WelcomePAC is a federally registered hybrid PAC in the Welcome ecosystem. In this repository it matters as a high-dollar electoral-support organization that has direct prior CO-05 evidence for Joe Reagan, official donor-row context through OpenFEC, and a newly relevant adjacency to Jessica Killin through The Promise to America / The Welcome Party public-page record.
- FEC committee ID:
C00786830
- OpenFEC name:
WELCOMEPAC
- OpenFEC designation/type: unauthorized hybrid PAC with non-contribution account, qualified
- Welcome about-page description: federally authorized hybrid PAC focused on identifying and backing pragmatic Democrats running for federal office
- 2026 OpenFEC totals in the retained screen:
$3,156,318.28 receipts, $2,509,926.66 disbursements, and $327,738.64 independent expenditures through 2026-05-31
- Current Killin-specific boundary: a July 6 screen of WelcomePAC Schedule E rows for Jessica Killin candidate ID
H6CO05324 returned 0 rows for the 2026 cycle
The retained OpenFEC top-amount Schedule A screens support high-dollar donor context for WelcomePAC. The 2022 first page includes large rows from Reid Hoffman and Walton/Penner-family names. The 2024 first page includes Samuel R. Walton, Reid Hoffman, Americans Together Inc., Kathryn Murdoch, James Murdoch, Rory Gates, Michael R. Bloomberg, S. Robson Walton, and Christy Walton.
Those rows support a high-dollar donor environment and include several donor identities commonly associated with billionaire or billionaire-family wealth. The FEC rows themselves do not classify wealth status, and they do not prove that those donors funded Jessica Killin, influenced Killin, controlled WelcomePAC, directed any specific expenditure, or created a policy exchange.
- WelcomePAC and The Welcome Party are separate named entities in Welcome's own public structure.
- Welcome.team says it is paid for in part by WelcomePAC; that statement should not be automatically applied to the Promise domain unless a direct paid-for disclosure or other source supports it.
- WelcomePAC direct contributions or independent expenditures for a candidate are different evidence classes from The Welcome Party authoring a public signatory page.
- For Jessica Killin, current evidence supports a Promise/The Welcome Party policy and coalition signal, not a WelcomePAC money edge.
- For Joe Reagan, existing repo evidence supports distinct Welcome Party income/title leads, a WelcomeStack endorsement, direct WelcomePAC committee contributions, and WelcomePAC independent-expenditure support in 2024.
¶ Evidence and source basis
- a locally retained article from welcome.team, captured 2026-04-15T23:09:00-06:00, titled Welcome and WelcomeStack about pages: preserves official Welcome ecosystem structure.
- a locally retained website from www.thepromisetoamerica.com, captured 2026-07-05T20:43:00-06:00, titled Promise to America and Welcome public-page context: preserves current Welcome about/elect pages and Promise pages.
- a locally retained dataset from api.open.fec.gov, captured 2026-07-05T20:41:00-06:00, titled WelcomePAC OpenFEC donor and Killin-specific support screen: preserves OpenFEC identity, totals, donor top-amount screens, and the Killin-specific Schedule E null check.
- Joe Reagan Welcome ecosystem and endorsements, 2024-2026: preserves prior CO-05 Welcome relationship boundaries for Joe Reagan.
- Whether WelcomePAC files later 2026 independent-expenditure, communication-cost, direct-contribution, or other rows involving Jessica Killin or CO-05.
- Whether the Promise to America site has a separate paid-for disclosure, legal sponsor, signatory agreement, or candidate questionnaire not visible in the current capture.
- Whether a full donor ledger or identity-resolved donor analysis is needed for publication-grade statements about billionaire or high-net-worth funding.
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