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Where campaign payments go over time.

See the monthly flow and cumulative total reported to the FEC for organization payees. These are campaign payments, not donations to candidates or company revenue.

Campaign payments over time

All 52,220 organization-payee groups in this snapshot, added together.

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October 2026$8,487,185.312,520 payment records
Payments across all organization payees: monthly reported payments from January 2025 to October 2026$0$200M$400M$600M$800M$1BJan 2025Nov 2025Oct 2026
$4,966,887,074.69 snapshot total1,103,067 payment records8,943 committees

Reported payments, not donations or corporate revenue. Reviewed Nov 5, 2026; chart dates run through Oct 31, 2026. Recent months may be incomplete as filings arrive. Signed corrections are included; memo rows and individual payees are excluded. 4 undated records ($200.00) are included in the snapshot total, but not plotted. 609 records outside 2025–2026 ($1,003,210.90) are included in the snapshot total, but not plotted.

Monthly values and source

FEC operating-expenditure source · Normalized payee names do not establish legal identity. Only groups with positive net totals are included. A zero month means no included payment records in this snapshot, not a finding that no payment occurred.

MonthNet paymentsRecords
2025-01$146,679,189.9334,352
2025-02$133,393,097.1635,163
2025-03$160,338,426.2742,212
2025-04$163,285,281.5342,801
2025-05$132,613,173.5042,462
2025-06$160,227,491.3247,238
2025-07$159,179,640.7448,844
2025-08$177,396,003.3549,361
2025-09$925,839,909.6055,750
2025-10$210,307,321.8066,840
2025-11$165,335,410.3854,205
2025-12$194,670,702.2766,363
2026-01$241,174,361.7759,719
2026-02$275,750,754.2665,138
2026-03$245,106,111.7776,073
2026-04$332,398,099.9873,736
2026-05$334,096,760.0475,416
2026-06$339,356,538.0880,942
2026-07$226,310,101.6241,184
2026-08$145,304,112.7926,409
2026-09$88,633,990.3215,726
2026-10$8,487,185.312,520

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Monthly and cumulative views answer different questions

Monthly amounts show the timing of reported payments and signed corrections. The cumulative view adds included dated amounts over the chart window; it can fall when corrections exceed new payments. The snapshot total can include undated or out-of-window records that are not plotted.

A quiet month does not establish that nothing happened

Filing schedules, amendments and processing delays can leave recent months incomplete. A zero means no included payment records for that month in this snapshot. Normalized names group payees for research; they do not prove a unique legal entity, ownership, profit, influence or misconduct.

Go from the national view to a specific payee

Use the vendor directory to open a payment profile, review committees and inspect that payee’s own monthly chart. Individual payees and memo rows are excluded from these organization-payee totals.

Sources & notes

Federal Election Commission operating-expenditure data. Reviewed 2026-11-05; chart dates end 2026-10-31. Original cycle, memo, amendment and payee qualifications are retained.