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RonPaulMax.com

Resource Network for Donors at the Legal Maximum

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RonPaulMax.com is a Paulunteer resource network to help you explore your legal donation options after you have donated the legal maximum to Ron Paul's campaign.


Classification of Funds

How your donations are treated under Federal Election Commission regulations often depends upon the structure of the funds to which you are donating.


527 Orgs

527 Orgs are often referred to as "soft money" political organizations. U.S. individuals may contribute as much as they want to such funds; there are no donation limits.

U.S. corporations and unions may contribute to some 527 orgs with no donation limits. For other 527 orgs, some donation limits apply for U.S. corporations and labor unions. How the money is used is a factor. Check with the fund to see how the money is used before you donate.


501(c)(3) Orgs

501(c)(3) Orgs are the classic tax-exempt charities, and there are no donations limits. They have severe restrictions on their election activities. Nonetheless, their education activities can impact elections without violating the law. This is the only kind of entity listed on this website to which foreign nationals may legally contribute.


PAC's

Single Candidate PAC's

The only PAC's we know of that are supporting Ron Paul at this time are single candidate PAC's for Ron Paul. Donating to a single candidate PAC for Ron Paul counts as a donation to Ron Paul's campaign. Source: 11 C.F.R. 110.1(h).

If you have already given the legal maximum to Ron Paul's campaign, you may not also give to a single candidate PAC that is supporting Ron Paul, or to any PAC where you reasonably expect the money to be used to expressly advocate his election.

This means, for example, that if you have already given the legal maximum to Ron Paul's campaign, you may not donate to many of the Ron Paul ChipIn funds being promoted, since the Federal Election Commission would consider many of those funds to be single candidate PAC's, no matter what the organizers may be calling them.

If you can reasonably expect that a substantial portion of your donation to a fund will go to the express advocacy of Ron Paul's election, then your contribution to that fund would count as a contribution to Ron Paul's campaign.


Submit Your Fund

If you have or know of any funds where people who have given the legal maximum to Ron Paul's campaign may legally contribute more to share the message of liberty, please let us know so we can list them.