Every dollar Barry Finegold's committee has reported taking in and paying out to the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance since 2002 — through a State House career, a statewide run, three years out of office, and a return to the Senate. Roll over any bar for the detail.
Neither side is a steady drip. Money arrives in the eighteen months before an election and leaves in the last eight weeks of it. One year dwarfs the rest: in 2014, the run for state treasurer, the committee raised and spent .
Pick an era and every chart below follows it — where the money came from, how big the checks were, who wrote them, and where it went.
This is not a small-dollar operation. Gifts under $100 are of the money from individuals. Gifts written at exactly the legal ceiling are of it.
Massachusetts caps what one person may give a candidate in a calendar year. The ceiling was $500 for most of this record and is $1,000 now — and the two spikes in this chart sit exactly on those two numbers. Registered lobbyists have a separate, lower cap of $200: of the 276 gifts from self-described lobbyists are for exactly that.
Occupation is self-reported on the filing, and of the money arrives with the field blank or unreadable. What is stated leans heavily commercial — owners, developers, lawyers and bankers.
of everything raised comes from a Massachusetts address, and of it — — comes from Andover alone, the senator's home town.
Of payees, the largest single one across 25 years is a printer.
Committee and PAC money is of everything raised — across 700 gifts. No single one is large; they arrive steadily, year after year, in a few hundred dollars at a time.
Massachusetts bars business corporations from giving to candidates (M.G.L. c. 55, § 8), so Anthropic PBC, the AI company, appears nowhere in this account as a donor. Its employees do. Starting in August 2026, 15 of them gave Finegold $13,241.08. None lists a Massachusetts address. Before August 12, nobody who named Anthropic as an employer had ever given to this committee.
Statewide, 31 Anthropic employees gave $305,134 to Massachusetts committees this year (none of their 211 gifts from a Massachusetts address). The top four candidates got the identical $13,241.08 from the identical 15 people: Finegold, Senate President Spilka, Speaker Mariano and House Ways & Means chair Michlewitz.
Three employees each gave Finegold $642.86. That is $9,000 divided by 14 — and those same three people gave the same $642.85–$642.86 to a dozen or more other lawmakers. Another gave $312.50 to Finegold and the same $312.50 to a dozen others. Amounts like these are what a fixed sum split evenly across a pre-set list of recipients looks like, not separate decisions about separate legislators.
Why him: Finegold chairs the Senate's Economic Development committee, filed the Senate's frontier-AI safety bill (S.37, reported as S.2630), and is one of the negotiators on the 2026 economic development bill that carries AI rules Anthropic supports.
| Date | Donor | Home | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/12/2026 | Steven BillsAI researcher | San Francisco, CA | $1,000.00 |
| 8/12/2026 | Andrew CallahanMember of Technical Staff | Oakland, CA | $1,000.00 |
| 8/12/2026 | Brian ChenResearch Engineer | San Francisco, CA | $1,000.00 |
| 8/12/2026 | Rishi GuptaMember of Technical Staff | San Francisco, CA | $1,000.00 |
| 8/12/2026 | Adam JermynResearch Scientist | Sanford, NC | $1,000.00 |
| 8/12/2026 | Raphael LeeMember of Technical Staff | Oakland, CA | $642.86 |
| 8/12/2026 | Tao LinMember of Technical Staff | North Miami, FL | $642.86 |
| 8/12/2026 | Michael LucyMember of Technical Staff | Covina, CA | $1,000.00 |
| 8/12/2026 | Todor MarkovMember of Technical Staff | San Francisco, CA | $1,000.00 |
| 8/12/2026 | Ross NordbyMember of Technical Staff | Chicago, IL | $642.86 |
| 8/19/2026 | Daniel ZieglerMachine Learning Researcher | San Francisco, CA | $1,000.00 |
| 9/2/2026 | Kyle FishTPM | Berkeley, CA | $312.50 |
| 9/10/2026 | Monty EvansMember of Technical Staff | Manhattan, NY | $1,000.00 |
| 9/16/2026 | Evan HubingerResearch Scientist | Alameda, CA | $1,000.00 |
| 9/16/2026 | Sylvia HurlimannMember of Technical Staff | San Francisco, CA | $1,000.00 |
Every gift is legal on its face: an individual, under the $1,000 cap, fully disclosed. Nothing in the filings shows the company directed, organized or reimbursed them. Anthropic told the Boston Globe: “Employees' donations are personal and not company-directed.” Finegold's Republican opponent, Ted Semesnyei, told State House News: “Is this part of a combined effort to let Anthropic write the rules of the road?” What the filings do show is the pattern above — the money a company may not give arriving instead from its staff, on the same days, in the same amounts, to the same lawmakers.
Two gifts (Sept 16) post-date this page's main ledger cut-off of Sept 10 and are not in the totals above it. Sources: OCPF filer 13045 (pulled Oct 11, 2026) · Boston Globe, Aug 28 · State House News · S.2630
The charts above stop at the top ten or twelve. This searches the whole filing — donors and payees. Donors are grouped to one row per person per town, so the total is everything they have given across all years. Type a name, a town, an employer or a trade.
Everything here is drawn from public OCPF disclosure filings. Street addresses and ZIP codes are in those filings but are deliberately not carried into this page — town and state only.
Two OCPF exports for CPF ID 13045, : receipt rows and expenditure rows, drawn from filed reports, bank reports, deposit reports, credit-card reports, payroll reports and reimbursement reports.
Both streams carry parent lines alongside the sub-items that itemize them, so counting every row would
double-count. Where a summary line and its itemization both appear, the itemized detail is kept and the
summary dropped. Spending categories and donor trades are assigned from the stated purpose, payee,
occupation and employer; what the filing does not say is labelled
Other / not stated rather than guessed at.
“Raised” means money from other people. The candidate's own contributions, his $150,000 loan to the committee in 2014, transfers in from another of his committees, and in-kind goods and services are each held out and counted separately — they are real receipts, but they are not fundraising, and in-kind is not cash at all.
Figures are net of refunds and returned contributions. Dates are as reported. Donor counts are by name as filed, so spelling variants may split one person across two rows. This describes a public filing record; it is not an audit of one.