THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Booker's fundraising profile is heavily reliant on individual donors, who account for 98% of his $22.6 million in direct contributions, with PACs and committees comprising just 2% of his funding base. Industry-tied contributions show concentration among lawyers and lobbyists (21% of industry money), securities and investment professionals (17%), and health services and education sectors (9% each), with individual employed donors similarly clustering in legal, financial, and healthcare fields. His legislative record includes 118 recorded votes and 32 stock trades disclosed under the STOCK Act.
Raised · all cycles$22.6M▼ 3% in ’24 vs ’22#15 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share21%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes7on bills touching top donor sectors
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds Booker (ribbon width = dollars) · right: their votes on bills classified as favoring vs limiting those sectors
“Favors / limits” is an AI classification of each bill's likely effect on the sector — a factual reading of the bill, not a claim about motive. Correlation, not causation. The named bills are in DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES? below.
DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES?
How Booker voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 7 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Booker's total from that donor sector — shown on each related vote, not a per-vote amount. Correlation between funding and votes, not causation; many factors shape any single vote.
TOP SOURCES
1$123K
BURDICK CONSULTING GROUP, LLC
corporation
2$44K
APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT
employees
3$37K
APOLLO
employees
4$31K
NEW JERSEY SENATE VICTORY
PAC
5$24K
NORPAC
PAC
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
Money Timing81%
Cory A. Booker (D): Technology donations hit $88K (28.4× their monthly average) the month after their NAY on SJRES28-119
In April 2025, Senator Booker received $87,877 from Technology-classified donors, representing 28.4 times that sector's trailing 12-month average of $3,091.08 per month. On March 5, 2025, he voted NAY on SJRES28-119, which disapproved a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule, with Technology-sector donations arriving in the subsequent month.
Grassroots Funding77%
Cory A. Booker raised 59% from sub-$200 small-dollar donors — #2 most grassroots-funded in the Senate
59% of the $22.6M in contributions Cory A. Booker raised across the tracked cycles came from donors giving under $200 — the FEC's "unitemized" small-dollar tier — ranking #2 of 97 Senate members raising over $1M. Small-dollar totals are reported by campaigns directly to the FEC; individual donors below $200 are not itemized by law.
War Chest75%
Cory A. Booker holds a $23.1M campaign war chest — #3 cash-on-hand in the Senate
Cory A. Booker's campaign committee reported $23.1M in cash on hand at the end of its most recent FEC filing period — the #3 largest reported balance among Senate members. Cash on hand is the campaign's own reported figure and reflects money raised but not yet spent.
COMMITTEES
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Foreign Relations
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Judiciary
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
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