Money

Who paid: FEC committees ranked by total committee-to-candidate contributions given. Counts and sums only.

How this money flows — and what each column means

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:

Organization Committee Candidates
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.
Cash on hand
The committee's own reported balance at the close of its last reporting period, taken from its FEC summary filing — not a total of the itemized contributions beside it. A dash means no summary filing is on file for this committee.

Full definitions in the methodology glossary.

4307 committees.

Funding organization Committee Party Type Total given Recipients Cash on hand
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SETTLEMENT CONSULTANTS PAC (AASC PAC) PAC (multicandidate) $10,000 2 $50,915
DEXCOM, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (DEXCOM PAC) PAC $10,000 6 $19,073
JOBS FOR A NEW ECONOMY PAC PAC (multicandidate) $10,000 1 $32,242
BRUCE POLIQUIN FOR CONGRESS Republican House campaign $10,000 6
DEMOCRACY ON THE LINE Hybrid PAC $10,000 1 $23,723
NONE COMMUNITY LEGACY FUND FEDERAL PAC PAC $10,000 1 $15,095
NONE IOWA SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT DEMOCRATS Democratic Party committee $10,000 0 $5,432
DLZ CORPORATION DLZ CORP INFRASTRUCTURE ADVOCACY FEDERAL PAC PAC $10,000 1 $72,307
SENATE FIGHT FUND PAC (multicandidate) $10,000 1 $387,493
BURLISON EVER RELENTLESS IN CONSERVATISM PAC $10,000 3 $22,796
AL-CORN CLEAN FUEL AL-CORN CLEAN FUEL PAC PAC $10,000 2 $20,280
NORTH AMERICAN EQUIPMENT DEALERS ASSOCIATION PAC PAC $10,000 10 $33,208
SHERI BIGGS VICTORY FUND SHERI BIGGS FOR CONGRESS Republican House campaign $10,000 5
FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION PAC, INC. PAC $10,000 5 $84,361
AMERICAN UKRAINE PAC PAC (multicandidate) $10,000 5 $38,201
ANIMAL PROTECTION PAC Hybrid PAC $10,000 7 $20,356
THE GREAT GULF OF AMERICA FUND FRIENDS OF JIMMY PATRONIS, INC. Republican House campaign $10,000 10
HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY (HINJ) HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY (HINJ) FEDERAL PAC INC PAC $10,000 6 $15,991
TEAM MIKE PROTECT AMERICA PAC $10,000 2 $92,790
REGIONAL ALLIANCE FOR SMALL BUSINESS EXECUTIVES Independent-expenditure filer $10,000 1 $0
INTERNATIONAL SALON SPA BUSINESS NETWORK INC PAC (ISBN PAC) PAC $9,900 3 $0
NONE UNIDOSUS ACTION PAC Super PAC $9,838 1 $23,755
HELMER SECURE PROGRESS PAC (multicandidate) $9,800 6 $8,780
NONE THE PROGRESS COALITION Super PAC $9,615 1 $1,880
PLUS PAC PAC $9,545 3 $0
OCEAN STATE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE LANGEVIN FOR CONGRESS Democratic House campaign $9,538 10
NEW YORK BUILDING CONGRESS INC PAC PAC (multicandidate) $9,509 5 $10,443
NONE BRICKER GRAYDON WYATT LLP FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE PAC (multicandidate) $9,500 3 $3,046
BCBSA PAC BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF NORTH CAROLINA EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE PAC (multicandidate) $9,500 7 $200,752
CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION FEDERAL PAC PAC (multicandidate) $9,500 5 $12,697
PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CORPORATION PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CO LP POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE PAC (multicandidate) $9,500 4 $103,053
VICTORY 2026 VERN BUCHANAN FOR CONGRESS Republican House campaign $9,500 5
AMEDISYS, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE PAC (multicandidate) $9,500 5 $0
UNITED MOTORCOACH ASSOCIATION UNITED MOTORCOACH ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE: AKA MOTORCOACH TRAVEL PAC PAC (multicandidate) $9,500 6 $17,786
NONE CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF OPTOMETRISTS INC PAC; THE PAC (multicandidate) $9,500 3 $67,382
SMALLBIZPROS INC-PADGETT BUSINESS SERVICES PAC (OR) SBP INC-PADGETT BUSINESS SERVICES PAC PAC (multicandidate) $9,500 4 $34,956
NEWHOUSE VICTORY FUND DAN NEWHOUSE FOR CONGRESS Republican House campaign $9,500 4
CHAMBER OF DIGITAL COMMERCE CHAMBER OF DIGITAL COMMERCE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE PAC $9,500 6 $17,818
BOLD FRONTLINE DEMOCRATS SALUD CARBAJAL FOR CONGRESS Democratic House campaign $9,500 5
ALASKA BERING SEA CRABBERS ALASKA BERING SEA CRABBERS FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (CRABBERS PAC) PAC $9,500 3 $5,657
ESSENT US HOLDINGS, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ESSENTPAC) PAC (multicandidate) $9,500 4 $33,094
MYRIAD GENETICS PAC PAC $9,500 5 $37,246
HOUSEHOLD & COMMERICIAL PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION INC HOUSEHOLD & COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (HCP-PAC) PAC $9,500 4 $27,193
NONE KOREAN AMERICANS FOR ORGANIZING FUND PAC $9,500 4 $3,695
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPECIALTY PHARMACY PAC PAC $9,500 4 $32,021
EXPECT MORE LEADERSHIP PAC PAC (multicandidate) $9,500 6 $115,203
HEALTHCARE FOR ACTION PAC Hybrid PAC (multicandidate) $9,500 3 $39,482
CIGAR RIGHTS OF AMERICA CIGAR RIGHTS OF AMERICA POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (PURO PAC) PAC $9,500 7 $5,268
NONE DISRUPT PAC $9,375 1 $22,600
CALIFORNIA CREDIT UNION CALIFORNIA CREDIT UNION EMPLOYEES FEDERAL PAC PAC $9,250 5 $7,672

