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U.S. Senator · TX

Ted Cruz

RepublicanSenate Class 1Term through January 2031

Funding profile · 2019–2024 term

44% of the money Cruz raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 92% of the Senate.

Cruz raised $107.1M across the full six-year Senate term (2019–2024), and ended the period with $1.8M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

44%from small donors
Small donors
44%$47.1M
Large donors
46%$48.8M
Bundled
1%$0.9M
PACs
1%$1.6M
Other
8%$8.7M

Against the senate

How Cruz compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
44%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
1%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Cruz

The organizations behind the money.

Cruz'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 Cruz

AIPAC›

$486K

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.

Senate Conservatives Fund›$193K

The Senate Conservatives Fund, a hard-right super PAC that backs insurgent Republicans against the party establishment.

Who it funds, across Congress

0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $2.2M to 18 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $8.5M to elect Republicans; $375K to defeat Democrats.

Club For Growth›$131K

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.

Republican Jewish Coalition PAC›$66K

Who it funds, across Congress

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

NORPAC›$41K

A pro-Israel political action committee that bundles individual donations to candidates it judges supportive of the U.S. relationship with Israel.

Who it funds, across Congress

40% Democrats · 59% Republicans · $2.2M to 82 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. Cruzreceived so many small earmarked donations that these figures count only the largest ones. Read every total as “at least.”

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 Cruz's backing, not just the individual groups.

$531KPro-Israel
$417KIdeological
$103KEnergy
$62KAg & Food
$61KFinance

Plus $749K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Cruz

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups75% to help, 25% to hurt$11.5M
  1. Truth And Courage PAC$3.9M
    To help Cruz
    $3.9M
    To hurt Cruz
    —
  2. Save Our Country$1.7M
    To help Cruz
    $1.7M
    To hurt Cruz
    —
  3. Winsenate›$1.4M
    To help Cruz
    —
    To hurt Cruz
    $1.4M

    A super PAC spending to elect Senate Democrats.

  4. Senate Conservatives Fund›$1.1M
    To help Cruz
    $1.1M
    To hurt Cruz
    —

    The Senate Conservatives Fund, a hard-right super PAC that backs insurgent Republicans against the party establishment.

  5. Red Senate$785K
    To help Cruz
    $785K
    To hurt Cruz
    —

FEC filings, 2019–2024 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 272 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 Cruz'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 Cruz stands