Who the pro-Israel lobby funds in Congress, and who funds the lobby. A searchable record built from
U.S. Federal Election Commission filings and public lobby-group disclosures.
$204.8M
total spent on 523 members of Congress
$137.2M
donations to members (incl. bundled individual giving)
$67.6M
outside spending on their races
$58.9M
traced into the PACs from donors
COMPILED · assembled from lobby-group disclosures and pending independent FEC verification. This is a different measure from the verified figures above and the two must not be added together - see Method & Sources.
$75,977,612
spent to DEFEAT candidates
55%
of their outside spending is against, not for
$20,139,904
against one candidate: Abdul El-Sayed
49
candidates they paid to defeat
VERIFIED · computed directly from FEC Schedule E bulk data, cycles 2022-2026
Money spent to defeat candidates. Independent expenditures reported to the FEC on Schedule E by AIPAC's super PAC (United Democracy Project), DMFI and allied committees, 2022-2026. Independent expenditures are not donations - the candidate never receives the money, and by law the spending must be uncoordinated. Every row is filed with the federal government and is reproducible from FEC bulk data.
#
Candidate
Party
Seat
Cycle
Spent against
Spent for
1
Abdul El-Sayed
DEM
MI
2026
$20,139,904
-
2
Jamaal Bowman
DEM
NY-16
2024
$9,960,740
-
3
Cori Bush
DEM
MO-01
2024, 2026
$7,700,052
-
4
Dave Min
DEM
CA-47
2024
$4,698,622
-
5
Donna Edwards
DEM
MD-04
2022
$4,258,736
-
6
Thomas Massie
REP
KY-04
2024, 2026
$3,896,751
-
7
Summer Lee
-
PA-12
2022
$3,642,759
-
8
Tom Malinowski
-
NJ-11
2026
$2,457,397
-
9
Brandon Herrera
REP
TX-23
2024
$2,060,410
-
10
Ammar Campa-Najjar
DEM
CA-48
2026
$2,000,000
-
11
Jessica Cisneros
-
TX-28
2022
$1,867,997
-
12
Nina Turner
DEM
OH-11
2022
$1,741,673
-
13
Aisha Wahab
DEM
CA-14
2026
$1,642,140
-
14
John Hostettler
-
IN-08
2024
$1,567,919
-
15
Shri Thanedar
DEM
MI-13
2022
$1,428,679
-
16
Donald Trump
REP
2024
$872,900
-
17
David Kim
DEM
CA-34
2024
$576,453
-
18
Cristina Garcia
-
CA-42
2022
$515,088
-
19
Marie Newman
DEM
IL-06
2022
$504,267
-
20
Randy Villegas
DEM
CA-22
2026
$500,000
-
21
Kina Collins
DEM
IL-07
2024
$494,453
-
22
Erica Smith
DEM
NC-01
2022
$376,466
-
23
Nina Turner
-
OH-11
2022
$342,233
-
24
Andy Levin
DEM
MI-11
2022
$341,793
-
25
Erica Smith
-
NC-01
2022
$335,413
-
26
Mehmet Oz
REP
PA
2022
$264,082
-
27
Raquel Teran
DEM
AZ-03
2024
$180,056
-
28
Kevin Coughlin
REP
OH-13
2024
$167,724
-
29
Austin Theriault
REP
ME-02
2024
$149,600
-
30
Delia Ramirez
DEM
IL-03
2022
$143,348
-
31
Daniel Lee
DEM
CA-37
2022
$142,936
-
32
Bob Good
REP
VA-05
2024
$132,230
-
33
Madison Gilbert
REP
OH-13
2022
$114,000
-
34
Sam Brown
REP
NV
2024
$95,700
-
35
Lori Chavez-Deremer
REP
OR-05
2024
$94,901
-
36
George Latimer
DEM
NY-16
2024
$84,326
$5,593,242
37
Esther Joy King
REP
IL-17
2022
$75,000
-
38
Jennifer Kiggans
REP
VA-02
2022
$65,901
-
39
Cristina Garcia
DEM
CA-42
2022
$65,680
-
40
Jason Friedman
DEM
IL-07
2026
$59,748
-
41
Anthony Desposito
REP
NY-04
2024
$52,848
-
42
Laurie Buckhout
REP
NC-01
2024
$39,644
-
43
Omari Hardy
DEM
FL-20
2022
$31,940
-
44
Scott Perry
REP
PA-10
2024
$25,570
-
45
Kirsten Engel
DEM
AZ-06
2022
$24,750
-
46
Amy Vilela
DEM
NV-01
2022
$16,152
-
47
Maureen Galindo
DEM
TX-35
2026
$14,264
-
48
David Canepa
DEM
CA-15
2022
$12,500
-
49
John Cavanaugh
DEM
NE-02
2026
$1,870
-
Where the money goes. Each sitting member of Congress and the pro-Israel money behind them: direct donations and outside independent-expenditure (IE) spend on their races. IE is spent on a race by outside groups — the member never receives it. ⚠ These figures are compiled from lobby-group disclosures and are pending independent FEC verification; the FEC filing remains the authority.
