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Includes available 2025–2026 FEC records and matched San Francisco campaign disclosures through October 30, 2026. Other-campaign searches are limited to the largest available indexed records and may lag recent filings; these are partial totals, not a complete financial history. Card settlements can include payments to underlying vendors; its affiliated PAC is excluded.

Campaign finance entity

Political committee Role loading Committee ID

American Express

A payments company. Campaign-reported card payments can settle purchases from other vendors; the amounts shown are not necessarily fees or revenue retained by American Express.

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Money received — Contributions, loans, and reported payments in
Money paid or contributed — Direct giving and campaign payments out
Independent activity — Support or opposition outside a campaign
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Entity profile

What this entity is

Record type The broad kind of record shown here, such as a political committee, individual, business, or organization. This is separate from the entity’s more specific campaign-finance classification.
Political committee
Official identifier An identifier assigned by the filing authority, such as an FEC committee ID. Service providers may have no committee identifier.
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Observed activity How this entity appears in the records currently published here—for example as a donor, recipient, independent spender, or campaign payee. It may have additional roles outside this page’s coverage.
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Campaign-finance role The entity’s verified status under campaign-finance rules, such as candidate-controlled, general-purpose recipient, primarily formed, major donor, or independent-expenditure filer.
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Coverage area The jurisdictions and election records included on this page. It describes Paper Trail Politics’ current coverage, not necessarily the entity’s complete political activity.
Selected federal and San Francisco disclosures, 2025–2026

Coverage

What is included

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Organization background

Business records

American Express Company — SEC filing

Record subject
American Express Company
State of incorporation
New York
SEC file number
1-7657
Common stock
NYSE: AXP
Report
2025 Form 10-K
Filed
February 6, 2026

This corporate record covers American Express Company. Campaign filings use the American Express brand name and do not establish which subsidiary received each payment.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ↗Source: Feb 6, 2026 · Checked Oct 30, 2026

People behind the entity

Leadership and key people

Titles are shown as stated in the linked sources.

Stephen J. Squeri

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Role at American Express Company; the campaign payee label does not identify a particular subsidiary.

American Express executive biography ↗Checked Oct 30, 2026

Money map

Candidates, measures and other committees

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Connections

Who and what appears nearby

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In the records

Reported counterparties

Source records

Financial activity

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American Express executive biographyChecked Oct 30, 2026Open source ↗