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U.S. Representative · NH · District 1

Chris Pappas

DemocratTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

6% of the money Pappas raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 56% of the House.

Pappas raised $4.1M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $408K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

6%from small donors
Small donors
6%$0.3M
Large donors
52%$2.1M
Bundled
8%$0.3M
PACs
31%$1.3M
Other
2%$0.1M

Against the house

How Pappas compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
6%vs 5% house median
PAC share
31%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Pappas

The organizations behind the money.

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

Money organized for Pappas

AIPAC

$322K

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby that both gives directly and bundles individual donations; its super PAC (United Democracy Project) runs large independent campaigns in primaries.

Who it funds, across Congress

59% Democrats · 40% Republicans · $38.7M to 359 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $13.9M to elect Democrats; $5.0M to defeat Democrats.

Fair Shot PAC$23K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $914K to 102 members

New Democrat Coalition Action Fund$14K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $563K to 74 members

End Citizens United$11K

Who it funds, across Congress

99% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $767K to 114 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $988K to elect Democrats; $10.0M to defeat Republicans.

Equality PAC$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $288K to 46 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $2.3M to elect Democrats; $179K to defeat 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 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 Pappas's backing, not just the individual groups.

$322KPro-Israel
$253KLabor
$77KIdeological
$74KHealth
$51KFinance

Plus $513K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Pappas

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups$212K
  1. Equality PAC$157K
    To help Pappas
    $157K
    To hurt Pappas
  2. Firefighters Coalition Of America PAC$24K
    To help Pappas
    $24K
    To hurt Pappas
  3. Working America$19K
    To help Pappas
    $19K
    To hurt Pappas
  4. National Association Of Realtors$11K
    To help Pappas
    $11K
    To hurt Pappas

FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 250 organizations with a stake

About this data

FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2023–2024 cycle. 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 Pappas'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.

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 Pappas stands