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Contributors 2021 - 2022

Top 100 contributors to Campaign Committee

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Rank Contributor Total Individuals PACs
1 Democracy Engine $94,344 $94,344 $0
2 Akin, Gump et al $68,805 $65,555 $3,250
3 Frontline USA $40,985 $35,985 $5,000
4 Prime Clerk $23,700 $23,700 $0
5 JStreetPAC $22,488 $22,488 $0
6 Paul, Weiss et al $21,250 $21,250 $0
7 Morgan Stanley $17,400 $17,400 $0
8 GiveGreen United Action $16,928 $16,928 $0
9 Raider Hill Advisors $14,500 $14,500 $0
10 Willkie, Farr & Gallagher $12,600 $12,600 $0
11 Latham & Watkins $11,800 $11,800 $0
12 Bon Voyage Travel $11,600 $11,600 $0
12 Boston Properties $11,600 $11,600 $0
12 Millennium Partners $11,600 $11,600 $0
12 North Island Ventures $11,600 $11,600 $0
12 Zagat Survey $11,600 $11,600 $0
17 American Federation of Teachers $10,000 $0 $10,000
17 AmeriPAC: The Fund for a Greater America $10,000 $0 $10,000
19 PJT Partners $9,450 $9,450 $0
20 Allen & Co $8,700 $8,700 $0
20 Carlyle Group $8,700 $8,700 $0
20 Clinical Psychotherapist $8,700 $8,700 $0
20 Cooperstown $8,700 $8,700 $0
20 Dept of Education $8,700 $8,700 $0
20 Ei $8,700 $8,700 $0
20 Field Hands Productions $8,700 $8,700 $0
20 Flat $8,700 $8,700 $0
20 Headlands Organization LLC $8,700 $8,700 $0
20 Lowercase Capital $8,700 $8,700 $0
20 Magnolia Mae Films $8,700 $8,700 $0
20 Steven M Pesner PC $8,700 $8,700 $0
32 Ziffren Brittenham Llp $8,300 $8,300 $0
33 Granite Assoc $7,800 $7,800 $0
34 Jobs Education & Families First $7,500 $0 $7,500
34 Service Employees International Union $7,500 $2,500 $5,000
36 Friedman, Kaplan et al $7,300 $7,300 $0
37 Bard College $7,150 $7,150 $0
38 Cornell University Medical School $7,050 $7,050 $0
39 Kenner Family Research Fund $6,900 $6,900 $0
40 Columbia University $6,595 $6,595 $0
41 End Citizens United $6,500 $1,500 $5,000
42 Patterson Planning & Services $6,400 $6,400 $0
43 Columbia University Teachers College $5,850 $5,850 $0
44 Akonadi Foundation $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Alphabet Inc $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 American Capital Management $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Analysis Group $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Apple Inc $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Arthur'S Point Farm $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Arthur'S Point Farm LLC $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Basch & Keegan Llp $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Benton Capital Management $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Berkshire Partners $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Blue Star Partners $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Blue Wolf Capital Partners $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Croppharms LLC $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Deer Management $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 DLA Piper $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Douglas Emmett Inc $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Fit $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Genting New York LLC $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Gill Law Firm $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Golenbock, Eiseman et al $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Good Trouble Studios $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Greater New York Hospital Assn $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Harnisch Foundation $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Hill Station Advisors LLC $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Hunter College $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Jordan Real Estate Investments $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Kampack Inc $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Landmark Partners $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Lone Pine Capital $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Mainetti, Mainetti & O'Connor $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Neoteny $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Northlane Capital Partners $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Onyx Partners $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Quinn, Emanuel et al $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Rafferty Asset Management $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 RXR Realty $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Salmar Realty $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Showtime Networks $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Sighthound Search Partners $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Skdknickerbocker $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Snowflake $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Sotheby's $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Ssi Strategy $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Stone Forest Capital $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Temple University $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Trilogy International Partners $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Tusk Holdings $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Unfcu $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Washington Jesuit Academy $5,800 $5,800 $0
44 Zoom Foundation $5,800 $5,800 $0
95 Slipstream Properties $5,700 $5,700 $0
96 Karla T Jurvetson MD $5,600 $5,600 $0
97 Sidewalk Labs $5,150 $5,150 $0
98 League of Conservation Voters $5,060 $1,000 $4,060
99 American Assn for Justice $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 American Crystal Sugar $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 American Federation of State/Cnty/Munic Employees $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Brave PAC $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Bricklayers Union $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 BRIDGE PAC $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Communications Workers of America $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Congressional Black Caucus PAC $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Courage to Change $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Esther A & Joseph Klingenstein Fund $5,000 $5,000 $0
99 Fair Shot PAC $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Hudson Valley PAC (Maloney) $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Indivisible Action $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 International Assn of Fire Fighters $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Laborers Union $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 National Assn of Letter Carriers $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 National Wooden Pallet & Container Assn $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Off the Sidelines $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Pica Manufacturing Solutions $5,000 $5,000 $0
99 Progressive Majority PAC $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Progressive Turnout Project $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Ted Lieu for Congress $5,000 $2,000 $3,000
99 The Collective PAC $5,000 $0 $5,000
99 Worthe Real Estate Group $5,000 $5,000 $0

