U.S. Senator · CT
Christopher Murphy
DemocratSenate Class 1Term through January 2031
Funding profile · 2019–2024 term
31% of the money Murphy raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 74% of the Senate.
Murphy raised $15.3M across the full six-year Senate term (2019–2024), and ended the period with $5.5M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 31%$4.8M
- Large donors
- 65%$9.9M
- Bundled
- 0%$0.0M
- PACs
- 0%$0.1M
- Other
- 4%$0.6M
Against the senate
How Murphy compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 31%vs 19% senate median
- PAC share
- 0%vs 14% senate median
Who has a stake in Murphy
The organizations behind the money.
Murphy's largest organized backing comes from Leahy For U.S. Senator Committee. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.
› $56K in PAC money not itemized by group
Murphy collected $56K 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 Murphy
Leahy For U.S. Senator Committee›
$4K
Leahy For U.S. Senator Committee›
$4K
Who it funds, across Congress
92% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $53K to 13 members
Cummins Inc. PAC›$3K
Who it funds, across Congress
50% Democrats · 49% Republicans · $187K to 94 members
Brady PAC›$3K
Who it funds, across Congress
95% Democrats · 5% Republicans · $19K to 7 members
Outside spending, by party
Spent $3K to elect Democrats; $10K to defeat Republicans.
Jstreetpac›$2K
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
› 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.
FEC filings, 2019–2024 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 4 funders of 4 organizations with a stake
About this data
FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2019–2024 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 Murphy stands