U.S. Representative · FL · District 16
Vern Buchanan
RepublicanTerm through January 2027
Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle
2% of the money Buchanan raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 27% of the House.
Buchanan raised $1.8M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $1.0M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 2%$0.0M
- Large donors
- 26%$0.5M
- Bundled
- 1%$0.0M
- PACs
- 68%$1.2M
- Other
- 3%$0.1M
Against the house
How Buchanan compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 2%vs 5% house median
- PAC share
- 68%vs 37% house median
Who has a stake in Buchanan
The organizations behind the money.
Buchanan'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 Buchanan
AIPAC›
$24K
AIPAC›
$24K
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.
American College Of Cardiology PAC›$13K
Who it funds, across Congress
51% Democrats · 49% Republicans · $432K to 112 members
Ernst & Young PAC›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
47% Democrats · 52% Republicans · $1.2M to 187 members
National Assn Of Real Estate Investment›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
50% Democrats · 50% Republicans · $791K to 126 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.
› 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 Buchanan's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $380K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 306 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 Buchanan'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.
Support for requiring the groups that spend on elections to name their donors, across both parties. Congress has not passed the DISCLOSE Act.
Where Buchanan stands