Why this exists

I built Greederboard because the records that show members of Congress getting rich in office are public, and almost nobody can read them. They sit in PDFs at the House Clerk, a Senate site that makes you accept terms before searching, and FEC files with 30 columns. The STOCK Act has required trade disclosure since 2012. It hasn't stopped the trading.

The test I hold it to: a reformer who campaigns against this stuff gets scored on the same evidence as everyone else. One of the first three scores was Ro Khanna, a Democrat who backs a trading ban. His household's trading still scored 58 out of 100 on the stock component. That's the point.

I got something wrong early. The first version of the findings page said party wasn't the explanation for the scores, which was a claim, not a test. When I ran the test in October 2026, Republicans in the sample scored 6 points higher at the median. Party still explains only 7% of the variation, but the page now says exactly that instead of rounding it to zero.

Independence and money

Greederboard is run by one person. It takes no money from candidates, parties, PACs, campaigns, or anyone whose score could change. It won't sell trading signals, copy-trading, or an investment product built on the scores, because profiting from the behavior it measures would wreck the point. No single donor will ever be more than 10% of the budget, and every donor over $1,000 will be listed here.

Current funding: none. It runs on a Cloudflare Worker and costs almost nothing. If it grows, the plan is reader support first, then foundation grants from funders on more than one side, then paid bulk data for newsrooms and researchers. The full site and every score stay free. Support the project.

Contact

Corrections and statements from members' offices: corrections@greederboard.com. Press and data requests: hello@greederboard.com.