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Richard Blumenthal

Democrat U.S. Senate · CT · cycle 2022 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in CT
69.2%
Direct-contributionshare
Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $7,272,349 in the 2022 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 29th percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

7.8% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 25.8% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 69.2% of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans); the rest is transfers from other committees and other receipts, also disclosed. FEC ↗

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30.8% of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans) arrived as transfers from other committees and other receipts rather than direct contributions — among the more transfer-funded campaigns in the U.S. Senate. These transfers are themselves disclosed in the sending committees' filings.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score
Small-donor (grassroots) share7.8%
From the unitemized (sub-$200) total, which reconciles exactly against FEC's individual-contribution figure. Small gifts that ActBlue/WinRed itemize aren't counted here — see the size-based measure below.
Small-dollar by transaction size8.3%
Share of itemized + unitemized contributions received in individual transactions under $200 (FEC schedule_a/by_size), counting each gift by its own amount — so it captures small repeat donors the unitemized field hides. Its denominator is raw itemized receipts, so it reads conservatively.
PAC share of contributions25.8%
Committee & JFC transfer share28.6%
Share of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans) that arrived as transfers from joint-fundraising and other authorized committees rather than direct contributions — reported in the sending committees’ filings, never undisclosed “dark” money. This bar is the transfer component only, not the whole non-direct remainder — a determined 0% means no transfer receipts (other complement receipts such as offsets may still exist); “—” means no external receipts to decompose.
In-state contributor share38.4%
Share of itemized individual dollars from in-state donors — unitemized (<$200) contributions have no state breakdown.
Top-20 donor concentration3.8%
Share from the 20 largest individual donors this 2-year period, by exact name — a neutral concentration measure, approximate (recurring small-dollar donors may be undercounted), not a score.

How the money splits

Exact, from FEC aggregates

Individual contributions

Small-dollar (<$200) vs. larger itemized giving
7.8%
92.2%
Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees
74.2%
25.8%
IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 10.3% (2010) to 32.2% (2026) A cycle with too little reported money to trust any ratio is left out entirely; a cycle where one specific figure can't be computed (e.g. an all-itemizing committee has no small-dollar figure to read) is left out of just that line.

Small-dollar share
2010 10.3%2012 2.2%2014 10.6%2016 8.1%2018 52.9%2020 38.7%2022 7.8%2024 38%2026 32.2%
Direct-contribution share
2010 94.3%2012 79.3%2014 89.1%2016 98.5%2018 94.9%2020 98.5%2022 69.2%2024 54.2%2026 61.4%
PAC share of contributions
2010 15.2%2012 58.7%2014 34.3%2016 23.6%2018 12.2%2020 16.7%2022 25.8%2024 33.8%2026 27.5%
Cash on hand
2010 $19K2012 $68K2014 $661K2016 $3.0M2018 $3.2M2020 $3.9M2022 $1.2M2024 $1.2M2026 $1.5M

Committee assignments

congress-legislators (CC0)

Current committee and subcommittee seats, from the public congressional record. Listed independently of the funding figures on this page — a committee seat is not evidence of why any contribution was made.

Senate Committee on Armed Services
Minority
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Airland
Minority
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Personnel
Minority
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Seapower
Minority
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Minority
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs — Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Ranking Member
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs — Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census
Minority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Minority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights
Minority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Crime and Counterterrorism
Minority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights
Minority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Privacy, Technology, and the Law
Minority
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Ranking Member
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
Minority

Sector / industry breakdown

Itemized individual donors · by employer/occupation

Employer/occupation reported on itemized ($200+) individual contributions, grouped into broad sectors. Sectors with fewer than 5 distinct donors are folded into "All other (suppressed)" so no small group can be traced to one donor. Based on this committee's largest itemized contributions (a bounded sample, not the complete donor list) — sector totals are approximate and won't sum to the full itemized total.

unclassified
$831K · 24.1% of itemized
Retired / not employed
$709K · 20.6% of itemized
Legal
$625K · 18.2% of itemized
Finance / insurance
$402K · 11.7% of itemized
Self-employed
$87K · 2.5% of itemized
Real estate
$70K · 2% of itemized
Media / entertainment
$67K · 1.9% of itemized
Education
$49K · 1.4% of itemized
All other (suppressed)
$44K · 1.3% of itemized
Healthcare
$38K · 1.1% of itemized

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $3.3M in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $42 supporting, $3.3M opposing (FEC Schedule E). These are filed by the groups themselves, not this candidate's committee, and are not part of the receipts above. FEC ↗

CONNECTICUT PATRIOTS PAC FEC ↗
$2.9M opposing
RESTORATION PAC FEC ↗
$225K opposing
LEADERSHIP NOW FEC ↗
$175K opposing
FRONTIERS OF FREEDOM ACTION, INC. FEC ↗
$14K opposing
ENVIRONMENT AMERICA ACTION FUND FEC ↗
$32 supporting

Individual-donor detail

Held for the deep-table phase. v1 shows aggregate figures only — by design, not by omission.
NameCity / StateEmployerOccupationAmountDateStreet addressPhone

Statutory notice. When individual detail ships, street address and phone are never shown, and the data may not be used to solicit contributions or for any commercial purpose (52 U.S.C. §30111(a)(4)). Named individuals appear only here in the deep table — never on a shareable card — each with a match-confidence indicator.