United Democracy Project (UDP)
Pro-Israel foreign policy (independent expenditures)
Explore cycle funding, spending and cashCombined reported activity across the 2024 and 2026 election cycles. Exact totals change as new filings arrive.
FEC financial summaries
Follow the money.
FEC committee: UNITED DEMOCRACY PROJECT ('UDP'). Figures cover this registered committee, not its parent organization or wider network.
Reported activity: Jan 1, 2025 to Aug 31, 2026. Captured Oct 7, 2026.
Money raised
$109,721,116.19
Total receipts this cycle
Money spent
$83,605,165.07
Total disbursements this cycle
Cash on hand
$54,918,846.22
At the latest reporting cutoff
Debt owed
$0.00
At the latest reporting cutoff
Where it comes from
- Individual contributions
- $106,207,388.76
- Itemized
- $106,207,376.76
- Unitemized
- $12.00
- Other committee contributions
- $1,675.00
- Party committee contributions
- $0.00
- Transfers from affiliated committees
- $0.00
- Transfers from nonfederal accounts
- $0.00
- Loans received
- $0.00
- Loan repayments received
- $0.00
- Operating offsets
- $81,449.44
- Other federal receipts
- $3,430,602.99
Where it goes
- Contributions to candidates and committees
- $13,131,200.00
- Independent expenditures
- $53,414,686.72
- Transfers to affiliated committees
- $0.00
- Operating expenditures
- $17,047,278.35
- Contribution refunds
- $12,000.00
- Loan repayments
- $0.00
- Loans made
- $0.00
- Other disbursements
- $0.00
Selected FEC reporting categories, not additional totals. Indented rows are included in their parent category. Independent expenditures are spending for or against candidates, not money handed to them. Transfers can appear on both committees’ books, so committee totals are not summed into a network total here.
Compare reporting cycles
Compare the reported amounts and cutoff dates side by side. An unfinished cycle is not a like-for-like growth comparison with a completed cycle.
| Reported metric | 2024 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Reporting cutoff | Dec 31, 2024 | Aug 31, 2026 |
| Money raised | $87,176,557.14 | $109,721,116.19 |
| Money spent | $61,373,652.54 | $83,605,165.07 |
| Cash on hand | $28,802,895.10 | $54,918,846.22 |
| Debt owed | $0.00 | $0.00 |
Source details and reporting method
- Committee name in the FEC response
- UNITED DEMOCRACY PROJECT ('UDP')
- Debts owed to the committee
- $0.00
- Captured response SHA-256
- 4ffd98e1bd759ce069cbd972e2e355a7db23f4ce7806d519139b3632abba51ea
These are FEC summary figures, not a sum of itemized transactions. Cash and debt are balances at the reporting cutoff, not today’s balances. Missing fields remain unreported. Figures may change when amended filings are processed.
Inspect preserved FEC response ↗The operation.
United Democracy Project is the super PAC arm of AIPAC, registered with the FEC in December 2021 to handle unlimited independent expenditures in federal races. UDP became the most expensive single-issue super PAC in House primary history when it spent $14.5 million to defeat Rep. Jamaal Bowman in NY-16 in 2024 and another $8.6 million to defeat Rep. Cori Bush in MO-01. Its 2026 ad buys regularly route through generic-named shell PACs that obscure the AIPAC connection in mailers.
Major donors.
Notable races.
Sources.
Questions about United Democracy Project (UDP).
What is United Democracy Project (UDP)?
United Democracy Project is a federal super PAC created by AIPAC in late 2021 to run independent expenditures — primarily attack ads — in Democratic House primaries. Because it is a super PAC, UDP can accept unlimited contributions from individuals and corporations and spend unlimited amounts, as long as it does not coordinate directly with candidates' campaigns.
How much has UDP spent in elections?
Through the 2024 and 2026 cycles UDP has reported more than $100 million in independent expenditures, making it one of the most active super PACs in primary races. Its single largest reported buy was the $15.5 million spent against Rep. Thomas Massie in KY-04 in 2026 — the most expensive House primary intervention in US history.
What are UDP shell PACs?
UDP frequently routes spending through short-lived affiliated PACs with generic civic-sounding names — e.g., "Elect Chicago Women" or "New Jersey Families First" — that exist only for a single primary cycle and never mention Israel in their advertising. The Gen Us Shell PAC Registry tracks these vehicles.