Brian Schatz

Democrat U.S. Senate · HI · cycle 2022 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in HI

97.1%

Direct-contributionshare

Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $2,507,734 in the 2022 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 0th percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

13.7% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 50.4% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 97.1% 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 50.4% of contributions here — among the more PAC-funded campaigns in the U.S. Senate.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score

Small-donor (grassroots) share13.7%

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 size19.1%

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 contributions50.4%

Committee & JFC transfer share1.7%

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 share32.7%

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

Top-20 donor concentration11.1%

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

13.7%

86.3%

Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees

49.6%

50.4%

IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share down from 9.8% (2006) to 5.3% (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

2006 9.8%2014 6.9%2016 6.3%2018 13.7%2020 7.3%2022 13.7%2024 10.6%2026 5.3%

Direct-contribution share

2006 100%2014 99%2016 98.2%2018 89.7%2020 90.9%2022 97.1%2024 85%2026 93.9%

PAC share of contributions

2006 0%2014 21%2016 41.2%2018 31.9%2020 39.2%2022 50.4%2024 28.5%2026 24.8%

Cash on hand

2006 $-8902014 $954K2016 $2.2M2018 $2.6M2020 $3.1M2022 $2.1M2024 $1.7M2026 $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.

Senate Committee on Appropriations

Minority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

Minority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Defense

Minority

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

Minority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies

Minority

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

Ranking Member

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

Minority

Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Minority

Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Telecommunications and Media

Minority

Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy

Minority

Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries

Minority

Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety

Minority

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Minority

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy

Minority

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Europe and Regional Security Cooperation

Minority

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy

Minority

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

Vice Chairman

Senate Select Committee on Ethics

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.

unclassified

$479K · 46% of itemized

Retired / not employed

$133K · 12.8% of itemized

Real estate

$113K · 10.9% of itemized

Legal

$87K · 8.4% of itemized

Finance / insurance

$64K · 6.1% of itemized

Government

$48K · 4.6% of itemized

Healthcare

$40K · 3.9% of itemized

Self-employed

$24K · 2.3% of itemized

Technology

$23K · 2.2% of itemized

All other (suppressed)

$7K · 0.7% of itemized

Education

$6K · 0.6% 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.

HAWAII SENATE VICTORY FUND FEC ↗

raised $6K · 2022

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $10 in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $10 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 ↗

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.