Who is donating to Congress?
Every dollar the 532 sitting senators and representatives reported raising into their own campaigns, broken down by the kind of donor it came from and, where the donor is a committee, by the committee itself. Open any committee to see every member of Congress it gave to, and how much. Individual donors are summed here rather than listed: see “Individual donors” below.
Summed from each member’s newest FEC filing, the same filing their own page draws: 521 cover the 2025–2026 cycle, the latest through August 26, 2026, and 11 the 2023–2024 cycle, whose newest filing is from then. A cycle still running is a partial count.
Where the money came from
All the money the sitting Congress raised, by the kind of donor that gave it. These are the filings’ own summary lines, the same figures each member’s ring is drawn from, added up.
What these categories mean
- Small individual donors
- People whose giving stayed under $200 in total. The FEC does not require them to be named, so who they are is genuinely unknown — not merely unlisted.
- Large individual donors
- People whose giving passed $200, which is the point at which the campaign must report their name, employer and occupation.
- PACs
- Political action committees — corporate, trade, union and ideological. Money from an organisation rather than from a person.
- Party committees
- The member's own national, state or congressional-campaign party committees.
- Self-funded
- The candidate's own money: what they gave the campaign outright plus what they lent it.
- Transfers in
- Money moved in from another committee the candidate is authorised by, typically a joint fundraising committee.
- Other and unclassified
- The remainder once every category above is accounted for: federal funds, offsets, interest, and anything this site could not classify. It is a residual, not a kind of donor.
House and Senate
The same breakdown for each chamber. A senator runs statewide once every six years and a representative runs every two, so a senator’s cycle total is usually far larger; the average per member is under each ring.
By party
The breakdown for each party’s members, by the party each member sits with today.
Which party each kind of donor funds
Each kind of money, split by the party of the members who received it. Read a split against the seats: Republicans hold 271 of these seats and Democrats 258, so money spread evenly across members would already lean slightly Republican. Self-funding is the candidates’ own money, so its ring says which party’s candidates paid their own way.
The largest PACs
Every committee that gave to a sitting member on Form 3 line 11C, “contributions from other political committees”, added up across Congress by its FEC committee id, so a PAC counts once under whatever name its treasurer wrote. Most are corporate, trade, union and ideological PACs; the line also carries other candidates’ committees and leadership PACs. The itemized lines add to $339,022,462 from 5,335 committees.
Joint fundraising and other transfers
Money moved into campaigns from other committees on Form 3 line 12, added up by committee. These are almost all joint fundraising committees, which raise money for several candidates at once and pass each their share, so the donors behind a transfer are the JFC’s own and are listed on its filing. The lines add to $220,523,587 from 676 committees.
Individual donors
Individual donors are summed on this site, never listed one at a time. The FEC itemizes every gift over $200 with the donor’s name, city, employer and occupation, and it publishes those lines itself: they are searchable by name, employer or committee in the FEC’s individual-contributions browser, and each member’s contributors page here links to that member’s own receipts there. The two rings below are the FEC’s own roll-ups of that giving across the sitting Congress. PACs and other committees are named on this site because a committee has an FEC id and a public role; a private donor has neither.
This is money the campaigns themselves received. It is not everything spent to win the seats. It excludes leadership PACs, which are separate committees a member controls, and it excludes independent expenditures and other outside spending, including what these same PACs spend on their own to elect or defeat a candidate. It is not personal income or net worth, which are a separate filing altogether — each member’s own page links to what they own, owe, earn and trade. Figures here are as filed with the Federal Election Commission and are only as current as each member’s last report. Each member’s page links to their filing on fec.gov, and each committee’s page links to its own.