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
NONE DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF WEST ORANGE COUNTY Democratic PAC $1,500 1 $13,018
SCOTT MURPHY FOR CONGRESS Democratic House campaign $1,500 1
RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT FEDERAL PAC PAC (multicandidate) $1,500 2 $36,687
CMR POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE PAC (multicandidate) $1,500 1 $97,739
PROTECT THE HOUSE 2024 PATRIOTS FOR PERRY Republican House campaign $1,500 1
NATIONAL MOBILITY EQUIPMENT DEALERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL MOBILITY EQUIPMENT DEALERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, INC. PAC (multicandidate) $1,500 2 $34,737
FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC. FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC. GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND (FIS GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND) PAC (multicandidate) $1,500 1 $50,874
INVEST IN EDUCATION COALITION INC. INVEST IN EDUCATION COALITION INC. PAC PAC (multicandidate) $1,500 1 $25,819
TAKING THE HILL PAC PAC (multicandidate) $1,500 2 $10,471
PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW YORK CITY, INC. PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW YORK CITY, INC. FEDERAL PAC (PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW YORK CITY FEDERAL PAC) PAC $1,500 2 $6,000
EDGE DAIRY FARMER COOPERATIVE EDGE DAIRY FARMER COOPERATIVE PAC (EDGE PAC) PAC $1,500 3 $2,820
SOLEO HEALTH HOLDINGS, INC. SOLEO HEALTH HOLDINGS, INC. PAC PAC $1,500 1 $134,665
REPUBLICAN PARTY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY Republican Party committee (qualified) $1,500 1 $6,015
AMERICA STRONG SCOTT FRANKLIN FOR CONGRESS Republican House campaign $1,500 1
NONE O'CONNOR FOR CONGRESS Democratic House campaign $1,500 1
ROOTED IN MOVEMENT UNITED WITH DELIA FOR CONGRESS Democratic House campaign $1,500 1
WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY HOLDING CO., LLC WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY HOLDING CO., LLC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (WWT PAC) PAC $1,500 1 $133,498
MOONEY FOR SENATE, INC. Republican Senate campaign $1,500 2
NONE CE4A ACTION Hybrid PAC $1,500 2 $27,760
99 COALITION PAC (multicandidate) $1,500 0 $2,029
RENEWABLE FUELS NEBRASKA RENEWABLE FUELS NEBRASKA PAC PAC $1,500 2 $9,392
NONE JUNTOS Hybrid PAC $1,500 1 $138
NONE STFU PAC Hybrid PAC $1,500 1 $80
TAMPA BAY PILOTS ASSOCIATION TAMPA BAY PILOTS ASSOCIATION PAC PAC $1,500 0 $8,675
FRIENDS OF TREY KELLY Republican House campaign $1,500 2
PARALLEL SYSTEMS INC PAC PAC $1,500 1 $500
NONE TEXAS ALLIANCE FOR LIFE FED PAC Super PAC $1,464 20 $162
THE SQUAD VICTORY FUND THE COMMITTEE TO ELECT AYANNA PRESSLEY Democratic House campaign $1,378 1
LUCETE LEADERSHIP FUND Super PAC $1,371 1 $102,740
NONE ANNA LEE WILLIAMS FOR CONGRESS Democratic House campaign $1,365 1
NONE TIMMINS FOR CONGRESS Democratic House campaign $1,340 1
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND, INC. PAC (EVERYTOWN PAC) PAC (multicandidate) $1,318 2 $78,837
NONE ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CHAIRS' ASSOCIATION Democratic Party committee (qualified) $1,300 2 $14,070
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY (FEDERAL ACCT.C00174334) Republican Party committee (qualified) $1,285 1 $4,233
MENDOCINO COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY Democratic Party committee (qualified) $1,280 0 $19,722
NONE TD PAC Super PAC $1,278 2 $285,934
80-20 ASIAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT PAC Hybrid PAC $1,262 4 $249,275
GLOBAL TECHNICAL SYSTEMS, INC. GLOBAL TECHNICAL SYSTEMS FEDERAL PAC PAC $1,257 0 $0
WINTHROP & WEINSTINE, P.A. WINTHROP & WEINSTINE, P.A. POLITICAL FUND PAC (multicandidate) $1,250 2 $4,592
FRIENDS OF SNOWMOBILING FRIENDS OF SNOWMOBILING PAC PAC (multicandidate) $1,250 2 $39,674
TURKISH COALITION CALIFORNIA PAC (TC-CAL PAC) PAC (multicandidate) $1,250 1 $709
HUMANITIES FOR THE PUBLIC PAC $1,250 1 $0
PERSEVERE PAC Hybrid PAC (multicandidate) $1,250 5 $1,883
FISHING VESSEL OWNERS ASSOCIATION HALIBUT AND SABLEFISH SUSTAINABLE FISH PAC PAC (multicandidate) $1,200 1 $2,972
NONE SIERRA CLUB INDEPENDENT ACTION Super PAC $1,200 120 $238,669
FIGHT FOR A DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY PAC PAC (multicandidate) $1,188 1 $46,944
NONE TOMMY BARNES FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE Republican House campaign $1,135 1
AVIENT CORP. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE AVIENT CORP. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE PAC (multicandidate) $1,125 1 $134,217
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE Democratic Party committee (qualified) $1,099 1 $9,189
SUHAS VICTORY FUND SUHAS FOR VIRGINIA Democratic House campaign $1,088 2

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.