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U.S. Senator · PA

John Fetterman

DemocratSenate Class 3Term through January 2029

Funding profile · 2017–2022 term

49% of the money Fetterman raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 96% of the Senate.

Fetterman raised $76.3M across the full six-year Senate term (2017–2022), and ended the period with $627K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

49%from small donors
Small donors
49%$37.2M
Large donors
40%$30.9M
Bundled
0%$0.2M
PACs
1%$0.8M
Other
9%$7.2M

Against the senate

How Fetterman compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
49%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
1%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Fetterman

The organizations behind the money.

Fetterman'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 Fetterman

Jstreetpac

$110K

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

Swing Left$17K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $895K to 34 members

League Of Conservation Voters Action Fund$16K

Who it funds, across Congress

99% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $939K to 148 members

Granite Values PAC$15K

Who it funds, across Congress

96% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $263K to 28 members

Council For A Livable World Candidate Fund$13K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $160K to 26 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. Fettermanreceived 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 Fetterman's backing, not just the individual groups.

$161KLabor
$110KPro-Israel
$39KIdeological
$11KHealth
$8KReal Estate

Plus $506K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Fetterman

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups29% to help, 71% to hurt$118.0M
  1. Senate Leadership Fund$47.6M
    To help Fetterman
    To hurt Fetterman
    $47.6M

    The super PAC aligned with Senate Republican leadership.

  2. American Leadership Action$14.4M
    To help Fetterman
    To hurt Fetterman
    $14.4M
  3. Priorities Usa Action$8.3M
    To help Fetterman
    $8.3M
    To hurt Fetterman
  4. American Crossroads$6.6M
    To help Fetterman
    To hurt Fetterman
    $6.6M

    A Republican super PAC co-founded by Karl Rove, spending independently in Senate and presidential races.

  5. Senate Majority PAC$4.0M
    To help Fetterman
    $4.0M
    To hurt Fetterman

    The super PAC aligned with Senate Democratic leadership.

FEC filings, 2017–2022 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 228 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 Fetterman'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 Fetterman stands