Which super PACs did Center Forward fund in 2020?

Center Forward Committee ($3.0M).

Donor

Center Forward

Dark money

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

Attribution unavailable

Center Forward gave $3.0M 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 that 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

$3.0M

Winning share of scored dollars

–

$0 scored (0% of gifts)

Spent on the losing side

Not allocated or result unknown

$3.0M

$0 not allocated to tracked outside spending; $3.0M has no matched result. Neither is cash on hand.

Where the trail ends

What the IRS sees

The matched IRS record is Center Forward, a 501(c)(4) social welfare group based in Mclean, VA. 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

$13M

total reported revenue, including sources other than donations

Spent, 2023

$12M

Assets at year end, 2023

$5.5M

Tax year	Revenue	Spent	Assets	Filing
2023	$13M	$12M	$5.5M	990 PDF
2022	$14M	$13M	$4.6M	990 PDF
2021	$19M	$17M	$3.7M	990 PDF
2020	$11M	$9.9M	$1.5M	990 PDF
2019	$5.0M	$4.6M	$724K	e-file
2018	$6.4M	$6.3M	$303K	990 PDF
2024	filed, not yet digitised			990 PDF

The $3.0M it gave to super PACs in 2020 is 23% 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.

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
Center Forward Committee	$3.0M		$0 / $0

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

Questions people ask

How much did Center Forward spend on the 2020 elections, and did it win?: Center Forward gave $3.0M 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 Center Forward fund in 2020?: Center Forward Committee ($3.0M).