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Jim Banks

RepublicanSenate Class 1Term through January 2031

Funding profile · 2019–2024 term

18% of the money Banks raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 48% of the Senate.

Banks raised $7.3M across the full six-year Senate term (2019–2024), and ended the period with $2.6M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

18%from small donors
Small donors
18%$1.3M
Large donors
39%$2.9M
Bundled
5%$0.3M
PACs
20%$1.4M
Other
19%$1.4M

Against the senate

How Banks compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
18%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
20%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Banks

The organizations behind the money.

Banks'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 Banks

AIPAC

$255K

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.

Club For Growth$69K

Club for Growth's PAC and super PAC, backing anti-tax, small-government conservatives, often against Republican incumbents in primaries.

Who it funds, across Congress

0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $2.7M to 39 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $15.9M to elect Republicans; $27.5M to defeat Democrats.

Marathon Petroleum Corporation Employees PAC$17K

Who it funds, across Congress

5% Democrats · 95% Republicans · $579K to 100 members

Bae Systems Inc. PAC$16K

Who it funds, across Congress

40% Democrats · 59% Republicans · $606K to 125 members

Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc. PAC$14K

The Associated Builders and Contractors' PAC, representing non-union construction firms.

Who it funds, across Congress

1% Democrats · 98% Republicans · $1.0M to 202 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $124K 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 Banks's backing, not just the individual groups.

$265KPro-Israel
$175KIdeological
$137KHealth
$105KFinance
$98KDefense

Plus $612K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Banks

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups$4.1M
  1. Defend American Jobs (Crypto)$3.0M
    To help Banks
    $3.0M
    To hurt Banks

    A crypto-industry super PAC (part of the Fairshake network) spending to elect candidates friendly to digital assets.

  2. American Leadership Action$705K
    To help Banks
    $705K
    To hurt Banks
  3. Club For Growth$352K
    To help Banks
    $352K
    To hurt Banks

    Club for Growth's PAC and super PAC, backing anti-tax, small-government conservatives, often against Republican incumbents in primaries.

FEC filings, 2019–2024 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 318 organizations with a stake

About this data

FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2019–2024 term. 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 Banks'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 Banks stands