U.S. Representative · KS · District 4
Ron Estes
RepublicanTerm through January 2027
Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle
1% of the money Estes raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 11% of the House.
Estes raised $2.3M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $1.2M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 1%$0.0M
- Large donors
- 16%$0.4M
- Bundled
- 1%$0.0M
- PACs
- 58%$1.3M
- Other
- 24%$0.6M
Against the house
How Estes compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 1%vs 5% house median
- PAC share
- 58%vs 37% house median
Who has a stake in Estes
The organizations behind the money.
Estes'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 Estes
AIPAC›
$20K
AIPAC›
$20K
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.
American Council Of Engineering Companies›$15K
The American Council of Engineering Companies' PAC, representing engineering firms.
Who it funds, across Congress
53% Democrats · 47% Republicans · $2.1M to 316 members
NORPAC›$13K
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
Koch Industries, Inc. PAC›$10K
KochPAC, the corporate PAC of Koch Industries, the diversified energy and manufacturing conglomerate.
Who it funds, across Congress
0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $1.4M to 162 members
Outside spending, by party
Spent $95 to elect Republicans.
National Automobile Dealers Association PAC›$10K
The National Automobile Dealers Association's PAC, representing franchised car dealers.
Who it funds, across Congress
31% Democrats · 69% Republicans · $2.4M to 323 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 Estes's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $412K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
The money spent about Estes
Spent for or against.
Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Estes, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Estes.
Koch Industries, Inc. PAC›$4
To help Estes$4To hurt Estes—KochPAC, the corporate PAC of Koch Industries, the diversified energy and manufacturing conglomerate.
Koch Industries, Inc. PAC›$4—$4
Koch Industries, Inc. PAC
KochPAC, the corporate PAC of Koch Industries, the diversified energy and manufacturing conglomerate.
FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 330 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 Estes'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.
Support for requiring the groups that spend on elections to name their donors, across both parties. Congress has not passed the DISCLOSE Act.
Where Estes stands