Earl L. "Buddy" Carter

Republican U.S. House · GA-1 · cycle 2024 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in GA

88.6%

Direct-contributionshare

Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $2,597,666 in the 2024 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 62nd percentile among other U.S. House members this cycle.

13% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 68.8% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 88.6% 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

PACs supplied 68.8% of contributions here — among the more PAC-funded campaigns in the U.S. House.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score

Small-donor (grassroots) share13%

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 size14.4%

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 contributions68.8%

Committee & JFC transfer share9%

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 share61.4%

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

Top-20 donor concentration22.9%

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

13%

87%

Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees

31.2%

68.8%

IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 7.6% (2014) to 25.3% (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

2014 7.6%2016 6.3%2018 7.9%2020 11%2022 12%2024 13%2026 25.3%

Direct-contribution share

2014 99.6%2016 99.2%2018 99.6%2020 99.7%2022 96.8%2024 88.6%2026 79.9%

PAC share of contributions

2014 34.7%2016 52.7%2018 54.7%2020 51.5%2022 48.8%2024 68.8%2026 36.2%

Cash on hand

2014 $219K2016 $504K2018 $1.1M2020 $1.7M2022 $1.8M2024 $3.0M2026 $60K

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.

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Majority

House Committee on the Budget

Majority

House Committee on Energy and Commerce — Environment

Majority

House Committee on Energy and Commerce — Communications and Technology

Majority

House Committee on Energy and Commerce — Health

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

$436K · 69.6% of itemized

Retired / not employed

$155K · 24.7% of itemized

Healthcare

$135K · 21.6% of itemized

Finance / insurance

$27K · 4.3% of itemized

Real estate

$24K · 3.8% of itemized

Legal

$18K · 2.9% of itemized

Government

$18K · 2.8% of itemized

Energy

$10K · 1.6% of itemized

Self-employed

$7K · 1.1% of itemized

All other (suppressed)

$6K · 0.9% of itemized

Technology

$5K · 0.8% of itemized

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.