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Joni Ernst

Republican U.S. Senate · IA · cycle 2020 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in IA
88.7%
Direct-contributionshare
Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $27,693,029 in the 2020 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 76th percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

40.6% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 11.1% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 88.7% 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 40.6% 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) share40.6%
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 size51.5%
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 contributions11.1%
Committee & JFC transfer share11.3%
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 share18.4%
Share of itemized individual dollars from in-state donors — unitemized (<$200) contributions have no state breakdown.
Top-20 donor concentration1.8%
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
40.6%
59.4%
Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees
88.9%
11.1%
IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share down from 24.5% (2014) to 23.5% (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
2014 24.5%2016 36.3%2018 44.4%2020 40.6%2022 50.4%2024 32.4%2026 23.5%
Direct-contribution share
2014 92.5%2016 53.5%2018 62%2020 88.7%2022 79.8%2024 93%2026 81.6%
PAC share of contributions
2014 13.4%2016 40.6%2018 31.8%2020 11.1%2022 11.9%2024 25.6%2026 39%
Cash on hand
2014 $98K2016 $02018 $1.4M2020 $528K2022 $974K2024 $2.2M2026 $1.9M

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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Majority
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology
Majority
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety
Majority
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Rural Development, Energy, and Credit
Chairman
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Majority
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Cybersecurity
Majority
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Emerging Threats and Capabilities
Chairman
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Personnel
Majority
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Majority
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs — Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census
Majority
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs — Border Management, Federal Workforce, and Regulatory Affairs
Majority
Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
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
$1.5M · 11.5% of itemized
Retired / not employed
$1.2M · 9.3% of itemized
Finance / insurance
$434K · 3.4% of itemized
Real estate
$112K · 0.9% of itemized
Legal
$76K · 0.6% of itemized
Self-employed
$67K · 0.5% of itemized
Agriculture
$45K · 0.3% of itemized
Healthcare
$44K · 0.3% of itemized
All other (suppressed)
$41K · 0.3% of itemized
Technology
$37K · 0.3% of itemized
Energy
$26K · 0.2% 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.

ERNST VICTORY IOWA FEC ↗
raised $3.8M · 2020
ERNST VICTORY FEC ↗
raised $974K · 2020 · $110K to federal candidates
JONI'S ROAST AND RIDE FEC ↗
raised $270K · 2020

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $91.9M in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $10.5M supporting, $81.3M 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 ↗

$34.0M opposing
DSCC FEC ↗
$27.9M opposing
SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND FEC ↗
$4.7M supporting
WOMEN VOTE! FEC ↗
$3.9M opposing
LCV VICTORY FUND FEC ↗
$3.8M 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.