Peter Welch

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

58.2%

Direct-contributionshare

Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $5,390,837 in the 2022 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 10th percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

10.8% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 30.8% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 58.2% of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans); the rest is transfers from other committees and other receipts, also disclosed. FEC ↗

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41.8% of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans) arrived as transfers from other committees and other receipts rather than direct contributions — among the more transfer-funded campaigns in the U.S. Senate. These transfers are themselves disclosed in the sending committees' filings.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score

Small-donor (grassroots) share10.8%

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 size12.3%

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 contributions30.8%

Committee & JFC transfer share41.4%

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 share28.9%

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

Top-20 donor concentration6.4%

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

10.8%

89.2%

Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees

69.2%

30.8%

IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 0% (1988) to 6.2% (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%2018 0.4%2020 0.1%2022 10.8%2024 11.9%2026 6.2%

Direct-contribution share

1988 6.1%1990 72%2006 97.8%2008 95.9%2010 97.6%2012 99%2014 99.5%2016 99%2018 97.3%2020 90.7%2022 58.2%2024 33.4%2026 49.5%

PAC share of contributions

1988 7.1%1990 95.2%2006 28.3%2008 30.8%2010 49.3%2012 57.7%2014 65.6%2016 71.6%2018 77.3%2020 64.4%2022 30.8%2024 39%2026 33.7%

Cash on hand

1988 $2501990 $4322006 $328K2008 $630K2010 $959K2012 $1.2M2014 $1.7M2016 $1.9M2018 $2.1M2020 $2.1M2022 $2.0M2024 $1.7M2026 $1.6M

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

Minority

Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology

Minority

Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety

Minority

Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Rural Development, Energy, and Credit

Ranking Member

Senate Committee on Finance

Minority

Senate Committee on Finance — Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure

Minority

Senate Committee on Finance — Health Care

Minority

Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

Minority

Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Minority

Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights

Minority

Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights

Minority

Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Intellectual Property

Minority

Senate Committee on the Judiciary — the Constitution

Ranking Member

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

$584K · 30.7% of itemized

Retired / not employed

$424K · 22.3% of itemized

Legal

$185K · 9.7% of itemized

Self-employed

$141K · 7.4% of itemized

Finance / insurance

$110K · 5.8% of itemized

Real estate

$65K · 3.4% of itemized

Healthcare

$47K · 2.5% of itemized

Education

$42K · 2.2% of itemized

Government

$40K · 2.1% of itemized

All other (suppressed)

$25K · 1.3% of itemized

Agriculture

$17K · 0.9% of itemized

Energy

$7K · 0.4% of itemized

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $2K in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $2K 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 ↗

PROTECT THE VOTE FEC ↗

$2K 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.