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SLF
SLF PAC
Republican leaders' super PACsSuper PACs run by or for Republican congressional leaders and their allies, such as Senate Leadership Fund and the Congressional Leadership Fund, and the pop-up PACs those fund and create. A caucus’s PAC, or a group that only shares donors with leadership, is not one. Placed from our list of party-leadership networks, which a reviewer confirms.Parties & politicians
Super PAC (independent expenditure-only)Washington, District of ColumbiaActive
$545.6M raised, $463.2M spent, $88.4M cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
Who funds it
71% from donors giving over $200 · 25% filed as other receipts · largest donor Elon Musk, $168M. See who funds it
Where it goes
$12.9M spent for candidates and $337.4M against them, most on OH-SEN ($68.2M) · $185.3M given to candidates and committees, the largest to Texas PAC ($158M) · 94% of its support to Republicans. See where it goes
Where it spendsWhich races and candidates is its money for or against?
For or against 28 candidates$350,375,123
In regular reports
$248.2M
24 candidates, through Oct 14, 2026
Newer notices
$102.1M
336 notices since Oct 14, 2026
Sherrod Brown▼ Against · Senate, OH$26M of it in newer notices, latest Nov 3, 2026 · FEC filing$92.6M
Joshua Turek▼ Against · Senate, IA$14.4M of it in newer notices, latest Nov 2, 2026 · FEC filing$48.7M
Abdul El-Sayed▼ Against · Senate, MI$9.7M of it in newer notices, latest Oct 28, 2026 · FEC filing$46.1M
Roy Cooper▼ Against · Senate, NC50 records, latest Sep 28, 2026 · FEC filing$30.2M
Mary Peltola▼ Against · Senate, AK$4.1M of it in newer notices, latest Nov 2, 2026 · FEC filing$17.6M
Adam Hamilton▼ Against · Senate, KS$10.8M of it in newer notices, latest Nov 2, 2026 · FEC filing$16.5M
Annie Andrews▼ Against · Senate, SC$9.4M of it in newer notices, latest Nov 2, 2026 · FEC filing$13M
Notices dated after Oct 14, 2026 are added; earlier ones are already in the regular reports.
Its wordsWhat does this committee say it is for?
Why this committee exists In its own words
“Senate Leadership Fund is the only outside organization solely dedicated to protecting and expanding the Republican Senate Majority.
This cycle, SLF is investing earlier than ever before. Our mission is to support strong Republican candidates in competitive states, leveraging best-in-class campaign tactics and standards to aggressively counter the Democratic machine.”
Quoted from the committee's site, or its sponsor's or funder's where its own says nothing. Any side it takes is in its own words.
No published list of positions
Its site sums up what it stands for in the statement above, and publishes no list of positions beyond it.
Who it gives toWhich candidates and committees get its money?
Each part reads different filings, so counts and totals can differ.
Party support distribution$12.9M to 14 candidates
Direct PAC contributions and independent expenditures explicitly reported as support, by the party of the candidate they went to.
For candidates $12,928,092
Republican 94%
Against candidates $337,447,030
Democratic 97%
Spending against candidates is drawn on its own bar and left out of the support totals.
Contributions are reported money, not endorsements; a PAC giving to both parties is common.
Who this PAC gave to$185,271,500 in 18 payments
Every contribution on line 23 of the committee’s own Schedule B, which is the filing its summary totals are built from. That line covers federal candidates, party committees and other political committees alike, so a super PAC funding other super PACs appears here rather than under candidate giving.
By recipient
Line 23 contributions by kind and party of recipient
Recipient
Count
Amount
Other PACs and committees
9
$185.3M · 100%
All recipients
9
$185.3M
By the candidate’s state
No recipient here is matched to a candidate with a state on record.
Recipients 9
Show candidate activity and the money network
Candidate and election activity as the recipients filed it
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No candidate committee activity was returned for this PAC.
Candidate contribution rows come from candidate committee Schedule A filings, the same rows the party chart above counts.
Committee money network
Money moving between this committee and other committees, matched on FEC committee ID rather than the name each filing was typed under. Both sides exclude memo entries. The figures here count each committee once, from the itemized transfers read for this section, so they will not match the payment counts under Who this PAC gave to.
Committees funding this one
Committees that reported giving to this one on their own Schedule A filings, grouped by the giver’s committee ID.
