Illinois U.S. Senate — 2026 Democratic Primary: All Funding

7.1 — Race summary

Every cell to the dollar. "Grand total benefiting" = a candidate's own campaign disbursements + outside spending that supported that candidate; spending against a candidate is never credited to a rival, so the three grand totals do not add up to all money deployed — the last row does. Receipts and expenditures are never added into a single figure. Raised / Spent / Cash on hand are each campaign's FEC summary figures for the 2025–26 cycle through June 30, 2026, which is after the March 17 primary — they include post-primary fundraising and spending (the FEC summary file does not separate primary-period activity); outside $ are independent expenditures disseminated on or before primary day. Attribution rule.

7.2 — Charts

Donuts are computed server-side from the same snapshot figures shown in each accompanying table; chart and table cannot disagree. In (a), spending against candidates is one neutral slice because it is credited to no one. Attribution rule.

7.3 — Outside spending by committee

Every filer found by the candidate-level Schedule E pull is listed, not only the verified super PACs. Committee names link to their FEC pages; "Type" is the committee's registration in the FEC committee master. Each dollar appears in exactly one For or Against column: the For columns sum to §7.1's "outside $ supporting", the Against columns to "outside $ opposing", and spending against a candidate is never re-credited to a rival. Attribution rule. Primary-period rows only; spending disseminated after primary day is listed in the appendix, §7.15.

7.4 — Outside spending by purpose category

Purpose categories are assigned from each expenditure's FEC description using a fixed keyword map. Unclassified share: 0.1%.

7.5 — Super PAC donors

† This donor also appears on VoteLog's point-in-time top-50 lists of AIPAC-network donors (United Democracy Project donors and/or AIPAC PAC bundlers, compiled August 2026 from FEC filings). Overlap of individual donors is not evidence that the committee itself is AIPAC-affiliated.

7.6 — Campaign fundraising composition

Individual contributions combine itemized and small-dollar (unitemized) receipts as reported in each committee's FEC totals. Transfers from authorized committees are split by source using the itemized transfer records (House campaign committee vs. joint fundraising committees); any difference to the FEC summary's single transfers line is shown as its own row so the block still sums to total receipts. Cycle-to-date through June 30, 2026, so post-primary receipts are included (for Stratton, the nominee, that is general-election fundraising).

7.7 — Campaign spending by category

Buckets are assigned from each disbursement's FEC purpose description using the same keyword map applied to outside spending. Itemized operating expenditures only (the FEC operating-expenditure bulk file), so each total is below the campaign's total disbursements in §7.1, which also include unitemized spending, refunds and transfers out.

7.8 — PACs giving directly to each campaign

Cash and in-kind contributions from PACs and other political committees to each campaign (FEC transaction types 24K and 24Z in the committee-to-candidate bulk file, memo entries excluded). Cycle-to-date, as processed by the FEC: like the §7.6 totals, these lists include contributions dated after the March 17, 2026 primary; each row's date(s) are shown, and a $0 row is a contribution the PAC later reported as a negative entry of the same amount (a refund or voided contribution), netting to nothing. The candidate's own authorized committees are left out — their transfers are the "transfers from authorized committees" lines in §7.6. Independent expenditures (types 24A/24E) are never counted here; they appear only in the §7.3 ledger.

