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U.S. Senator · NE

Pete Ricketts

RepublicanSenate Class 2Term through January 2027

Funding profile · 2021–2026 term

2% of the money Ricketts raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 6% of the Senate.

Ricketts raised $11.2M across the full six-year Senate term (2021–2026), and ended the period with $6.9M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

2%from small donors
Small donors
2%$0.2M
Large donors
18%$2.0M
Bundled
0%$0.0M
PACs
15%$1.6M
Other
66%$7.4M

Against the senate

How Ricketts compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
2%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
15%vs 14% senate median

The PACs behind Ricketts

Ricketts raised $1.6M from PACs this term. A named breakdown by industry is not available for Ricketts yet. Much of it can arrive through joint fundraising committees rather than the individual industry PACs we itemize.

About this data

FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2021–2026 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 Ricketts stands