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U.S. Representative · AL · District 7

Terri A. Sewell

DemocratTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

3% of the money Sewell raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 32% of the House.

Sewell raised $3.0M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $3.5M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

3%from small donors
Small donors
3%$0.1M
Large donors
24%$0.7M
Bundled
5%$0.2M
PACs
68%$2.1M
Other
0%$0.0M

Against the house

How Sewell compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
3%vs 5% house median
PAC share
68%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Sewell

The organizations behind the money.

Sewell's largest organized backing comes from National Association Of Realtors. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.

Money organized for Sewell

National Association Of Realtors

$128K

Who it funds, across Congress

43% Democrats · 57% Republicans · $4.9M to 452 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $18.9M to elect Republicans.

AIPAC$48K

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.

National Air Traffic Controllers Association PAC$11K

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association's PAC.

Who it funds, across Congress

71% Democrats · 29% Republicans · $1.9M to 322 members

American Crystal Sugar PAC$10K

American Crystal Sugar's PAC, a sugar-beet cooperative and one of the most active agricultural givers.

Who it funds, across Congress

56% Democrats · 44% Republicans · $2.7M to 317 members

Pricewaterhousecoopers PAC I$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

54% Democrats · 46% Republicans · $1.1M to 190 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 Sewell's backing, not just the individual groups.

$401KFinance
$377KHealth
$191KReal Estate
$97KTech
$70KLabor

Plus $659K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Sewell

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups$69K
  1. Autism Hear US Now PAC$69K
    To help Sewell
    $69K
    To hurt Sewell

FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 488 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 Sewell'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 Sewell stands