This page collects the full profiles of the 25 super PACs listed in our Major Super PACs Directory. Each profile covers what the super PAC is, who founded and runs it, where its money comes from, what it spends on, and why it matters.
Each summary box shows a group’s 2024-cycle totals alongside its 2025–26 cycle activity to date, taken from the committee’s own FEC filings. Groups that file quarterly have reported through June 30, 2026 (their next reports are due October 15); monthly filers have reported through August 31, 2026. Figures update as new reports are filed.
Future Forward USA
Future Forward is known within Democratic circles for an unusually data-driven, analytical approach to political advertising. The PAC tested thousands of ads against millions of voters, refined messages based on response data, and then deployed the highest-testing versions in reserved ad slots across battleground states. Reed Hastings, Reid Hoffman, Dustin Moskovitz, Bill Gates, and Michael Bloomberg have all been reported as significant funders, with Bloomberg and Gates reportedly contributing tens of millions each through the affiliated dark-money arm, Future Forward USA Action.
The PAC has been criticized for the volume of money it routed to consulting firms owned by its own leadership — an arrangement disclosed in FEC filings and reported by multiple outlets. Despite outspending every prior presidential super PAC in history, Future Forward did not deliver a Harris victory; its post-mortem has become a major reference point in Democratic strategy debates.
Website: futureforwardusa.org · OpenSecrets profile: Future Forward USA
Make America Great Again Inc. (MAGA Inc.)
MAGA Inc. is the flagship super PAC supporting Donald Trump. It was established in 2022 as Trump prepared for a third presidential run and quickly became the dominant pro-Trump outside-spending vehicle, eclipsing earlier Trump-aligned groups. During the 2024 cycle, MAGA Inc. spent heavily on advertising both for Trump in the general election and against Trump’s Republican primary rivals.
The single largest reported donor to MAGA Inc. in the 2024 cycle was Timothy Mellon, heir to the Mellon banking fortune, who gave roughly $150 million through mid-October 2024 alone — one of the largest individual political contributions ever disclosed. Other major donors included Diane Hendricks, Howard Lutnick, Paul Singer, and a long roster of corporate and individual contributors. The PAC also received tens of millions of dollars from dark-money sources that channeled funds through nonprofit intermediaries.
MAGA Inc. is closely tied to Trump’s political operation through shared staff lineage and consultant networks, though as a super PAC it cannot legally coordinate strategy with the campaign. Its advertising during the 2024 cycle was particularly aggressive against Joe Biden and, later, Kamala Harris.
Website: No standalone public site; FEC filings under “Make America Great Again Inc.” · OpenSecrets profile: MAGA Inc.
America PAC
America PAC was created in 2024 with funding from Elon Musk and became the second-largest outside spender supporting Donald Trump, behind MAGA Inc. The PAC operated as a major get-out-the-vote and field organization in swing states, particularly Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona — outsourcing functions that have traditionally lived inside a candidate’s own campaign committee.
Musk personally contributed approximately $239 million to America PAC during the 2024 cycle, making him by far the largest individual political donor on either side. Spending went to door-to-door canvassing, text-based voter contact, direct mail, digital advertising, and a controversial petition program that paid swing-state voters who signed in support of constitutional positions. America PAC also drew attention for a $1-million-per-day giveaway to petition signers in Pennsylvania.
After Trump’s victory, Musk announced America PAC would remain active through the 2026 midterms and future cycles, breaking with the typical post-election dormancy of single-candidate super PACs.
Website: theamericapac.org · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “America PAC” at OpenSecrets
Preserve America PAC
Preserve America PAC was the third major pro-Trump super PAC of the 2024 cycle, funded almost entirely by Miriam Adelson, the widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and a longtime Republican megadonor. Adelson contributed roughly $100 million of the group’s funding. Other major donors included Elizabeth Uihlein of the Uline shipping-supplies company.
Preserve America’s spending focused on negative advertising against Kamala Harris during the general election. Unlike MAGA Inc., Preserve America was less an institutional vehicle and more a personal funding mechanism — a structure that has become common when a single very wealthy donor wants to direct large amounts of money into independent expenditures.
The PAC illustrates a recurring pattern in the post-Citizens United era: a major donor establishes (or backs) a super PAC bearing a generic-sounding name, funds it almost single-handedly, and uses it to drive a specific message into a competitive race.
OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “Preserve America PAC” at OpenSecrets
SFA Fund
SFA Fund Inc. — formally “Stand for America Fund” — was the principal super PAC supporting former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign. It became, for a period in late 2023 and early 2024, the highest-spending super PAC of either party, briefly out-raising even Trump’s MAGA Inc. and dominating advertising in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The PAC was led strategically by Republican political consultant Mark Harris. Its largest donor was WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum, who contributed $15 million. Hedge-fund founder Ken Griffin and Elliott Management’s Paul Singer each gave $5 million. The fund spent more than $75 million on advertising during the 2023–2024 cycle, primarily on television in early primary states.
After Haley suspended her campaign in March 2024 following Super Tuesday losses, SFA Fund largely wound down. The PAC is included in this directory as an instructive example of a single-candidate super PAC of the modern era — one that out-raised the eventual nominee’s super PAC for a critical stretch, yet ultimately could not overcome Donald Trump’s primary support, and which dissolved as a meaningful political force the moment its candidate exited the race.
OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “SFA Fund” at OpenSecrets
Never Back Down
Never Back Down was the primary super PAC supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign — and one of the most analyzed cautionary tales of the post-Citizens United era. The group was launched in early 2023 by former Trump administration official Ken Cuccinelli, who envisioned a $269 million effort to elect DeSantis by outsourcing much of the campaign’s traditional ground operation to the super PAC. Republican strategist Jeff Roe served as chief strategist.
Never Back Down was seeded with an unusually large transfer of approximately $82.5 million from DeSantis’s Florida state political committee, a move the Campaign Legal Center alleged violated federal law. Other major donors included Las Vegas real estate developer Robert Bigelow, who gave more than $20 million before later expressing buyer’s remorse.
The PAC’s collapse during late 2023 became one of the most extensively reported political stories of the cycle. Multiple CEOs cycled through the organization in a matter of weeks. Internal conflicts between Roe’s team and DeSantis loyalists culminated in a near-physical altercation at a Never Back Down board meeting, the firing of Roe’s lieutenants, and the creation of a parallel pro-DeSantis super PAC called Fight Right. By the time DeSantis withdrew from the race in January 2024, the experiment in outsourcing major campaign functions to a super PAC was widely considered a failure. Never Back Down is included in this directory as a defining case study in how super PAC-driven campaigns can — and often do — go wrong.
OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “Never Back Down” at OpenSecrets
MAHA Alliance
MAHA Alliance — “Make America Healthy Again” — is one of the more politically novel super PACs of the 2024 cycle. It was established in October 2024 by former senior staff of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential campaign, after Kennedy suspended his bid and endorsed Donald Trump. The PAC’s stated purpose was to mobilize Kennedy’s supporters — many of whom were uncommitted to either major party — to vote for Trump in the closing weeks of the election.
The PAC’s leadership included Del Bigtree, former communications director for the Kennedy campaign, and Brigid Rasmussen, the campaign’s former chief of staff. MAHA Alliance received a $3 million donation from Elon Musk, who simultaneously funded America PAC at much larger scale. The group focused on digital and new-media advertising aimed at the small slice of undecided voters drawn from Kennedy’s base.
MAHA Alliance is included in this directory not because of its spending volume — modest compared with the giants — but because it represents an emerging category: the post-withdrawal super PAC, founded specifically to redirect an independent or primary candidate’s coalition to one of the major-party nominees. The Kennedy-to-Trump pipeline that MAHA Alliance helped organize became a notable feature of Trump’s coalition-building in the final weeks of 2024.
Website: mahaalliance.com · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “MAHA Alliance” at OpenSecrets
Senate Leadership Fund
The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) is the principal outside-spending vehicle aligned with Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate. It was established in 2015 by allies of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with the explicit purpose of maintaining and expanding the Republican Senate majority. In every cycle since, it has been among the largest super PACs in the country.
SLF works closely with the affiliated 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization One Nation, which provided more than $54 million to the super PAC during the 2024 cycle. This dark-money pipeline allows donors who wish to remain anonymous to give to One Nation, which then channels funds to SLF — a structure that critics describe as the central mechanism of modern dark money. SLF spends primarily on independent expenditures in competitive Senate races, including major battleground spending in Ohio and Pennsylvania in 2024.
