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Jeffrey Alan Merkley, 2026 federal candidate
2026 federal candidate · official FEC data

Jeffrey Alan Merkley

Campaign donations, fundraising, spending, and cash on hand from the latest included Federal Election Commission filings.

U.S. Senate — OregonDEMIncumbentFEC S8OR00207
Direct answer · 2025–2026 cycle

How much has Jeffrey Alan Merkley raised?

$4,540,973.95 in total campaign receipts.

$3,538,521.76 is reported as individual contributions. Total receipts can also include transfers, offsets, loans, and other FEC receipt categories, so it is broader than donations alone.

Total receipts$4,540,974
Total spending$1,979,569
Cash on hand$6,828,404

Official sourceFederal Election Commission · data through .

PERMANENT PERSON IDENTITY

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Office soughtU.S. Senate · ORFederal Election Commission
Filing classificationIncumbentFEC candidate master
Current public officeU.S. Senator — Oregon (Class 2)Permanent office record →
Campaign websiteNot listed in a connected official sourceCoverage gap
Experience and education

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Statements and official actions over time

Sourced issue positions

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HousingNo sourced public position located.

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Economy & taxesNo sourced public position located.

No statement or official action in this release's connected sources has been assigned to this issue.

EducationNo sourced public position located.

No statement or official action in this release's connected sources has been assigned to this issue.

Public safetyNo sourced public position located.

No statement or official action in this release's connected sources has been assigned to this issue.

ImmigrationNo sourced public position located.

No statement or official action in this release's connected sources has been assigned to this issue.

Health careNo sourced public position located.

No statement or official action in this release's connected sources has been assigned to this issue.

TransportationNo sourced public position located.

No statement or official action in this release's connected sources has been assigned to this issue.

Energy & climateNo sourced public position located.

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AbortionNo sourced public position located.

No statement or official action in this release's connected sources has been assigned to this issue.

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Endorsements

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No sourced public endorsements located.

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Filing-driven activity & election calendar

Jeffrey Alan Merkley 2026 timeline

REAL DATES

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Scheduled primary election

Congressional primary date listed in the FEC's 2026 calendar.

FEC election-date calendar · schedule subject to change
Latest included campaign summary

End date of the candidate financial summary in Election.org's current FEC bulk-data release.

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Latest included PAC or party transaction

Most recent itemized direct contribution or coordinated-party-expenditure row involving this candidate in the current FEC transaction release.

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Federal general election

Scheduled 2026 federal general-election date. State and local election officials administer elections and determine ballot access.

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Campaign money

Jeffrey Alan Merkley campaign finance details

FEC BULK DATA
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through June 30, 2026.
MetricReported amountWhat it means
Total receipts$4,540,973.95All campaign receipts reported in the FEC summary, not only individual donations.
Individual contributions$3,538,521.76Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Candidate contributions$0.00Contributions from the candidate in the summary record.
Total disbursements$1,979,568.88Campaign spending and other disbursements reported for the cycle.
Cash on hand$6,828,403.72Reported campaign cash remaining at the end of the covered period.
Debts owed by campaign$0.00Outstanding debts the campaign reported owing.
Net cash after reported debt$6,828,403.72Election.org calculation: cash on hand minus debts owed by the campaign.

Dollar amounts preserve the cents in the FEC record. These figures are campaign-finance totals, not personal wealth, polling, odds, endorsements, or Election.org scores. “Not reported” means the current bulk file contains no summary; it does not mean zero.

Who gave · who spent · what the filing says

PAC contributions and outside spending involving Jeffrey Alan Merkley

FEC ITEMIZED DATA

Direct campaign support and independent spending are not combined. Support and opposition below are the positions reported by the spender to the Federal Election Commission.

Direct committee contributions$486,500.00138 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$0.000 transactions
Direct contribution

Money reported as given to a candidate or candidate committee. It enters the recipient committee’s campaign-finance record.

Coordinated party expenditure

Party spending reported in the FEC’s coordinated-expenditure category. It is separate from a direct contribution.

Independent expenditure

Outside spending expressly supporting or opposing a candidate. By definition, it is not made in coordination with the candidate or party.

Federal committees reporting direct contributions

A NEW DIRECTION PAC2 itemized transactions · latest Jun 11, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
ADVANCING DEMOCRACY AND MOBILIZATION PAC2 itemized transactions · latest Nov 12, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
ALSOPAC4 itemized transactions · latest Mar 24, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
BLUE HEN FEDERAL PAC2 itemized transactions · latest Dec 18, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
DEFEND THE DREAM3 itemized transactions · latest Sep 24, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
FORWARD TOGETHER PAC2 itemized transactions · latest Mar 14, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
GRANITE VALUES PAC2 itemized transactions · latest Sep 26, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
HEALTH JOBS JUSTICE2 itemized transactions · latest Feb 27, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
I GOT YOUR BACK PAC2 itemized transactions · latest Sep 30, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗

Source: FEC contributions-from-committees-to-candidates and independent-expenditure bulk files, checked Aug 24, 2026. Committee transactions retain only the latest filing version for stable transaction IDs. Independent-expenditure rows from superseded filings are removed through the FEC previous-filing chain. Memo entries remain included because the FEC bulk-file documentation instructs analysts to include them.

Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures

How money moved through Jeffrey Alan Merkley

FEC ITEMIZED FILES

These panels show privacy-thresholded itemized individual-receipt activity and amendment-normalized operating expenditures. They are descriptive slices of filings—not a complete substitute for the official financial summary.

Itemized individual receipt activity over time

Monthly transaction activity from the FEC individual-contributions file. Current-cycle files can contain earlier-dated transactions; signed amendments, refunds, reattributions, and memo entries remain in the source-defined analysis.

18 months

Where itemized contributor addresses were reported

State is taken from the contributor address on the FEC row. It does not prove residence, citizenship, employer location, or the ultimate economic source of funds.

31.1% outside Oregon
Oregon3,573 distinct reported contributors · 21,596 rows$1,679,064.0068.9%
California245 distinct reported contributors · 1,197 rows$182,521.007.5%
New York89 distinct reported contributors · 342 rows$84,735.003.5%
Illinois57 distinct reported contributors · 200 rows$78,766.003.2%
District of Columbia58 distinct reported contributors · 120 rows$77,908.003.2%
Washington95 distinct reported contributors · 395 rows$65,740.002.7%
Virginia55 distinct reported contributors · 139 rows$39,360.001.6%
Maryland35 distinct reported contributors · 104 rows$33,309.001.4%
Massachusetts41 distinct reported contributors · 161 rows$23,469.001.0%
Texas21 distinct reported contributors · 107 rows$18,620.000.8%
Georgia7 distinct reported contributors · 62 rows$17,918.000.7%
Arizona20 distinct reported contributors · 102 rows$16,620.000.7%

Only committee/state groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. The percentages use only the displayed dataset’s publishable, state-coded itemized rows; they are not a percentage of all campaign receipts.

Reported operating-expenditure categories

FEC filer-selected categories from Schedule B operating expenditures. Memo-code X rows are excluded because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.

1 published categories
Category not reported819 current organization-payment rows$1,802,041.10

Top organization payees in operating expenditures

Organization payees only. Election.org excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.

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Rwt Production LLC28 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-17
$422,547.01
Mandate Media Incorporated24 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-03
$297,966.76
Kauffman Group20 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-25
$248,451.61
Adp Incorporated179 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-29
$136,768.72
Capitol Compliance Associates Incorporated19 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-25
$124,907.13
Bf Direct LLC19 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-09
$112,300.00
Actblue Technical Services86 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-30
$85,205.97
Internal Revenue Service1 current itemized payment · latest 2026-04-07
$59,088.00
American Express19 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-01
$57,567.91
Democratic Party Of Oregon20 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-29
$50,427.32
Names In The News4 current itemized payments · latest 2026-04-15
$24,395.77
Engage LLC19 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-17
$22,226.44
Morel Ink2 current itemized payments · latest 2025-12-16
$20,481.95
Ngp Van Incorporated5 current itemized payments · latest 2025-12-30
$19,350.00
US Treasury1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-04-09
$16,264.00

Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-08-24. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.

Aggregated individual giving · privacy threshold applied

Reported employers among contributors to Jeffrey Alan Merkley

FEC SCHEDULE A
This is not company money.

These totals combine itemized contributions from individuals who reported the same employer. They do not show that the employer directed, funded, or endorsed any contribution.

Ohsu10 distinct reported contributors · 38 current itemized transactions
$6,957.00
Intel6 distinct reported contributors · 29 current itemized transactions
$6,608.00
Invariant5 distinct reported contributors · 5 current itemized transactions
$6,500.00
University Of Oregon14 distinct reported contributors · 96 current itemized transactions
$6,440.00
Oregon Health And Science University12 distinct reported contributors · 123 current itemized transactions
$3,643.00
Portland State University7 distinct reported contributors · 28 current itemized transactions
$3,128.00
Oregon State University10 distinct reported contributors · 65 current itemized transactions
$2,175.00
Kaiser Permanente8 distinct reported contributors · 64 current itemized transactions
$2,050.00
State Of Oregon6 distinct reported contributors · 42 current itemized transactions
$2,030.00
Reed College6 distinct reported contributors · 47 current itemized transactions
$1,270.00
Portland Public Schools6 distinct reported contributors · 86 current itemized transactions
$840.00

Only employer/recipient groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published, with at most 50 groups per recipient committee. Individual names and addresses are not included. Totals are net current-file amounts after amendment normalization and may include refunds, reattributions, or memo entries.

Transparent calculations

What the reported totals show

77.9%Individual-contribution shareIndividual contributions ÷ total receipts
43.6%Spending-to-receipts ratioTotal disbursements ÷ total receipts
$6,828,403.72Net cash after debtCash on hand − debts owed by campaign

These are Election.org calculations from the displayed FEC totals, included to make the filing easier to understand. They are descriptive, not a score or comparison.

Official record

Candidate filing details

2026 CYCLE
Candidate
Jeffrey Alan Merkley
Office sought
U.S. Senate — Oregon
Party affiliation
DEM
Incumbency
Incumbent
Candidate status
Current candidate
Principal committee
JEFF MERKLEY FOR OREGON
FEC candidate ID
S8OR00207
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