Save America

Follow the disbursements

No page-one result for Save America shows you the actual paper trail, so start there. The committee’s Statement of Organization was filed with the Federal Election Commission on November 9, 2020 — six days after the presidential election — registering Save America as committee C00762591 and designating it a leadership PAC (Federal Election Commission). The filing names Donald J. Trump himself (candidate ID P80001571) as the leadership PAC sponsor and Bradley T. Crate as treasurer and custodian of records (Federal Election Commission). It lists the Trump Make America Great Again Committee (C00618371) as an affiliated committee in a joint-fundraising role, gives a Beverly, Massachusetts address care of Red Curve Solutions, and names Chain Bridge Bank of McLean, Virginia as the depository (Federal Election Commission).

That is the skeleton. The muscle is in where the money went.

The $60 million line item

FEC-derived data compiled by OpenSecrets shows Save America’s 2021–2022 disbursements to other PACs and party committees, and one line dwarfs everything else: $60,004,750 to Make America Great Again Inc, the pro-Trump super PAC (OpenSecrets). The rest of the map is comparatively small change with a clear geographic and tribal logic: $1,500,000 to Get Georgia Right PAC, $1,000,000 each to American Leadership Action and Our American Century, $650,000 to Wyoming Values, $200,000 to MichiganWorks, $150,000 to the Republican National Committee, $95,000 to Georgians PAC, and $5,000 each to the Republican Party of Iowa and Patriot Action PAC (OpenSecrets).

Two of those lines connect directly to other FactsLedger profiles. The MAGA Inc transfer is the financial spine of the Trump orbit’s 2022 operation — the leadership PAC sending the overwhelming majority of its outbound PAC money to the super PAC that could raise and spend without its limits (OpenSecrets). And the table records $100,000 to Bikers for Trump in 2021–2022 (OpenSecrets) — the exact figure the Bikers for Trump profile held back as unverified for lack of an independently read source. It now has one.

A leadership PAC, not the joint fundraiser

One confusion is worth clearing up because the names invite it: Save America (C00762591) is the leadership PAC, and it is not the same committee as the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee (a separate FEC registration), the vehicle through which Trump later split incoming donations between his campaign and this PAC (Federal Election Commission). The Form 1’s own affiliation section points at the older joint-fundraising architecture — the Trump Make America Great Again Committee — rather than the later JFC (Federal Election Commission).

What this profile does not claim

This profile does not assert how much Save America spent on legal fees — the widely reported $40M-plus figures come from coverage not read to citation standard here. It does not describe the reported refund arc in which MAGA Inc returned tens of millions to Save America, or the reported 10-percent skim of joint-fundraising donations, for the same reason. It does not claim the committee’s reported 2023 ranking among leadership PACs. What it does claim is the registration paper trail and the 2021–2022 disbursement map, both read in full from the FEC and from FEC-derived data.