Website: senateleadershipfund.org · OpenSecrets profile: Senate Leadership Fund
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC (SMP) is the principal super PAC aligned with Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate. Like its Republican counterpart Senate Leadership Fund, SMP focuses on independent expenditures in competitive Senate races and operates in close institutional alignment with its affiliated dark-money nonprofit, Majority Forward.
During the 2024 cycle, Majority Forward funneled more than $113 million to SMP, more than in any prior election. Brennan Center analyses identified Majority Forward as the single largest dark-money group of the 2024 cycle on the Democratic side. SMP’s spending concentrated on Senate races in Ohio, Montana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona, with mixed results — Democrats lost the chamber’s majority in 2024.
Website: senatemajority.com · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “Senate Majority PAC” at OpenSecrets
Congressional Leadership Fund
The Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) is the principal super PAC aligned with Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives. Founded in 2011 as the conservative counterpart to House Majority PAC, CLF has been endorsed by every House Republican Speaker and leadership team since.
CLF is structured as a hybrid PAC, meaning it operates two separate accounts: one for limited contributions directly to candidates, and one for unlimited contributions used for independent expenditures. The PAC works in tandem with its affiliated 501(c)(4) dark-money group, the American Action Network, which contributed roughly $69 million to influence 2024 elections. Major individual donors in recent cycles have included hedge-fund founder Ken Griffin and shipping-supplies magnate Richard Uihlein.
CLF’s current president, Dan Conston, also leads the American Action Network. CLF concentrates on the highest-tier competitive House races each cycle and, like its peers, has helped define the post-Citizens United model of party-aligned outside spending.
Website: congressionalleadershipfund.org · OpenSecrets profile: CLF
House Majority PAC
House Majority PAC (HMP) is the principal super PAC aligned with Democratic leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives. Founded in 2011 in response to heavy Republican outside spending in the 2010 midterms, HMP focuses on independent expenditures to win and defend competitive House seats.
HMP works closely with the affiliated dark-money nonprofit House Majority Forward, which routed roughly $43 million to the PAC during the third quarter of the 2024 cycle alone. The PAC reserved $186 million in television and digital placements for the 2024 cycle. Its 2024 leadership included Mike Smith, a former senior adviser to House Democratic leadership.
Despite substantial spending, House Majority PAC was not able to flip the chamber in 2024; Republicans retained a narrow House majority. HMP remains the dominant Democratic outside-spending presence in House races and one of the largest super PACs by spending volume in every recent cycle.
Website: thehousemajoritypac.com · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “House Majority PAC” at OpenSecrets
American Crossroads
American Crossroads is the original modern conservative super PAC and one of the most historically important political committees of the post-Citizens United era. Founded in 2010 by Republican strategist Karl Rove, former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie, former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, and GOP fundraiser Fred Malek, the group emerged in the immediate aftermath of Citizens United and SpeechNow as a vehicle for unlimited independent expenditures in federal elections.
In the 2010 and 2012 cycles, American Crossroads and its affiliated 501(c)(4) dark-money group Crossroads GPS combined to spend hundreds of millions of dollars supporting Republican candidates — pioneering the structural template (super PAC paired with a dark-money nonprofit) that nearly every major party-aligned outside-spending operation now uses. After mixed electoral results in 2012, including criticism from then-citizen Donald Trump on Twitter, the group’s profile diminished. It remains operational but is no longer the dominant force it once was; many of its functions and key personnel migrated to Senate Leadership Fund and One Nation, both run by the same chief executive, Steven Law.
American Crossroads is included here as the foundational example of a modern major super PAC. Its history is essentially the history of the early super PAC era.
Website: americancrossroads.org · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “American Crossroads” at OpenSecrets
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action was the principal Democratic super PAC of the early post-Citizens United era, serving as the dominant pro-presidential vehicle for Barack Obama in 2012, Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Joe Biden in 2020. The group was founded by Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney, both former senior aides in the Obama administration.
Over its first three presidential cycles, Priorities USA Action raised and spent hundreds of millions of dollars and became, in the words of one analyst, “essentially without peer” among Democratic outside-spending organizations. Its largest historical donors include billionaire investor Donald Sussman, hedge-fund founder James Simons, philanthropists Cheryl and Haim Saban, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
In 2023, Priorities USA Action announced a dramatic strategic shift: rather than continuing to dominate Democratic television advertising, the group would transition into a digital-first political operation, spending its 2024 cycle budget primarily on online persuasion and mobilization. This shift effectively ceded the role of dominant pro-presidential Democratic super PAC to Future Forward USA, which became the largest super PAC of the 2024 cycle. Priorities USA Action remains active under executive director Danielle Butterfield but in a substantially reduced role compared with its 2012–2020 peak.
