The mega-donors
behind the race for power.
Every chain we trace runs: donor → PAC → candidate → vote. This is the donor end. Profiles, allegiances in their own words, the PACs they fund, the candidates they targeted, and receipts for every claim.
Voters choose the winner. Major donors shape who reaches the ballot with power.
Campaign money buys reach, staff, advertising, opposition research, and access. This registry traces that power without pretending a contribution alone proves a purchased vote.
- 01 · Funders34 donors
Named people and families with documented political spending.
- 02 · VehiclesPACs + super PACs
The committees that collect, bundle, and independently spend the money.
- 03 · BeneficiariesCandidates + incumbents
The officeholders and campaigns that received the support.
What this proves: Money does not prove that a vote was purchased. It does show who supplied campaign resources, who benefited, and which relationships deserve public scrutiny.
Track the variable, not the meme.
Miriam Adelson
Israel-first GOP mega-donor (her own self-description: she has said she would happily 'give up' US democracy to ensure Israel's security).
Haim Saban
Self-described 'one-issue guy' on Israel — Democratic-aligned pro-Israel mega-donor.
Paul Singer
Pro-Israel-policy Republican mega-donor — explicit foreign-policy alignment with the Israeli right.
Bill Ackman
Pro-Israel-policy donor; recent Trump endorser. Cross-partisan in giving but explicitly Israel-aligned in messaging.
Ken Griffin
Corporate-libertarian GOP mega-donor. Not Israel-focused — foreign policy is not his explanatory variable; tax, antitrust and education reform are.
Larry Ellison
Pro-Israel-policy Republican mega-donor; major personal funder of Friends of the IDF.
Reid Hoffman
Anti-Trump, pro-democracy Democratic mega-donor. Not foreign-policy-aligned — civic-institutions framing.
Daniel Loeb
AIPAC-aligned pro-Israel-policy donor; gives across both parties when foreign-policy interests align.
Charles Koch
Corporate-libertarian — free-market deregulation, low-tax, anti-labor. NOT Israel-aligned; foreign policy is not the explanatory variable here.
George Soros
Pro-democracy / criminal-justice-reform Democratic donor. NOT Israel-aligned. Soros has been openly critical of the Netanyahu government's policies — distinct from the pro-Israel-policy donors on this list.
Bernard Marcus
Pro-Israel-policy Republican mega-donor — explicitly framed his giving around US support for Israel and Trump-aligned conservatism.
David Sacks
Tech-right Trump-aligned donor; foreign-policy-skeptical (publicly opposed extended US support for Ukraine).
Diane Hendricks
Corporate-conservative GOP mega-donor; pro-Trump, pro-tax-cut, anti-regulation.
Donald Sussman
Anti-Trump Democratic mega-donor; civic-institutions and voter-access focus.
Elon Musk
Tech-right Trump-aligned mega-donor; explicit free-speech / anti-regulation framing.
Fred Eychaner
Pro-Democracy Democratic mega-donor; supports Dem majorities and LGBT-rights causes.
Henry Kravis
Corporate-conservative GOP mega-donor; financial-deregulation, low-tax framing.
Howard Lutnick
Trump-aligned GOP mega-donor and bundler; pro-Israel-policy framing.
Jeff Bezos
Historically Independent / cross-partisan; recent posture interpreted as Trump-accommodating.
Joe Ricketts
Conservative GOP mega-donor; evolution from anti-Trump primary funder to Trump-aligned giving.
Karla Jurvetson
Progressive Democratic mega-donor; women's electoral infrastructure and reproductive-rights framing.
Larry Fink
Cross-partisan corporate-establishment; climate-transition advocate; not Israel-foreign-policy aligned.
Linda McMahon
Trump-aligned GOP mega-donor and operative; institutional Trumpism.
MacKenzie Scott
Progressive philanthropist; not a direct political donor but funds the broader progressive nonprofit ecosystem.
Marc Andreessen
Tech-right Trump-aligned donor; 'little tech' / pro-AI / pro-crypto framing.
Marc Rowan
Pro-Israel-policy donor; cross-partisan but pivoted Trump-ward in 2024.
Michael Bloomberg
Cross-partisan technocrat; climate, gun-control, and anti-Trump framings dominate his giving.
Peter Thiel
Tech-right post-libertarian; explicit national-conservative framing and Trump alignment.
Richard Uihlein
Ultra-conservative GOP mega-donor; explicit primary-challenge / hard-right framing.
Robert Mercer
Hard-right GOP / national-conservative; founder of the right-wing-media + data-operation infrastructure.
Stephen Ross
Trump-aligned GOP mega-donor; pro-business framing.
Stephen Schwarzman
Corporate-conservative GOP mega-donor; Trump-aligned (after a brief 2021-2023 break).
Timothy Mellon
Hard-right GOP mega-donor; nativist / anti-immigration framing.
Tom Steyer
Climate-focused Democratic mega-donor; pro-democracy / anti-Trump framing.
How we frame each donor.
We track foreign-policy alignment, not ethnicity. For Israel-aligned donors the framing comes from their own published statements — “one-issue guy,” “first love,” explicit AIPAC affiliations. Receipts on every claim.
For Charles Koch and George Soros, the variable is different. Koch is corporate-libertarian and not Israel-focused. Soros is criminal-justice-reform and pro-democracy, and has been publicly critical of the Netanyahu government — distinct from the pro-Israel-policy donors here. Both are included for editorial breadth. The surface only works if every donor is tracked accurately.
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