Hover any column header for what it means. A dash means the committee reports nothing for that field to the FEC — most PACs report no party. "Super PAC" committees raise unlimited money for independent spending but cannot give to candidates directly. Definitions live in the methodology glossary.

Source: FEC bulk data (committee-to-candidate contributions).

Top lobbying registrants

Lobbying firms ranked by total reported lobbying spend, grouped by registrant. These figures come from filings made under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) — the 1995 law that requires paid lobbyists to file public quarterly reports naming their client, the issues (often specific bills) they lobbied on, and their total spend for the quarter (glossary). Campaign money and lobbying spend are separate channels: the committees above are FEC campaign contributions (money to candidates); the registrants below are lobbying income/spend (money to influence legislation). This platform does not yet link an FEC committee to a lobbying registrant — entity resolution to bridge the two is not built, so read neither total as flowing into the other.

Honesty note: each amount is a gross sum of per-quarter lump sums a registrant reported (roadmap §3.2). The filings name which bills were lobbied on, but never how much of the money went to any one bill, and never whether the filer supported or opposed it.

Registrant (lobbying firm)Total reportedClientsBill mentionsFilings
BALLARD PARTNERS $63,920,000 369 12 764
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A. $56,450,000 1 1077 3
BGR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS $43,115,000 364 36 777
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP $42,280,000 378 363 780
LOC COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION $40,000,000 1 24 2
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD $35,930,000 321 250 655
MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC $32,010,000 186 49 375
CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC. $31,530,000 376 338 784
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS $30,040,000 1 160 2
HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP $28,400,000 341 479 711
CHECKMATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS $25,950,000 135 15 299
INVARIANT LLC $24,840,000 214 359 432
CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC $22,587,558 158 0 340
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION $21,583,000 1 554 4
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA $19,570,000 1 136 2
THORN RUN PARTNERS $19,490,000 266 155 557
CASSIDY & ASSOCIATES, INC. $16,020,000 184 194 376
CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC $15,440,000 177 769 367
GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY $14,840,000 1 35 2
THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, INC. $14,540,000 1 18 2

Source: Senate LDA filings.