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For Incidental Committees

What you need to know about filing disclosure reports if your organization is a nonprofit that makes contributions or expenditures in election campaigns. 

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Register your nonprofit as an incidental committee and start reporting contributions and expenditures. 

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Be compliant with Washington’s campaign financial disclosure laws—from political advertising guidelines to contribution limits and more. 

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Check out the latest updates on reporting tools and resources — as well as timely reporting tips.

What's NEW in ORCA

04/15/2022

Several new features are rolling out this month for users of ORCA (Online Reporting of Campaign Activity). Here are some of the highlights:

In Contributions You'll find a new web-based user interface for entering monetary, in-kind and anonymous contributions, as well as contribution…

What's NEW in ORCA

04/15/2022

Several new features are rolling out this month for users of ORCA (Online Reporting of Campaign Activity). Here are some of the highlights:

In Contributions You'll find a new web-based user interface for entering monetary, in-kind and anonymous contributions, as well as contribution…

Think twice before you delete your ORCA campaign

01/31/2022

If you’ve created an ORCA campaign and you’re having problems with it, you may think the answer is to delete your ORCA campaign so that you can start over. Please don’t! If you delete your ORCA campaign and use Setup Wizard to replace it, you’ll get a message that the campaign already exists,…

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