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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)
Dollar figures are still computing and reflect best estimates while the corrected-financial reconciliation completes. Relationships, counts, and dates are final.

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 committees444 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 this race

2024

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

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Tester, R. Jon (this candidate) incumbent 675
Hummert, Michael challenger

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
Johnson, Bradley S challenger
Mygland, Jeremy challenger
Rosendale, Matt Mr. challenger 105
Sheehy, Tim challenger 282

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 2024 Senate field

MT

Tester, R. Jon ranks #3 of 613 Senate candidates nationally in 2024.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
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 Murphy, Christopher S CT DEM $31,406,433
5 Warren, Elizabeth MA DEM $30,998,675
6 Baldwin, Tammy WI DEM $30,006,651
7 Allred, Colin TX DEM $27,630,332
8 Casey, Robert P. Jr. PA DEM $26,183,788

The national Senate field for 2024, 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

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 · 2024:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $25,643,886 672,730 2024
American Israel Public Affairs Committee Political Action Committee $609,147 586 2024
National Association Of Broadcasters Political Action Committee (Nabpac) $32,120 35 2024
National Active And Retired Federal Employees Association Political Action Com (Narfe-Pac) $15,000 9 2024
General Dynamics Corporation Political Action Committee (General Dynamics Employee Pac) $9,000 8 2024
Aflac Political Action Committee (Aflac Pac) $10,000 8 2024
Fox Corporation Political Action Committee (Fox Pac) $5,000 7 2024
Ernst & Young Political Action Committee $9,000 7 2024
Beyond Finance Employee Political Action Committee $10,000 7 2024
The Boeing Company Political Action Committee $10,000 6 2024
Insured Retirement Institute Political Action Committee (Iri Pac) $7,500 5 2024
Employees Of Northrop Grumman Corporation Pac $8,000 5 2024
Cox Enterprises Pac (Coxpac) Inc. $7,500 5 2024
Equipment Leasing And Finance Assn Pac (Leasepac) $9,000 5 2024
Professional Aviation Safety Specialists Pac $12,500 5 2024
National Rural Letter Carriers' Association Political Action Committee $5,000 5 2024
National Air Traffic Controllers Association Pac $19,000 5 2024
Salt River Valley Water Users' Association Political Involvement Committee ( Srppic) $1,000 5 2024
Capital One Financial Corp. Assoc. Political Fund $10,000 5 2024
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Political Action Committee $9,000 5 2024
Lumen Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee $5,000 4 2024
Cozen O'Connor Political Action Committee $8,000 4 2024
Independent Community Bankers Of America Political Action Committee $10,000 4 2024
Humana Inc. Political Action Committee $10,000 4 2024
Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union Of Operating Engineers $10,000 4 2024

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 (2024) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 672,730 of 674,225 contributions · 90% of dollars ($25,643,886).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$25,643,886

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
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: 42 committees · 852 expenditures · $16,473,344  ·  Opposing: 17 · 411 · $63,312,908

CommitteeStanceAmount
American Police And Troopers Coalition Pac supports $25,965
Protect Our Winters Action Fund supports $17,330
Red Senate opposes $90,858
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
American Crossroads opposes $20,115,035
Last Best Place Pac supports $1,788,675
Montana Outdoor Values Action Fund supports $5,041,597
More Jobs, Less Government opposes $12,927,352
Democrats Work For America, Inc supports $1,579
Climate Emergency Advocates supports $391,857
Givegreen United Action supports $544
Your Community Pac supports $1,829,235
The Sentinel Action Fund opposes $491,873

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

66% 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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