Future Forward USA PAC

Created in 2018 to support the presidential election of Joe Biden

Future Forward USA PAC, legally known as FF PAC, is a liberal political action committee created in 2018 to support the presidential election of Joe Biden. Chauncey McLean, who previously served as director of media tracking for the Democratic Party in 2012, serves as the hybrid PAC’s president. Much of the group’s individual contributions come from Silicon Valley.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Leadership & Staff

Gaurav Shirole Future Forward co-founder

• co-founder [+1]

• co-founder

Katie Petrelius

• senior advisor [+1]

• senior advisor

Chauncey McLean President/Consultant, Ff PAC; formerly director of media tracking for the Democratic Party

• President [+1]

• President

Ishanee Parikh Co-Founder Blue Sky Strategy

• Creative Director

Jon Fromowitz Co-Founder of Future Forward and Blue Sky Strategy

• Co-Founder

Donors

Michael Bloomberg NYC's info-billionaire former mayor; Publisher of Bloomberg LP

• Donation/Grant · 50,000,000 USD (Oct '24)

Dustin Moskovitz Facebook billionaire; founded Asana

• Donation/Grant · 3,000,000 USD ('24) [+1]

• Donation/Grant

Geoffrey Ralston

• Donation/Grant · 75,000 USD ('24)

Open Society Action Fund Formerly Open Society Policy Center

• $15,180,000

Open Society Foundations International grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros

• Donation/Grant

Campaign Donors

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Dustin Moskovitz Facebook billionaire; founded Asana

• 9 contributions · 46,890,000 USD (Jul 20 '20→Oct 22 '20)

Stephen Mandel Hedge fund billionaire

• 1 contribution · 5,000,000 USD (Apr 8 '22)

Jeff Lawson Co founder and CEO, Twilio

• 2 contributions · 3,000,000 USD (Sep 17 '20→Sep 22 '20)

Erica Lawson Physician, University of California - San Francisco

• 2 contributions · 3,000,000 USD (Sep 17 '20→Sep 22 '20)

Eric Schmidt Former Chairman, Alphabet Inc; former CEO of Google

• 3 contributions · 2,531,375 USD (May 13 '20→Sep 15 '20)

Karla Jurvetson Psychiatrist; former wife of venture capitalist, Steve Jurvetson

• 1 contribution · 2,500,000 USD (Oct 16 '20)

Susan Mandel Wife of hedge fund billionaire Stephen Mandel

• 2 contributions · 2,000,000 USD (Sep 24 '20→Oct 15 '20)

Nishad Singh Director of Engineering at FTX; formerly with Facebook, friend of Sam Bankman-Fried’s younger brother

• 1 contribution · 1,000,000 USD (Oct 20 '20)

Pat Stryker Stryker medical device heir, billionaire; Bohemian Companies

• 1 contribution · 1,000,000 USD (Oct 15 '20)

Patty Quillin Wife of Netflix co founder Reed Hastings

• 1 contribution · 1,000,000 USD (Oct 14 '20)

Services & Transactions

Waterfront Strategies Political Media Buying agency and subsidiary of GMMB

• vendor · 31,802,431 USD (Oct 13 '20)

Bully Pulpit digital marketing and advertising agency created by the digital marketers of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign for president.

• vendor · 13,387,272 USD (Oct 29 '24)

GCJ Research Democratic survey firm

• media consultant · 2,000,000 USD (Aug 30 '24)

Open Labs LLC Democratic Party-linked research and data firm

• survey consultant · 308,651 USD (Aug 5 '24)

Miscellaneous Relationships

David Shor data scientist and "effective altruism" advisor

• Affiliation

GCJ Research Democratic survey firm

• affiliate

Future Forward USA PAC Created in 2018 to support the presidential election of Joe Biden

• Affiliation [+1]

• Affiliation