Bernard Sanders

Independent U.S. Senate · VT · cycle 2024 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in VT

89.3%

Direct-contributionshare

Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $8,207,886 in the 2024 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 31st percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

53% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 1.2% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 89.3% 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 53% 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) share53%

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 size90.6%

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 contributions1.2%

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 share2.7%

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

Top-20 donor concentration2.6%

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

53%

47%

Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees

98.8%

1.2%

IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 0% (1988) to 72.6% (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

1988 0%1990 0%1992 0%1994 0%1996 0%1998 0%2000 0%2002 90.1%2004 44.8%2006 50.6%2008 74.8%2010 54.3%2012 63.2%2014 84.4%2016 68.8%2018 75.3%2020 78.3%2022 69.2%2024 53%2026 72.6%

Direct-contribution share

1988 0%1990 12.6%1992 25%1994 24.8%1996 22.2%1998 19.9%2000 21%2002 93.4%2004 97.1%2006 83.1%2008 33.1%2010 97.4%2012 99.5%2014 98.9%2016 98.2%2018 99.3%2020 83.6%2022 99.4%2024 89.3%2026 95.4%

PAC share of contributions

1988 0%1990 14.3%1992 25.6%1994 26.2%1996 23%1998 20.6%2000 22.5%2002 14%2004 15.4%2006 10.2%2008 68.9%2010 9.1%2012 6.4%2014 4.3%2016 1.2%2018 1.2%2020 0%2022 0%2024 1.2%2026 0%

Cash on hand

1988 $1K1990 $3K1992 $22K1994 $26K1996 $100K1998 $270K2000 $594K2002 $586K2004 $612K2006 $177K2008 $42K2010 $536K2012 $4.2M2014 $4.4M2016 $3.8M2018 $9.1M2020 $7.0M2022 $9.7M2024 $10.7M2026 $22.8M

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 Environment and Public Works

Minority

Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight

Minority

Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety

Minority

Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife

Minority

Senate Committee on Finance

Minority

Senate Committee on Finance — Health Care

Minority

Senate Committee on Finance — Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy

Ranking Member

Senate Committee on Finance — Taxation and IRS Oversight

Minority

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Ranking Member

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Education and the American Family

Ex Officio

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Employment and Workplace Safety

Ex Officio

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Primary Health and Retirement Security

Ex Officio

Senate Committee on the Budget

Minority

Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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. 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.

Retired / not employed

$318K · 9.3% of itemized

unclassified

$90K · 2.7% of itemized

Technology

$47K · 1.4% of itemized

Self-employed

$38K · 1.1% of itemized

Education

$28K · 0.8% of itemized

Healthcare

$21K · 0.6% of itemized

Legal

$10K · 0.3% of itemized

All other (suppressed)

$9K · 0.3% of itemized

Real estate

$5K · 0.2% of itemized

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $409 in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $409 supporting, $0 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 ↗

FEC ↗

$409 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.