The following 11 committees in support of Prop.8 and 16 committees opposing Prop.8 were formed and registered with the Secretary of State (SoS) of California.  The number in front of the committee name is the number used below in this discussion.  The number after the name is the ID number assigned by the SoS.

In support of Prop.8

1.  PROTECTMARRIAGE.COM - YES ON 8, A PROJECT OF CALIFORNIA RENEWAL   1302592

2.  NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA - YES ON 8, SPONSORED BY NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE   1303282

3.  YES ON PROPOSITION 8, SPONSORED BY CAPITOL RESOURCE FAMILY IMPACT   1309338

4.  BIGOTS AGAINST LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS   1308401

5.  CONVENCION DE IGLESIAS BAUTISTAS HISPANAS   1312752

6.  FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL   1313185

7.  CALIFORNIANS FOR MARRIAGE, YES ON PROPOSITION 8, SPONSORED BY THE ALLIANCE FOR MARRIAGE FOUNDATION  1301054

8.   ADVENTISTS FOR PROPOSITION 8    1312536

9.  HIGH DESERT YES ON 8 A COMMITTEE FOR PROP 8    1309082

10.  STAND FOR MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA, A COMMITTEE FOR PROPOSITION 8, SPONSORED BY STAND FOR MARRIAGE, INC.   1313175

11.  CALIFORNIANS FOR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE COMMITTEE FOR PROPOSITION 8   1308367

Note: Committee number 4 (“Bigots against life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”) never collected any contributions or had any expenses.  It was probably a “dummy” committee formed by the gay community as an opportunity to engage in their typical name-calling of people who do not agree with them.

In opposition of Prop.8

1.   NO ON 8, EQUALITY FOR ALL   1259396

2.    CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE EQUALITY PAC - SPONSORED BY EQUALITY CALIFORNIA   1301573

3.   PROTECT MARRIAGE FOR ALL, SPONSORED BY WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL   1308436

4.  LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS AGAINST 8   1308414

5.  HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE PAC - NO ON PROP 8   1307246

6.  NO ON PROPOSITION 8, CAMPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY, A PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA    1308178

7.   VOTE NO ON PROPS. 4 & 8 SPONSORED BY FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION   1311419

8.   SANTA CLARA COUNTY COMMITTEE AGAINST PROPOSITION 8   1309109

9.   NO ON 8 - MARRIAGE EQUALITY USA   1308829

10.  CAMPAIGN AGAINST PROPOSITIONS 4, 6, 8, 9, & FOR PROPOSITION 5 CALIFORNIANS FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND   1312996  

11.   WINE COUNTRY COMMITTEE AGAINST PROPOSITION 8   1310774  

12.   NO ON 8, NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND   1308206

13.   CALIFORNIANS AGAINST ELIMINATING BASIC RIGHTS, NO ON PROP. 8   1307787

14.   GLBT ALLIANCE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY PAC, THE   1307834  

15.   TASK FORCE CALIFORNIA COMMITTEE - NO ON 8 - SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE FOUNDATION/ACTION FUND   1307950 

16.   COUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY COMMITTEE AGAINST PROPOSITION 8   1312672  

Contributions to each of these 27 committees (11 “Yes on Prop.8” and 16 “No on Prop.8”) were of three kinds:

1)    Contributions by organizations (typically with an “ID number”).  It should be noted that many out-of-state organizations did not provide an ID number. 

2)    Private contributions were each donor had to state name, city, employer and occupation.

3)   Contributions from other committees registered with the Secretary of State.  It was a common practice for many committees to transfer all or part of their own donations to another “lead” committee.  Such “transfer of donations” are not included in the overall summations since they would then be double-counted; first as the original donations received (from a private person or an organization) and then as a transfer to the (typically) larger committee.

The contributions received by each committee were as follows (see above for the name of the committee corresponding to each number listed in table below):

In support of Prop.8

Total $ 46,366,948

The total number of contributions was 39,079 (including repeat contributions from the same contributor).

In opposition of Prop.8

Total            $50,676,985

The total number of contributions was 56,216 (including repeat contributions from the same contributor).

In the table above it should be noted that committee number 5 (the “Human Rights Campaign California Marriage PAC – No on Prop.8; a committee from Washington, DC) donated to committee no. 1 more than they received in donations.  Thus they did not declare all of the contributions they received.  The question remains whether this was accepted by the Secretary of State since she is a democrat and probably favoring a “No on Prop.8”.

But in the final analysis this fact may be rather irrelevant by comparison.  There were lots of organizations (apart from the official “committees” above) that donated lots of money without the voters having a clue from whom these organizations received their money.  There are at least three identified multi-billionaires (at least two of whom are themselves homosexuals) with deep pockets (very deep!) who are throwing vast amounts of money into propositions of this kind (as well as political races) through a large array of organizations to promote the homosexual agenda.  For them to contribute many millions of dollars to a campaign is small potatoes.  This method of “buying” election results is a very serious challenge to our democratic principles.  The men and their modus operandi (in relative anonymity) is discusses elsewhere.

The in-state and out-of-state contributions to the two campaigns were as follows:

Note:

All the amounts above represent contributions received and not money spent by respective committee.  At the time of the final reporting some committees might not yet have spent 100% of the contributions they received.  But for the purpose of our discussion it’s the sources of the contributions received that are of interest.  Therefore, those were the numbers analyzed.