Authored by Austin Alonzo via The Epoch Times (Emphasis ours),
President Joe Biden’s reelection effort will depend on assist from some nameless buddies.
Within the 2024 basic election, President Biden will likely be supported by quite a few marketing campaign committees and funds. One of the important will likely be FF PAC, also referred to as Future Ahead. FF PAC has collected and can seemingly proceed to gather thousands and thousands from a nonprofit group, Future Ahead Motion USA, that shares management and a reputation with FF PAC.
In accordance with FF PAC’s year-end monetary abstract filed with the Federal Election Fee (FEC) on Jan. 31, the hybrid political motion committee introduced in $25.3 million in whole receipts in 2023. Future Ahead Motion USA despatched FF PAC about $8.3 million, or a few third of its whole fundraising for the 12 months.
In 2020, when then Vice President Joe Biden was squaring off towards incumbent President Donald Trump, Future Ahead USA Motion was probably the most vital benefactors of FF PAC. In accordance with FEC information, it despatched FF PAC $61 million between 2019 and 2020. That’s round 40 % of the about $151.4 million FF PAC collected within the cycle.
For the 2022 midterm cycle, Future Ahead Motion USA despatched about $16.3 million to FF PAC. That’s round 53.4 % of the about $30.6 million FF PAC raised between 2021 and 2022.
Future Ahead USA Motion is a tax-exempt, non-profit 501(c)(4). The sort of group, in response to the Inside Income Service, is usually a so-called social welfare group. The company additionally bars personal enrichment and supporting or opposing a particular political candidate. Nonetheless, social welfare organizations are allowed to interact in some political actions so long as they don’t seem to be the first exercise.
FF PAC is a hybrid PAC. It could possibly solicit and settle for limitless contributions from people, companies, labor unions, and different political committees, in response to the FEC. It should preserve two financial institution accounts—one for impartial spending on commercials or voter drives and one other for making direct contributions to federal candidates.

As a 501(c)(4) group, Future Ahead USA Motion is just not topic to the identical disclosure necessities as different funds related to political campaigns. FF PAC, President Biden’s principal marketing campaign committee, Joe Biden for President, and his nonqualified joint fundraising committee, Biden Victory Fund, should launch their monetary data to the general public frequently.
In an election 12 months like 2024, the FEC requires month-to-month disclosures of who’s giving cash to those funds, how the funds are spending it, how a lot cash the funds have within the financial institution, and which federal candidates the funds are spending to assist or oppose.
For example, in 2020, FF PAC reported it spent about $74 million to again the Biden effort and about $54.4 million to battle President Trump. In 2022, it spent about $8.6 million to oppose tv character Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and about $2 million to endorse now Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), together with comparable transactions supporting Democrat candidates for Senate.
Moreover, essentially the most important donors are restricted in how a lot they may give to a joint fundraising or marketing campaign committee.
In accordance with its FEC filings, the Biden Victory Fund is a nonqualified joint fundraising committee. That, in response to the company, implies that it’s a political committee working along with “a number of different political committees or unregistered organizations.”
A nonqualified fund, in response to the FEC, can “obtain restricted monetary and administrative assist from a sponsoring group that isn’t a company or a labor group, similar to a partnership or an unincorporated affiliation.”
Future Ahead USA Motion is topic to no such necessities. Underneath the tax code, it doesn’t must say who it’s getting its cash from, doesn’t have a donation restrict, and doesn’t must report how a lot cash it raised till the shut of the tax 12 months.
In impact, its spending actions in 2024 gained’t be reported till the top of 2025.

In accordance with its 2022 Form 990 return obtained by The Epoch Instances, the fund shares places of work and officers with FF PAC. Chauncey McLean is listed because the president of FF PAC, the place he earned $233,462 in 2022. He’s additionally the treasurer of FF PAC, in response to its assertion of group filed with the FEC.
The listed handle for each Future Ahead organizations is a UPS Retailer situated close to Seward Sq. in Washington. FF PAC’s assertion of group doesn’t checklist a telephone quantity. Its 990 lists the telephone variety of the Washington-based MBA Consulting Group.
The Epoch Instances reached out to MBA Consulting Group and representatives of Mr. McLean however didn’t obtain a reply by press time.
Future Ahead USA Motion in 2022, 2021, and 2020
FF PAC doesn’t have an internet site or social media presence. Future Ahead USA Motion maintains solely a skeleton, two-page webpage that doesn’t checklist contact data. As a substitute, it provides the quantity for the U.S. Capitol switchboard.
In 2022, in response to its tax information, Future Ahead USA Motion introduced in about $65.7 million in whole income, about $61.5 million in whole bills, and had about $7.5 million in internet belongings.
It described its organizational mission as creating “a stronger American democracy and [advocating] for frequent sense options.” It mentioned it spent $57.9 million on “quantitative and qualitative analysis on problems with nationwide significance then ran media campaigns knowledgeable by that analysis.”
Furthermore, Future Ahead USA Motion despatched “grants and different help” to 29 organizations. FF PAC was listed as the biggest recipient, getting about $12 million.
In 2021, in response to its tax information, Future Ahead USA Motion introduced in about $12.6 million, spent $16.8 million, and ended the 12 months with $3.3 million in internet belongings. It listed comparable actions as 2022. It made grants to 6 organizations, the biggest being a grant of about $3.4 million to FF PAC.
In 2020, in response to its tax information, Future Ahead USA Motion raised about $150.9 million, spent about $149.4 million, and ended the 12 months with $6.9 million in internet belongings.
In the identical 12 months, it spent $148.2 million on the identical actions as 2022 and 2021. Seventeen organizations obtained grants. The most important recipient was FF PAC, which obtained about $60.3 million.
Future Ahead USA Motion didn’t disclose its donors in any of these years.
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