U.S. Senator · MA
Edward J. Markey
DemocratSenate Class 2Term through January 2027
Funding profile · 2015–2020 term
26% of the money Markey raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 64% of the Senate.
Markey raised $14.5M 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.
- Small donors
- 26%$3.7M
- Large donors
- 57%$8.2M
- Bundled
- 0%$0.0M
- PACs
- 10%$1.4M
- Other
- 8%$1.1M
Against the senate
How Markey compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 26%vs 19% senate median
- PAC share
- 10%vs 14% senate median
Who has a stake in Markey
The organizations behind the money.
Markey'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.
› $1.4M in PAC money not itemized by group
Markey collected $1.4M 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 Markey
Jstreetpac›
$6K
Jstreetpac›
$6K
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
Pinnacle West PAC›$5K
Who it funds, across Congress
36% Democrats · 64% Republicans · $341K to 70 members
United Steel Workers Political Action Fund›$5K
Who it funds, across Congress
98% Democrats · 1% Republicans · $445K to 64 members
Outside spending, by party
Spent $6K to elect Democrats.
Dell Technologies PAC›$4K
Who it funds, across Congress
55% Democrats · 45% Republicans · $862K to 166 members
Oracle America Inc. PAC›$3K
Who it funds, across Congress
46% Democrats · 54% Republicans · $201K to 78 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 Markey's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $27K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
The money spent about Markey
Spent for or against.
Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Markey, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Markey.
United For Massachusetts$3.6M
To help Markey$3.6MTo hurt Markey—New Leadership PAC$1.1M
To help Markey—To hurt Markey$1.1MEnvironment America Action Fund$300K
To help Markey$300KTo hurt Markey—Indivisible Action$72K
To help Markey$72KTo hurt Markey—Chinese Progressive Political Action Ie PAC$9K
To help Markey$9KTo hurt Markey—
United For Massachusetts›$3.6M—$3.6M
United For Massachusetts
New Leadership PAC—$1.1M$1.1M
Environment America Action Fund›$300K—$300K
Environment America Action Fund
Indivisible Action$72K—$72K
Chinese Progressive Political Action Ie PAC›$9K—$9K
Chinese Progressive Political Action Ie PAC
FEC filings, 2015–2020 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 33 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.
Support for requiring the groups that spend on elections to name their donors, across both parties. Congress has not passed the DISCLOSE Act.
Where Markey stands