Money

Federal law bars corporations, unions, and nonprofits from giving candidates money out of their own treasuries. What they can do is sponsor a committee — and the committee moves the money:

Funding organization

The actor at the start of the flow — what the FEC calls the committee's "connected organization": the corporation, union, or association that sponsors the committee and whose employees or members fund it. When a committee has a bland name, this column says who is actually behind it. (Super PACs use the field loosely — often naming an affiliated committee instead of a sponsor; candidate committees usually name none.)

Committee

The FEC-registered entity that legally raises and spends. Every row in this table is one. Committees are the vehicle, not the actor.

Party

Self-declared at FEC registration. Candidate and party committees declare one; most PACs deliberately do not — that is the dash.

Type

What the committee is legally allowed to do. A regular PAC gives directly to candidates under per-election caps. A Super PAC raises unlimited money but may only spend independently — it can never hand money to a candidate. Hybrid PACs run both models from separate accounts; campaign committees belong to a single candidate.

Total given & Recipients

Itemized committee-to-candidate contributions in our data, and how many distinct candidates received them. Click a committee to see exactly who.

Full definitions in the methodology glossary.