Kennedy | $6,600 | [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr]]'s presidential campaign | | March 13, 2024 | Buckeye Values PAC | $93,400 | Super PAC in Ohio's Senate race; Axios reported that [[JD Vance]] helped arrange the gift for [[Bernie Moreno]] | | March 13, 2024 | Bernie Moreno for Senate | $6,600 | Candidate contribution | | November 24, 2025 | Team Hagerty and Senate Eagle PAC | $12,000 | Sen. [[Bill Hagerty]]'s campaign ($7,000) and his [[Leadership PAC]] ($5,000) | | June 1, 2026 | [[MAGA Inc]] | $1,000,000 | [[Donald Trump]]'s super PAC, which reported receiving it on June 2 | Those payments come to about $1.88 million, or 89 percent of everything the committee has spent. All but about $106,000 went to Republicans or Republican-aligned groups. The exceptions are Sinema, who was then a Democrat, and the Kennedy gifts, made while he was running in the Democratic primary. Most of the remaining $242,000 paid for consultants, compliance and legal work. The largest vendor is Bay Strategies LLC, a Washington firm paid about $162,000 between October 2022 and April 2025, most of it as a $5,000 monthly retainer for political strategy consulting. CNBC reported in 2023 that the filings do not say who runs the firm, and traced it to Washington lobbyists. ## The 2026 sequence - **March 26, 2026:** Sacks steps down as White House AI and crypto czar. - **May 29:** David and Jacqueline Sacks each give the committee $1,000,000. Of each gift, $5,000 goes to the capped account and $995,000 to the unlimited one. - **June 1:** The committee sends $1,000,000 to [[MAGA Inc]]. - **September 30:** The committee holds $1,034,077.09, more than it had ever raised in a full two-year cycle. Its reports through that date show no other large payment. ## How it started Puck reported in 2023 that Sacks had Kull set the committee up in late 2021 to back moderate candidates in both parties. The first registration gave an address on Westlake Drive in Austin, which is also the office address of Kull's firm, Cypress Point Wealth Management. Kull signed the committee's reports until October 2022. The New Republic drew the first wide attention to the committee in October 2022, noting that its early donors came from Sacks's own network. In July 2022 Sacks and Kull also set up [[Purple Action Inc]], a nonprofit that does not have to name its donors. The giving record since then runs almost entirely to Republicans. ## Connections - [[David Sacks]] · [[Sacks Political Donations Timeline]] · [[David Sacks Political Donations]] - [[James Kull]] · [[Purple Action Inc]] - [[Sky Dayton]] · [[Diego Berdakin]] · [[Dohring Family Trust]] - [[MAGA Inc]] · [[Saving Arizona PAC]] · [[Congressional Leadership Fund]] - [[Hybrid PAC]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Political Action Committee]]