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Funding profile

Thom Tillis

Republican · Senator from North Carolina

Career totals · 3 elections · 2014–2026

$45.8 million

raised by Tillis’s campaigns, everything from 2014 to 2026 added together.

22%

of it came from organized groups rather than from people giving on their own: at least $10 million from PACs, plus donations that organizations collected and directed.

$138.6 million

was spent about Tillis 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 Tillis on FEC.gov

Where the money came from

Everything Tillis’s campaigns have reported raising, split by who gave it.

$45.8 millionraised
  • Individual donorsMoney given by people, in their own name.69%$31.5 million
  • Political action committeesOrganized groups: company-run committees, unions, trade associations.21%$9.5 million
  • Other sourcesParty transfers, the candidate's own money, loans and smaller categories.11%$4.9 million
Federal Election Commission filings across 3 elections. Percentages may not total 100 because each is rounded.

Money bundled through organizations

Not every “individual” donation arrives on its own. An organization can collect checks from its members, already earmarked for Tillis, and deliver them in a bundle. The law counts that as individual money, but the organization still chose where it went.

$510,000

reached Tillis this way, 2% of everything they raised from individuals. Each donation came from a real person. The organization picked who got it.

  • AIPACThe American Israel Public Affairs Committee's political arm. It backs candidates of both parties it considers strong supporters of the U.S.-Israel relationship.$242,000
  • Senate Conservatives FundA PAC founded by former senator Jim DeMint that bundles donations for conservative Senate candidates, often in Republican primaries.$177,000
  • SBA Pro-Life AmericaThe candidate fund of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which backs candidates who oppose abortion.$53,000
  • NORPACA New Jersey-based pro-Israel PAC that bundles member donations for candidates of both parties.$39,000

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.

  • Corporation57%$1.5 million
  • Trade association18%$474,000
  • Labor union1%$19,000
  • Membership organization5%$135,000
  • Co-operative<1%$12,000
  • Corporation without capital stock1%$22,000
  • Unclassified18%$484,000

Which industries

  • Health & pharmaceuticals28% · $35,000
  • Banking & finance24% · $30,000
  • Retail & consumer8% · $10,000
  • Defense & aerospace8% · $10,000
  • Technology & telecoms8% · $10,000
  • Real estate & construction8% · $10,000
  • Other16% · $20,000

The FEC records that a committee is a corporation; it does not record its industry. Those labels are ours, kept in a published list anyone can check. Where we have not labeled a giver we say “Other” rather than guessing.

Largest committee givers

  1. 1Gilead Sciences, Inc.Health & pharmaceuticals · Corporation$15,000
  2. 2Young Victory CommitteeOther · Unclassified$10,000
  3. 3American Bankers Association (ABA)Banking & finance · Trade associationThe trade association for the banking industry.$10,000
  4. 4Lowe's Companies, Inc.Retail & consumer · Corporation$10,000
  5. 5General Dynamics CorporationDefense & aerospace · CorporationThe defense contractor's PAC, funded by employee contributions.$10,000
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  1. 6Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. PACHealth & pharmaceuticals · Corporation$10,000
  2. 7Merck & Co., Inc.Health & pharmaceuticals · Corporation$10,000
  3. 8Council of Insurance Agents & BrokersOther · Membership organization$10,000
  4. 9Investment Company InstituteBanking & finance · Trade association$10,000
  5. 10American Clean Power AssociationOther · Trade association$10,000

“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. Tillis has no legal control over any of it.

This is not a donation. Nobody gave this money to Tillis. It was spent on advertising about Tillis, and money spent against a candidate is plainly not funding them. So it never gets added to the figures above.

$138.6 million

has been spent for or against Tillis by outside groups. That is roughly 3 times what the campaigns themselves raised. $19.9 million supported Tillis; $118.7 million opposed Tillis.

Largest outside spenders

Summed across 3 elections, using the Commission's aggregated totals so amended filings and 24-hour notices are not double-counted.

Spent supporting

$9.6 million

Ads urging people to vote for this member. Still not their money, and they cannot direct how it is spent.

  • AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC.(AFP ACTION)The political network founded by the Koch family, which backs candidates favoring lower taxes and less regulation.$9.6 million

Spent opposing

$93.8 million

Ads urging people to vote against this member. This money was spent to defeat them.

  • SMP$34.3 million
  • DSCCThe Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Senate Democrats' official campaign organization.$24.2 million
  • SENATE MAJORITY PAC$11.8 million
  • DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE$10.3 million
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  • NEA ADVOCACY FUND$5.6 million
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND (EVERYTOWN VICTORY FUND)$3.9 million
  • PATIENTS FOR AFFORDABLE DRUGS ACTION$3.7 million

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.

ElectionRaisedFrom PACsOutside spending
2026in progress$8.1 million$2.8 million 35%$73,000FEC
2020$26.7 million$5.1 million 19%$94.9 millionFEC
2014$11 million$1.6 million 14%$43.6 millionFEC

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.