Zoning variance
Case ZV-2026-0142
Downtown height-limit variance, approved 4–1
A city planning board waives the six-story height cap for one downtown parcel.
One decision. Every beneficiary. Cited.
A rezoning passes. Somebody gets richer. Beneficiary Map shows you who.
Feed it one public decision — a zoning variance, a no-bid contract, a permit, a tax abatement, a bill. Beneficiary Map cross-references public records and draws a direct line from that single decision to the specific people and companies who financially or materially benefit, with a cited source on every connection.
One decision at a time, by design. Not a general finance tracer.
Decision map — Case ZV-2026-0142
Harborview Development LLC
applicant · property records
Kestrel Construction Group
contractor · state registry
Councilmember Diaz's spouse
LLC co-owner · campaign finance filing
Riverline Holdings Trust
adjacent parcel · county deed
How it works
Pick one decision. Watch who's connected to it surface.
Beneficiary Map is deliberately narrow — it does one thing per run: trace a single public decision out to the people and entities it benefits.
STEP 01
Paste or select a decision
Drop in a zoning variance, a contract award, a bill, a permit, or a regulatory exemption — a link, a case number, or a plain description of the one decision you want mapped.
STEP 02
It cross-references public records
Beneficiary Map searches property records, campaign finance filings, corporate registries, and lobbying disclosures to find who is financially or materially tied to that specific decision.
STEP 03
Review the sourced beneficiary map
Every connection it draws links to the record that supports it. You review, verify, and publish — or send it back for another pass.
More decisions, mapped
The same question, asked of three different decisions
Beneficiary Map doesn't try to trace an organization's entire financial history — it answers "who benefits from this one decision," over and over, for whichever decision you point it at.
No-bid contract
Contract PW-2026-0917
Emergency road-repair contract, awarded without bidding
Public works declares an emergency to skip competitive bidding on a $2.4M repaving contract.
Tax abatement
Abatement TA-2025-3381
15-year property tax abatement for a warehouse conversion
A county board grants a 15-year abatement to convert a vacant warehouse into logistics space.
Trust & methodology
Every line on the map has to earn its place
A beneficiary map is only useful if you can trust the lines. So each one is built to be checked, not just believed.
Every connection is cited
No line on a Beneficiary Map exists without a linked public record behind it — a deed, a filing, a registry entry, a disclosure. If we can't cite it, we don't draw it.
Human review before publishing
Every map is checked by a person before it goes out. Automated record-matching finds candidates; a human confirms the connection actually holds before it's published.
A real correction process
Named in a map and think it's wrong? Every published map carries a visible way to flag it. Corrections are investigated, and the map is updated or annotated in public.
Who it's for
For anyone who's ever asked "wait, who actually benefits from this?"
Built for people who need one decision explained clearly, not a full financial audit.
Local journalists
Turn a single council vote or permit approval into a sourced story in an afternoon instead of a week of records requests and spreadsheet-chasing.
Watchdog & civic groups
Document the beneficiaries of a specific decision your organization is tracking, with citations solid enough to put in a public report.
Curious residents
See exactly who gained from the zoning change or contract that showed up on your city council agenda — no research background required.
Early access
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