Which super PACs did Yaron Minsky fund in 2020?

Unite the Country ($1.0M), DSCC ($36K).

Which candidates did Yaron Minsky's money end up backing or attacking in 2020?

for Joe Biden (President, about $437K, won); for Joe Biden (President, about $307K, won); against Donald Trump (President, about $21K, lost). Amounts are the donor's share of each group's spending.

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Yaron Minsky

Individual

Programmer, Jane Street Capital, LLC · New York

2 reported gifts; 2 recipient groups listed, as reported to the FEC by the groups that received them.

Backed winners

Yaron Minsky gave $1.0M to super PACs and other outside groups in the 2020 federal elections, and 100% of it helped Democrats (FEC filings with varying coverage dates; the most common larger-campaign cutoff is Dec 31, 2020). Among dollars with a matched election-stage result, 96% were on the winning side ($752K won, $30K lost). $0 had no matched result and is excluded.

Gave to outside spenders

$1.0M

100% of it helped Democrats

Winning share of scored dollars

96%

$782K scored (76% of gifts)

Spent on the losing side

$30K

Not allocated or result unknown

$253K

$253K not allocated to tracked outside spending; $0 has no matched result. Neither is cash on hand.

Where the checks went

A person writing checks from their own fortune. Each gift is split the way the group that received it split its spending between winners and losers, so a $10M check 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
Unite the Country $228K not allocated to tracked outside spending	$1.0M		$751K / $21K
DSCC $25K not allocated to tracked outside spending	$36K		$2K / $9K

The trail

What the money bought

The candidates Yaron Minsky's money was spent for or against, pro-rated by Yaron Minsky's share of each group's funding.

Candidate	Race	Spending	Their share	Paid off?
Joe Biden	President	Supporting	$437K	✓ Yes
Joe Biden	President (primary)	Supporting	$307K	✓ Yes
Donald Trump	President (primary)	Attacking	$21K	✗ No
Donald Trump	President	Attacking	$7K	✓ Yes
Joni Ernst	Iowa Senate	Attacking	$3K	✗ No
Thom Tilllis	North Carolina Senate	Attacking	$3K	✗ No
Steve Daines	Montana Senate	Attacking	$2K	✗ No
Martha McSally	Arizona Senate	Attacking	$745	✓ Yes
Susan Margaret Collins	Maine Senate	Attacking	$532	✗ No
Kelly Loeffler	Georgia Senate (special)	Attacking	$441	✓ Yes
David A. Perdue	Georgia Senate	Attacking	$441	✓ Yes
Steve Bullock	Montana Senate	Supporting	$187	✗ No

Individual as classified from the FEC entity type and public reporting.

Questions people ask

How much did Yaron Minsky spend on the 2020 elections, and did it win?: Yaron Minsky gave $1.0M to super PACs and other outside groups in the 2020 federal elections, and 100% of it helped Democrats (FEC filings with varying coverage dates; the most common larger-campaign cutoff is Dec 31, 2020). Among dollars with a matched election-stage result, 96% were on the winning side ($752K won, $30K lost). $0 had no matched result and is excluded.
Which super PACs did Yaron Minsky fund in 2020?: Unite the Country ($1.0M), DSCC ($36K).
Which candidates did Yaron Minsky's money end up backing or attacking in 2020?: for Joe Biden (President, about $437K, won); for Joe Biden (President, about $307K, won); against Donald Trump (President, about $21K, lost). Amounts are the donor's share of each group's spending.