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DATA COVERAGE not externally verified tier raw_mirror vintage 2026-08-27 coverage 1980-2024 · 2026 Midterms in flight! money live · figures computing (best estimates)
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Franken, Michael

candidate · S0IA00200
Franken, Michael IA · DEM · Senate · IA · challenger
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Franken, Michael · every race, every cycle

cycle 2020
1 cycles1 committees1 contributing committees40 vendors

Raised — contributing committees / cycle

Spent — vendor payments / cycle

IE support — independent expenditures for this candidate / cycle

Transferred out — other candidates funded / cycle

All four, combined -- 2016-2028

20162028
Raised Spent IE support Transferred out

2016–2028 · entity counts (money-dark); dollar trends light up at the flip. "Raised" is committee-routed contributions only — individual donors stay held pending the privacy decision, and there is no distinct bundler surface yet (#2488).

In this race

2020

DEM · primary contest (5 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Franken, Michael (this candidate) challenger 2
Graham, Kimberly challenger 1
Greenfield, Theresa challenger 50
Mauro, Eddie J challenger 1
Woods, Cal George challenger

REP

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Ernst, Joni K incumbent 616

IND

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Herzog, Suzanne challenger

LIB

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Stewart, Rick challenger

Every candidate on file for this race. A party with more than one filer is a live primary contest -- who becomes that party's nominee isn't in the data yet. Cash on hand is the official FEC filing figure, as of the filing's own coverage date -- not a live estimate. The remaining columns are money-dark proxies (counts, not dollars); a dash means no data on file for that candidate yet. Click a column heading to sort.

In the 2020 Senate field

IA

Franken, Michael ranks #72 of 558 Senate candidates nationally in 2020.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Warnock, Raphael GA DEM $215,222,453
2 Ossoff, T. Jonathan GA DEM $214,842,226
3 Kelly, Mark AZ DEM $187,045,474
4 Harrison, Jaime SC DEM $119,916,011
5 Sullivan, Dan AK REP $109,507,676
6 McGrath, Amy KY DEM $81,476,987
7 Gideon, Sara ME DEM $58,099,579
8 Graham, Lindsey O. SC REP $55,788,928
72 Franken, Michael (this candidate) IA DEM $744,728

The national Senate field for 2020, ranked by money raised. Party affiliation shown as filed — third-party and state-party labels (DFL, WFP, etc.) are not merged into DEM/REP.

Campaign contact

SIOUX CITY, IA, 51102

Website, phone and social accounts arrive with the campaign-contact ingest (FEC F1 + social sources).

Money raised vs spent

coming

Raised-vs-spent over time — the per-cycle totals surface is coming.

Where the money comes from

by source type

Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 100% · Party committees 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)12818$742,728
Party committees1$2,000
Total (committee-sourced)$744,728

Money received from committees, split by the type of the paying committee (PAC, Super PAC, party, joint-fundraising, conduit). Individual (person) giving is aggregated separately with privacy suppression and is not included here.

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

83% by dollars

2674 of 2936 individual contributions on file routed through a conduit, lifetime -- not per-cycle (the underlying edge source can't be cleanly split by year). Conduit dollars are the true donor's money, passed through a platform; not double-counted.

PAC vs. individual money

by dollars

Individual (direct) 61% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 39%

2936 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 12819 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($1,171,512 vs $744,728). Two different grains -- individual money is scoped to the principal committee only; committee-routed money spans every authorized committee -- combined here as the closest count-first read of PAC- vs individual-dependence available today. Part of the funding-concentration strip (#2730); donor-sector concentration and top-vendor share are not yet available.

Where the money goes

beneficiaries

Money disbursed by this candidate's principal committee: contributions to other candidates (the "raises big, then funds allies" signal), transfers to committees by destination type, vendor spending, and independent expenditures made.

Where the donors are

precinct-floored · suppressed
Partial data. About 15% of donor money is geocoded, concentrated in 9 states (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL). Every other state — including the largest donor states (CA, NY, TX) — currently has zero geocoded rows. A blank state means not yet geocoded, never no donors here. Not a complete picture of donor geography.
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Aggregated itemized individual giving, geocoded to donor home address, suppressed for privacy (small or single-donor-dominated cells withheld). Unitemized giving has no geography.

Who runs it

Treasurer · HUBAY, SCOTT M ESQ.

Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Franken For Iowa Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2020:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $742,728 12,818 2020

Committee & PAC contributions to this candidate. Individual donors remain held (donor-privacy decision).

Conduit dependency

via ActBlue / WinRed

100% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2020) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 12,818 of 12,818 contributions · 100% of dollars ($742,728).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$742,728

Conduits (ActBlue, WinRed) are passthroughs — individuals give through them to candidates. This is the share of committee-routed contributions flowing over that infrastructure. Donor-level pass-through to the ultimate recipient is tracked separately (in progress).

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 0 committees · 0 expenditures · —  ·  Opposing: 1 · 2 · $919,202

CommitteeStanceAmount
Women Vote opposes $919,202

Independent expenditures for or against this candidate. 2016 excluded (known IE undercount).

55% of this candidate's receipts + outside spending is outside money (independent expenditures for/against, as a share of receipts plus outside spending).

Money out — top vendors

$ shown
VendorPaidPaymentsCategory
Paychex, Inc. $110,740 34 001 (Administrative / overhead)
United States Postal Service (Usps) $1,784 24 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Gusto $70,845 20 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Foglamp Content Studio $145,100 18 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Actblue Technical Services $4,261 14
Beacon Media Llc $375,858 14 004 (Advertising)
Grassroots Analytics $10,141 8 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Google $943 8 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Delta Airlines $2,257 6 002 (Travel)
Next Level Partners $30,000 6
Ngp Van $12,105 5 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Evergreen Political Strategies, Llc $20,000 4

Payment counts from the principal committee; dollar totals held. Arc maps of where money goes arrive with the geo layer.

Top expenditure categories

$ held
CategoryPayments
001 (Administrative / overhead)143
004 (Advertising)40
002 (Travel)9

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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