What This Table Shows
Cash on hand is what a candidate's own campaign committee has left in the bank after receipts minus disbursements, as of its most recent FEC filing. It does not include money raised or spent by Super PACs, party committees, or other outside groups, those are reported to the FEC separately and are not shown here. Click + Top Donors under any candidate to see their largest named individual contributors, pulled live from FEC Schedule A itemized filings.
Ordered alphabetically by state, not by party or amount.
Glossary
Receipts
Total money a candidate's campaign committee has taken in for the election cycle, individual contributions, party committee transfers, and the candidate's own funds.
Disbursements
Total money the campaign committee has spent, staff salaries, advertising, travel, and other campaign operating costs.
Cash on Hand
What's left in the campaign committee's account after receipts minus disbursements, as of its most recent FEC filing. This is the campaign's own war chest, not a measure of total political spending on the race.
Itemized Contribution
An individual contribution over $200 that federal law requires a campaign to report by name, city, state, employer, and occupation. Contributions of $200 or less are reported only in aggregate, so the smallest donors never appear by name in FEC data.
Fast Facts
Cash on hand figures here reflect only a candidate's own campaign committee, they do not include money raised or spent by Super PACs, party committees, or other outside groups supporting or opposing the candidate.
The Federal Election Commission requires campaign committees to file periodic financial reports throughout the election cycle, this page reflects each committee's most recently filed totals.
Since Buckley v. Valeo (1976), the Supreme Court has treated campaign spending by a candidate's own committee as a form of political speech, while contribution limits to that committee remain regulated by federal law.
Independent expenditures by Super PACs, legalized by Citizens United v. FEC (2010) and SpeechNow.org v. FEC (2010), are reported to the FEC separately from candidate committee totals and are not included in this table.
Sources & Further Reading
- OpenFEC API Documentation
- FEC Campaign Finance Data
- Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
- Citizens United v. FEC (2010)
Financial totals are drawn live from the Federal Election Commission's OpenFEC API. This page shows each curated race's leading Democratic and Republican fundraiser by total receipts. Top donor lists are aggregated live from FEC Schedule A itemized filings, which only require reporting individual contributions over $200, smaller gifts are reported only in aggregate and are not itemized here. PAC and Super PAC independent expenditures and House races are not yet included in this curated view. The hero photograph of a United States one-dollar bill is a public domain U.S. government work, image of currency issued by the United States, via Wikimedia Commons.