U.S. Senator · SD
Mike Rounds
RepublicanSenate Class 2Term through January 2027
Funding profile · 2015–2020 term
8% of the money Rounds raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 24% of the Senate.
Rounds raised $4.8M across the full six-year Senate term (2015–2020), and ended the period with $1.7M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 8%$0.4M
- Large donors
- 44%$2.1M
- Bundled
- 1%$0.0M
- PACs
- 45%$2.2M
- Other
- 2%$0.1M
Against the senate
How Rounds compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 8%vs 19% senate median
- PAC share
- 45%vs 14% senate median
Who has a stake in Rounds
The organizations behind the money.
Rounds'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.
› $2.2M in PAC money not itemized by group
Rounds collected $2.2M 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 Rounds
NORPAC›
$40K
NORPAC›
$40K
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
Nebraska Sandhills PAC›$5K
Who it funds, across Congress
0% Democrats · 98% Republicans · $297K to 36 members
American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants PAC›$4K
The American Institute of CPAs' PAC, representing the accounting profession.
Who it funds, across Congress
45% Democrats · 55% Republicans · $1.7M to 255 members
Rock Holdings PAC›$3K
Who it funds, across Congress
44% Democrats · 56% Republicans · $846K to 156 members
Votesane PAC›$2K
Who it funds, across Congress
40% Democrats · 60% Republicans · $2.6M to 42 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 Rounds's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $10K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
The money spent about Rounds
Spent for or against.
Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Rounds, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Rounds.
The Lincoln Project$8K
To help Rounds—To hurt Rounds$8KNational Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund›$1K
To help Rounds$1KTo hurt Rounds—The National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund, its candidate-giving arm.
The Lincoln Project—$8K$8K
National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund›$1K—$1K
National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund
The National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund, its candidate-giving arm.
FEC filings, 2015–2020 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 8 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 Rounds stands