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U.S. Representative · OR · District 5

Janelle S. Bynum

DemocratTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

25% of the money Bynum raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 90% of the House.

Bynum raised $7.5M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $45K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

25%from small donors
Small donors
25%$1.9M
Large donors
59%$4.4M
Bundled
4%$0.3M
PACs
10%$0.8M
Other
2%$0.2M

Against the house

How Bynum compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
25%vs 5% house median
PAC share
10%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Bynum

The organizations behind the money.

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

Money organized for Bynum

Emilys List›

$110K

EMILY's List's PAC, which backs Democratic women who support abortion rights.

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $2.4M to 47 members

Swing Left›$63K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $895K to 34 members

Ameripac: The Fund For A Greater America›$29K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $1.0M to 79 members

Zinc Collective PAC›$25K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $693K to 25 members

DCCC›$24K

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party committee for electing House Democrats.

Who it funds, across Congress

94% Democrats · 6% Republicans · $115K to 15 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $3.1M to elect Democrats; $28.8M to defeat 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 Bynum's backing, not just the individual groups.

$208KIdeological
$51KLabor
$22KEnergy
$8KLaw
$7KDefense

Plus $504K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Bynum

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups32% to help, 68% to hurt$12.2M
  1. Congressional Leadership Fund›$5.4M
    To help Bynum
    —
    To hurt Bynum
    $5.4M

    The super PAC aligned with House Republican leadership.

  2. DCCC›$2.2M
    To help Bynum
    $2.2M
    To hurt Bynum
    —

    The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party committee for electing House Democrats.

  3. NRCC›$2.0M
    To help Bynum
    —
    To hurt Bynum
    $2.0M

    The National Republican Congressional Committee, the party committee for electing House Republicans.

  4. House Majority PAC›$539K
    To help Bynum
    $539K
    To hurt Bynum
    —

    The super PAC aligned with House Democratic leadership.

  5. Defending Main Street Superpac$520K
    To help Bynum
    —
    To hurt Bynum
    $520K

FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 162 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 Bynum'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 Bynum stands