*registrants, or active lobbying firm

These tables list the top donors to candidates in the 2021 - 2022 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

Why (and How) We Use Donors' Employer/Occupation Information

Corporations themselves cannot donate to candidates at the federal level but federal candidates can get contributions from corporate PACs, employees and owners as well as their immediate families. At the state level, corporations and unions can give directly to campaigns in many jurisdictions.

Under federal law, all contributions over $200 must be itemized and the donor's occupation and employer must be requested and disclosed, if provided. State requirements related to itemization thresholds and employment disclosures vary.

Where available, OpenSecrets uses that employer/occupation information to identify the donor's economic interest. We do this in two ways:

  • First, we apply a code to the contribution, identifying the industry. Totals for industries (and larger economic sectors) can be seen in each candidate and race profile, and in the Industry Profile section of the OpenSecrets website.
  • Second, we standardize the name of the donor's employer. If enough contributions came in from people connected with that same employer, the organization's name winds up on the Top Contributors list.

It is impossible to know either the economic interest that made each individual contribution possible or the motivation for each individual giver. However, the patterns of contributions provide critical information for voters, researchers and others. That is why Congress and many states have mandated that candidates, political parties and political committees request employer information from contributors and publicly report it when the contributor provides it.

In some cases, a cluster of contributions from people associated with the same organization may indicate a concerted effort by that organization to "bundle" contributions to the candidate. In other cases, the reason for the contributions may be completely unrelated to the organization.

Showing these clusters of contributions from people associated with particular organizations provides a valuable — and unique — way of understanding where candidates are getting their financial support. Knowing those groups is also useful after the election, as issues come before Congress, presidential administrations and state governments that may affect those organizations or their industries.

METHODOLOGY

Corporations themselves cannot donate to candidates at the federal level but federal candidates can get contributions from corporate PACs, employees and owners as well as their immediate families. At the state level, corporations and unions can give directly to campaigns in many jurisdictions.

Donors who give more than $200 to any federal candidate, PAC or party committee must list their occupation and employer. State requirements related to itemization thresholds and employment disclosures vary. Based on the available information, the donor is given an economic code. These totals are conservative, as not all of the individual contributions have yet been classified by OpenSecrets.

In cases where two or more people from the same family contributed, the income-earner's occupation/employer is assigned to all non-wage earning family members. If, for instance, Henry Jones lists his employer as First National Bank, his wife Matilda lists "Homemaker" and 12-year old Tammy shows up as "Student," OpenSecrets would identify all their contributions as being related to the "First National Bank" since that's the source of the family's income.

Although individual contributions are generally categorized based on the donor's occupation/employer, in some cases individuals may be classified instead as ideological donors. A contribution to a candidate may be given an ideological code, rather than an economic code, if the contributor gives to an ideological political action committee AND the candidate has received money from PACs representing that same ideological interest.

NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2021 - 2022 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on March 20, 2023. ("Help! The numbers don't add up...")

WHY DON'T THE NUMBERS ADD UP?

Sometimes it's hard to make apple-to-apple comparisons across some of the pages in a candidate's profile. Here's why:

Summary numbers for federal officeholders - specifically "Total Raised and Spent" and "PAC/Individual Split" - are based on summary reports filed by the candidates with the Federal Election Commission. All other numbers in these profiles for state and federal officeholders are derived from contribution records disclosed in campaign finance reports from the FEC or state campaign finance agencies that reach applicable itemization thresholds.

There is also a time lag in posting the information. While summary numbers are reported almost immediately by the FEC — and listed quickly on OpenSecrets — processing and analyzing the detailed records takes much longer. For that reason, summary numbers are usually higher (and more current) than the numbers based on detailed records. Data for state officeholders may be subject to longer time lags, as OpenSecrets aggregates this information from many sources and formats.

HOW CURRENT ARE THESE FIGURES?

The figures in federal profiles are taken from databases uploaded by the FEC on the first day of every month. Those databases are only as current as the FEC has been able to compile by that date (see the note above about lag times for data entry).

OpenSecrets updates federal figures for "Total Raised and Spent" and for "PAC/Individual Split" a few days after the first of the month. The remaining figures - based on detailed contribution data - are updated by OpenSecrets after the 20th of every month. This gives us time to analyze the contributions and categorize them by industry and interest group.

The lag times vary for state officeholder data. OpenSecrets aggregates state data from many sources and formats.

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