Person: Tester, R. Jon · every race, every cycle
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
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).
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tester, R. Jon (this candidate) | incumbent | — | 675 |
REP · primary contest (4 filers, order not yet known)
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downing, Troy | challenger | — | 4 | ||||
| Fagg, Russell C | challenger | — | 4 | ||||
| Olszewski, Albert David | challenger | — | 1 | ||||
| Rosendale, Matt Mr. | challenger | — | 105 |
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.
Tester, R. Jon ranks #3 of 529 Senate candidates nationally in 2018.
| # | Candidate | State | Party | Raised |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sanders, Bernard | VT | IND | $56,355,723 |
| 2 | Brown, Sherrod | OH | DEM | $43,945,698 |
| 3 | Tester, R. Jon (this candidate) | 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 |
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.
HELENA, MT, 59624
Website, phone and social accounts arrive with the campaign-contact ingest (FEC F1 + social sources).
Raised-vs-spent over time — the per-cycle totals surface is coming.
● Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 86% · ● PACs 13% · ● Super PACs 0% · ● Party committees 0%
| Source type | Contributions | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) | 963176 | $35,735,474 |
| PACs | 3947 | $5,578,227 |
| Super PACs | 14 | $46,000 |
| Party committees | 1 | $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.
| Payer type | Transfers | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Joint-fundraising committees | 60 | $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.
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.
● 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.
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.
Aggregated itemized individual giving, geocoded to donor home address, suppressed for privacy (small or single-donor-dominated cells withheld). Unitemized giving has no geography.
Treasurer · DEBRUYCKER, BRETT
Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.
| Committee | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:
Committee & PAC contributions to this candidate. Individual donors remain held (donor-privacy decision).
99% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2018) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 191,990 of 193,967 contributions · 79% of dollars ($7,338,145).
| Conduit | Amount |
|---|---|
| ActBlue | $7,338,145 |
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).
35 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.
Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).
Supporting: 26 committees · 122 expenditures · $4,039,463 · Opposing: 22 · 321 · $16,976,151
| Committee | Stance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Cfg Action Montana | opposes | $3,184,778 |
| National Association For Gun Rights Inc Pac | opposes | $38,047 |
| Nrsc | opposes | $4,438,360 |
| Stars And Stripes Forever Pac | opposes | $5,571 |
| New American Jobs Fund | supports | $1,156,798 |
| Americans For Prosperity Action, Inc. (Afp Action) Dba Cva Action And Dba Libre Action | opposes | $243,709 |
| Montana Rural Voters | supports | $162,617 |
| Senate Leadership Fund | opposes | $2,115,523 |
| Women Speak Out Pac | opposes | $91,321 |
| National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund | opposes | $118,556 |
| Smp | supports | $741,510 |
| Susan B Anthony List Inc | opposes | $45,355 |
| America First Action, Inc. | opposes | $1,909,540 |
| Big Sky 55+ | supports | $49,631 |
| Club For Growth Action | opposes | $18,824 |
Independent expenditures for or against this candidate. 2016 excluded (known IE undercount).
34% of this candidate's receipts + outside spending is outside money (independent expenditures for/against, as a share of receipts plus outside spending).
| Vendor | Paid | Payments | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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