Sheldon Whitehouse

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

70.8%

Direct-contributionshare

Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $4,859,870 in the 2024 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 6th percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

Small-dollar (under $200) share can't be separated for this committee, which itemizes every contribution. PACs supplied 21.5% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 70.8% 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. Senate.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score

Small-donor (grassroots) share—

This committee reported $0 unitemized — it itemized every contribution, so small-dollar money is folded into itemized and can't be read from that field. The size-based measure below reads it from each contribution's amount instead.

Small-dollar by transaction size22.8%

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 contributions21.5%

Committee & JFC transfer share29.2%

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 share22.3%

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

Top-20 donor concentration5.2%

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

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees

78.5%

21.5%

IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share down from 7.7% (2006) to 2.5% (2018) 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

2006 7.7%2008 2.4%2010 2.7%2012 10.8%2014 19.6%2016 12.5%2018 2.5%

Direct-contribution share

2006 80.6%2008 72.7%2010 98.9%2012 89.9%2014 99.5%2016 100%2018 94.8%2020 99.4%2022 99.9%2024 70.8%2026 98%

PAC share of contributions

2006 12.6%2008 64.4%2010 23.9%2012 34.2%2014 31.3%2016 26.4%2018 21.4%2020 13.5%2022 9.7%2024 21.5%2026 11%

Cash on hand

2006 $158K2008 $24K2010 $723K2012 $817K2014 $652K2016 $1.1M2018 $769K2020 $519K2022 $1.3M2024 $1.3M2026 $1.1M

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

Ranking Member

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

Ex Officio

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

Ex Officio

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

Ex Officio

Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Transportation and Infrastructure

Ex Officio

Senate Committee on Finance

Minority

Senate Committee on Finance — Health Care

Minority

Senate Committee on Finance — International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness

Minority

Senate Committee on Finance — Taxation and IRS Oversight

Minority

Senate Committee on the Budget

Minority

Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Minority

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

Ranking Member

Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Border Security and Immigration

Minority

Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Intellectual Property

Minority

Senate Committee on the Judiciary — the Constitution

Minority

United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control

Chairman

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

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

$600K · 22.2% of itemized

Retired / not employed

$599K · 22.2% of itemized

Legal

$415K · 15.4% of itemized

Finance / insurance

$257K · 9.5% of itemized

Self-employed

$123K · 4.5% of itemized

Real estate

$66K · 2.4% of itemized

Healthcare

$57K · 2.1% of itemized

Education

$26K · 1% of itemized

Technology

$23K · 0.8% of itemized

All other (suppressed)

$17K · 0.6% of itemized

Government

$16K · 0.6% of itemized

Agriculture

$16K · 0.6% of itemized

Media / entertainment

$15K · 0.6% of itemized

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $83K in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $346 supporting, $83K 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 ↗

ROOSEVELT SOCIETY ACTION FEC ↗

$83K opposing

ENVIRONMENT AMERICA ACTION FUND FEC ↗

$336 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.