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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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Smith, Tina

candidate · S8MN00578
Smith, Tina MN · DEM · Senate · MN · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Smith, Tina · every race, every cycle

5 cycles2 committees223 contributing committees346 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

2018

DEM

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Smith, Tina (this candidate) incumbent 436

DFL · primary contest (2 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Klobuchar, Amy incumbent 428
Painter, Richard challenger 1

REP · primary contest (3 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Anderson, Bob challenger
Housley, Karin challenger 84
Newberger, James Wallace challenger 6

IND

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Trooien, Jerry 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 2018 Senate field

MN

Smith, Tina ranks #17 of 529 Senate candidates nationally in 2018.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Sanders, Bernard VT IND $56,355,723
2 Brown, Sherrod OH DEM $43,945,698
3 Tester, R. Jon MT DEM $41,514,204
4 McSally, Martha AZ REP $38,525,275
5 Murphy, Christopher S CT DEM $31,406,433
6 Warren, Elizabeth MA DEM $30,998,675
7 Baldwin, Tammy WI DEM $30,006,651
8 Casey, Robert P. Jr. PA DEM $26,183,788
17 Smith, Tina (this candidate) MN DEM $13,343,738

The national Senate field for 2018, 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

SAINT PAUL, MN, 55114

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) 83% · PACs 17% · Super PACs 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)248432$11,002,677
PACs1097$2,303,258
Super PACs12$25,530
Total (committee-sourced)$13,331,464

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.

Transfers in

from committees
Payer typeTransfersAmount
Joint-fundraising committees24$199,076
Total$199,076

Committee-to-committee transfers received by this candidate's principal committee, split by the type of the sending committee.

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

67% by dollars

116002 of 152566 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) 68% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 32%

152566 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 249541 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($27,811,160 vs $13,331,464). 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 · NELSON, KIMBERLY

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Senate Impact: Mn & Nv Joint fundraising S
Tina Smith For Minnesota Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $3,493,868 68,563 2018
National Air Traffic Controllers Association Pac $12,500 10 2018
Jstreetpac $10,185 10 2018
National Committee To Preserve Social Security & Medicare Pac $5,000 7 2018
Thompson Coburn Political Action Committee $7,000 6 2018
Medtronic Inc. Pac $10,000 5 2018
United Parcel Service, Inc. Pac (Upspac) $7,000 5 2018
National Association Of Insurance And Financial Advisors Political Action Comm $7,500 5 2018
Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. Political Action Committee $10,000 5 2018
Best Buy Co., Inc. Employee Political Forum $10,000 5 2018
General Dynamics Corporation Political Action Committee (General Dynamics Employee Pac) $5,000 5 2018
Lockridge Grindal Nauen Political Fund $7,848 5 2018
Xcel Energy Employee Political Action Committee (Xpac) $12,500 5 2018
Air Line Pilots Association Pac $10,000 5 2018
National Telecommunications Cooperative Association Rural Broadband Pac $7,500 4 2018
By Farmers, For Farmers Pac Land O'Lakes, Inc. Pac (By Farmers, For Farmers Pac) $10,000 4 2018
General Mills, Inc. Political Action Committee $10,000 4 2018
Common Sense Colorado $10,000 3 2018
Marriott International, Inc. Political Action Committee $1,000 3 2018
National Association Of Letter Carriers Of U.S.A. Political Fund (Letter Carrier Political Fund) $10,000 3 2018
Communications Workers Of America - Cope Political Contributions Committee $5,000 3 2018
The Cigna Group Employee Political Action Committee $5,000 3 2018
Wells Fargo And Company Employee Pac (Aka Wells Fargo Employee Pac) $10,000 3 2018
Microsoft Corporation Stakeholders Voluntary Pac - Msvpac $3,000 3 2018
Target Corporation Citizens Political Forum (Targetcitizens Political Forum) $10,000 3 2018

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

Conduit dependency

via ActBlue / WinRed

99% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2018) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 68,563 of 68,969 contributions · 78% of dollars ($3,493,868).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$3,493,868

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).

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

35 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
American Council Of Life Insurers Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
Medtronic Inc. Pac 50% / 50%
National Association Of Realtors Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
Elevance Health, Inc. Political Action Committee (Elevance Health Pac) 51% / 49%
Thompson Coburn Political Action Committee 49% / 51%
Verizon Communications, Inc. Political Action Committee (Verizon Pac) 49% / 51%
American Veterinary Medical Association Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
Azoa Services Corp. Political Action Committee (Allianz Of America Pac) 47% / 53%
Best Buy Co., Inc. Employee Political Forum 47% / 53%
New York Life Insurance Company Political Action Committee 47% / 53%
The Cigna Group Employee Political Action Committee 53% / 47%
Thrivent Financial For Lutherans Political Action Committee 47% / 53%

Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 12 committees · 38 expenditures · $579,033  ·  Opposing: 4 · 23 · $177,492

CommitteeStanceAmount
National Association For Gun Rights Inc Pac opposes $201
Planned Parenthood Of Minnesota Political Action Fund supports $246,488
Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc supports $242,000
Valor America opposes $16,651
Planned Parenthood Votes supports $33,760
Progressive Turnout Project supports $25,479
Liuna Minnesota & North Dakota/Laborers' District Council Of Minnesota & North Dakota supports $12,317
Heartland Fund opposes $73,040
Seiu Cope (Service Employees International Union Committee On Political Education) supports $7,469
Afscme Working Families Fund supports $1,858
Usw Works supports $1,093
Americas Pac opposes $87,600
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party supports $8,451
Environment America Action Fund supports $44
Human Rights Campaign Equality Votes supports $6

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

5% 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
Usps $16,828 292
Usps $6,390 216
Usps $7,708 164
Usps $4,988 161
Sunrise Banks $3,188 156
Sunrise Banks $3,154 156
Sunrise Banks $3,077 143
Actblue Technical Services $258,200 128
Actblue Technical Services $22,584 120
Actblue Technical Services $22,422 118
Actblue Technical Services $111,549 112
Sunrise Banks $11,539 106

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

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