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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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Menendez, Robert

candidate · S6NJ00289
Menendez, Robert NJ · IND · Senate · NJ · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Menendez, Robert · every race, every cycle

11 cycles6 committees243 contributing committees271 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
Hopkins, Michael Starr challenger 1

REP · primary contest (6 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Bell, Jeffrey challenger
Flanagan, Patricia challenger 1
Goldberg, Brian David Mr challenger
Hugin, Robert challenger 28
Pezzullo, Richard J challenger
Watson, Jerry B challenger

IND

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Menendez, Robert (this candidate) incumbent 416

LIB

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Sabrin, Murray 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

NJ

Menendez, Robert ranks #21 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
21 Menendez, Robert (this candidate) NJ IND $10,402,397

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

NEWARK, NJ, 07102

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) 68% · PACs 32% · Super PACs 0% · Party committees 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)26450$6,954,310
PACs1888$3,236,875
Super PACs14$32,850
Party committees1$5,000
Total (committee-sourced)$10,229,035

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 committees29$2,281,702
Total$2,281,702

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

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

21% by dollars

20661 of 91332 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) 90% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 10%

91332 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 28353 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($93,617,356 vs $10,229,035). 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 · PALUMBO, JOHN

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Menendez Senate Victory 2012 Joint fundraising N
Menendez Victory Fund Joint fundraising N
Nelson-Menendez Victory Fund Joint fundraising S
New Jersey Democratic Victory Joint fundraising Q
New Jersey Senate 2006 Joint fundraising Y
Menendez For Senate Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $2,331,877 11,863 2018
National Air Traffic Controllers Association Pac $10,500 10 2018
Lockheed Martin Corporation Employees' Political Action Committee $8,000 9 2018
L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Pac $10,000 6 2018
American Optometric Association Political Action Committee $6,000 5 2018
National Association Of Insurance And Financial Advisors Political Action Comm $9,000 5 2018
International Brotherhood Of Boilermakers Campaign Assistance Fund $5,500 5 2018
Merck & Co., Inc., Employees Political Action Committee (Merck Pac) $15,000 5 2018
Investment Company Institute Political Action Committee (Ici Pac) $9,000 5 2018
Comcast Corporation & Nbcuniversal Political Action Committee - Federal $10,000 5 2018
Johnson & Johnson Political Action Committee $7,500 5 2018
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Political Action Committee (Nmpac) $5,500 5 2018
United Food And Commercial Workers International Union Active Ballot Club $0 4 2018
Novartis Corporation Political Action Committee $10,000 4 2018
Amgen Inc. Political Action Committee $6,500 4 2018
Pfizer Inc. Pac $10,000 4 2018
United Parcel Service, Inc. Pac (Upspac) $3,000 4 2018
Eli Lilly And Company Political Action Committee $5,000 4 2018
American Federation Of State County & Municipal Employees P E O P L E $10,000 4 2018
America'S Credit Unions Pac Of Credit Union National Association, Inc. $9,500 4 2018
American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants Political Action Committee $5,500 4 2018
Mortgage Bankers Association Political Action Committee (Morpac) $10,000 3 2018
Genentech Inc. Political Action Committee (Genenpac) $8,500 3 2018
Sanofi Us Services Inc. Employees' Political Action Committee $10,000 3 2018
American Hospital Association Pac $10,000 3 2018

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

Conduit dependency

via ActBlue / WinRed

96% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2018) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 11,863 of 12,337 contributions · 68% of dollars ($2,331,877).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$2,331,877

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

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

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Novo Nordisk Inc. Pac (Novo Nordisk Pac) 50% / 50%
Abbvie Political Action Committee 51% / 49%
L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Pac 51% / 49%
National Association Of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. Political Action Committee 49% / 51%
Verizon Communications, Inc. Political Action Committee (Verizon Pac) 49% / 51%
Biotechnology Innovation Organization Pac (Bio Pac) 48% / 52%
National Association Of Broadcasters Political Action Committee (Nabpac) 48% / 52%
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Political Action Committee (Nmpac) 48% / 52%
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Llp Civic Action Committee (Aka Akin Gump Pac) 47% / 53%
American Hotel And Lodging Association Political Action Committee ('Hotelpac') 47% / 53%
Fmr Llc Political Action Committee - Federal (Fidelity Pac) 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: 7 committees · 15 expenditures · $982,721  ·  Opposing: 3 · 48 · $6,883,370

CommitteeStanceAmount
Integrity Nj opposes $6,714,163
Committee To Build The Economy supports $715,850
Leadership Alliance supports $240,000
Unidosus Action Fund, Inc. supports $16,250
Citizens For A Stronger New Jersey opposes $11,275
Planned Parenthood Votes supports $36
Americas Pac opposes $157,932
Protecting Our Vote Pac supports $10,500
Sierra Club Political Committee supports $10
Ripple Of Hope Pac Inc supports $75

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

43% 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
Actblue Technical Services $108,619 114
Actblue Technical Services $46,808 76
Actblue Technical Services $21,937 72
First Data Merchant Services $11,629 37
Chase Card Services $140,722 36
Td Bank $688 35
Paychex $46,847 32
Chase Card Services $39,917 29
Actblue Technical Services $36,949 25
Cfo Compliance, Llc $54,504 24
Harta Communications $107,005 24
Glh Consulting, Inc. $91,048 24

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)122
003 (Fundraising & solicitation)2

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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