Every campaign has a
target margin.
We help you hit it.
Campaign finance and fundraising operations for campaigns that need discipline, not guesswork. Target Margin is a progressive consultancy built on real experience — competitive congressional races, crowded primaries, red-to-blue flips, and the tools to back it up.
Finance desk
experience.
We've sat in the chair. Finance Director on competitive House races, staff on winning state delegate campaigns, and consultant for organizations around the country. This isn't theoretical — it's operational.
Call Time Management
The single highest-ROI activity on any campaign — and the hardest to execute well. We build, manage, and optimize call time programs: donor list curation, session tracking, pledge follow-up, and the systems that turn dials into dollars.
Event Planning & Fundraising
Finance events that actually raise money — not just fill a room. From house parties to high-dollar receptions, we plan, produce, and staff the events that move your number. Venue strategy, invite lists, host committee management, and day-of execution.
Fundraising Consulting
Full-spectrum fundraising strategy for campaigns and organizations. We design the program, set the targets, build the donor universe, and drive the plan — from launch through Election Day. Especially valuable for first-time candidates who need the playbook from the start.
Research & Intelligence
Opposition research, donor prospecting, FEC filing analysis, and competitive landscape reports — powered by our own FEC database and API access. We turn public data into strategic advantage before your opponent does.
Fluent in the tools
campaigns actually
use.
We're not learning on your dime. We work daily with the industry-standard platforms — and we built our own suite on top of them.
Rolodem™
Built by usFree, offline-first, privacy-first campaign tools — built in-house.
Most consultants use other people's tools. We do too — and then we build our own. Rolodem is a suite of campaign technology we engineered from scratch for Democratic campaigns and organizers. No tracking. No cookies. No vendor lock-in. Data stays on the device.
We've sat in
your chair.
Practitioner first.
We've been the Finance Director on the competitive House race. We've staffed the winning delegate campaign. We've built the call time program from a blank spreadsheet at 7am and run it through filing day. This isn't advisory from the sideline — it's muscle memory.
Tools and the brain behind them.
We know NGP, Numero, CallTime.ai, ActBlue, and every platform a serious campaign runs on. But knowing the tools isn't the differentiator — it's knowing when to build something better. That's why Rolodem exists.
First-timers deserve the A-team.
The biggest firms won't take your call if you're running for the first time. We will. Because the candidates who need the best systems and strategy the most are usually the ones who can access them the least.
We know the margin.
Every campaign has a number — a fundraising target, a burn rate, a margin of victory. We exist to find it, hit it, and defend it. That's not a tagline. It's the entire point.
From the finance desk
to the
founder's chair.
Target Margin LLC started where most good political firms start — in the trenches. As Finance Director on competitive U.S. House campaigns, navigating crowded Democratic primaries, red-to-blue flips, and the brutal math of campaign fundraising.
After years on staff and as a consultant for campaigns, teams, and organizations across the country, we saw the same pattern: promising campaigns getting priced out of the tools and talent they needed. First-time candidates with no systems. Down-ballot races running on spreadsheets and hope.
So we built a firm that brings congressional-level finance operations to every race that needs them. And then we built Rolodem — a free, privacy-first suite of campaign tools — so the technology wouldn't be the bottleneck either.
The result is a practice that pairs real operational experience with custom-built technology. From the code to the call sheet — same team.
We work with a limited number of campaigns at a time to stay hands-on and effective.
"Fundraising isn't about making asks — it's about building a system that makes every ask count."
Let's find
your margin.
Whether you're building a fundraising program, exploring your first run, or looking for someone who's been in the chair — we'd like to hear from you. No sales deck. Just a conversation.