U.S. Representative · IL · District 11
Bill Foster
DemocratTerm through January 2027
Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle
8% of the money Foster raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 61% of the House.
Foster raised $3.3M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $1.6M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 8%$0.2M
- Large donors
- 54%$1.8M
- Bundled
- 1%$0.0M
- PACs
- 35%$1.2M
- Other
- 2%$0.1M
Against the house
How Foster compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 8%vs 5% house median
- PAC share
- 35%vs 37% house median
Who has a stake in Foster
The organizations behind the money.
Foster's largest organized backing comes from Jstreetpac. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.
Money organized for Foster
Jstreetpac›
$33K
Jstreetpac›
$33K
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
Trans Union LLC PAC›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
49% Democrats · 51% Republicans · $147K to 34 members
International Brotherhood Of Boilermakers Campaign Assistance Fund›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
96% Democrats · 4% Republicans · $518K to 80 members
Allied Pilots Association PAC›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
51% Democrats · 49% Republicans · $989K to 180 members
Laborers' International Union Of North America (Liuna) PAC›$10K
The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) political fund, representing construction laborers.
Who it funds, across Congress
91% Democrats · 9% Republicans · $1.6M to 223 members
Outside spending, by party
Spent $275 to elect Democrats.
› 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 Foster's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $316K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
The money spent about Foster
Spent for or against.
Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Foster, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Foster.
Project 218$62K
To help Foster$62KTo hurt Foster—DMFI PAC$41K
To help Foster$41KTo hurt Foster—Advance Liberty PAC$28K
To help Foster—To hurt Foster$28K
Project 218$62K—$62K
DMFI PAC$41K—$41K
Advance Liberty PAC—$28K$28K
FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 241 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 Foster'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 Foster stands