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The Commission maintains a database of individuals who have made contributions to federally registered political committees. Data on individual contributors includes the following: Individual Contributions. Name. Occupation or Employer. City. State. Date of transaction. Amount of contribution.
This database includes Federal Election Commission records of receipts from all individuals who contribute at least $200 (smaller contributions are not part of the public record). Bear in mind that contributions to politicians can also be made through Political Action Committees.
Contributions to candidates and other political committees. Transfers to other authorized committees and affiliated committees. Feedback. Explore current and historic federal campaign finance data on the new fec.gov. Look at totals and trends, and see how candidates and committees raise and spend money.
Here are the individuals who have dipped deepest into their own pockets for campaign contributions to federal candidates, parties, political action committees, 527 organizations, and Carey committees.
RankContributorTotal ContributionsTotal Hard Money1Adelson Sheldon G. & Miriam O. Adelson ...$218,168,500$3,068,5002Bloomberg Michael R. Bloomberg City of ...$152,509,750$923,3043Steyer Thomas & Taylor Steyer Fahr ...$72,119,974$2,124,8294Uihlein Richard & Elizabeth Uihlein Uline ...$68,314,982$3,297,882- Are Political Donations Public Record?
- How to Track Donations to National Campaigns
- How to Track Donations to State and Local Campaigns
In general, donations made to political campaigns are public record. All Senate, House, and presidential candidates (and any committees that are authorized to raise money for them) have to report campaign donations to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). FEC rules require campaigns to track all contributions, though the amount of information coll...
The FEC has a searchable donor databasethat lets you browse donors by recipient or contributor and further narrow your results by zip code, donor occupation, employer, contribution amount, and more. Poring over the FEC reports can feel a little overwhelming, though. A more manageable option is the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization OpenSecrets (fo...
The FEC collects data on federal campaigns and candidates only. The National Institute on Money in Politics runs a tool called FollowTheMoney.orgfor tracking donations to state and local campaigns. Note that the organization has merged with the Center for Responsive Politics, so OpenSecrets will house all of the available data in the future. For no...
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See comprehensive 50-state campaign contributions, independent spending, and lobbying details for candidates, political parties and ballot measures at FollowTheMoney.org.
