Donald Trump · Deep dive

Affiliations

78.0%arrived as transfers

Of the 2024 campaign committee’s receipts. In 2016 it was 38.4%; the opposing 2024 campaign, 45.4%.

Who is he tied to, and through what? For someone who runs for office the public answer is the money: who gives it, which committees carry it, and how broad the base is. This covers three campaigns of federal filings — where the money came from each time, the cycle in which transfers went from a third of receipts to most of them, the committees that raise it instead, and how much still arrives in small amounts.

Six of six — the base set is complete

Every subject at this tier is asked the same six questions, fixed before the subject is chosen so the set cannot be picked to suit an argument. The others written for this record are Private Money, The Output, Reach, The Legal Record and Standing. With this one the base set is complete, so the overlay dives — the ones specific to what this subject has been — are unblocked. None of them could have been started before now.

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78.0%

of 2024 campaign receipts were transfers

Against 38.4% in 2016 and 37.0% in 2020

45.4%

the same figure, opposing 2024 campaign

Same cycle, same rules. The practice is not unique to either

$1.09bn

raised by three joint committees

Cannot be added to the campaign total

0.2%

small-dollar share, Trump 47 Committee

Against 40.8% at its sister committee

self-funded since 2016

He put in $66.1m in 2016, nothing since

Three campaigns

Where the money came from each time

This dive is about the shape of the money rather than its size — who is on the other end of it, and through what. Each bar is one campaign committee’s receipts, broken into where they came from.

2016$350.7m received

Direct from individuals 38.1%Transfers from other committees 38.4%His own money 18.8%Other 4.7%

2020$744.4m received

Direct from individuals 61.6%Transfers from other committees 37.0%Other 1.4%

2024$495.9m received

Direct from individuals 13.8%Transfers from other committees 78.0%Other 8.2%

Basis: the candidate’s own campaign committee, by cycle — see the note on designation. Source: FEC committee totals (C00580100 for 2016 and 2020; C00828541 for 2024).

Reading it

Three campaigns, three different structures. In 2016 the receipts split almost evenly between transfers and individual money, 38.4% against 38.1%, with a further 18.9% his own. In 2020 the self-funding stopped entirely, individuals rose to 61.6% and transfers held near their 2016 level at 37.0%. In 2024 the two swapped: direct individual money fell to a seventh of receipts while transfers doubled to 78.0%. The committee has always taken a large share of its money from affiliated committees rather than raising it; what changed in 2024 is that this became most of the money rather than a third of it.

Counted as of 2026-08-09 from Federal Election Commission filings. This dive belongs to the record it sits inside. Campaign money also appears on Citizens United & the Money, which owns the wider subject — where the two touch, that page is upstream.