San Francisco law requires persons who earn $1,000 or more per year for campaign consultant services to register with the Ethics Commission and file quarterly activity reports. The Regulation of Campaign Consultants Ordinance defines “campaign consultant” as a person or entity that receives or is promised $1,000 or more in a calendar year for either campaign management or campaign strategy. Learn more about campaign consultants on the guidance page.
Campaign Consultant Datasets (2025 – present)
The DataSF datasets linked below contain filing data from campaign consultant electronic filings starting on January 2025.
Client authorization and termination statements
Use this dataset to view a history of client information for consultants.
SFEC Campaign Consultant Client Authorization and Termination Statement
Reports: Registration, Re-registration, Quarterly, Termination
All four reports are combined into a single dataset. Use the “ReportType” column to filter by report type.
SFEC Campaign Consultant Report
Subsections of the report that require table entries appear in separate datasets. The following datasets present a combined view of the separate datasets and the main report dataset:
- SFEC Campaign Consultant Report – Employees
- SFEC Campaign Consultant Report – Clients
- SFEC Campaign Consultant Report – Political Contributions
- SFEC Campaign Consultant Report – Gifts
- SFEC Campaign Consultant Report – Vendors
- SFEC Campaign Consultant Report – City Officeholders & Employees
- SFEC Campaign Consultant Report – City Contracts
- SFEC Campaign Consultant Report – City Appointments
Historical Datasets (2006 – 2024)
Between the enactment of the Campaign Consultant law and January 2025, statements were filed with the Ethics Commission on paper or in scanned paper format. The datasets of filings from this era are made available on SF OpenData. The datasets can be downloaded to many common formats including Excel, CSV, and JSON.
The filings dataset contains a record of the reports filed and a scanned copy of the filing in PDF format. The dataset covers the period 2006-2024.
The datasets linked below are presented for historical purposes, and cover the period of 2014-2023. Pertinent sections of the paper filings were manually transcribed into a series of machine-readable datasets on a quarterly basis.
- Campaign Consultants and Employees
- Campaign Consultants and Clients
- Client Payments
- Vendor Payments
- Political Contributions
- Appointments to Public Office
- Employment of Local Officeholders and City Employees
- Count of campaign consultants filing during each reporting period