Where's the Money, Lebowski?
← Mike JohnsonThe money

The money

The math

$3,500

Your max, per election.[1]

45

groups maxed out both of his committees. $20,000 each.[1]

$3.22M

from 355 PACs and other committees, Jan. 2025 to Oct. 14, 2026.[2][3]

741people giving $27
≈
1 PACmaxed out both

$4.3M of his $24.6M came from gifts under $200.[4]

How it arrives

  1. You: $3,500 per election.Primary and general count separately.[1]
  2. A company's PAC: $5,000 per election.Funded by its employees and executives.[5][1]
  3. Then $5,000 a year to his leadership PAC.American Revival PAC, a second committee he sponsors.[6][7]
  4. Bundled checks.AIPAC forwarded $410,951 in earmarked donations.[8][9]
  5. Joint fundraising pots.$8.45M reached his campaign this way.[10][4]

His leadership PAC passed $2.13M on to other campaigns and committees.[11]

By industry

Table
IndustryPAC money

All sponsors

How we counted

The same rules, the same dates and the same code for both House party leaders. His committees: Mike Johnson for Louisiana (his campaign) and American Revival PAC (his leadership PAC).

PAC money: every contribution from a PAC or other political committee (FEC line 11C, memo entries left out) on both committees' own filed reports, January 1, 2025 to 2026-10-14. These add up, to the cent, to the FEC's summary totals for the same dates: $2,093,017 to the campaign and $1,129,950 to the leadership PAC.[12][4][11]

One organization means one company, union or group: PACs the FEC lists with the same connected organization are counted together, as they share one limit. A PAC that lists no connected organization is counted on its own and labeled; it is not left out. Maxed out both means $10,000+ to the campaign ($5,000 each for the primary and general) and $10,000+ to the leadership PAC ($5,000 a year).[1]

On the page: every organization that gave $15,000+ across the two committees, plus every group that collected its members' checks and forwarded them (earmarked donations, which the campaign reports as memo entries naming the group). ActBlue and WinRed are payment platforms, not sponsors, and are left out for both leaders.[8]

Industry groups are approximate, by keyword in the PAC's FEC name. Lobbying: an organization's 2025 and 2026 federal lobbying reports, matched by client name.[13]

Sources

  1. FEC, Contribution limits for 2025 to 2026
  2. FEC, PAC contributions to Mike Johnson for Louisiana
  3. FEC, PAC contributions to American Revival PAC
  4. FEC candidate summary, Mike Johnson, 2025 to 2026
  5. FEC, Who can and can't contribute
  6. FEC, Leadership PACs
  7. FEC Form 1, American Revival PAC: leadership PAC, sponsor Mike Johnson (H6LA04138)
  8. FEC, Earmarked contributions
  9. FEC, AIPAC-forwarded receipts on Mike Johnson for Louisiana
  10. FEC, Joint fundraising
  11. FEC committee summary, American Revival PAC, 2025 to 2026
  12. FEC, reports filed by Mike Johnson for Louisiana and American Revival PAC
  13. Lobbying Disclosure Act reports, lda.gov