Website: prioritiesusa.org · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “Priorities USA Action” at OpenSecrets
Americans for Prosperity Action
Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action) is the super PAC arm of the broader Americans for Prosperity organization, the political flagship of the donor network associated with billionaire Charles Koch. It became the largest single super PAC backer of Nikki Haley’s 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign, spending more than $31 million to support her bid before she withdrew.
After Haley exited the race, AFP Action did not endorse Donald Trump in the general election — a notable break from the broader pattern of Republican-aligned outside-spending groups. Instead, the PAC redirected nearly $28 million to competitive congressional races. It is one of the few major Republican outside-spending operations that explicitly distances itself from Trump while remaining within the broader conservative movement.
AFP Action funds a permanent, year-round political organization with paid staff and a substantial grassroots field operation. This makes it operationally distinct from many of the ad-focused super PACs profiled in this directory.
Website: americansforprosperity.org/action · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “Americans for Prosperity Action” at OpenSecrets
Club for Growth Action
Club for Growth Action is the super PAC arm of Club for Growth, a free-market and anti-tax advocacy organization. It is one of the oldest super PACs in operation, founded in 2010 shortly after the Citizens United decision. The group focuses on Republican primaries, supporting candidates it sees as the most reliably conservative on economic policy and opposing Republicans it considers insufficiently committed to limited government.
The PAC’s largest 2024-cycle donors included Jeff Yass, co-founder of trading firm Susquehanna International Group, who gave more than $16 million, and Richard Uihlein, CEO of Uline, who gave approximately $8.8 million. The Club had a famously contentious relationship with Donald Trump going back to 2016 — Club-affiliated groups spent millions opposing his nomination — before reconciling in early 2024 once Trump was the presumptive nominee.
The Club’s affiliated Win It Back PAC has been used to spend independently in Senate races, particularly against vulnerable Democratic incumbents. Together, the Club’s political vehicles spent well over $100 million in the 2024 cycle.
Website: clubforgrowth.org · OpenSecrets profile: Club for Growth Action
Restoration PAC
Restoration PAC is the principal political vehicle of Richard “Dick” Uihlein, the CEO of shipping-supplies company Uline and one of the largest conservative individual donors in American politics. The PAC was founded in 2014 and has spent in every federal cycle since, with spending volume increasing sharply over time. In 2024, the PAC spent approximately $35 million attacking Kamala Harris and supporting Donald Trump in the presidential race, and tens of millions more on Senate races including major spending against Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin.
Uihlein and his wife Elizabeth ranked as the fourth-largest GOP-aligned donor household in the 2023–2024 cycle, with approximately $44.5 million in disclosed contributions across all federal recipients. Restoration PAC is the principal vehicle through which their political giving is channeled into independent expenditures, though they also contribute directly to other super PACs (including Club for Growth Action) and to candidates.
Restoration PAC is included in this directory as a representative example of a conservative megadonor’s personal political infrastructure — a category of super PAC that has become increasingly common as a small number of very wealthy individuals concentrate a growing share of independent expenditure activity.
OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “Restoration PAC” at OpenSecrets
American Bridge 21st Century
American Bridge 21st Century occupies an unusual niche among major super PACs: it is primarily an opposition-research and rapid-response operation rather than an advertising powerhouse. Founded in 2010 by Democratic operative David Brock, the group maintains a large research staff that compiles dossiers on Republican candidates, tracks them on the trail with video crews, and feeds material to allied campaigns, super PACs, and the press.
American Bridge spends on its own independent expenditures — particularly direct mail and digital advertising targeted at battleground voters — but its primary contribution to Democratic campaigns is the intelligence and content it provides to other organizations that then use it in advertising. In recent cycles, American Bridge has been a top spender against Donald Trump specifically, often with a focus on persuading working-class swing voters.
The group’s funding model relies heavily on a small number of large Democratic donors, with significant contributions over the years from George Soros, Donald Sussman, and others. American Bridge has been criticized within the Democratic coalition for strategic and management choices but remains a fixture of the party’s outside-spending infrastructure.