RAI Services Co.8 contributions, latest Oct 7, 2026 · Organization · WINSTON SALEM, NC$5,009,238
J. RickettsOne contribution on Sep 7, 2026 · BUSINESSMAN & PHILANTHROPIST · SELF-EMPLOYED · OMAHA, NE$5,000,000
Stephen A. WynnOne contribution on Nov 6, 2025 · ENTREPRENEUR · VALMORE GP · LAS VEGAS, NV$5,000,000
Chevron Corp.6 contributions, latest Aug 19, 2026 · Organization · SAN RAMON, CA$4,650,000
J. Christopher Reyes2 contributions, latest Jun 16, 2026 · EXECUTIVE · REYES HOLDINGS LLC · WEST PALM BEACH, FL$4,500,000
A donor who gave several times appears once. The 11 largest donors by total given are listed. In all, 2,614 itemized contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $458.7M. FEC contributor lists are public records and cannot be used for commercial solicitation.
Other receiptsWhere a super PAC files what corporations, unions and other organizations give it, since they have no line of their own. Hybrid PACs, and some super PACs, file individuals' unlimited gifts here too, along with any interest or dividends.$135,901,18025%
Where it came from
One Nation4 receipts, latest Sep 30, 2026 · HAYMARKET, Virginia$132,907,000
Operating expendituresThe committee's own running costs.$29,732,4936.4%
Paid to
Total reported disbursements $463,241,843
Every dollar this committee reported spending this cycle, split by the lines it reports against. Open a line to see who was actually paid on it. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
What the payments were for $463,241,447 itemized
These are the payments the committee itemized, including its independent expenditures, which are filed against the candidate each was for or against rather than as payments to a vendor. Open a category to see which candidates its independent spending went to, and in support or opposition.
Tap a row with to see what was paid for.
Advertising and mediaBroadcast, digital, and print advertising, and the media buying behind it.$233.8M of it was independent spending against Sherrod Brown and against Abdul El-Sayed and 10 more
Spending over time
$463.2M spent from Jan 2025 to Oct 2026. Most in one report: $356.2M, Jul 1 – Sep 30, 2026.
$463.2M1
Jan 2025Nov 2026
1Nov 3, 2026 general election, IA-SEN, ME-SEN, MI-SEN and 2 more$197.5M of its independent spending was aimed at it
The running total of what the committee’s FEC reports say it spent, independent expenditures included, with a point at the end of each report. The line is straight between reports because a report gives one total for its whole period. Numbered lines mark the elections that drew the most independent spending. Each expenditure counts toward the next election on its seat after the day it was made, and a seat is named when it drew at least a tenth of that spending. The line stops at the latest report, through Oct 14, 2026, at the dashed rule; elections after it are marked where they fall.
This committee’s name carries no organization we could search for in Lobbying Disclosure Act filings. FEC and the Senate share no organization identifier, so lobbying is matched by name; a sponsor that lobbies under another name is not found.
$185.3M across 9 recipient committees, or 40% of everything this committee reports spending. A further $66.3K was filed as memo entries, which FEC reports separately to avoid counting it twice.
Built from FEC Schedule A and Schedule B filings for the selected cycle. A committee only appears here if the money was itemized under its FEC committee ID.
2 receipts, latest Apr 2, 2026 · Pac (qualified)
$250,000
The 12 largest committees by total given are listed. Counted from the givers' own filings and this committee's lines for them, whichever is larger, which can run above the total this committee reports.
$14,500,000
Kenneth C. GriffinPerson · CEO, Citadel Investment Group · Miami, FL · also behind 8 other groups · 1.8%
$10,000,000
Altria Client Services LLCOrganization · 1.2%
$6,750,000
RAI Services Co.Organization · 0.9%
$5,009,238
J. RickettsPerson · Businessman & Philanthropist, Self-Employed · Omaha, NE · 0.9%
$5,000,000
Show 11 more sources
Gave directly, more
Name
Amount
Stephen A. WynnPerson · Entrepreneur, Valmore GP · Las Vegas, NV · also behind 5 other groups · 0.9%
$5,000,000
Chevron Corp.Organization · 0.9%
$4,650,000
J. Christopher ReyesPerson · Executive, Reyes Holdings LLC · West Palm Beach, FL · also behind 2 other groups · 0.8%
$4,500,000
M. Jude ReyesPerson · Executive, Reyes Holdings LLC · West Palm Beach, FL · also behind 2 other groups · 0.8%
$4,500,000
American Petroleum InstituteOrganization · tax-exempt organization that need not name its donors · 0.7%
$4,000,000
Ronald CameronPerson · Chairman, Mountaire Corp · Little Rock, AR · also behind 2 other groups · 0.7%
Stephen SchwarzmanPerson · Chairman & CEO, Blackstone · Washington, DC · also behind 8 other groups · 0.5%
$3,000,000
Stephen WynnPerson · Valmore GP, Entreprenuer · Lantana, FL · also behind 5 other groups · 0.5%
$3,000,000
Chain Bridge BankOrganization · 0.5%
$2,994,180
Through National Association of Realtors Congressional Fund$10.4M 1.9%
Through National Association of Realtors Congressional Fund
Name
Amount
National Association of RealtorsOrganization · tax-exempt organization that need not name its donors · 1.9%
$10,442,455
254 smaller sources, $57.4M in all (11%), are not listed.
