Richard J. Durbin

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

73.1%

Direct-contributionshare

Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $7,326,799 in the 2020 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 31st percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

25% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 31% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 73.1% 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) share25%

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 size26.5%

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 contributions31%

Committee & JFC transfer share26.5%

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 share68%

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

Top-20 donor concentration4.6%

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

25%

75%

Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees

69%

31%

IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 0% (1984) to 33.3% (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

1984 0%1988 0%1990 0%1992 0%1994 0%1996 0%1998 0%2000 0%2002 0%2004 0%2006 8.3%2008 5.3%2010 8.4%2012 11%2014 15.2%2016 44.9%2018 50.6%2020 25%2022 42.8%2024 24.7%2026 33.3%

Direct-contribution share

1982 0%1984 0%1986 49.1%1988 61.2%1990 62.2%1992 63.9%1994 56.6%1996 26.5%1998 31%2000 19.5%2002 24.2%2004 6.9%2006 68.4%2008 92.1%2010 90.5%2012 97.6%2014 94%2016 92.3%2018 77%2020 73.1%2022 73.3%2024 51.6%2026 48.5%

PAC share of contributions

1984 0%1986 100%1988 62.7%1990 68%1992 67.4%1994 57.7%1996 26.7%1998 38.2%2000 19.9%2002 27%2004 17.3%2006 14.5%2008 26.4%2010 48.2%2012 24.9%2014 24.3%2016 23.7%2018 16.5%2020 31%2022 21.6%2024 29.6%2026 17.9%

Cash on hand

1982 $01984 $9K1986 $63K1988 $179K1990 $307K1992 $52K1994 $219K1996 $20K1998 $108K2000 $1.6M2002 $1.8M2004 $1.7M2006 $2.9M2008 $3.0M2010 $2.3M2012 $2.6M2014 $741K2016 $819K2018 $2.0M2020 $1.1M2022 $1.5M2024 $1.7M2026 $1.0M

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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Minority

Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade

Minority

Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety

Minority

Senate Committee on Appropriations

Minority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Defense

Minority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Energy and Water Development

Minority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Financial Services and General Government

Minority

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

Minority

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

Minority

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

Minority

Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Ranking Member

Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Crime and Counterterrorism

Ranking Member

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $77K in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $70 supporting, $77K 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 ↗

RESTORATION PAC FEC ↗

$77K opposing

PLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTES FEC ↗

$60 supporting

SIERRA CLUB INDEPENDENT ACTION FEC ↗

$10 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.