Industries
Campaign money grouped by industry — how much each sector's political committees raised and gave to federal candidates in an election cycle. An approximate classification; see the honesty note below.
"Industry" here groups political committees by the sector their name suggests (finance, health, energy, …). It's a coarse lens on which interests are spending the most on federal campaigns. Learn more →
- Finance & insurancei$45,722,50238.5%
- Health & pharmai$21,107,12217.8%
- Energy & utilitiesi$17,958,67015.1%
- Defense & aerospacei$15,800,70013.3%
- Technologyi$9,415,7047.9%
- Telecomi$8,663,4007.3%
| x | To candidates |
|---|---|
| finance | $45,722,502 |
| health | $21,107,122 |
| energy | $17,958,670 |
| defense | $15,800,700 |
| tech | $9,415,704 |
| telecom | $8,663,400 |
How this is classified — and its limits
Industry here is an approximate keyword classification of each committee's name into one of six sectors (finance, health, energy, defense, technology, telecom) — the same vocabulary CivicGate uses for committee oversight and stock trades. Of 3,514 committees in the 2026 cycle, 356 (10%) matched a sector confidently; the remaining 3,158 are deliberately left unclassified rather than guessed. So these totals are a floor, not a full accounting.
The canonical industry taxonomy for money-in-politics is OpenSecrets' CRP industry/sector codes, which map every donor and committee to a precise industry. That dataset needs an OpenSecrets API key, which isn't wired yet — it's cataloged in our data-source registry as the source to adopt for exact industry attribution. Until then, this keyword view is the honest, FEC-only approximation.
Related: PACs & committees · federal spending · organizations & lobbying.