Which super PACs did Max Stone fund in 2024?

Forward Majority Action ($1.0M), Project 218 ($500K).

Which candidates did Max Stone's money end up backing or attacking in 2024?

for Josh Riley (New York 19th District, about $82K, won); for Susan Wild (Pennsylvania 7th District, about $60K, lost); for Kamala Harris (President, about $44K, lost). Amounts are the donor's share of each group's spending.

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Max Stone

Individual

Managing Director, De Shaw · Massachusetts

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

Mixed results

Max Stone gave $1.5M to super PACs and other outside groups in the 2024 federal elections, and 100% of it helped Democrats (FEC filings with varying coverage dates; the most common larger-campaign cutoff is Dec 31, 2024). Among dollars with a matched election-stage result, 37% were on the winning side ($126K won, $215K lost). $0 had no matched result and is excluded.

Gave to outside spenders

$1.5M

100% of it helped Democrats

Winning share of scored dollars

37%

$341K scored (23% of gifts)

Spent on the losing side

$215K

Not allocated or result unknown

$1.2M

$1.2M 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
Forward Majority Action $956K not allocated to tracked outside spending	$1.0M		$0 / $44K
Project 218 $203K not allocated to tracked outside spending	$500K		$126K / $171K

The trail

What the money bought

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

Candidate	Race	Spending	Their share	Paid off?
Josh Riley	New York 19th District	Supporting	$82K	✓ Yes
Susan Wild	Pennsylvania 7th District	Supporting	$60K	✗ No
Kamala Harris	President	Supporting	$44K	✗ No
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez	Washington 3rd District	Supporting	$38K	✓ Yes
Kirsten Engel	Arizona 6th District	Supporting	$27K	✗ No
Amish Shah	Arizona 1st District	Supporting	$27K	✗ No
Lanon Baccam	Iowa 3rd District	Supporting	$17K	✗ No
Rebecca Cooke	Wisconsin 3rd District	Supporting	$16K	✗ No
Adam Frisch	Colorado 3rd District	Supporting	$13K	✗ No
Christina Bohannan	Iowa 1st District	Supporting	$5K	✗ No
Sean Casten	Illinois 6th District	Supporting	$2K	✓ Yes
Bill Foster	Illinois 11th District	Supporting	$2K	✓ Yes

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

Questions people ask

How much did Max Stone spend on the 2024 elections, and did it win?: Max Stone gave $1.5M to super PACs and other outside groups in the 2024 federal elections, and 100% of it helped Democrats (FEC filings with varying coverage dates; the most common larger-campaign cutoff is Dec 31, 2024). Among dollars with a matched election-stage result, 37% were on the winning side ($126K won, $215K lost). $0 had no matched result and is excluded.
Which super PACs did Max Stone fund in 2024?: Forward Majority Action ($1.0M), Project 218 ($500K).
Which candidates did Max Stone's money end up backing or attacking in 2024?: for Josh Riley (New York 19th District, about $82K, won); for Susan Wild (Pennsylvania 7th District, about $60K, lost); for Kamala Harris (President, about $44K, lost). Amounts are the donor's share of each group's spending.