Each committee that gave is followed to where its own money came from, in proportion to what it received: a committee that got half its money from one person is counted as passing half of what it gave on to that person. Each channel shows the committee the money came through and its place in the money tree. It shows who stood behind the money, not what that money was for, and an organization that need not name its donors ends the trail. It stops at a person, an organization, a committee with nothing on file here, or 3committees deep. A person who gave by more than one route appears under each, a name filed two ways may appear twice, and a person's job and city are as they filed them. "Also behind" counts the other groups, among those that moved $100,000 or more into races, in which $100,000 or more traces to the same person, other than those this money came through or went on to.
Nevada
5 contributions · 7.6%
$35,038,812
New York52 contributions · 6.4%
$29,254,880
California235 contributions · 3.9%
$17,883,529
Arkansas15 contributions · 2.3%
$10,350,000
District of Columbia17 contributions · 2.2%
$10,106,000
By the state each contributor wrote on the filing. The FEC aggregates every Schedule A line together, so one committee or organization transfer can account for a whole state. Contributors who have given $200 or less this cycle are not itemized and cannot be placed on a map. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total.
Donors’ employers as filed
Donors’ employers
Employer as filed
Amount
Space Exploration Technologies Corp4 contributions · 53% of ranked
$168,000,000
Adelson Drug Clinic1 contribution · 9.4% of ranked
$30,000,000
Blackstone4 contributions · 6.3% of ranked
$20,000,000
EMC4 contributions · 4.5% of ranked
$14,500,000
Citadel Investment Group1 contribution · 3.1% of ranked
$10,000,000
Reyes Holdings LLC6 contributions · 3.1% of ranked
$10,000,000
Self-employedWritten instead of an employer · 16 contributions · 2.8% of ranked
$8,804,500
RetiredWritten instead of an employer · 2,204 contributions · 2.4% of ranked
$7,580,019
A further $139,353,674 came from donors whose answer names no employer (Information requested, None, blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized receipts grouped by the words contributors filed. The FEC aggregates every Schedule A line here, so committee and organization money sits alongside individuals; this is not an industry classification. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($69,882) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
Donors’ occupations as filed
Donors’ occupations
Occupation as filed
Amount
CEO26 contributions · 58% of ranked
$185,561,250
Physician10 contributions · 9.4% of ranked
$30,002,300
Chairman & CEO8 contributions · 6.5% of ranked
$20,700,000
President7 contributions · 4.5% of ranked
$14,515,000
Executive15 contributions · 4.3% of ranked
$13,600,000
Chairman22 contributions · 2.5% of ranked
$8,085,000
RetiredWritten instead of an occupation · 2,204 contributions · 2.4% of ranked
$7,580,019
Entrepreneur4 contributions · 2.1% of ranked
$6,850,000
A further $139,351,674 came from donors whose answer names no occupation (Information requested, blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized receipts grouped by the words contributors filed. The FEC aggregates every Schedule A line here, so committee and organization money sits alongside individuals; this is not an industry classification. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($69,882) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
One Nation21 payments · latest Sep 29, 2026 · RENT AND SALARIES$3,579,448
Ragnar Research Partners LLC9 payments · latest Oct 5, 2026 · POLLING$633,840
Whistlestop Strategies LLC3 payments · latest Oct 13, 2026 · POLITICAL STRATEGY CONSULTING$590,402
$236,616,87451%
Filed as
