How this works
What's covered
Statements of Financial Interests filed with the State Ethics Commission for calendar years 2023–2025 by the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Attorney General, the Treasurer, the Auditor General, the 253 members of the General Assembly, and the 2026 candidates for those offices; the Department of State's candidate lists for the May 19 primary and the November 3 general; campaign contributions, expenditures and debts reported to the Department of State; and the General Assembly's 2025–26 bills and floor votes. Judges file with the courts' administrative office, which doesn't publish their statements, so they aren't here.
Where it comes from
- State Ethics Commission eLibrary (ethicsrulings.pa.gov): each filer's folder and statements. An e-filed statement comes with the form's fields; a paper one is a scan. We link every statement to the original there.
- Department of State: the candidate lists (downloaded from its voter services site), and the yearly campaign finance export (filers, contributions, expenditures, debts, other receipts). We keep the latest amendment of each report, so the same money isn't counted twice.
- The General Assembly (palegis.us): its members, the session's bill history, and every floor roll call with each member's vote.
How a statement is read
An e-filed statement's fields are mapped to the form's blocks: creditors, sources of income, gifts (with their value), transportation, lodging and hospitality (with their value), offices in businesses, financial interests of more than 5%, and interests transferred. The filer's own address and phone are never shown, and neither are street addresses of anyone they list (a creditor or giver can be a private person): only the city and state.
A paper statement is read by OCR, block by block. We publish only what was read with confidence and say which blocks couldn't be read; handwriting often can't. The scan is always one click away, and it's the record.
The form asks who, not how much: there are no values for income, holdings or debts, and no net worth.
Matching people
Members come from the General Assembly's site; candidates from the Department of State's lists. A candidate is the same person as a member when the seat and the name agree. Statements are found in the Ethics Commission's folders by name (surname, a compatible first name, and middle initials that don't disagree); campaign committees by the candidate's filer number, or by the name and seat their reports give. A name that fits more than one person is left unmatched rather than guessed.
Donors
A donor is a contributor as the candidates' committees report them: a person by name and ZIP code, anyone else by name, cleaned of spelling differences and merged where we've checked that two spellings are the same donor. A company and its PAC are separate donors. Pennsylvania has no contribution limits; corporations and unions may not give from their treasuries (their PACs may). Pages for individual donors aren't offered to search engines.
Home values
An e-filed Statement of Financial Interests gives the filer's address (block 02 allows a home or an office address). We look that address up in the county's own assessment records, in the counties covered so far:
- Philadelphia: the Office of Property Assessment's market value (its open property data). Shown in $100,000 steps.
- Allegheny, Chester, Lancaster, Lehigh and Montgomery: the county's assessment (its public parcel data), times the county's Common Level Ratio factor from the Department of Revenue, the State Tax Equalization Board's average of sale prices against assessments. These counties assess on old base years, so this is an estimate: the factor is a county-wide average and one house can be well off it. Shown in $250,000 steps, and marked as an estimate.
Only residential parcels count. An office address, a post office box, an address outside the person's county, or a building with several units when no unit was filed gives no value. Paper statements aren't used, and other counties aren't covered yet.
The value is shown only as a range (the steps above up to $1 million, then $250,000 steps to $2 million, $500,000 steps to $5 million, then “over $5 million”). Addresses, parcel numbers and exact values aren't published. A range is a rough figure, not an appraisal.
The rules
Lobbying gifts not on the statement Worth a look
A principal's lobbying report names the official as receiving gifts or hospitality that the official's statement for the year doesn't list.
Limits: Only a year's total from one principal that the statement has to list ($250 in gifts, over $650 in hospitality). Compared by the distinctive words of the principal's name, and the affiliates in sources/lobbying.yaml: a gift listed under another name (a parent company, a lobbying firm, the charity that got it) can read as missing; check the statement. A paper statement counts only when the filer ticked none for both blocks.
“identify, by name, position and each occurrence, a State official or employee who receives from a principal or lobbyist anything of value which must be included in the statement under section 1105(b)(6) or (7)”65 Pa.C.S. § 13A05(b)(3) ✓ quoted from the saved copy
Filed after the May 1 deadline Worth a look
Officials file by May 1 for the calendar year before.
Limits: E-filed statements only (a scan's library date is when it was scanned), more than a day after May 1 (a statement posted on May 2 may be the library's date). Extensions aren't recorded.
“Each public official of the Commonwealth shall file a statement of financial interests for the preceding calendar year with the commission no later than May 1 of each year that he holds such a position”65 Pa.C.S. § 1104(a) ✓ quoted from the saved copy
An amended statement Context
Amendments correct a statement.
Limits:
Gifts, travel and hospitality listed Context
Pennsylvania has no gift limit; what officials receive is disclosed.
Limits: Gifts under $250 from a source in a year, and travel or hospitality of $650 or less, aren't reportable.
“The name and address of the source and the amount of any gift or gifts valued in the aggregate at $250 or more and the circumstances of each gift.”65 Pa.C.S. § 1105(b)(6) ✓ quoted from the saved copy
Campaign donors also on the statement Context
Who pays an official, lends to them or gives them gifts, and also funds their campaign.
Limits: Matched by cleaned name: two organizations can share a name.
No statement found Worth a look
Officials and state-level candidates file a statement every year.
Limits: We look in the Ethics Commission's online library under the person's name: a statement filed under a different name, or not yet posted, isn't found.
“Any candidate for a State-level public office shall file a statement of financial interests for the preceding calendar year with the commission on or before the last day for filing a petition to appear on the ballot for election.”65 Pa.C.S. § 1104(b)(1) ✓ quoted from the saved copy
Snapshot built 2026-10-16T03:23:20+00:00; statement reader sfi-2; campaign data loaded 2026-10-16T03:14:41+00:00.