U.S. Senator · MD
Chris Van Hollen
DemocratSenate Class 3Term through January 2029
Funding profile · 2017–2022 term
6% of the money Van Hollen raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 16% of the Senate.
Van Hollen raised $8.9M across the full six-year Senate term (2017–2022), and ended the period with $2.2M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 6%$0.5M
- Large donors
- 57%$5.1M
- Bundled
- 2%$0.2M
- PACs
- 19%$1.7M
- Other
- 16%$1.5M
Against the senate
How Van Hollen compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 6%vs 19% senate median
- PAC share
- 19%vs 14% senate median
Who has a stake in Van Hollen
The organizations behind the money.
Van Hollen's largest organized backing comes from Votesane PAC. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.
Money organized for Van Hollen
Votesane PAC›
$108K
Votesane PAC›
$108K
Who it funds, across Congress
40% Democrats · 60% Republicans · $2.6M to 42 members
Jstreetpac›$50K
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
Transport Workers Union Of America Political Contributions Committee›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
90% Democrats · 10% Republicans · $969K to 171 members
National Restaurant Association PAC›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
27% Democrats · 71% Republicans · $649K to 135 members
National Multifamily Housing Council PAC›$10K
The National Multifamily Housing Council's PAC, representing apartment owners, developers, and managers.
Who it funds, across Congress
55% Democrats · 44% Republicans · $1.9M to 245 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 Van Hollen's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $758K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
The money spent about Van Hollen
Spent for or against.
Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Van Hollen, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Van Hollen.
United Women'S Health Alliance PAC$32K
To help Van Hollen$32KTo hurt Van Hollen—
United Women'S Health Alliance PAC›$32K—$32K
United Women'S Health Alliance PAC
FEC filings, 2017–2022 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 324 organizations with a stake
About this data
FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2017–2022 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 Van Hollen'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 Van Hollen stands