MEDIA PLACEMENTIndependent spending: $63.4M in opposition to Sherrod Brown · $33.2M in opposition to Abdul El-Sayed and 4 more$222,921,701
ONLINE ADVERTISINGIndependent spending: $3.7M in opposition to Roy Cooper · $750K in opposition to Abdul El-Sayed and 4 more$9,538,368
MEDIA PLACEMENT - NOT IE$2,110,255
MEDIA PRODUCTIONIndependent spending: $246.8K in opposition to Mary Peltola · $234.4K in opposition to Troy Dale Jackson and 4 more$1,229,012
MEDIA PRODUCTION - NOT IE$498,671
FOCUS GROUPS / MEDIA PRODUCTION - NOT IE$110,502
WEB ADIndependent spending: $23.6K in opposition to Roy Cooper · $17.5K in opposition to Troy Dale Jackson and 1 more$54,850
TRAVEL / MEDIA PRODUCTION - NOT IE$37,110
ONLINE ADVERTISING - NOT IE$35,500
MEDIA PRODUCTION - DID NOT AIR$20,000
AERIAL ADVERTISEMENTIndependent spending in opposition to Joshua Turek$17,880
MEDIA PRODUCTION - NOT AIRED$17,500
Paid to
Flexpoint MediaIndependent spending: $45.9M in opposition to Sherrod Brown · $28M in opposition to Roy Cooper and 4 more$124,646,234
MHB Media, IncIndependent spending: $23.4M in opposition to Abdul El-Sayed · $20.7M in opposition to Troy Dale Jackson and 2 more$56,141,044
Majority Strategies LLCIndependent spending: $10.6M in opposition to Abdul El-Sayed · $9.3M in opposition to Joshua Turek$19,800,000
GEN2 Solutions, LLCIndependent spending: $17.5M in opposition to Sherrod Brown · $1.8M in opposition to Annie Andrews$19,300,000
Alamo Intelligence LLCIndependent spending: $5.8M in opposition to Troy Dale Jackson · $250K in opposition to Graham Platner$6,055,000
Finance Strategies Group LLCIndependent spending: $502.7K in support of Michael J. Rogers · $479.3K in support of Ashley Hinson Arenholz and 4 more$4,090,000
Given to othersContributions to other candidates, party committees, and PACs.$185,275,38840%
Filed as
CONTRIBUTION$185,271,500
IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION$3,888
Paid to
Texas PAC$158,000,000
The Maine Standard$9,492,000
Cornhusker Majority$7,500,000
Lone Star Liberty PAC$5,000,000
Plains PAC$2,708,500
75 PAC$1,400,000
Printing, mail, and shippingPrinted literature, direct mail, postage, design, and delivery.$13.7M of it was independent spending against Sherrod Brown and against Abdul El-Sayed and 10 more$16,696,4243.6%
Filed as
POSTAGE / PRINTING / PRODUCTIONIndependent spending: $2.7M in opposition to Sherrod Brown · $2.2M in opposition to Abdul El-Sayed and 4 more$13,689,259
Whistlestop Strategies LLCIndependent spending: $2.6M in opposition to Sherrod Brown$3,139,370
Storytellers Group LLCIndependent spending: $2.2M in opposition to Abdul El-Sayed · $74.4K in support of Michael J. Rogers$2,719,800
Creative DirectIndependent spending: $1.9M in opposition to Troy Dale Jackson · $279.4K in opposition to Adam Hamilton$2,623,534
Finance Strategies Group LLCIndependent spending: $324.9K in support of Susan M. Collins · $245K in support of Michael J. Rogers and 4 more$1,698,283
KAP Print LLCIndependent spending: $1.3M in opposition to Joshua Turek · $65.8K in support of Ashley Hinson Arenholz and 1 more$1,579,926
Caliber ContactIndependent spending in opposition to Roy Cooper$1,368,629
Polling and researchSurveys, opposition research, voter file work, and analytics.$5,892,0881.3%
Filed as
POLLING$3,625,070
RESEARCH CONSULTING$1,116,791
SURVEY RESEARCH$587,607
SURVEY RESEARCH / POLITICAL STRATEGY CONSULTING$195,040
CONSULTING RESEARCH$195,000
POLITICAL STRATEGY CONSULTING / SURVEY RESEARCH$114,000
POLLING / FOCUS GROUPS$46,080
RESEARCH MATERIALS$12,500
Paid to
America Rising Limited LLC$774,000
Ragnar Research Partners LLC$633,840
Grassroots Targeting$615,290
The Tarrance Group LLC$552,976
Guidant Polling and Strategy, LLC$534,980
Public Opinion Strategies, LLC$417,710
Fundraising and eventsThe cost of raising money: finance consultants, donor list rental and acquisition, event venues, catering, and donor processing.$5,565,6971.2%
