Which super PACs did American Action Network fund in 2020?

Congressional Leadership Fund ($30M).

Donor

American Action Network

Dark money

30 reported gifts; 1 recipient group listed, as reported to the FEC by the groups that received them.

Attribution unavailable

American Action Network gave $30M to super PACs and other outside groups in the 2020 federal elections (FEC filings with varying coverage dates; the most common larger-campaign cutoff is Dec 31, 2020). Historical gift amounts are retained; outcome estimates are unavailable pending a source rebuild.

Nonprofit tied to the Congressional Leadership Fund. It does not disclose its donors.

Historical gift amounts are retained from the earlier snapshot. Outcome and party estimates are unavailable until the underlying donor records are rebuilt and checked.

Gave to outside spenders

$30M

Winning share of scored dollars

–

$0 scored (0% of gifts)

Spent on the losing side

Not allocated or result unknown

$30M

$0 not allocated to tracked outside spending; $30M has no matched result. Neither is cash on hand.

Where the trail ends

What the IRS sees

The matched IRS record is American Action Network Inc, a 501(c)(4) social welfare group based in Washington, DC. The figures below are organization-level Form 990 amounts. Name matching alone does not establish that every FEC donation came from this entity; review the linked filing and EIN.

IRS filings on ProPublica →

Revenue, 2023

$46M

total reported revenue, including sources other than donations

Spent, 2023

$66M

Assets at year end, 2023

$16M

Tax year	Revenue	Spent	Assets	Filing
2023	$46M	$66M	$16M	990 PDF
2022	$90M	$62M	$31M	990 PDF
2021	$30M	$35M	$3.7M	e-file
2020	$48M	$42M	$8.9M	990 PDF
2019	$29M	$32M	$3.7M	990 PDF
2018	$52M	$51M	$6.5M	990 PDF
2024	filed, not yet digitised			990 PDF

The $30M it gave to super PACs in 2020 is 65% of what it took in during 2023, its latest year on file. The 990 lists what it spent on politics in a single line and leaves every donor blank.

American Action Network also bought $912K of Google and YouTube ads under its own name this cycle. All ad buyers →

Where the cheques went

A nonprofit that does not have to say where its own money came from. The trail ends here. Each gift is split the way the group that received it split its spending between winners and losers, so a $10M cheque to a group that spent 80% on losers counts as $8M on the losing side.

✓ Backed the winner or attacked the loser ✗ Backed the loser or attacked the winner Result not matched

Group	Gave	How the group spent it	Won / lost
Congressional Leadership Fund	$30M		$0 / $0

Dark money as classified from the FEC entity type and public reporting.

Questions people ask

How much did American Action Network spend on the 2020 elections, and did it win?: American Action Network gave $30M to super PACs and other outside groups in the 2020 federal elections (FEC filings with varying coverage dates; the most common larger-campaign cutoff is Dec 31, 2020). Historical gift amounts are retained; outcome estimates are unavailable pending a source rebuild.
Which super PACs did American Action Network fund in 2020?: Congressional Leadership Fund ($30M).