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U.S. Senator · MS

Cindy Hyde-Smith

RepublicanSenate Class 2Term through January 2027

Funding profile · 2015–2020 term

14% of the money Hyde-Smith raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 42% of the Senate.

Hyde-Smith raised $3.4M across the full six-year Senate term (2015–2020), and ended the period with $169K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

14%from small donors
Small donors
14%$0.5M
Large donors
48%$1.7M
Bundled
1%$0.0M
PACs
34%$1.2M
Other
2%$0.1M

Against the senate

How Hyde-Smith compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
14%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
34%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Hyde-Smith

The organizations behind the money.

Hyde-Smith's largest organized backing comes from NORPAC. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.

$1.2M in PAC money not itemized by group

Hyde-Smith collected $1.2M 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 Hyde-Smith

NORPAC

$24K

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

Winning For Women, Inc. PAC$5K

Who it funds, across Congress

0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $24K to 7 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $1K to elect Republicans.

Susan B. Anthony List. Inc. Candidate Fund$500

Who it funds, across Congress

0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $401K to 60 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $47K to elect 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.

The money spent about Hyde-Smith

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups61% to help, 39% to hurt$3.9M
  1. National Association Of Realtors$923K
    To help Hyde-Smith
    $923K
    To hurt Hyde-Smith
  2. Senate Majority PAC$874K
    To help Hyde-Smith
    To hurt Hyde-Smith
    $874K

    The super PAC aligned with Senate Democratic leadership.

  3. US Chamber Of Commerce$675K
    To help Hyde-Smith
    $675K
    To hurt Hyde-Smith
  4. Front Row PAC$327K
    To help Hyde-Smith
    To hurt Hyde-Smith
    $327K
  5. America First Action,$271K
    To help Hyde-Smith
    $271K
    To hurt Hyde-Smith

FEC filings, 2015–2020 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 3 funders of 26 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 Hyde-Smith stands