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U.S. Senator · NE

Deb Fischer

RepublicanSenate Class 1Term through January 2031

Funding profile · 2019–2024 term

7% of the money Fischer raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 22% of the Senate.

Fischer raised $8.7M across the full six-year Senate term (2019–2024), and ended the period with $25K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

7%from small donors
Small donors
7%$0.6M
Large donors
31%$2.7M
Bundled
5%$0.5M
PACs
38%$3.3M
Other
19%$1.6M

Against the senate

How Fischer compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
7%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
38%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Fischer

The organizations behind the money.

Fischer'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 Fischer

AIPAC

$431K

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.

NORPAC$25K

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

Truck PAC$19K

Who it funds, across Congress

37% Democrats · 62% Republicans · $545K to 143 members

Nebraska Sandhills PAC$15K

Who it funds, across Congress

0% Democrats · 98% Republicans · $297K to 36 members

Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers Of America$13K

Who it funds, across Congress

27% Democrats · 73% Republicans · $1.2M to 258 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 Fischer's backing, not just the individual groups.

$459KPro-Israel
$268KFinance
$176KTech
$161KAg & Food
$155KEnergy

Plus $1.5M from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Fischer

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups12% to help, 88% to hurt$8.7M
  1. Retire Career Politicians$7.2M
    To help Fischer
    To hurt Fischer
    $7.2M
  2. Esafund$528K
    To help Fischer
    $528K
    To hurt Fischer
  3. American Hospital Association PAC$250K
    To help Fischer
    $250K
    To hurt Fischer
  4. Common Sense For America PAC$179K
    To help Fischer
    $179K
    To hurt Fischer
  5. Railroaders For Public Safety$165K
    To help Fischer
    To hurt Fischer
    $165K

FEC filings, 2019–2024 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 587 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 Fischer'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 Fischer stands