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U.S. Senator · NY

Kirsten E. Gillibrand

DemocratSenate Class 1Term through January 2031

Funding profile · 2019–2024 term

14% of the money Gillibrand raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 44% of the Senate.

Gillibrand raised $15.7M across the full six-year Senate term (2019–2024), and ended the period with $716K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

14%from small donors
Small donors
14%$2.2M
Large donors
30%$4.7M
Bundled
3%$0.5M
PACs
6%$0.9M
Other
47%$7.3M

Against the senate

How Gillibrand compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
14%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
6%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Gillibrand

The organizations behind the money.

Gillibrand'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 Gillibrand

AIPAC

$478K

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$42K

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

Emily'S List$33K

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

Transport Workers Union Political Contributions Committee$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

90% Democrats · 10% Republicans · $969K to 171 members

Smart Solutions PAC$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

96% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $283K to 32 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 Gillibrand's backing, not just the individual groups.

$520KPro-Israel
$132KLabor
$70KIdeological
$28KFinance
$28KHealth

Plus $510K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Gillibrand

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups$29K
  1. We Act 4 Change$29K
    To help Gillibrand
    $29K
    To hurt Gillibrand

FEC filings, 2019–2024 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 128 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 Gillibrand'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 Gillibrand stands