Download this dataset:
#
Member
Party
District
Donations ▾
IE spend
AIPAC
Backed by
Who funds the network. Individual contributors to the five pro-Israel PACs, from FEC bulk filings. Search filters the full set.
Download this dataset:
Donor
Location
Employer
Occupation
PAC funded
Total ▾
Gifts
The five committees that form the pro-Israel funding network (FEC data). Donors give to these; they and allied lobby groups fund the members in the first tab.
These 5 are only the donor-detailed slice. They are the committees with full itemized FEC donor files (built around the Democracy Engine data). The $204.8M figure covers a wider set of pro-Israel lobby groups tracked in the Members scorecard — presence-counted per member below, not donor-level. Note these groups are not one camp: AIPAC is hawkish while J Street is a liberal, pro-diplomacy lobby that often opposes AIPAC — so the total spans rival factions. A further $67.6M is independent-expenditure spend that never passes through any of these committees.
Lobby groups tracked in the scorecard — members each one backs:
Democracy Engine LLC is a US campaign-payment processor (a "conduit"). By law a conduit must itemize every earmarked contribution with its destination — so it increases disclosure rather than hides it. The money it processed here flows overwhelmingly to mainstream Democratic committees; it is shown for completeness and traceability, not as pro-Israel-specific spending. Every row links to its FEC filing.
The Pro-Israel Network's own fundraising roster. These are the candidates the network built dedicated fundraising pages for, harvested one by one from its public site (candidates.proisraelnetwork.org) and archived on archive.ph so each page is independently verifiable. This is who the network set out to fund — a sponsorship list, not dollar amounts. Every candidate row links to the archived page.
A transparency record of pro-Israel political money, in two directions: money flowing out to members of Congress (the scorecard), and money flowing in to the pro-Israel PACs (FEC donor data). They are separate datasets and do not reconcile against each other.
Researcher & source
This investigation was compiled by the independent researcher GenXGirl, who enumerated and archived the pro-Israel network's fundraising pages and assembled the money trail from public FEC filings and lobby-group disclosures. Archive Genocide is republishing her work as a searchable record. Follow her work: x.com/GenXGirl1994.
FEC-verified figures (added 2026-08-29)
These numbers are computed directly from FEC bulk data — committee-to-candidate contributions (pas2) and independent expenditures (Schedule E), cycles 2014–2026, over a curated set of 14 pro-Israel lobby committees. They are reproducible from primary source, unlike the hand-compiled scorecard totals above.
Independent expenditures
$137,145,218 — of which $75,977,612 (55.4%) was spent to OPPOSE candidates
Direct PAC contributions
$20,423,041 to 1,120 candidates
Reconciliation
The scorecard’s $137.2M “direct donations” figure does not reconcile with PAC-to-candidate contribution data, which totals $20.4M. The scorecard almost certainly counts bundled individual contributions — a legitimate but different measure that FEC committee data cannot reproduce. The two must not be added together.
Sources & confidence
Donors / PACs ($58.7M)
FEC itemized bulk filings.
AIPAC-to-members ($33.6M)
From the compiled scorecard.
$137.2M donations / 523 members
Hand-compiled from lobby-group disclosures — not yet FEC-verified.
$67.6M IE spend (33 members)
Hand-compiled — not yet FEC-verified.
Verify it yourself
Every claim traces back to a public record. The primary sources:
Built entirely from public campaign-finance filings and lobby-group disclosures. This is a record built from public filings and may not be used to contact or solicit anyone (FEC sale-or-use restriction, 52 U.S.C. §30111).