Susan M. Collins

Republican U.S. Senate · ME · cycle 2020 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in ME

92.2%

Direct-contributionshare

Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $27,867,541 in the 2020 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 79th percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

22.5% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 9.9% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 92.2% of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans); the rest is transfers from other committees and other receipts, also disclosed. FEC ↗

Auto-generated from the data above

Funding is spread across individual and committee sources, with no single category standing out from the rest of the U.S. Senate.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score

Small-donor (grassroots) share22.5%

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 size34.7%

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 contributions9.9%

Committee & JFC transfer share7.6%

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 share8.6%

Share of itemized individual dollars from in-state donors — unitemized (<$200) contributions have no state breakdown.

Top-20 donor concentration1%

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

22.5%

77.5%

Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees

90.1%

9.9%

IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 0% (1996) to 13.6% (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

1996 0%1998 0%2000 0%2002 0%2004 0%2006 1.8%2008 6.9%2010 24.5%2012 2.3%2014 4.5%2016 1.8%2018 33.2%2020 22.5%2022 6.8%2024 3.3%2026 13.6%

Direct-contribution share

1996 37.6%1998 5.7%2000 21.7%2002 38.2%2004 42.5%2006 87.3%2008 93.7%2010 86.8%2012 99.9%2014 96.5%2016 90.5%2018 100%2020 92.2%2022 79.6%2024 77.7%2026 72.8%

PAC share of contributions

1996 36.8%1998 6.8%2000 22.7%2002 40%2004 55.2%2006 38.9%2008 37.9%2010 57.8%2012 65.4%2014 41.9%2016 63.7%2018 25.4%2020 9.9%2022 25.3%2024 25.5%2026 10.3%

Cash on hand

1996 $100K1998 $134K2000 $167K2002 $221K2004 $240K2006 $436K2008 $264K2010 $463K2012 $921K2014 $929K2016 $936K2018 $2.6M2020 $1.3M2022 $1.6M2024 $2.6M2026 $11.0M

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 Appropriations

Chairman

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies

Majority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

Majority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Defense

Majority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Energy and Water Development

Ex Officio

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Financial Services and General Government

Ex Officio

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Homeland Security

Ex Officio

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies

Ex Officio

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies

Ex Officio

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Legislative Branch

Ex Officio

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies

Majority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs

Chairman

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

Majority

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Majority

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Primary Health and Retirement Security

Majority

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Majority

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

$1.2M · 6.7% of itemized

Retired / not employed

$921K · 5.1% of itemized

Finance / insurance

$448K · 2.5% of itemized

Real estate

$103K · 0.6% of itemized

Legal

$90K · 0.5% of itemized

All other (suppressed)

$76K · 0.4% of itemized

Healthcare

$45K · 0.3% of itemized

Technology

$22K · 0.1% of itemized

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $61.0M in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $8.4M supporting, $52.6M 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 ↗

SMP FEC ↗

$27.4M opposing

DSCC FEC ↗

$4.6M opposing

WOMEN VOTE! FEC ↗

$4.3M opposing

1820 PAC FEC ↗

$2.7M supporting

PRIORITIES USA ACTION FEC ↗

$2.4M opposing

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.