Stephen F. Lynch

Democrat U.S. House · MA-8 · cycle 2024 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in MA

96.5%

Direct-contributionshare

Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $710,124 in the 2024 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 6th percentile among other U.S. House members this cycle.

1.1% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 59.5% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 96.5% of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans); the rest is transfers from other committees and other receipts, also disclosed. FEC ↗

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PACs supplied 59.5% of contributions here — among the more PAC-funded campaigns in the U.S. House.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score

Small-donor (grassroots) share1.1%

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 size2.2%

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 contributions59.5%

Committee & JFC transfer share0%

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 share88.9%

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

Top-20 donor concentration28%

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

1.1%

98.9%

Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees

40.5%

59.5%

IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 0.7% (2002) to 5.5% (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

2002 0.7%2004 27.3%2006 15.3%2008 10%2010 24.5%2012 15.3%2014 12.6%2016 7.8%2018 8.1%2020 2.5%2022 0.9%2024 1.1%2026 5.5%

Direct-contribution share

2002 22.5%2004 99.3%2006 97%2008 91%2010 85.9%2012 98%2014 82.3%2016 99.5%2018 99%2020 97.8%2022 99.7%2024 96.5%2026 98.3%

PAC share of contributions

2002 16.5%2004 26.9%2006 28.4%2008 36%2010 49.4%2012 64.9%2014 40.8%2016 29.9%2018 36.8%2020 55.8%2022 44.5%2024 59.5%2026 37.9%

Cash on hand

2002 $100K2004 $669K2006 $971K2008 $1.3M2010 $673K2012 $760K2014 $407K2016 $1.1M2018 $1.4M2020 $1.2M2022 $1.4M2024 $1.1M2026 $642K

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 Oversight and Government Reform

Minority

House Committee on Financial Services

Minority

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Military and Foreign Affairs

Minority

House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence

Ranking Member

House Committee on Financial Services — Capital Markets

Minority

House Committee on Financial Services — Financial Institutions

Minority

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Delivering on Government Efficiency

Minority

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. Reconciles to the committee's full itemized-individual total for this cycle.

unclassified

$131K · 47.8% of itemized

Real estate

$51K · 18.5% of itemized

Retired / not employed

$38K · 13.8% of itemized

Legal

$21K · 7.6% of itemized

Finance / insurance

$17K · 6.3% of itemized

Self-employed

$10K · 3.8% of itemized

All other (suppressed)

$6K · 2.2% 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.