Website: americanbridgepac.org · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “American Bridge 21st Century” at OpenSecrets
Women Vote (EMILYs List)
Women Vote is the independent expenditure arm of EMILYs List, the country’s largest organization dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women to public office. EMILYs List itself, founded in 1985, predates the super PAC era by decades; Women Vote was created in 1995 to handle independent advertising and voter mobilization activities and operates under the rules now governing super PACs.
Women Vote specializes in reaching and mobilizing women voters, with extensive research and message-testing infrastructure built up over three decades. During the 2024 cycle, the group ran a multi-million-dollar program supporting Kamala Harris’s campaign, with particular focus on women under 40 in battleground states. It also partnered with Future Forward on joint ad campaigns centered on abortion rights.
EMILYs List as a whole reports having helped elect 175 women to the U.S. House, 26 to the Senate, 20 governors, and over 1,500 women to state and local office since its founding. Women Vote has been criticized at times for spending in primaries where its preferred candidate’s pro-choice credentials are similar to the opponent’s; supporters argue the group’s mandate is broader than abortion politics alone.
Website: emilyslist.org/women-vote-emilys-list · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “Women Vote” at OpenSecrets
Latino Victory Fund
The Latino Victory Fund is the political arm of Latino Victory, an organization founded in 2014 to build Latino political power and to elect Latino candidates to public office at every level. Latino Victory operates a 501(c)(3) foundation, a 501(c)(4) project, and the Latino Victory Fund, a hybrid super PAC that handles federal political activity. The group endorses overwhelmingly Democratic candidates and partnered in 2024 with the AAPI Victory Fund and the Collective PAC on a combined $30 million pledge to mobilize minority voters for the Democratic ticket.
The Latino Victory Fund’s 2024 spending was modest by the standards of the largest super PACs profiled in this directory — approximately $325,000 in independent expenditures — but the broader Latino Victory organization’s activities included voter mobilization, candidate recruitment, training, and direct-to-candidate contributions across many federal and state races. As of December 2024, the organization reported having supported more than 450 candidates over its history.
Latino Victory Fund is included in this directory as the most prominent example of a super PAC focused on building political power within a specific U.S. demographic community, and to illustrate the broader ecosystem of identity-focused political organizations that complement the largest party-aligned super PACs.
Website: latinovictory.org · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “Latino Victory Fund” at OpenSecrets
VoteVets
VoteVets is a progressive political organization founded in 2006 by Iraq War veteran Jon Soltz, focused on electing veterans of the post-9/11 wars to federal office and on advocating for veterans’ policy issues, national security, and (increasingly) firearm regulation. The organization operates a traditional PAC, an affiliated 501(c)(4) nonprofit, and a super PAC arm.
VoteVets has consistently endorsed Democratic candidates and has been described in major-outlet reporting as closely aligned with congressional Democrats. The group spent over $11 million in the 2016 cycle and over $12 million in 2018; in 2024, VoteVets endorsed and supported a slate of veteran Democratic candidates including Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, and Congressman Pat Ryan of New York, among many others.
VoteVets is included in this directory as a representative example of a single-demographic-focused super PAC — political operations that focus on mobilizing or representing a specific community (in this case, military veterans and their families) rather than spending across a broad electoral map. Similar groups exist for women candidates (Women Vote), Latino voters (Latino Victory Fund), and others.
Website: votevets.org · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “VoteVets” at OpenSecrets
United Democracy Project
The United Democracy Project (UDP) is the super PAC affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). For most of AIPAC’s history, the organization did not engage directly in candidate elections; it shifted strategy in late 2021 and 2022, establishing both a traditional PAC and a super PAC to support candidates seen as supportive of the U.S.-Israel relationship.
UDP describes itself as bipartisan, and its formal mission is to support candidates aligned with strong U.S.-Israel ties regardless of party. In practice, the great majority of UDP’s spending has gone into Democratic primaries against incumbents and candidates seen as critical of Israeli government policies — particularly members of the progressive “Squad.” UDP played a decisive role in the 2024 primary defeats of Representatives Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri, spending more than $14 million against Bowman alone. The Bowman race became the most expensive House primary in U.S. history.
UDP’s largest donors include WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum, Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, hedge-fund founder Paul Singer, and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. The PAC’s strategy of intervening heavily in Democratic primaries has made it a focus of intense intra-party debate.
