{"meta":{"title":"Bernie Sanders public record","reviewedOn":"2026-09-12","scope":"A source-bounded record of Sanders-related campaign committees, organization filings, disclosed personal financial information, official proceedings, selected AI and climate policy, and an attributed career roll-call archive.","reuse":"Freely accessible public-interest reporting. Source-specific statutory and reuse restrictions apply; see https://ai-analytics.org/sanders/methodology/#reuse. Not a donor-prospecting, credit-screening or paid personal-data product. No blanket CC0 license.","limitations":["The financial and policy records are a reviewed selection, not a complete inventory of every receipt, asset, tax year, bill, statement, backer or legal proceeding.","The personal-finance section includes directly acquired calendar-2024 and calendar-2025 Senate annual reports and voluntarily released 2009–2018 tax returns. The newest acquired annual was filed August 13, 2026. Report sections have different reporting cutoffs; later amendments and underlying transactions are not independently established.","Campaign cycles have individual start and end dates; 2026 figures are partial periods. Original and amended reports can change historic totals.","No hidden funding channel, financial motive for AI policy, or undisclosed personal enrichment is established by this collection. Documented civil findings and settlements retain their exact parties, scope and outcomes.","Legislative announcements and introduced proposals are not enacted law. The September 2026 ASI proposal lacks a located filed identifier and full statutory text in this review.","The Voteview archive includes not-voting and present entries and excludes quorum calls and vacated votes; its latest captured vote is August 8, 2026.","Checked-on dates indicate review of a source or index reference, not necessarily acquisition of the full original. accessStatus and source notes identify unacquired documents and third-party mirrors."]},"record":{"id":"sanders-ai-advocacy-manifund-pause-2024","category":"organizations","title":"Manifund reports a $100,000 grant to PauseAI US","date":"2024-12-31","period":"Calendar year 2024; Form 990 submitted November 15, 2025","status":"Tax-reported cash grant; fiscal-sponsorship context","summary":"Manifold for Charity’s 2024 Schedule I reports a $100,000 cash grant to PauseAI US. 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It does not establish that this was a discretionary grant from Manifund’s own unrestricted resources.","The project describes a sponsorship fee; no unverified net cash amount is inferred.","The reported purpose precedes the September 2026 ASI announcement and does not earmark funds for that proposal.","This is an organization-to-organization filing, not a Sanders campaign receipt or personal payment. 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