👋 Hi, I'm Charlie

I build small tools
and write about
what I learn.

By day, major-donor strategy and fundraising for Democrats. By night, scrappy mildly-useful civic data tools and unprompted opinions. Washington, DC — by way of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Projects

LA CF Tool LIVE

Explore and search Louisiana campaign-finance records — fast filtering across donors, committees, and filings.

finance.charliestephens.xyz →
Screenshot of the Louisiana Campaign Finance Dashboard
LA Pay-to-Play LIVE

Louisiana contractors holding state contracts who donated to the elected official overseeing those contracts — a ranked list of flagged relationships linking public money to campaign giving.

p2p.charliestephens.xyz →
Screenshot of the Louisiana Pay-to-Play Tool
LA Donor Factions LIVE

Which Louisiana political committees draw from the same donors — a force-directed network where the clusters are de-facto money factions, built from two decades of shared-donor overlap.

factions.charliestephens.xyz →
Screenshot of the Louisiana Donor Factions shared-donor network
+ more projects coming soon

About

My name is Charlie — I work on major-donor strategy and fundraising for some of the most impactful organizations in Democratic politics. I'm a graduate of LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication, originally from Baton Rouge and now living in Washington, DC. Outside of work, I build small, useful tools — usually around civic data and public records — and write about what I learn along the way.