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U.S. Representative · TX · District 31

John R. Carter

RepublicanTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

1% of the money Carter raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 19% of the House.

Carter raised $1.2M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $41K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

1%from small donors
Small donors
1%$0.0M
Large donors
50%$0.6M
Bundled
1%$0.0M
PACs
45%$0.6M
Other
2%$0.0M

Against the house

How Carter compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
1%vs 5% house median
PAC share
45%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Carter

The organizations behind the money.

Carter'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 Carter

AIPAC

$27K

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.

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.

Motorola Solutions, Inc. PAC$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

25% Democrats · 75% Republicans · $320K to 63 members

Dell Technologies$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

55% Democrats · 45% Republicans · $862K to 166 members

L3harris Technologies, Inc. PAC$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

48% Democrats · 52% Republicans · $792K to 140 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 Carter's backing, not just the individual groups.

$86KDefense
$41KAg & Food
$34KReal Estate
$30KTech
$27KPro-Israel

Plus $199K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Carter

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups$20K
  1. National Association Of Realtors$18K
    To help Carter
    $18K
    To hurt Carter

FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 141 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 Carter'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 Carter stands