Website: uniteddemocracyproject.org · OpenSecrets profile: United Democracy Project
Fairshake
Fairshake is the dominant political vehicle of the U.S. cryptocurrency industry, established in late 2023 and rapidly becoming one of the largest industry-funded super PACs in American history. Fairshake’s two affiliated PACs — Defend American Jobs (Republican-focused) and Protect Progress (Democratic-focused) — allow the industry to support pro-crypto candidates of either party.
The three Fairshake-aligned PACs received the vast majority of their funding from a small number of crypto industry donors: Coinbase contributed roughly $75 million, Ripple Labs roughly $50 million, and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz roughly $60 million. Additional donors included Jump Crypto, Circle, Kraken, the Winklevoss twins of Gemini, and other industry executives and firms.
Fairshake’s 2024 spending was concentrated heavily against candidates seen as hostile to the crypto industry — most notably $10 million against Representative Katie Porter in California’s Democratic Senate primary (which she lost) — and in favor of candidates committed to lighter regulation. After 2024, Fairshake announced it would carry forward more than $100 million into the 2026 midterm cycle, making it one of the most heavily funded ongoing industry super PACs in U.S. politics.
Website: fairshakepac.com · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “Fairshake” at OpenSecrets
LCV Victory Fund
The LCV Victory Fund is the super PAC affiliated with the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), one of the oldest and largest environmental advocacy organizations in American politics. The Victory Fund handles LCV’s independent expenditures supporting candidates who, in the organization’s assessment, will protect environmental and climate policy.
LCV and its affiliates operate one of the most coordinated environmental political programs in the country, combining the 501(c)(4) advocacy arm (which conducts lobbying and issue advocacy without disclosing donors), the LCV Action Fund (a traditional PAC), and the Victory Fund (a super PAC). Together they spend in presidential, Senate, House, and gubernatorial races, with consistent endorsements going to Democratic candidates and occasional support for moderate Republicans on environmental issues.
LCV’s spending volume is smaller than the largest party-aligned super PACs but its long institutional history, in-house policy and scorecard infrastructure (the LCV National Environmental Scorecard rates every member of Congress on environmental votes), and ability to mobilize a substantial activist base make it one of the most influential issue-focused outside-spending organizations.
Website: lcv.org · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “LCV Victory Fund” at OpenSecrets
Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund
Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund is the super PAC arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun-control advocacy organization in the United States. Everytown was formed in 2014 from the merger of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (founded in 2006 by then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg) and Moms Demand Action (founded in 2012 in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting). Michael Bloomberg remains the organization’s principal funder.
The Victory Fund is one of three Everytown-affiliated political entities, alongside the traditional Everytown Victory Fund PAC and the Everytown-Demand a Seat PAC. Across these vehicles, Everytown pledged to spend approximately $45 million in the 2024 cycle. The Victory Fund itself reported approximately $9.4 million in independent expenditures, concentrated on the presidential race and on tightly contested House seats. The group also partnered with Future Forward and House Majority PAC on joint ad campaigns in 2024.
Everytown’s combined political operation substantially outspent and outraised the National Rifle Association’s political arms throughout the 2024 cycle — a notable reversal of the historical pattern in which the NRA was widely regarded as the dominant force in gun-policy electoral politics.
Website: everytown.org · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund” at OpenSecrets
NRA Political Victory Fund
The NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) is the political action committee of the National Rifle Association, founded in 1976 and historically one of the most influential single-issue political organizations in American politics. The NRA Victory Fund, registered separately, is the affiliated super PAC that has handled the NRA’s independent expenditures in recent cycles. The two entities are typically discussed together; the PAC contributes directly to candidates within federal limits, and the super PAC made unlimited independent expenditures particularly in the 2016 and 2020 cycles.
The NRA’s political operation experienced a marked decline during the 2024 cycle. The organization has been beset by financial mismanagement litigation (a New York jury found in February 2024 that the group had mismanaged donor funds), declining membership revenue, and competition from newer gun-rights groups. NRA Victory Fund — the super PAC — was essentially dormant in 2024, with the PVF (traditional PAC) handling most of the organization’s roughly $10 million in 2024 independent expenditures. By comparison, the NRA Victory Fund alone spent approximately $19.5 million in independent expenditures in 2020.
The NRA is included in this directory both for its historical importance and because the contrast between its 2020 and 2024 activity is itself instructive about the cyclical fortunes of single-issue super PACs.
Website: nrapvf.org · OpenSecrets profile: Searchable as “National Rifle Assn” at OpenSecrets