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U.S. Representative · GA · District 2

Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.

DemocratTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

3% of the money Bishop raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 33% of the House.

Bishop raised $1.9M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $183K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

3%from small donors
Small donors
3%$0.1M
Large donors
33%$0.6M
Bundled
0%$0.0M
PACs
63%$1.2M
Other
0%$0.0M

Against the house

How Bishop compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
3%vs 5% house median
PAC share
63%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Bishop

The organizations behind the money.

Bishop's largest organized backing comes from AIPAC. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.

Money organized for Bishop

AIPAC

$17K

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby that both gives directly and bundles individual donations; its super PAC (United Democracy Project) runs large independent campaigns in primaries.

Who it funds, across Congress

59% Democrats · 40% Republicans · $38.7M to 359 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $13.9M to elect Democrats; $5.0M to defeat Democrats.

The Nea Fund For Children & Public Education$10K

The National Education Association's political fund, one of the largest labor PACs, representing public-school teachers.

Who it funds, across Congress

98% Democrats · 2% Republicans · $1.5M to 238 members

National Association Of Realtors$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

43% Democrats · 57% Republicans · $4.9M to 452 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $18.9M to elect Republicans.

National Association Of Letter Carriers Of Usa Pol. Fund$10K

The National Association of Letter Carriers' political fund, representing postal workers.

Who it funds, across Congress

82% Democrats · 18% Republicans · $1.5M to 253 members

National Association Of Convenience Stores PAC$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

32% Democrats · 67% Republicans · $945K to 211 members

What is organized money?

An organization reaches a member two ways. Its own PAC writes a direct check. And it bundles: it gathers individual donations from its supporters and routes them through its conduit. Both count here as one “organized” total. The bundled part is already inside the individual giving shown in the funding mix above. Here it is regrouped by the organization that gathered it, so you can see who did the organizing.

The same money, by industry

Which industries have a stake.

The same organized money, grouped by the industry of the organization that moved it. It shows the interests behind Bishop's backing, not just the individual groups.

$237KAg & Food
$144KLabor
$99KFinance
$60KTech
$52KHealth

Plus $401K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Bishop

Spent for or against.

Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Bishop, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Bishop.

All outside groups$24K
  1. United We Can$14K
    To help Bishop
    $14K
    To hurt Bishop

FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 264 organizations with a stake

About this data

FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2023–2024 cycle. This is the disclosed money only. Spending by outside groups that do not reveal their donors, the dark money that set a record in 2024, never appears in these figures.

Every percentage here is a share of all receipts, not of individual contributions only. So the small-donor share counts transfers, loans, and other money in its base, and can read higher than figures that divide only by individual money.

PAC figures are contributions to Bishop's campaign committee from FEC filings. Industry labels are grouped from each committee's name and are approximate. Joint fundraising committees and small-dollar conduits like ActBlue and WinRed are not counted.

84%want dark money disclosed

Support for requiring the groups that spend on elections to name their donors, across both parties. Congress has not passed the DISCLOSE Act.

Where Bishop stands