San Francisco Campaign Finance Filings Received by SFEC

Filings are updated nightly via a script that checks for new submissions starting at midnight Pacific time. This dataset lists campaign filings received by the San Francisco Ethics Commission (SFEC), including state FPPC forms and local SFEC forms. Data is presented as-filed by committees.

Use Cases

• Track campaign filing activity based on nightly update process.
• Analyze committee name changes over time based on 'Filer Name' field.
• Identify amendment filings that supersede prior transactions.
• Distinguish between accepted and rejected filings based on error status.
• Cross-reference paper filings that are absent from related transaction datasets.

Strengths

• Includes filings for multiple specific forms (FPPC 410, 450, 460, 461, 465, 470, 496, 497 and SFEC 161, 162, 163).
• Update process runs nightly to incorporate new filings.
• Data is linked to related datasets for filers, summary totals, and transactions.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

City of San Francisco

Collection Method

Committees file campaign statements with the Ethics Commission; data is presented as-filed.

Freshness

Updated nightly; last metadata update was 2026-03-22 04:20:02.687296.

Geography

San Francisco