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:
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MICHIGAN WOMEN UNITED FOR ACTION FUND | BOSS UP PAC | PAC | $140 | 1 | $1,865 | |
| — | ALLIANCE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY | — | Hybrid PAC | $136 | 2 | $1,518 |
| NONE | FRIENDS OF CARLA SPALDING | — | PAC | $120 | 1 | $1,706 |
| — | DAVE MIN FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | $115 | 1 | — | |
| — | ANNALISA STRAVATO FOR PRINCIPLES, INTEGRITY, REPUBLICAN EMPOWERMENT ASPIRE | — | PAC | $104 | 1 | $3,382 |
| — | PEOPLE AND POLITICS | — | Super PAC | $100 | 1 | $-30 |
| NONE | MISES PAC | — | Hybrid PAC | $100 | 1 | $157,672 |
| NONE | FIGHT FOR OUR DEMOCRACY PAC | — | PAC | $100 | 1 | $31,557 |
| — | DTR-DAMN THE ROAD | — | PAC | $100 | 1 | $0 |
| — | ERICA LEE CARTER FOR TEXAS | House campaign | $100 | 1 | — | |
| PINO FOR NJ-09 REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FUND 2026 | PINO FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | $100 | 1 | — | |
| — | DESOTO COUNTY DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE | Party committee | $100 | 1 | $8,242 | |
| NONE | VOTER TO VOTER PAC | — | Super PAC | $98 | 2 | $-3 |
| JEFFRIES PLASKETT VICTORY FUND | VIRGIN ISLANDS FOR PLASKETT | House campaign | $89 | 1 | — | |
| NONE | PEOPLES VOICES UNITED PAC | — | PAC | $89 | 2 | $878 |
| DEMOCRACY SUMMER 2026 | NELLIE POU FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | $88 | 1 | — | |
| NONE | JOHNNY O FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | $87 | 1 | — | |
| NONE | FRIENDS OF SUSAN BUCHSER-LOCHOCKI FOR PRESIDENT OF THE USA | Presidential campaign | $84 | 0 | — | |
| DNC STATE PARTY VICTORY FUND | WASHINGTON STATE DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE | Party committee (qualified) | $74 | 1 | $361,854 | |
| NONE | HEARTLAND WINS | — | Super PAC | $72 | 1 | $9,232 |
| DNC STATE PARTY VICTORY FUND | NORTH DAKOTA DEMOCRATIC-NONPARTISAN LEAGUE PARTY | Party committee (qualified) | $69 | 1 | $97,993 | |
| NONE | FORCE FOR GOOD | Super PAC | $67 | 1 | $67 | |
| NONE | GRASSROOTS NORTH SHORE | — | Super PAC | $64 | 2 | $17,838 |
| — | OUR DEMOCRACY PAC | — | Super PAC | $61 | 1 | $0 |
| — | MAGGIE FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | $60 | 1 | — | |
| — | NYIC POLITICAL ACTION FUND | — | Super PAC | $54 | 2 | $52,077 |
| — | JOSH HARDER FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | $51 | 1 | — | |
| NONE | HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN EQUALITY VOTES PAC | — | Super PAC | $50 | 2 | $41,906 |
| — | ANGIE CRAIG FOR MINNESOTA | Senate campaign | $50 | 1 | — | |
| NONE | TAKEACTION MN FEDERAL FUND | — | Super PAC | $48 | 1 | $33,205 |
| — | GREG MERK FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | $43 | 1 | — | |
| NONE | MICHAELA FOR TENNESSEE | House campaign | $32 | 2 | — | |
| NONE | RISIE HOWARD FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | $31 | 0 | — | |
| CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY | SUTTER COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE (FED. ACCT.) | Party committee (qualified) | $28 | 1 | $17,697 | |
| — | GILLEN FOR NY | House campaign | $26 | 1 | — | |
| NONE | MONEY GAME POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE | — | PAC | $10 | 1 | $17,589 |
| NONE | PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES PASADENA AND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY PAC | — | Super PAC | $5 | 1 | $99,885 |
| — | BLUE BELL CREAMERIES USA, INC PAC | — | PAC (multicandidate) | $0 | 1 | $50,982 |
| — | NORTH AMERICAN COAL CORP. POLITICAL ACTION COMM. NACPAC | — | PAC (multicandidate) | $0 | 1 | $123,926 |
| TEAM GT | FRIENDS OF GLENN THOMPSON | House campaign | $0 | 2 | — | |
| RISK AND INSURANCE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY, INC. | RISK AND INSURANCE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY, INC. PAC | — | PAC | $0 | 1 | $42,105 |
| GRIFFITH | FIGHTIN' NINTH POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE | — | PAC (multicandidate) | $0 | 2 | $71,578 |
| NONE | PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCACY PROJECT LOS ANGELES COUNTY ACTION FUND | — | Super PAC | $0 | 14 | $329,770 |
| — | SUMMIT COUNTY PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS FEDERAL PAC | — | PAC | $0 | 1 | $7,321 |
| SERRANO GLASSNER | GOLD BAR PAC | PAC | $0 | 1 | $561 | |
| — | VERMIN UNITED | — | Hybrid PAC | $0 | 1 | $0 |
| LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AKA LINCOLN FINANCIAL GROUP FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, FEDERAL LFGPAC) | LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPORATION STATE AND FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AKA LINCOLN FINANCIAL STATE AND FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE) | — | PAC | $0 | 1 | $27,203 |
| VINCENT | FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY | — | PAC | $0 | 1 | $1,713 |
| — | AFSCME COUNCIL 13 | — | Communication-cost filer | $0 | 17 | $0 |
| NONE | RURAL VALUES PAC | — | Hybrid PAC | −$200 refund/correction | 2 | $2,483 |
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.
Source: Senate LDA filings.