Election ads. Policy campaigns. A citywide ban. Follow three different ways money enters the fight over AI and what gets built.
These figures describe different things—committee contributions, announced support and reported expenditures. They are not an apples-to-apples spending ranking or a combined total.
Election activity
A fundraising hub sends money to other political committees
Leading the Future raises money around an AI-policy agenda. Its associated PACs take that agenda into congressional advertising.
$40 millionContributions to other committeesAugust 15, 2025–June 30, 2026Funding record ↗
The funding
Two individual donors, $25 million
Greg and Anna Brockman each gave $12.5 million in September 2025. Those are personal contributions, not an OpenAI corporate donation.
American Mission and Think Big announced ads in Texas’s 10th and New York’s 12th congressional districts. The pitch links AI leadership with jobs, security and national rules.
The parent committee reported $40 million in contributions to other committees through June 2026. That is a funding flow—not an additional $40 million of ads to add to recipient spending.
Public First Action backs state-level action and opposes a federal freeze without adequate safeguards. Separately, Anthropic’s framework proposes authority to block dangerous frontier-model deployments.
The donor and recipient state their objectives publicly. The reviewed records do not provide a full recipient spending account or establish that these donations caused a legislative outcome.
Yes on Measure NDC disclosed a much smaller campaign budget. Its filings show money going into literature and mailings before the Monterey Park vote.
$20,083Reported total expenditures, including nonmonetary adjustmentCalendar-year total through June 30, 2026Funding record ↗
The funding
$23,019 in reported contributions
The committee’s semiannual statement reports that calendar-year total, including nonmonetary contributions. It is the committee’s account, not a price tag for all opposition in the city.
HMC StratCap withdrew the Saturn Street application before the vote, citing the city’s restrictions. The city later confirmed the voter-adopted prohibition. The record does not isolate the mailings’ effect on voters.