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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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Tester, R. Jon

candidate · S6MT00162
Tester, R. Jon MT · DEM · Senate · MT · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Tester, R. Jon · every race, every cycle

11 cycles15 committees30 contributing committees328 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 the 2016 Senate field

MT

473 Senate candidates nationally in 2016.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Fetterman, John Karl PA DEM $60,730,598
2 Cortez Masto, Catherine NV DEM $59,540,356
3 Hassan, Margaret Wood NH DEM $35,587,066
4 Bennet, Michael F. CO DEM $17,127,591
5 Duckworth, L. Tammy IL DEM $14,884,078
6 Schumer, Charles E. NY DEM $13,811,846
7 Murray, Patty WA DEM $12,048,061
8 Harris, Kamala D CA DEM $11,824,890

The national Senate field for 2016, ranked by money raised. Party affiliation shown as filed — third-party and state-party labels (DFL, WFP, etc.) are not merged into DEM/REP. This candidate did not appear in the returned set.

Campaign contact

HELENA, MT, 59624

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) 86% · PACs 13% · Super PACs 0% · Party committees 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)963176$35,735,474
PACs3947$5,578,227
Super PACs14$46,000
Party committees1$5,000
Total (committee-sourced)$41,364,701

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 committees60$2,158,410
Total$2,158,410

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

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

68% by dollars

1133485 of 1224793 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) 80% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 20%

1224793 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 967138 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($160,931,216 vs $41,364,701). 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 · DEBRUYCKER, BRETT

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Republicans For Tester Authorized committee S
Big Sky Senate Victory Joint fundraising Q
Florida Montana Victory Fund Joint fundraising S
Ford-Tester 2006 Joint fundraising S
Heinrich Tester Victory Fund Joint fundraising S
Mi, Ri, Mt Victory Fund Joint fundraising S
Montana Nebraska Victory Fund Joint fundraising S
Montana Senate 2012 Joint fundraising N
Montana Senate Victory 2006 Joint fundraising Q
Montana Senate Victory 2012 Joint fundraising N
Montana Virginia Victory Fund Joint fundraising S
Ohio/Montana Victory Fund Joint fundraising S
Senate Impact Mt & Az Joint fundraising S
Tester Victory Fund Joint fundraising N
Montanans For Tester Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2016:

No committee contributions on file for this cycle.

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
Aflac Political Action Committee (Aflac Pac) 51% / 49%
America'S Credit Unions Pac Of Credit Union National Association, Inc. 51% / 49%
Elevance Health, Inc. Political Action Committee (Elevance Health Pac) 51% / 49%
Equipment Leasing And Finance Assn Pac (Leasepac) 49% / 51%
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. Employees Political Action Committee (Hiipac) 49% / 51%
National Association Of Broadcasters Political Action Committee (Nabpac) 48% / 52%
Political Action Committee/The Bank Of New York Mellon Corporation-Federal(Bny Mellon-Fed) 48% / 52%
Td Bank N.A. Political Action Committee 52% / 48%
The Guardian Life Insurance Company Of America Political Action Committee - Federal (Guardian Life P 52% / 48%
Insured Retirement Institute Political Action Committee (Iri Pac) 53% / 47%
Lumen Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee 47% / 53%
Novartis Corporation Political Action Committee 53% / 47%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 63 committees · 977 expenditures · $20,513,110  ·  Opposing: 35 · 732 · $80,289,059

CommitteeStanceAmount
American Police And Troopers Coalition Pac supports $25,965
Protect Our Winters Action Fund supports $17,330
Red Senate opposes $90,858
Cfg Action Montana opposes $3,184,778
Montana Rural Voters (Worc) supports $1,184,468
Senate Leadership Fund opposes $23,065,092
Americans For Prosperity Action, Inc. (Afp Action) Dba Cva Action And Dba Libre Action opposes $3,143,350
National Association For Gun Rights Inc Pac opposes $38,047
American Crossroads opposes $20,115,035
Nrsc opposes $4,438,360
Last Best Place Pac supports $1,788,675
Stars And Stripes Forever Pac opposes $5,571
Montana Outdoor Values Action Fund supports $5,041,597
More Jobs, Less Government opposes $12,927,352
New American Jobs Fund supports $1,156,798

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

71% 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
Democracy Engine $72,999 338
Usps $96,262 238
Us Postal Service $68,491 192
Payroll Data Processing $3,053,008 175
Actblue Technical Services $2,438,947 137
Actblue Technical Services $66,780 114
Mastercard $934,117 110
Actblue Technical Services $34,136 72
Gambit Strategies $24,017,268 69
Mastercard $380,648 66
Screen Strategies Media $38,687,726 66
Payroll Data Processing $27,753 54

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

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