U.S. Senator · KY
Mitch McConnell
RepublicanSenate Class 2Term through January 2027
Funding profile · 2015–2020 term
38% of the money McConnell raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 84% of the Senate.
McConnell raised $74.0M across the full six-year Senate term (2015–2020), and ended the period with $6.8M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 38%$28.1M
- Large donors
- 46%$33.7M
- Bundled
- 0%$0.2M
- PACs
- 7%$4.9M
- Other
- 9%$7.0M
Against the senate
How McConnell compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 38%vs 19% senate median
- PAC share
- 7%vs 14% senate median
Who has a stake in McConnell
The organizations behind the money.
McConnell'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.
› $4.9M in PAC money not itemized by group
McConnell collected $4.9M 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 McConnell
NORPAC›
$173K
NORPAC›
$173K
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
Votesane PAC›$43K
Who it funds, across Congress
40% Democrats · 60% Republicans · $2.6M to 42 members
Susan B. Anthony List. Inc. Candidate Fund›$8K
Who it funds, across Congress
0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $401K to 60 members
Outside spending, by party
Spent $47K to elect Republicans.
Club For Growth›$6K
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.
Zimmer Biomet PAC›$5K
Who it funds, across Congress
30% Democrats · 70% Republicans · $76K to 27 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. McConnellreceived so many small earmarked donations that these figures count only the largest ones. Read every total as “at least.”
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 McConnell's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $81K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
The money spent about McConnell
Spent for or against.
Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat McConnell, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for McConnell.
Ditch Fund$8.1M
To help McConnell$500To hurt McConnell$8.1MSave America Fund$1.9M
To help McConnell—To hurt McConnell$1.9MThe Lincoln Project$464K
To help McConnell—To hurt McConnell$464KEnd Citizens United$393K
To help McConnell—To hurt McConnell$393KSenate Leadership Fund›$202K
To help McConnell$202KTo hurt McConnell—The super PAC aligned with Senate Republican leadership.
Ditch Fund$500$8.1M$8.1M
Save America Fund—$1.9M$1.9M
The Lincoln Project—$464K$464K
End Citizens United—$393K$393K
Senate Leadership Fund›$202K—$202K
Senate Leadership Fund
The super PAC aligned with Senate Republican leadership.
FEC filings, 2015–2020 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 56 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 McConnell stands