The intelligence layer above your CRM

Where money meets policy, before it's news.

Legislative View traces the chain from IRS Form 990 grants to state-committee bill positions to cross-state copycat legislation, and links every claim to a primary source.

Public records only. Every figure traces to the document it came from.

One traced chain 3 primary sources
Texas Appleseed
Grantmaker · EIN 74-2804268
grants $10,0001
Consumer Federation of America
Advocacy organization
testifies in support2
CA AB 1018
Automated decision systems
81% match → WI
IRS Form 990 · 2023 CA committee record Enrolled bill text

Built entirely on public records

IRS Form 990 State legislatures Committee records FEC ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
50
States covered
$35.9B
Grant dollars traced
52,315
Recipient nonprofits
4,409
Sourced bill positions

How it works

Three connections a bill-tracking CRM can't make.

Summarizing bill text is table stakes now. The valuable work is connecting a bill to the organizations testifying on it, those organizations to the funders behind them, and that bill to its copies in other states. We make those connections continuously, each one provable from a primary document.

Step 1

Follow the money.

Every IRS Form 990 Schedule I line item (grantor, recipient, amount) joined through our organization registry to positions on the bills you watch. No inference between the steps.

$35.9B
in tracked grants to 52,315 recipient nonprofits
Step 2

See the coalition.

Coalition maps rank organizations by sustained engagement across every in-scope bill, so single-shot testifiers don't crowd out the operators with durable interest.

2,147
organizations across 4,409 official position records
Step 3

Track model legislation.

Sentence-transformer scoring across all 50 states surfaces boilerplate the same week it spreads, with a cross-state filter so in-state sibling bills don't create noise.

9,640
cross-state template matches scored above threshold

The deliverable

A brief where every sentence is a footnote.

No black-box relevance score. Each claim carries a numbered citation to the primary document behind it: the IRS filing, the committee record, the enrolled bill. Audit any line.

IRS 990 Schedule I Committee testimony Enrolled bill text
Legislative Brief: CA AB 1018Sourced

Consumer Federation of America testified in support of CA AB 10181, the year after receiving a $10,000 grant from Texas Appleseed2.

The bill carries 441 documented positions on file: 185 in support, 256 opposed3.

Substantially identical language later appeared in a Wisconsin bill, an 81% text match4.

1 CA Assembly committee analysis, 2024
2 IRS Form 990 Schedule I, Texas Appleseed, TY2023
3 CA Assembly & Senate committee analyses
4 Pairwise sentence-transformer, 384-dim cosine

Sourced, not summarized

Ask a black box, or ask a paper trail.

A generic AI tracker hands you a confident answer and a "97% relevance" badge you can't inspect. We hand you the same answer with the primary source under every clause.

A generic AI tracker

"Who's behind CA AB 1018, and is it spreading?"

AB 1018 regulates automated decision systems and appears connected to advocacy groups and to similar bills in other states.

97% relevance · methodology not shown

Legislative View

"Who's behind CA AB 1018, and is it spreading?"

Consumer Federation of America testified for it, funded $10,000 by Texas Appleseed the prior year.

441 documented positions on file: 185 support, 256 oppose.

81% text match to a Wisconsin bill: model language, two states.

Similarity all-MiniLM-L6-v2 · 384-dim cosine

Every cell in the brief works this way. Pick any number and we'll send the SQL.

WA HB 2225 vs WI AB 965 81% text match
Washington
Wisconsin

Amber = passages that match, line for line, across state lines.

Cross-state copycats

The same model bill, two states, months apart.

When boilerplate that lost in one state resurfaces in another, the lead time to respond is everything. We score every bill against all 50 states and surface the match the week it spreads. No competitor tracks this.

9,640 cross-state matches scored to date

How our data works

Provenance is the product.

Every source below is an official public record. We do the joining; the documents do the proving. If a claim can't be sourced, it renders unverified, never as fact.

IRS Form 990s

Schedule I & PF grant line items (grantor, recipient, amount, year) parsed from filing images.

State legislatures

Bill text, sponsors, amendment history and committee position records across all 50 states.

FEC & disclosures

Campaign-finance and lobbying disclosure records, linked into the same organization registry.

Continuously refreshed

The chain rebuilds as new filings, rosters and committee records publish, not a one-time snapshot.

Built for whom

For the buyers a legislative CRM can't serve.

Quorum, Phone2Action, and FiscalNote serve in-house GR teams running outreach. We serve the researchers and analysts a step removed, whose job is to understand the landscape before anyone in it gets contacted.

Investigative journalists

Cite the funder network in a publishable piece.

A footnoted paper trail from grant to recipient to bill testimony, with the IRS 990 filing-image URL on every dollar. A CRM's outbox doesn't help.

Hedge-fund policy analysts

Predict bill spread before the market does.

When model legislation from one state appears in three more, the affected sector reprices a week later. Template detection across 50 states is the alpha. No CRM ships this.

Foundation program staff

Understand the coalition before granting into it.

See the full coalition map before you fund an advocacy org: who else is in the fight, on which side, with what bill record. A contact directory is the wrong tool.

State AGs & policy staff

Spot the model-legislation trend in your state.

When boilerplate that lost in California surfaces in your state months later, the lead time to draft a counterproposal matters. Cross-state scoring is built for exactly this.

Where we fit

A CRM runs your outreach. We run the intelligence underneath it.

A legislative CRM

Quorum · FiscalNote · Phone2Action

  • Built for in-house GR teams running outreach
  • Core data: contacts, campaigns, email
  • AI bill summaries you can't audit
  • Answers "who do we contact?"

Legislative View

The evidence layer above the CRM

  • Built for researchers, analysts, and program officers
  • Core data: funder→bill chains, coalition maps, template spread
  • Every claim cites a primary document
  • Answers "what's happening, and who's behind it?"

Questions

The things buyers ask first.

Where does the data come from?
Entirely from official public records: IRS Form 990 filings (grant line items), state legislature bill text and sponsors, official committee position records, and FEC / lobbying disclosures. No scraping of private sources, no inside information. Every figure links to the document it came from.
How often is it updated?
Continuously. The funder→bill chain rebuilds as new 990 filings, legislative rosters, and committee records publish, so what you see reflects the current record, not a one-time snapshot.
Which states and topics do you cover?
All 50 states for bills, sponsors, and cross-state template matching. Coverage is deepest today on technology and AI-regulation legislation, and expands topic by topic as we ingest more of the corpus.
Can I verify a claim myself?
Yes, that's the whole point. Every number, position, and grant in a brief carries a citation to its primary source. Pick any one and we'll show you the source document, and the SQL behind it.
Is this a CRM? Does it do outreach?
No. Legislative View is the intelligence layer that sits above a CRM. It doesn't manage contacts or send email. It tells you what's happening in the policy landscape and who is funding it, so your outreach (in whatever tool you use) is aimed correctly.
How do I get a brief, and what does it cost?
Request a brief on your topic below. We'll reply within one business day with a 20-minute walkthrough on your states and bills, and you leave with a sourced brief on your top question, even if you don't sign. Pricing is scoped to the engagement; we'll cover it on the call.

Trace a funder to a bill in your state.

Tell us the question. We'll send back the chain, every link cited.

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Tell us the question you're trying to answer.

We'll come back within one business day with a 20-minute walkthrough on your states, your bills, and the funder graph behind them.