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U.S. Senator · IL

Tammy Duckworth

DemocratSenate Class 3Term through January 2029

Funding profile · 2017–2022 term

40% of the money Duckworth raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 88% of the Senate.

Duckworth raised $19.0M across the full six-year Senate term (2017–2022), and ended the period with $1.6M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

40%from small donors
Small donors
40%$7.7M
Large donors
37%$7.0M
Bundled
2%$0.4M
PACs
10%$1.9M
Other
10%$1.9M

Against the senate

How Duckworth compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
40%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
10%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Duckworth

The organizations behind the money.

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

Money organized for Duckworth

Votesane PAC

$150K

Who it funds, across Congress

40% Democrats · 60% Republicans · $2.6M to 42 members

Emily'S List$147K

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

AIPAC$106K

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.

Jstreetpac$43K

J Street's PAC, a liberal pro-Israel group that backs candidates supporting a two-state solution, often a counterweight to AIPAC.

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $4.0M to 144 members

National Corn Growers Association PAC$11K

Who it funds, across Congress

32% Democrats · 68% Republicans · $480K to 104 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 Duckworth's backing, not just the individual groups.

$169KIdeological
$154KHealth
$148KPro-Israel
$119KLabor
$88KFinance

Plus $677K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Duckworth

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups42% to help, 58% to hurt$90K
  1. The Veterans Foundation PAC$36K
    To help Duckworth
    $36K
    To hurt Duckworth
  2. American Unity PAC$32K
    To help Duckworth
    To hurt Duckworth
    $32K
  3. For A Better Illinois$20K
    To help Duckworth
    To hurt Duckworth
    $20K

FEC filings, 2017–2022 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 318 organizations with a stake

About this data

FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2017–2022 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 Duckworth'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 Duckworth stands