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U.S. Representative · OK · District 4

Tom Cole

RepublicanTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

4% of the money Cole raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 44% of the House.

Cole raised $5.6M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $1.8M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

4%from small donors
Small donors
4%$0.2M
Large donors
43%$2.4M
Bundled
6%$0.3M
PACs
45%$2.5M
Other
2%$0.1M

Against the house

How Cole compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
4%vs 5% house median
PAC share
45%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Cole

The organizations behind the money.

Cole'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 Cole

AIPAC›

$342K

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.

Republican Jewish Coalition PAC›$12K

Who it funds, across Congress

0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $935K to 72 members

Fairbanks Morse LLC PAC›$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

34% Democrats · 66% Republicans · $101K to 21 members

National Electrical Contractors PAC›$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

35% Democrats · 65% Republicans · $958K to 163 members

American Optometric Assn PAC›$10K

The American Optometric Association's PAC, representing optometrists.

Who it funds, across Congress

47% Democrats · 53% Republicans · $1.5M to 274 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 Cole's backing, not just the individual groups.

$347KPro-Israel
$214KEnergy
$149KHealth
$144KAg & Food
$114KFinance

Plus $1.2M from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Cole

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups$299K
  1. Defend American Jobs (Crypto)›$211K
    To help Cole
    $211K
    To hurt Cole
    —

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

  2. Defending Main Street Superpac$48K
    To help Cole
    $48K
    To hurt Cole
    —
  3. National Association Of Realtors$25K
    To help Cole
    $25K
    To hurt Cole
    —

FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 552 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 Cole'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 Cole stands