U.S. Senator · VT
Bernard Sanders
IndependentSenate Class 1Term through January 2031
Funding profile · 2019–2024 term
63% of the money Sanders raised came from small donors.
Among the most grassroots-funded in the Senate.
Sanders raised $36.3M across the full six-year Senate term (2019–2024), and ended the period with $10.7M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 63%$22.7M
- Large donors
- 29%$10.4M
- Bundled
- 0%$0.0M
- PACs
- 0%$0.1M
- Other
- 8%$3.1M
Against the senate
How Sanders compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 63%vs 19% senate median
- PAC share
- 0%vs 14% senate median
Who has a stake in Sanders
The organizations behind the money.
Sanders's largest organized backing comes from Air Line Pilots Association PAC. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.
Money organized for Sanders
Air Line Pilots Association PAC›
$10K
Air Line Pilots Association PAC›
$10K
The Air Line Pilots Association's PAC, representing commercial airline pilots.
Who it funds, across Congress
64% Democrats · 36% Republicans · $1.9M to 329 members
United Food & Commercial Workers International Uni›$10K
The United Food and Commercial Workers' international PAC, representing grocery, meatpacking, and retail workers.
Who it funds, across Congress
98% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $879K to 143 members
Courage To Change›$5K
Who it funds, across Congress
92% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $63K to 11 members
National Nurses United PAC›$5K
Who it funds, across Congress
96% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $117K to 43 members
Aksm Urology PAC 'Aksm Urology PAC'›$5K
Who it funds, across Congress
45% Democrats · 51% Republicans · $123K to 21 members
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 Sanders's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $12K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
FEC filings, 2019–2024 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 19 organizations with a stake
About this data
FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2019–2024 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 Sanders'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 Sanders stands