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U.S. Senator · TN

Bill Hagerty

RepublicanSenate Class 2Term through January 2027

Funding profile · 2015–2020 term

2% of the money Hagerty raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 3% of the Senate.

Hagerty raised $15.8M across the full six-year Senate term (2015–2020), and ended the period with $55K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

2%from small donors
Small donors
2%$0.3M
Large donors
44%$7.0M
Bundled
0%$0.0M
PACs
7%$1.1M
Other
47%$7.4M

Against the senate

How Hagerty compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
2%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
7%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Hagerty

The organizations behind the money.

Hagerty's largest organized backing comes from Citizens Club For Growth Inc. PAC. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.

› $1.1M in PAC money not itemized by group

Hagerty collected $1.1M 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 Hagerty

Citizens Club For Growth Inc. PAC›

$2K

Who it funds, across Congress

0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $2K to 1 members

Club For Growth›$1K

Club for Growth's PAC and super PAC, backing anti-tax, small-government conservatives, often against Republican incumbents in primaries.

Who it funds, across Congress

0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $2.7M to 39 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $15.9M to elect Republicans; $27.5M to defeat 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 money spent about Hagerty

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups6% to help, 94% to hurt$1.1M
  1. Conservative Outsider PAC$968K
    To help Hagerty
    —
    To hurt Hagerty
    $968K
  2. Standing With Conservatives$63K
    To help Hagerty
    $63K
    To hurt Hagerty
    —
  3. Conservative Outsiders PAC$35K
    To help Hagerty
    —
    To hurt Hagerty
    $35K
  4. National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund›$5K
    To help Hagerty
    $5K
    To hurt Hagerty
    —

    The National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund, its candidate-giving arm.

  5. The New American Populist PAC$4K
    To help Hagerty
    —
    To hurt Hagerty
    $4K

FEC filings, 2015–2020 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 2 funders of 7 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 Hagerty stands