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U.S. Senator · ID

James E. Risch

RepublicanSenate Class 2Term through January 2027

Funding profile · 2015–2020 term

12% of the money Risch raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 36% of the Senate.

Risch raised $3.3M across the full six-year Senate term (2015–2020), and ended the period with $2.2M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

12%from small donors
Small donors
12%$0.4M
Large donors
43%$1.4M
Bundled
0%$0.0M
PACs
40%$1.3M
Other
5%$0.2M

Against the senate

How Risch compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
12%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
40%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Risch

The organizations behind the money.

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

$1.3M in PAC money not itemized by group

Risch collected $1.3M 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 Risch

Republican Jewish Coalition PAC

$3K

Who it funds, across Congress

0% Democrats · 100% Republicans · $935K to 72 members

Transamerica Corporation PAC$3K

Who it funds, across Congress

49% Democrats · 50% Republicans · $377K to 98 members

Hewlett Packard Company PAC$3K

Who it funds, across Congress

49% Democrats · 51% Republicans · $432K to 80 members

American Chemistry Council PAC$3K

Who it funds, across Congress

35% Democrats · 65% Republicans · $525K to 188 members

NORPAC$2K

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

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 Risch's backing, not just the individual groups.

$3KEnergy
$3KTech
$2KPro-Israel
$1KHealth
$1KTransportation

Plus $8K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

FEC filings, 2015–2020 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 9 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.

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 Risch stands