The Money · National Figure
Republican · President of the United States
Israel lobby money, career total
Figure compiled from Federal Election Commission filings as of September 5, 2026: direct and earmarked donations from pro-Israel PACs, plus independent expenditures made on Donald's behalf or against Donald's opponent by committees funded by the pro-Israel donors we track. Every committee, cycle, and amount is broken out below.
Where the money came from
| Committee & cycle | Amount |
|---|---|
| Preserve America PAC (C00756882) · 2020 cycle The 2020 committee, a separate FEC registration from the 2024 one. It raised $105,322,042: Sheldon Adelson $45,000,000 and Miriam Adelson $45,000,000 (85.5% together), Bernard Marcus $10,000,000. Every dollar of its $102,983,484 in independent expenditures opposed Joe Biden in the 2020 general election. | $102,983,484 |
| Preserve America PAC (C00878801) · 2024 cycle Independent expenditures: $112,266,880 against Kamala Harris and $55,000 for Trump. 94.5% of the committee's money came from Miriam Adelson and Paul Singer. | $112,321,880 |
| RJC Victory Fund (C00528554) · 2024 cycle The Republican Jewish Coalition's super PAC: $9,996,777 against Harris, $97,067 against Biden, $252,650 for Trump. RJC-PAC wrote checks to eight Republican primary candidates that cycle, but the super PAC advertised for only one of them, so the attack spending is credited to Trump. | $10,346,494 |
| RJC Victory Fund (C00528554) · 2020 cycle $2,651,400 against Biden, $68,895 against Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary, $1,019,192 for Trump. | $3,739,487 |
| RJC Victory Fund (C00528554) · 2026 cycle A media-placement refund the super PAC reported in February 2025 against its 2024 pro-Trump spending. The FEC's per-candidate total for the cycle is negative, so it is subtracted. | $-62,727 |
| RJC-PAC contributions and earmarks · 2020 and 2024 cycles 2020: 729 earmarked contributions ($206,222) bundled into Make America Great Again PAC (C00580100) and $333,400 to Trump Victory (C00618389), his joint fundraising committee with the RNC. 2024: 439 earmarked contributions ($141,510) into the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee (C00770941) and $178,500 to Trump 47 Committee (C00867937). Direct money, not independent expenditures. | $859,632 |
| NORPAC, American Principles PAC, U.S. Israel PAC · career NORPAC $65,000 to Trump 47 Committee (2024); American Principles $56,500 to Trump Victory (2020), $3,000 to Trump 47 (2024), $25 in 2016; U.S. Israel PAC $1,000 to Trump Victory (2020). | $125,525 |
| Total | $230,313,775 |
It raised $114,790,326. $108,500,000 of that, 94.5%, came from the pro-Israel donors we track.
Red bars are donors we track. Grey bars are the committee's other largest donors, shown so the comparison is honest. FEC committee C00878801, 2024 cycle.
Most of this is money spent against his opponent rather than for him. We count spending against an opponent the same way we count it in KY-04, where United Democracy Project's $3,575,107 opposing Thomas Massie is credited to his challenger. Trump did not receive the independent-expenditure money and by law could not coordinate on it. The $985,157 in PAC contributions is different: that is money the tracked PACs and their donors put directly into his joint fundraising committees, and the September 5 sweep found four committees the August audit had not searched. The mega-donor layer (Layer 4) has not yet been run for this card.
Cutting the other way: Democratic Majority for Israel spent $435,400 on independent expenditures opposing Trump in 2024. We publish that because it cuts against the headline. Make America Great Again Inc., which spent $251.8M against Harris, does not appear here: we checked its donors and it fails our funder test.
Method
Career totals from pro-Israel PACs, compiled from Federal Election Commission filings: every dollar the 97 pro-Israel committees we track have ever put into a politician's campaigns, across every federal office they have run for and every FEC cycle on file (1980 to today). That means direct PAC checks, the earmarked checks the PACs bundle and pass through (AIPAC PAC, NORPAC, JStreetPAC), and independent expenditures (ads, mailers, organizing) made to elect them, including money the same group spent attacking their opponent in that race. Where a super PAC that is not itself a pro-Israel PAC is funded mainly by the lobby's mega-donors or by a tracked PAC, we count that spending only after a donor review, and we publish the filings on the Receipts page. Money spent AGAINST a politician is never added to their total. Full methodology and the list of tracked committees.
Source: Federal Election Commission filings, as of September 5, 2026. AIP challenges money in politics, never any people or faith. If you believe a figure here is wrong, the Receipts page shows how to check it and how we publish corrections.
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