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Bill Foster

Democrat U.S. House · IL-11 · cycle 2024 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in IL
97.6%
Direct-contributionshare
Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $3,282,466 in the 2024 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 73rd percentile among other U.S. House members this cycle.

12% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 36.1% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 97.6% 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

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

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score
Small-donor (grassroots) share12%
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 size19.2%
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 contributions36.1%
Committee & JFC transfer share0.2%
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 share49.8%
Share of itemized individual dollars from in-state donors — unitemized (<$200) contributions have no state breakdown.
Top-20 donor concentration10%
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
12%
88%
Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees
63.9%
36.1%
IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share down from 17.5% (2008) to 11% (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
2008 17.5%2010 12.4%2012 13.8%2014 11.8%2016 12.4%2018 19.9%2020 16.9%2022 14.5%2024 12%2026 11%
Direct-contribution share
2008 99.7%2010 98.2%2012 99.7%2014 98.8%2016 99.7%2018 93.8%2020 89.5%2022 100%2024 97.6%2026 93.1%
PAC share of contributions
2008 30.3%2010 29.7%2012 14.3%2014 28.1%2016 25.6%2018 32.4%2020 42.1%2022 37.2%2024 36.1%2026 41%
Cash on hand
2008 $13K2010 $80K2012 $9K2014 $1.1M2016 $2.3M2018 $3.2M2020 $3.7M2022 $805K2024 $1.6M2026 $2.5M

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 Science, Space, and Technology
Minority
House Committee on Financial Services
Minority
House Committee on Financial Services — National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
Minority
House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
Minority
House Committee on Financial Services — Financial Institutions
Ranking Member

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $131K in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $103K supporting, $28K 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 ↗

PROJECT 218 FEC ↗
$62K supporting
DMFI PAC FEC ↗
$41K supporting
ADVANCE LIBERTY PAC FEC ↗
$28K opposing
GIVEGREEN UNITED ACTION FEC ↗
$41 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.