U.S. Representative · MI · District 3
Hillary J. Scholten
DemocratTerm through January 2027
Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle
10% of the money Scholten raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 68% of the House.
Scholten raised $5.3M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $350K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 10%$0.5M
- Large donors
- 56%$3.0M
- Bundled
- 5%$0.2M
- PACs
- 26%$1.4M
- Other
- 4%$0.2M
Against the house
How Scholten compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 10%vs 5% house median
- PAC share
- 26%vs 37% house median
Who has a stake in Scholten
The organizations behind the money.
Scholten's largest organized backing comes from AIPAC. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.
Money organized for Scholten
AIPAC›
$136K
AIPAC›
$136K
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.
Jstreetpac›$48K
J Street's PAC, a liberal pro-Israel group that backs candidates supporting a two-state solution, often a counterweight to AIPAC.
Who it funds, across Congress
100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $4.0M to 144 members
Emily'S List›$30K
EMILY's List's PAC, which backs Democratic women who support abortion rights.
Who it funds, across Congress
100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $2.4M to 47 members
Fair Shot PAC›$23K
Who it funds, across Congress
100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $914K to 102 members
Zinc Collective PAC›$18K
Who it funds, across Congress
100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $693K to 25 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 Scholten's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $481K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
The money spent about Scholten
Spent for or against.
Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Scholten, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Scholten.
For Our Future$113K
To help Scholten$113KTo hurt Scholten—West Michigan For Change$33K
To help Scholten—To hurt Scholten$33KWorking America$15K
To help Scholten$15KTo hurt Scholten—
For Our Future$113K—$113K
West Michigan For Change›—$33K$33K
West Michigan For Change
Working America$15K—$15K
FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 309 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 Scholten'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 Scholten stands