Contribution rules and disclosures

Federal law limits who may contribute. Before every contribution you affirm that:

• This contribution is made from my own funds, and funds are not being provided to me by another person or entity for the purpose of making this contribution.
• I am making this contribution with my own personal credit card and not with a corporate or business card or a card issued to another person.
• I am at least eighteen years old.
• I am a U.S. citizen or lawfully admitted permanent resident (i.e., green card holder).
• This contribution is not made from the general treasury funds of a corporation, labor organization or national bank.
• I am not a federal government contractor.

Foreign nationals without permanent residence, corporations, labor organizations, national banks and federal government contractors may not contribute. Nobody may contribute in another person's name.

Your payment is a contribution to Watershed Giving, a federal political committee acting as a conduit, earmarked for each committee you select. Watershed Giving forwards each earmarked contribution to that committee within the time federal law requires and reports it, both as received and as forwarded, to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). A contribution earmarked for a joint fundraising committee is divided among its participating committees by the allocation formula shown on that page, and each share counts toward your limit with that participant.

Federal law limits how much one person may give to each committee: to a candidate's committee, per election (a primary and a general election count separately); to a PAC or party committee, per calendar year. Each page shows the limit for every committee on it and how much room you have left, counting what you have given through Watershed Giving across all pages.

Contributions you made elsewhere (directly, or through another platform) count against the same limits. Your account shows contributions the FEC reports under your name, matched by name and address, so some may belong to someone else and some of yours may be missing. Keeping your total within the limits is your responsibility.

Federal law requires political committees to use their best efforts to collect and report the name, mailing address, occupation and employer of each person whose contributions aggregate more than $200 in an election cycle or calendar year. We ask every contributor for this information. Watershed Giving reports earmarked contributions and the contributor's information to the FEC, and the committees that receive them report them too. These reports are public.

Information about contributors in FEC reports may not be sold or used by any person to solicit contributions or for any commercial purpose.

Contributions to Watershed Giving and to the committees you select are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.

About a contribution or these rules: the mailing address on Watershed Giving's Statement of Organization at the FEC. About federal election law in general: the FEC's information line, 1-800-424-9530, or fec.gov.