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The money behind the President's campaigns and the outside spending around them.

Every four years two people run for President, and hundreds of millions of dollars run with them. Here is where each nominee’s money came from, and the outside money spent to help or hurt them, side by side, from the filings each campaign and each group made with the government.

Election

How to read this

The money in a presidential race is not one number. Some is raised by the campaign from donors. A large share is moved into the campaign from a joint fundraising committee that collects big checks under the party’s higher limits. And a whole separate river of money is spent near the race by outside groups the campaign cannot legally touch. Each chart below measures one of these, never the whole.

$682.6MRaised from donors
$920.9MMoved in from committees
$1.5BSpent by outside groups

The 2024 race

Trump against Harris.

Donald Trump

Won

Republican

$495.9M

Total raised

$68.9M raised directly by this committee; $386.6M moved in from a joint fundraising committee that raised much of it from small donors.

5%from small donors
Small donors
5%$24.6M
Large donors
9%$43.9M
PACs
<1%$0.3M
Transfers
78%$386.6M
Other
8%$40.3M

Kamala Harris

Democrat

$1.2B

Total raised

$613.7M raised directly by this committee; $534.3M moved in from a joint fundraising committee that raised much of it from small donors.

18%from small donors
Small donors
18%$211.8M
Large donors
34%$401.7M
PACs
<1%$0.2M
Transfers
45%$534.3M
Other
2%$27.9M

Reading the money

The money on each side.

Two separate rivers of money work to elect a candidate, and the law keeps them apart: the money in the campaign’s own account, and the money outside groups spend on their own, both to support the candidate and to attack the opponent. They are shown side by side but never added together, because a campaign cannot legally touch the outside money.

Donald Trump
In the campaign
$455.5M
Outside groups
$798.1M
Kamala Harris
In the campaign
$1.1B
Outside groups
$683.0M
Raised from donorsTransferred from a joint fundraising committeeOutside money

The money spent around them

Outside spending.

A separate contest runs alongside the campaigns: super PACs and other groups spending to elect or defeat a candidate, money the law bars them from giving to the campaign. Each group is shown by the side it helps, whether it spent to elect one candidate or to defeat the other. Green is money to elect; red is money to defeat.

  1. Make America Great Again Inc.$309.5M
    Helps Harris
    Elect Harris
    —
    Defeat Trump
    —
    Helps Trump
    Elect Trump
    $57.7M
    Defeat Harris
    $251.8M

    The main pro-Trump super PAC in 2024, spending to support him and to oppose Kamala Harris.

  2. FF PAC$308.2M
    Helps Harris
    Elect Harris
    $306.5M
    Defeat Trump
    $1.7M
    Helps Trump
    Elect Trump
    —
    Defeat Harris
    —

    The largest pro-Harris super PAC in 2024, funded in part by an affiliated nonprofit whose donors are not disclosed.

  3. America PAC$142.7M
    Helps Harris
    Elect Harris
    $245K
    Defeat Trump
    —
    Helps Trump
    Elect Trump
    $88.2M
    Defeat Harris
    $54.2M

    A super PAC founded and almost entirely funded by Elon Musk to support Donald Trump in 2024.

  4. Preserve America PAC$112.3M
    Helps Harris
    Elect Harris
    —
    Defeat Trump
    —
    Helps Trump
    Elect Trump
    $55K
    Defeat Harris
    $112.3M

    A pro-Trump super PAC in 2024, funded largely by the Republican donor Miriam Adelson.

  5. Right For America$69.6M
    Helps Harris
    Elect Harris
    —
    Defeat Trump
    —
    Helps Trump
    Elect Trump
    $18.5M
    Defeat Harris
    $51.1M

    A pro-Trump super PAC active in the 2024 election.

  6. AB PAC$58.6M
    Helps Harris
    Elect Harris
    —
    Defeat Trump
    $58.6M
    Helps Trump
    Elect Trump
    —
    Defeat Harris
    —

    A Democratic super PAC that spent to oppose Donald Trump across recent cycles.

  7. Republican Accountability PAC$36.7M
    Helps Harris
    Elect Harris
    $16.0M
    Defeat Trump
    $20.5M
    Helps Trump
    Elect Trump
    $40K
    Defeat Harris
    $110K
  8. Restoration PAC$28.1M
    Helps Harris
    Elect Harris
    —
    Defeat Trump
    —
    Helps Trump
    Elect Trump
    $1.1M
    Defeat Harris
    $27.0M

    A conservative super PAC funded largely by the Republican donor Richard Uihlein.

  9. Duty To America PAC$23.6M
    Helps Harris
    Elect Harris
    —
    Defeat Trump
    —
    Helps Trump
    Elect Trump
    $437K
    Defeat Harris
    $23.2M
  10. Rbg PAC$20.5M
    Helps Harris
    Elect Harris
    —
    Defeat Trump
    —
    Helps Trump
    Elect Trump
    $20.5M
    Defeat Harris
    —

The people behind the outside money

The megadonors.

Most of the outside money on this page comes from a small number of very large individual donors. These are the biggest on each side, counting every super PAC they gave to, whether it spent to help their candidate or to oppose the other. Undisclosed nonprofit money is not shown here, because its donors are not named.

Republican sideTop 30
Democratic sideTop 30
1 to 5 of 30

What this money is allowed to be

The rules that let it in.

The unlimited outside spending on this page exists because of one Supreme Court decision, and the donors behind some of it stay hidden because disclosure law never reached them. Two reforms would change that. Both draw support across the parties.

75%want to overturn Citizens United

A constitutional amendment letting governments limit campaign spending, including the unlimited outside money shown above.

Where it stands
84%want dark money disclosed

A requirement that the groups spending on elections name their donors, so the money on this page is no longer anonymous.

Where it stands

Source: Federal Election Commission filings, as of August 27, 2026. Figures cover each nominee’s principal campaign committee. Total raised is the committee’s gross receipts, which include the transfers moved in from a joint fundraising committee; other sources sometimes report only the money raised directly from donors, which is the smaller figure shown beside it. Small donors gave under $200; large donors gave more. Independent expenditure is money spent for or against a candidate by outside groups and is shown apart, never added into the campaign total.

Groups that do not disclose their donors, such as some nonprofits, spend money that never appears in these filings. What is shown here is the disclosed money only.