Digital and technologyWebsites, hosting, software subscriptions, databases, email, and texting platforms.$769.2K of it was independent spending against Roy Cooper and against Sherrod Brown and 8 more$965,8930.2%
Filed as
TEXT MESSAGINGIndependent spending: $187.3K in opposition to Roy Cooper · $174.2K in opposition to Sherrod Brown and 4 more$769,175
SUBSCRIPTION$172,618
DATABASE MANAGEMENT$8,250
SOFTWARE$8,247
WEB SERVICE$4,797
WEBSITE HOSTING / DEVELOPMENT$2,806
Paid to
FCG Media Strategies LLCIndependent spending: $174.2K in opposition to Sherrod Brown · $105.9K in opposition to Abdul El-Sayed and 4 more$468,241
THM Consulting LLCIndependent spending: $126.2K in opposition to Roy Cooper · $28.2K in opposition to Sherrod Brown and 3 more$170,934
Finance Strategies Group LLCIndependent spending in support of Ashley Moody$100,000
Lexisnexis$83,402
Finance Strategies Group, LLCIndependent spending: $30K in support of Ashley Moody$50,000
CQ Roll Call$15,391
Taxes, fees, and bank chargesPayroll and income taxes, filing fees, bank and merchant processing charges.$804,8350.2%
Filed as
TAXES$535,186
INTEREST INCOME TAXES$266,124
BANK FEE$2,950
MEMBERSHIP FEE$575
Paid to
US Department of the Treasury$569,908
DC Office of Tax and Revenue$225,885
Office of Tax and Revenue$5,517
Chain Bridge Bank$2,950
American Express$575
Office and administrativeRent, utilities, phones, supplies, equipment, security, food, and campaign merchandise.$469,6470.1%
Filed as
INSURANCE$303,515
FOOD / BEVERAGE$45,308
SECURITY SERVICES$27,675
SECURITY$20,800
OFFICE SUPPLIES$14,291
EQUIPMENT RENTAL$13,941
INTERNET AND PHONE$12,439
COMPUTER EQUIPMENT$10,129
PHOTOGRAPHY SERVICES$8,770
UTILITIES - INTERNET$7,207
OFFICE FURNITURE$2,044
OFFICE REPAIR SERVICES$1,226
Paid to
Three Arbor Insurance Inc.$303,515
F3 Tactical Group$27,675
Ridgeline Partners LLC$20,800
Skyline Tent Co.$13,941
Ezcater$13,449
Amazon$13,238
Card paymentsPaid to a card processor with no itemisation filed beneath it, so the purchases behind it are not on the record.$215,113<0.1%
Filed as
CREDIT CARD PROCESSING FEES$215,113
Paid to
WinRed Technical Services LLC$136,280
Stripe Inc$76,572
Revv$2,261
Not broken out by the committeeReported as a lump sum, with memo entries pointed to for the detail. Where those entries were filed and read, this page counts the payees they name instead; what is left here was never itemised.$1.1K of it was independent spending against Sherrod Brown$25,422<0.1%
Filed as
CREDIT CARD PAYMENT - SEE MEMO ENTRIES$16,095
ULTIMATE VENDOR - SEE MEMO ENTRIES$7,863
CREDIT CARD PAYMENT - SEE MEMO ENTRYIndependent spending in opposition to Sherrod Brown$1,060
MILEAGE / ULTIMATE VENDOR - SEE MEMO ENTRIES$404
Paid to
American Express$16,095
Mcbeath, Billy$2,517
Lioce, Taylor$1,607
Goldman Sachs BankIndependent spending in opposition to Sherrod Brown$1,060
RE, Domenic$901
Gustafson, Chris$756
Total itemized disbursements $463,241,447
Every itemized payment the committee reported this cycle, sorted by what it said each one was for. The categories are ours; the wording they are matched against is the committee’s own. Open a category to read the filed descriptions and who was paid. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
All 2,346 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.
83 payments were reported as a lump sum, such as a card or payroll bill, with the detail filed underneath as memo entries. Those entries, $576,339 in all, are counted under the payee and purpose they name rather than under the processor that was paid. The total is the same either way.
Alamo Intelligence LLC15 payments · 1.3% of all spending
$6,055,000
The people, firms and committees paid the most, across every kind of payment. Each share is of everything the committee reported spending this cycle, not only the itemized payments above. A payee that is itself a committee links to its own profile.