D.C. donors: $3.80B from 86,754 people; candidate receipts: $6.8M

The $3.80 billion is not a D.C. campaign total

Eighty-six thousand seven hundred fifty-four D.C. donors and $3.80 billion in contributions put the District among the largest donor books in this FEC extract. The $6.8 million candidate-receipt total does not contradict that. A contribution from a K Street or Capitol Hill address to a Super PAC, a national party committee, or a Senate campaign in another state still appears in the D.C. donor aggregate. It does not appear as a D.C. candidate receipt unless it landed in one of the 109 D.C.-tagged candidate committees.

Mixing the two series into a single “D.C. political money” headline would overstate what District candidate committees raised by billions of dollars. LobbyVault keeps them on separate lines because FEC.gov stores them in separate files.

Keep $6.8 million and $3.80 billion on separate lines when citing District of Columbia. Adding them double-counts gifts that District of Columbia donors made to District of Columbia candidate committees. Subtracting them hides the outbound PAC flow. The honest citation is two FEC series for cycle 2026.

109 candidate committees and $6.8 million

The District’s federal candidate roster of 109 is among the shortest in this extract. It includes the Delegate seat, shadow-senator and shadow-representative filings that appear in the FEC candidate file, and other federal committees with a D.C. association. Filer count is an inventory. Receipts of $6.8 million are the dollar fact for those committees.

Democratic candidate receipts of $6.8 million are 99.8% of the candidate book. Republican receipts of $5,715 are 0.1%. Other-party receipts of $9,821 are 0.1%. Those percentages describe 109 candidate committees. They do not assign a party to the 86,754 donors, most of whose gifts never landed in a D.C. candidate committee.

Cycle 2026 is open. An amended candidate report moves $6.8 million and the party split. A restated individual file moves $3.80 billion and 86,754. The District of Columbia FEC totals page is the live view. This guide’s printed figures are a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

PACs and Super PACs are the D.C. tables that matter

Because the donor book is $3.80 billion and the candidate book is $6.8 million, almost all D.C.-attributed individual contributions in this cycle went to PACs, Super PACs, party committees, and out-of-state campaigns. The PAC directory and Super PAC tracker are not optional extras on a District page. They are where the $3.80 billion went.

Independent expenditures that mention a D.C. candidate can be financed by donors in other states and would not appear as D.C. candidate receipts. They also would not automatically appear in the $3.80 billion if the donor address is outside the District.

OCF filings are a different system

District local campaigns file with the Office of Campaign Finance, not the FEC. Those reports are not in the $6.8 million or the $3.80 billion. This page is federal 2026-cycle data from FEC.gov. The District’s at-large Delegate race is federal; Council and mayoral races are not.

District of Columbia FEC totals

The District of Columbia FEC totals page carries the live 2026 aggregates. Candidate, PAC, and Super PAC directories share FEC.gov as the source. If a later amendment changes a large D.C. committee’s receipts, the hub updates; this guide does not invent a newer $6.8 million. The $3.80 billion donor total will move when FEC individual contribution files are re-indexed.

District of Columbia as a donor address, not just a candidate book

The $3.80 billion individual contribution total from 86,754 District of Columbia contributors is the number that answers “how much federal political money is tied to District of Columbia addresses.” The $6.8 million candidate-receipt total from 109 committees is the number that answers “how much District of Columbia-tagged campaigns booked.” Using either number for the other question is a category error. FEC.gov stores the two series in different files. LobbyVault prints both on the DC hub.

Most of $3.80 billion did not land in the 109 candidate committees. It landed in PACs, Super PACs, party committees, and campaigns that file in other states. The PAC directory and Super PAC tracker are therefore not sidebars on a District of Columbia page. They are where a large share of $3.80 billion went. Independent expenditures that mention a District of Columbia candidate can still be financed by donors outside District of Columbia and would not appear in either District of Columbia total.

Party splits on the candidate book — Democratic $6.8 million (99.8%), Republican $5,715 (0.1%), other $9,821 (0.1%) — do not describe the 86,754 donors. Individual contribution rows do not carry a donor party field in this aggregate. A District of Columbia address on a Super PAC gift is a District of Columbia donor dollar, not a Democratic or Republican donor dollar.

Start with the question. If the question is candidate fundraising in District of Columbia, read $6.8 million across 109 committees and the party split $6.8 million / $5,715 / $9,821. If the question is money originating from District of Columbia addresses, read $3.80 billion and 86,754. If the question is independent spending, leave both series and open Super PACs.

Double-counting happens when someone adds $6.8 million to $3.80 billion, or treats PAC receipts as candidate receipts, or folds state-office filings into FEC totals. Each of those moves invents a number that is not on FEC.gov.

The candidate directory is the path to a single FEC ID. The District of Columbia FEC totals page is the path to the state roll-up. Cycle 2026 filings remain the underlying documents. LobbyVault indexes them; it does not replace them.

Questions

How much have D.C. federal candidates raised in 2026?

District of Columbia-associated federal candidate committees reported $6.8 million in receipts across 109 filers. Democratic committees reported $6.8 million, Republican committees $5,715, and other filers $9,821, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault.

How much federal political money comes from D.C. donors?

Individual contribution aggregates show $3.80 billion from 86,754 D.C. donors. That series includes gifts to national PACs, Super PACs, party committees, and out-of-state campaigns, so it is not the same as the $6.8 million in D.C. candidate receipts.

Why is D.C. donor money so much larger than candidate receipts?

Donor totals count money originating from D.C. addresses regardless of the recipient. Candidate receipts count only what D.C.-tagged candidate committees reported. A D.C. donor funding a national Super PAC still appears in the $3.80 billion figure and does not automatically appear in the $6.8 million.

Does this include D.C. local elections?

No. These figures are FEC.gov federal data. Office of Campaign Finance filings for Council, mayor, and other local offices are not part of the $6.8 million or $3.80 billion.