Funding profile
Pramila Jayapal
Democrat · Representative for Washington’s 7th district
Career totals · 6 elections · 2016–2026
$16 million
raised by Jayapal’s campaigns, everything from 2016 to 2026 added together.
14%
of it came from organized groups rather than from people giving on their own: at least $2.3 million from PACs, plus donations that organizations collected and directed.
$143,000
was spent about Jayapal by outside groups. These are ads for or against them that their campaign cannot control, and none of it is part of the money above.
Every number on this page comes from Federal Election Commission filings, read on August 24, 2026. An election still under way keeps raising money, so its figure will have grown since. Check Jayapal on FEC.gov
Where the money came from
Everything Jayapal’s campaigns have reported raising, split by who gave it.
- Individual donorsMoney given by people, in their own name.86%$13.7 million
- Political action committeesOrganized groups: company-run committees, unions, trade associations.13%$2.1 million
- Other sourcesParty transfers, the candidate's own money, loans and smaller categories.1%$142,000
Money bundled through organizations
Not every “individual” donation arrives on its own. An organization can collect checks from its members, already earmarked for Jayapal, and deliver them in a bundle. The law counts that as individual money, but the organization still chose where it went.
$148,000
reached Jayapal this way, 1% of everything they raised from individuals. Each donation came from a real person. The organization picked who got it.
- JStreetPAC$106,000
- EMILY's ListA group that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights, and one of the oldest donation bundlers in politics.$42,000
We can only count the organizations we have measured, so the real figure could be higher than this, never lower. Bundling is legal and widely used, and appearing here is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Who gave the most
Committee contributions from the 2024 and 2026 election periods, grouped by how the FEC classifies each giver. This covers a slice of the career total, and giving to a campaign is legal and ordinary.
- Corporation<1%$1,500
- Trade association3%$19,000
- Labor union65%$461,000
- Membership organization10%$74,000
- Corporation without capital stock<1%$300
- Unclassified22%$155,000
Largest committee givers
- 1National Air Traffic Controllers Association$21,000
- 2Unite Here$20,000
- 3United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Active Ballot Club$20,000
- 4American Association for Justice (Aaj)$20,000
- 5Int'l Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers$20,000
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- 6American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Afl-Cio$20,000
- 7Indivisible Action$20,000
- 8International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers$20,000
- 9Int'l Union United Automobile Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America Uaw$20,000
- 10American Postal Workers Union$19,000
“Unclassified” means the FEC records no organization type for that committee, which usually means a leadership PAC. We show it as unclassified rather than guessing which industry it belongs to.
Money spent about this member
Outside groups, usually super PACs, may spend without limit on ads for or against a candidate, as long as they do not coordinate with the campaign. Jayapal has no legal control over any of it.
This is not a donation. Nobody gave this money to Jayapal. It was spent on advertising about Jayapal, and money spent against a candidate is plainly not funding them. So it never gets added to the figures above.
$143,000
has been spent for or against Jayapal by outside groups. $143,000 supported Jayapal; $0 opposed Jayapal.
Largest outside spenders
Summed across 6 elections, using the Commission's aggregated totals so amended filings and 24-hour notices are not double-counted.
Spent supporting
$139,000Ads urging people to vote for this member. Still not their money, and they cannot direct how it is spent.
- WOMEN VOTE!EMILY's List's super PAC, spending independently to support Democratic women who back abortion rights.$48,000
- UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB$47,000
- NATIONAL NURSES UNITED FOR PATIENT PROTECTION$25,000
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTES NORTHWEST$6,713
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- ONEAMERICA VOTES$5,884
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD ALLIANCE PAC , SERVING WA, AK, ID, HI, IN, KY$2,500
- WAY TO LEAD PAC$2,077
- FUSE WASHINGTON$1,069
Spent opposing
$0Ads urging people to vote against this member. This money was spent to defeat them.
Nothing on file.
Election by election
The career figures above are the sum of these elections. Each row links to the Commission’s page for that election, where the numbers match line for line.
| Election | Raised | From PACs | Outside spending | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026in progress | $2.5 million | $281,000 11% | $10 | FEC |
| 2024 | $2.8 million | $421,000 15% | $3,055 | FEC |
| 2022 | $2.8 million | $335,000 12% | $3,044 | FEC |
| 2020 | $2.7 million | $358,000 13% | $1,654 | FEC |
| 2018 | $2.2 million | $347,000 16% | $1,891 | FEC |
| 2016 | $3 million | $385,000 13% | $133,000 | FEC |
Raised is everything the campaign took in for that election. From PACs is the slice of it given by political action committees. Outside spending is what other groups spent on ads about the race, for and against—it is not part of “Raised”. An election marked in progress is still raising money, so its figures are not final.
We never publish the names of individual donors, and anything we cannot source stays off the page. The methodology explains every such choice.