U.S. Senator · KY
Rand Paul
RepublicanSenate Class 3Term through January 2029
Funding profile · 2017–2022 term
50% of the money Paul raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 97% of the Senate.
Paul raised $28.3M across the full six-year Senate term (2017–2022), and ended the period with $5.4M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 50%$14.1M
- Large donors
- 38%$10.7M
- Bundled
- 1%$0.3M
- PACs
- 3%$0.9M
- Other
- 8%$2.3M
Against the senate
How Paul compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 50%vs 19% senate median
- PAC share
- 3%vs 14% senate median
Who has a stake in Paul
The organizations behind the money.
Paul's largest organized backing comes from Club For Growth. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.
Money organized for Paul
Club For Growth›
$137K
Club For Growth›
$137K
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.
Senate Conservatives Fund›$126K
The Senate Conservatives Fund, a hard-right super PAC that backs insurgent Republicans against the party establishment.
Who it funds, across Congress
0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $2.2M to 18 members
Outside spending, by party
Spent $8.5M to elect Republicans; $375K to defeat Democrats.
Free State PAC›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $153K to 24 members
Lets Get To Work PAC›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $298K to 33 members
Nebraska Sandhills PAC›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
0% Democrats · 98% Republicans · $297K to 36 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. Paulreceived 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 Paul's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $396K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
The money spent about Paul
Spent for or against.
Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Paul, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Paul.
Kentucky Freedom PAC$555K
To help Paul$555KTo hurt Paul—Senate Conservatives Fund›$298K
To help Paul$298KTo hurt Paul—The Senate Conservatives Fund, a hard-right super PAC that backs insurgent Republicans against the party establishment.
Moveon.Org Political Action$160K
To help Paul—To hurt Paul$160KClub For Growth›$54K
To help Paul$54KTo hurt Paul—Club for Growth's PAC and super PAC, backing anti-tax, small-government conservatives, often against Republican incumbents in primaries.
The People'S Campaign$20K
To help Paul$7KTo hurt Paul$13K
Kentucky Freedom PAC$555K—$555K
Senate Conservatives Fund›$298K—$298K
Senate Conservatives Fund
The Senate Conservatives Fund, a hard-right super PAC that backs insurgent Republicans against the party establishment.
Moveon.Org Political Action›—$160K$160K
Moveon.Org Political Action
Club For Growth›$54K—$54K
Club For Growth
Club for Growth's PAC and super PAC, backing anti-tax, small-government conservatives, often against Republican incumbents in primaries.
The People'S Campaign$7K$13K$20K
FEC filings, 2017–2022 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 163 organizations with a stake
About this data
FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2017–2022 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.
PAC figures are contributions to Paul's campaign committee from FEC filings. Industry labels are grouped from each committee's name and are approximate. Joint fundraising committees and small-dollar conduits like ActBlue and WinRed are not counted.
Support for requiring the groups that spend on elections to name their donors, across both parties. Congress has not passed the DISCLOSE Act.
Where Paul stands