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Large donors · 2026

High Rollers: The largest 2026 political donors and where their money went

11,413 people and organizations have given at least $50K to federal committees this cycle. The three largest individual donors alone gave $696M. Pick a donor to follow their money — through super PACs and the committees those fund — to the races it paid for. Totals include gifts on reports filed with the FEC but not yet processed (314 donors, marked e-filed), read from the raw filings.

Updated

Click any mark to see exactly where its number comes from. ★ = incumbent.

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Elon Musk

R-aligned
probable match

Austin, TX · Ceo, Spacex

D-aligned $0 · other $5M · R-aligned $439M

e-filed

$354M filed with the FEC but not yet processed — from raw e-filings. FEC posts reports the evening they're filed but takes days to weeks to process them into its data; until then these gifts come from the filings themselves.

Counted in this total — given through

  • Elon Musk Revocable Trust · $10M · Trust in the donor's name

Where the money went

Helps Democrats

Helps Republicans

Mixed or not tied to a race

Races it paid for

Left: helped Democrats (supported a Democrat or opposed a Republican). Right: helped Republicans.