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U.S. Senator · CO

John W. Hickenlooper

DemocratSenate Class 2Term through January 2027

Funding profile · 2015–2020 term

33% of the money Hickenlooper raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 80% of the Senate.

Hickenlooper raised $44.2M across the full six-year Senate term (2015–2020), and ended the period with $1.6M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

33%from small donors
Small donors
33%$14.8M
Large donors
57%$25.0M
Bundled
0%$0.0M
PACs
2%$0.8M
Other
8%$3.6M

Against the senate

How Hickenlooper compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
33%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
2%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Hickenlooper

The organizations behind the money.

Hickenlooper'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.

$787K in PAC money not itemized by group

Hickenlooper collected $787K of PAC money through a joint fundraising committee, which pools contributions and transfers them as a lump sum. It is counted in the organized total above, but FEC filings do not itemize which PACs it came from at the campaign level, so it is not attributed to a named organization here.

Money organized for Hickenlooper

Jstreetpac

$21K

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

314 Action Fund$11K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $14K to 2 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $3.2M to elect Democrats; $2.9M to defeat Republicans.

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. Hickenlooperreceived so many small earmarked donations that these figures count only the largest ones. Read every total as “at least.”

The money spent about Hickenlooper

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups23% to help, 77% to hurt$23.3M
  1. NRSC$8.3M
    To help Hickenlooper
    To hurt Hickenlooper
    $8.3M

    The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the party committee for electing Senate Republicans.

  2. Senate Leadership Fund$8.1M
    To help Hickenlooper
    To hurt Hickenlooper
    $8.1M

    The super PAC aligned with Senate Republican leadership.

  3. Senate Majority PAC$2.7M
    To help Hickenlooper
    $2.7M
    To hurt Hickenlooper

    The super PAC aligned with Senate Democratic leadership.

  4. Fair Share Action$1.2M
    To help Hickenlooper
    $1.2M
    To hurt Hickenlooper
  5. Esafund$583K
    To help Hickenlooper
    To hurt Hickenlooper
    $583K

FEC filings, 2015–2020 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 2 funders of 35 organizations with a stake

About this data

FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2015–2020 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.

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 Hickenlooper stands