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Organization payee-name aggregate · official FEC data

First Data Merchant Services

Campaign operating expenditures filed under this conservatively normalized payee name. Election.org does not assert corporate identity, ownership, ideology, or services beyond what the records show.

44 committees1,077 payments2025–2026 cycle

Committee payments · current non-memo rows

How much did federal committees report paying First Data Merchant Services?

Organization-payment rows in the FEC snapshot reviewed Nov 5, 2026.

Current amount
$686,707.57
Itemized payments
1,077
Committees
44

This is an aggregate by normalized filing name. It is not revenue, profit, a verified contract total, or proof that similarly named legal entities are the same organization.

Source: Federal Election Commission Schedule B operating expenditures.

Payments over time

Monthly payments reported to First Data Merchant Services.

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October 2026$397.853 payment records
Payments to First Data Merchant Services: monthly reported payments from January 2025 to October 2026$0$20K$40K$60K$80K$100KJan 2025Nov 2025Oct 2026
$686,707.57 snapshot total1,077 payment records44 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.

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$4,136.8460
2025-02$35,796.5754
2025-03$40,379.1051
2025-04$88,577.0549
2025-05$40,923.3164
2025-06$23,434.0762
2025-07$53,848.9270
2025-08$31,990.7460
2025-09$26,565.6166
2025-10$55,659.3366
2025-11$41,213.1972
2025-12$22,488.6459
2026-01$48,530.3953
2026-02$28,659.0550
2026-03$18,227.2448
2026-04$43,766.7552
2026-05$21,705.5648
2026-06$42,872.1647
2026-07$11,962.2424
2026-08$2,837.9513
2026-09$2,735.016
2026-10$397.853

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Committee → organization payee

Largest published committee relationships

FEC OPERATING EXPENDITURES

This page publishes at most 75 committee relationships for a payee-name group. The global amount above includes every current eligible row in the source aggregate.

RO FOR CONGRESS INC21 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$338,555.03
SMP18 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$80,877.99
JOSH FOR JERSEY38 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$58,200.20
SALUD CARBAJAL FOR CONGRESS21 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$48,978.73
EMILYS LIST44 itemized payments · latest Oct 5, 2026
$46,304.06
TENNESSEE DEMOCRATIC PARTY85 itemized payments · latest Aug 3, 2026
$14,433.95
WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA WEST, INC. PAC (WGAW PAC)26 itemized payments · latest Sep 30, 2026
$8,988.39
SYLVIA GARCIA FOR CONGRESS8 itemized payments · latest Dec 1, 2025
$7,063.11
JEFF MERKLEY FOR OREGON23 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$5,190.34
LOIS FRANKEL FOR CONGRESS15 itemized payments · latest Mar 2, 2026
$5,042.85
CORY BOOKER FOR SENATE87 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$4,291.39
CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO FOR SENATE19 itemized payments · latest Apr 3, 2026
$4,126.84
THE MARKEY COMMITTEE53 itemized payments · latest Aug 3, 2026
$3,831.58
FRIENDS OF MARK WARNER14 itemized payments · latest Jul 3, 2026
$3,735.69
MAGGIE FOR NH44 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$2,752.37
SHARICE FOR CONGRESS73 itemized payments · latest Jul 3, 2026
$2,716.29
314 ACTION FUND22 itemized payments · latest Sep 3, 2026
$2,633.47
ROSEN FOR NEVADA27 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$2,356.51
LOFGREN FOR CONGRESS19 itemized payments · latest Jun 11, 2026
$2,243.45
MAD 4 PA PAC54 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$2,012.95
GARAMENDI FOR CONGRESS36 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$1,967.20
ANGIE CRAIG FOR MINNESOTA9 itemized payments · latest Jul 3, 2026
$1,575.94
ADAM SMITH FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE38 itemized payments · latest Jul 3, 2026
$1,555.63
GILLIBRAND FOR SENATE36 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$1,466.20
DIGNITY OF WORK PAC37 itemized payments · latest Sep 3, 2025
$1,179.65
BATTLEGROUND ARIZONA20 itemized payments · latest Oct 5, 2026
$1,011.80
ALSOBROOKS FOR SENATE14 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$922.23
MARC VEASEY CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE7 itemized payments · latest Nov 14, 2025
$848.70
H&R BLOCK INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (BLOCKPAC)16 itemized payments · latest Dec 23, 2025
$846.19
WOMEN VOTE20 itemized payments · latest Aug 3, 2026
$644.75
BERA FOR CONGRESS13 itemized payments · latest Dec 3, 2025
$613.66
KAINE FOR VIRGINIA15 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$568.25
MIKIE SHERRILL FOR CONGRESS18 itemized payments · latest Dec 3, 2025
$548.10
DEBORAH ROSS FOR CONGRESS23 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$457.85
BENNET FOR COLORADO11 itemized payments · latest Sep 3, 2025
$372.92
LISA BLUNT ROCHESTER FOR SENATE11 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$368.45
WEXTON FOR CONGRESS7 itemized payments · latest Feb 3, 2025
$348.70
FAIR FIGHT6 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2025
$252.45
BATTLEGROUND TEXAS3 itemized payments · latest Sep 3, 2025
$179.20
ALASKA DEMOCRATIC PARTY- FEDERAL6 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2025
$174.25
CITIZENS TO ELECT RICK LARSEN6 itemized payments · latest Feb 3, 2025
$169.80
SOUTH DAKOTA DEMOCRATIC PARTY - FEDERAL2 itemized payments · latest Oct 3, 2025
$109.85
BOB CASEY FOR SENATE INC1 itemized payment · latest Jan 3, 2025
$9.95
Method boundary

Payee names are evidence, not conclusions.

Organizations only

Individual payees are excluded from this published store.

Amendment-normalized

175 superseded transaction versions were removed using committee, report, and transaction identifiers.

Memo rows excluded

368,439 memo-code X rows are excluded from totals because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.

Conservative matching

Punctuation and a small set of corporate suffixes are normalized. Election.org does not perform unverified corporate-family resolution.

Sources & notes
Source & freshness

SourceFederal Election Commission ↗

Dataset checkedNov 5, 2026

Earlier published snapshot · Oct 16, 2026$683,105.50 · 1,067 payments · 44 committees

Entity resolutionNot asserted

Individual payeesNot published

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