Where committee money comes from
Direct contributions that committees gave to the campaigns of candidates in verified 2026 races, grouped by the kind of committee. One cluster per kind; each bubble is a candidate.
● Democratic ● Republican ● other · bigger bubble = more money from that kind of committee.
Committees of companies and their employees
Industry associations, membership groups and co-operatives
Committees of labor unions
Committees run by other politicians
National, state and local party committees
Campaign committees of other candidates
Issue, ideological and other committees with no business or union sponsor
Reported FEC bulk data (committee contributions to candidates and the committee master), 2025–26 cycle through 2026-10-25. Each cluster shows the 45 candidates who received the most from that kind of committee; on a candidate’s page the full breakdown and the largest committees are listed. The kind of a committee comes from its FEC registration: a company or union sponsor, a trade or membership group, a party committee, another candidate’s committee or a leadership PAC; committees with none of these are “Other PACs”. These are direct contributions that committees gave to the campaign, which the law caps and the giving committees report; they are different from independent spending for or against a candidate, shown under “Outside spending”.