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Tom Cotton

Republican U.S. Senate · AR · cycle 2020 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in AR
82.8%
Direct-contributionshare
Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $9,141,302 in the 2020 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 45th percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

50.7% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 15.5% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 82.8% 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

Small-dollar donors under $200 supplied 50.7% of this campaign's individual money — among the more small-dollar-funded campaigns in the U.S. Senate.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score
Small-donor (grassroots) share50.7%
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 size54.3%
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 contributions15.5%
Committee & JFC transfer share16%
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 share18.1%
Share of itemized individual dollars from in-state donors — unitemized (<$200) contributions have no state breakdown.
Top-20 donor concentration6.1%
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
50.7%
49.3%
Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees
84.5%
15.5%
IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 13.3% (2012) to 17.4% (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. Includes cycles run for a different chamber.

Small-dollar share
2012 13.3%2014 23.7%2016 43.9%2018 31.7%2020 50.7%2022 56.1%2024 38.7%2026 17.4%
Direct-contribution share
2012 100%2014 92.1%2016 80.2%2018 52.5%2020 82.8%2022 71.3%2024 69.1%2026 70%
PAC share of contributions
2012 21.1%2014 14.5%2016 27.7%2018 23%2020 15.5%2022 3.5%2024 10.6%2026 26.2%
Cash on hand
2012 $118K2014 $216K2016 $272K2018 $2.1M2020 $6.4M2022 $7.8M2024 $7.5M2026 $9.9M

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
Majority
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Airland
Majority
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Cybersecurity
Majority
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Emerging Threats and Capabilities
Majority
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Strategic Forces
Majority
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Majority
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources — Energy
Majority
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources — Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
Majority
Joint Economic Committee
Majority
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Chairman

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
$942K · 29.8% of itemized
Retired / not employed
$787K · 24.9% of itemized
Finance / insurance
$438K · 13.9% of itemized
Healthcare
$86K · 2.7% of itemized
Self-employed
$81K · 2.6% of itemized
Real estate
$78K · 2.5% of itemized
Legal
$74K · 2.3% of itemized
Energy
$37K · 1.2% of itemized
All other (suppressed)
$32K · 1% of itemized
Technology
$13K · 0.4% of itemized

Affiliated committees

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Separate FEC-registered committees linked to this member — leadership-PAC or joint-fundraising vehicles. Each reports its own money in its own filing; those dollars are not part of the receipts above and are never added to them. The link is the FEC candidate–committee association and does not imply the member controls or personally receives these funds.

COTTON VICTORY FEC ↗
raised $2.9M · 2020
DEFEND THE SENATE FEC ↗
raised $2.3M · 2020

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $4K in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $2K supporting, $1K 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 ↗

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND FEC ↗
$2K supporting
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND FEC ↗
$862 opposing
INDIVISIBLE PROJECT INC. FEC ↗
$490 opposing
SENATE CONSERVATIVES FUND FEC ↗
$335 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.