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Ron Wyden

DemocratSenate Class 3Term through January 2029

Funding profile · 2017–2022 term

12% of the money Wyden raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 37% of the Senate.

Wyden raised $14.1M across the full six-year Senate term (2017–2022), and ended the period with $3.3M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

12%from small donors
Small donors
12%$1.7M
Large donors
56%$7.9M
Bundled
1%$0.1M
PACs
24%$3.4M
Other
7%$1.0M

Against the senate

How Wyden compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
12%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
24%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Wyden

The organizations behind the money.

Wyden'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 Wyden

AIPAC

$49K

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 Association Of Broadcasters PAC$24K

The National Association of Broadcasters' PAC, representing TV and radio station owners.

Who it funds, across Congress

47% Democrats · 53% Republicans · $1.5M to 255 members

Pro-Israel America PAC$17K

Who it funds, across Congress

26% Democrats · 74% Republicans · $693K to 19 members

Bechtel PAC$15K

Who it funds, across Congress

73% Democrats · 27% Republicans · $58K to 10 members

National Association Of Home Builders$10K

The National Association of Home Builders' PAC, representing residential construction firms.

Who it funds, across Congress

20% Democrats · 80% Republicans · $2.0M to 315 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $438K to elect Republicans.

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 Wyden's backing, not just the individual groups.

$455KHealth
$221KFinance
$191KEnergy
$152KLabor
$122KTech

Plus $1.3M from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Wyden

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups$108K
  1. Web3 Forward$108K
    To help Wyden
    $108K
    To hurt Wyden

FEC filings, 2017–2022 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 601 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 Wyden'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 Wyden stands