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Network

Each dot is a donor. Lines connect donors who fund the same people.

Edge weight is the Jaccard similarity of recipient sets. Clusters come from the Leiden algorithm. Adjust the edge threshold to see which links survive a higher overlap bar. Click a node for full donor detail.

donors
37
edges
600
communities
3
modularity
0.025
Network reading

The graph is dense, but not a command structure.

Edges mean shared recipients. The useful signal is which donors bridge many recipient sets, which pairs are unusually similar, and which communities survive a higher threshold. Proximity on the canvas is algorithmic similarity, not proof of coordination.

density
90%

Share of possible donor-donor links present at the current export.

top bridge
PRIYA PANDIT

Highest weighted overlap across all donor neighbours.

communities
3

Donor-only groups in the projected graph.

Overlap bridges
  1. PRIYA PANDIT7.4236 linked donors · community 2 · $110,300
  2. ASEEM R MD SHUKLA7.2435 linked donors · community 2 · $67,200
  3. VIKRAM SHESHADRI7.1832 linked donors · community 1 · $23,797
  4. SHRADHA BHUTADA7.1534 linked donors · community 2 · $49,700
  5. BHARAT PALLOD6.9933 linked donors · community 2 · $6,679
Strongest pairs
  1. BHUTADA + PALLOD0.835 shared recipients
  2. BARAI + SHESHADRI0.753 shared recipients
  3. PRABHAKAR + SHESHADRI0.503 shared recipients
Bipartite layer
4 mixed communities

We also run Leiden on the donor-recipient graph itself, not only on the donor projection. That keeps candidates, PACs, and donors in the same structure before any public label is assigned.

SVD explains 72% of the first latent giving axis. Its distance agreement with the current UMAP layout is 0.14, so we treat the layout as a guide, not a claim.
Mixed communities
Community 0
13 donors · 133 recipients

Top recipients: ACTBLUE, KRISHNAMOORTHI, S, FIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE PAC

Community 1
20 donors · 103 recipients

Top recipients: KRISHNAMOORTHI, S. RAJA, HINDU AMERICAN POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, GABBARD, TULSI

Community 2
3 donors · 94 recipients

Top recipients: KHANNA, ROHIT, WINRED, SHERMAN, BRAD

Community 3
1 donors · 16 recipients

Top recipients: JONATHAN JACKSON FOR CONGRESS, KHOT, NEIL, DAVIS FOR CONGRESS/FRIENDS OF DAVIS

Recipient hubs
RecipientDonorsTotal
KRISHNAMOORTHI, S. RAJAcommunity 137$480,945
ACTBLUEcommunity 036$1,442,571
KULKARNI, SRI PRESTONcommunity 119$121,262
GABBARD, TULSIcommunity 119$117,914
KRISHNAMOORTHI, Scommunity 019$66,995
SUBRAMANYAM, SUHAScommunity 118$85,150

Hubs are recipients that connect many cohort donors. They are not labels of influence or intent.

37 nodes · 600 edges
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