Top Contributors to 527 Committees, 2004 Election Cycle
These are the organizations that have contributed the most money to 527 groups that filed disclosure reports with the IRS. Unlimited soft money contributions to 527s may come from the treasuries of corporations and labor unions, which cannot give money directly to federal candidates and parties.
|
Contributor |
Total |
|
Service Employees International Union |
$20,160,929 |
|
Joint Victory Campaign 2004* |
$20,150,000 |
|
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees |
$17,385,163 |
|
Victory Campaign 2004 |
$14,850,000 |
|
Progressive Corp/Peter B Lewis |
$14,030,000 |
|
Soros Fund Management/George Soros |
$12,776,000 |
|
Shangri-La Entertainment/Steve Bing |
$8,086,623 |
|
Retired |
$6,963,014 |
|
AFL-CIO |
$6,741,337 |
|
Sustainable World Corp/Linda Pritzker |
$5,000,000 |
|
Laborers Union |
$2,670,238 |
|
August Capital/Andrew Rappaport |
$2,660,000 |
|
Communications Workers of America |
$1,952,069 |
|
Investor |
$1,926,543 |
|
Changing Horizons Fund/John A Harris IV |
$1,674,000 |
|
Sierra Club |
$1,657,882 |
|
Cullman Foundation/Cullman Ventures |
$1,650,000 |
|
Media Fund |
$1,650,000 |
|
National Assn of Realtors |
$1,515,445 |
|
Agvar Chemicals |
$1,500,000 |
* Joint Victory Campaign 2004 is a joint fund-raising committee run by America Coming Together and the Media Fund. Money raised by JVC is divided between these two beneficiaries. Combining receipts for these three groups would result in double-counting.
NOTE: This data is based on records released by the Internal Revenue Service on Sunday, August 15, 2004.
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