Also in this FEC file, shown elsewhere on this page

• $24,631,065 of independent expenditures (types 24E for, 24A against) — outside spending: primary-period rows are in the §7.3 ledger and the totals above, rows after primary day are in the §7.15 appendix. $20,010 of it, from 2 committee(s) that report IEs only on their regular reports and never appear in the FEC independent-expenditure file, was added from this file so it is not lost ($20,010 in the primary ledger and totals).
• For committees that do appear in the FEC independent-expenditure file, that file is the source of truth and their rows here are not added (adding them would double count). The two files are not line-for-line identical — a regular report can carry a line item that never had a 24-hour notice, typically an invoice paid after the election — so every difference of $100 or more is listed: Fairshake against Stratton: +$134,310 ($10,000,405 in this file vs. $9,866,095 in the IE file, rows dated 02/13/2026–03/20/2026; $134,314 of its 19 rows carries a payment date after primary day); The Impact Fund for Krishnamoorthi: +$9,999 ($193,621 in this file vs. $183,622 in the IE file, rows dated 02/24/2026–03/17/2026); Protect Progress against Stratton: +$198 ($119,842 in this file vs. $119,644 in the IE file, rows dated 03/10/2026–03/30/2026; $5,199 of its 5 rows carries a payment date after primary day). Net: this file reports $144,506 more than the IE file for those committees. None of it is in any total on this page.
• $129,127 of coordinated party expenditures (type 24C) — listed in the coordinated-party table below.

Coordinated party expenditures

Spending by a party committee made in coordination with the campaign (FEC transaction type 24C). It is neither a contribution to the campaign nor independent spending, so it is shown on its own line and is not included in any total above. Every row is dated after the March 17 primary — this is general-election support for the nominee, shown here for completeness because it is in the same FEC file. None reported for Krishnamoorthi and Kelly.

7.9 — Earmarked contributions via conduits

(a) Senate committees (this race)

(b) The candidates' House committees (earlier campaigns — see §7.6)

Overlay statistics showing the conduit path of money already counted in receipts; they are not added to any other total. AIPAC PAC contributions earmarked to a candidate pass through the traditional PAC as a conduit; each row is an itemized receipt in AIPAC PAC's own FEC filings naming that committee as the earmark recipient (filings processed through July 31, 2026). House-committee earmarks are money to a different committee — some of it may have reached this race through the transfers in §7.6, but dollars inside a committee are fungible. ActBlue is a payment processor, mechanically different from an ideological bundler; ActBlue conduit activity is present in the filings and is labeled as processor pass-through, not bundling.

7.10 — Final-stretch tracker

(a) 24-hour independent-expenditure reports since February 26 (newest first)

(b) 48-hour contribution notices (Form 6), per campaign

Figures reported via 24/48-hour notices during the closing window of the primary (February 26, 2026 – March 17, 2026, the period after the pre-primary report's coverage ended). Form 6 notices cover contributions of $1,000 or more received in the final 20 days; the money is also inside the §7.6 receipts once the campaign's next regular report is filed.

7.11 — Full expenditure ledger

Every deduped Schedule E transaction (84 rows). Full ledger with cents precision in the CSV download.

7.12 — Electioneering communications & communication costs

Read from the FEC's electioneering-communication and communication-cost bulk files for the 2026 cycle: no row in either file names any of the three candidates. Any that appear in a later refresh will be listed here in full and are not added to any total on this page.

7.13 — Downloads

• Full deduped expenditure ledger (CSV, cents precision) — /data/il-senate-primary/expenditure-ledger.csv
• Super PAC donor tables (CSV) — /data/il-senate-primary/superpac-donors.csv
• Summary JSON (all page figures) — /data/il-senate-primary/summary.json
• Full snapshot JSON (every table on this page, including reconciliation and post-primary rows) — /data/il-senate-primary/snapshot.json

CSV downloads keep full cents precision. Table totals on this page are exactly reproducible by summing the published CSV.

7.15 — Appendix: general-election spending after primary day

No independent expenditures disseminated after the March 17, 2026 primary appear in the FEC independent-expenditure file or the 24/48-hour notices processed through September 15, 2026. Any filed later will be listed here, in full, outside the primary totals above. Separately, the FEC committee-to-candidate file carries $139,513 of independent-expenditure line items with a payment date after primary day (Fairshake against Stratton: $134,314; Protect Progress against Stratton: $5,199) that do not appear in the IE file — a regular report can carry an invoice paid after the election for spending already disseminated. They are itemized in the §7.8 reconciliation and are in no total on this page.