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Campaign operating expenditures filed under this conservatively normalized payee name. Electionpedia does not assert corporate identity, ownership, ideology, or services beyond what the records show.

27 committees794 payments2025–2026 cycle
Direct answer · current non-memo rows

How much did federal committees report paying First Data?

$326,591.47 across current organization-payment rows in the 2026 FEC operating-expenditures file.

This is an aggregate by normalized filing name. It is not revenue, profit, a verified contract total, or proof that similarly named legal entities are the same organization.

Source: Federal Election Commission Schedule B operating expenditures.

Current amount$326,591
Itemized payments794
Committees27
Committee → organization payee

Largest published committee relationships

FEC OPERATING EXPENDITURES

This page publishes at most 75 committee relationships for a payee-name group. The global amount above includes every current eligible row in the source aggregate.

$140,389.51
DR KIM SCHRIER FOR CONGRESS54 itemized payments · latest Jul 3, 2026
$41,587.43
MARK KELLY FOR SENATE43 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$32,952.54
GIFFORDS PAC50 itemized payments · latest Aug 3, 2026
$27,102.51
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OB-GYNS PAC (OB-GYN PAC)55 itemized payments · latest Aug 6, 2026
$21,614.35
JON OSSOFF FOR SENATE43 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$17,944.71
STRICKLAND FOR WASHINGTON24 itemized payments · latest Jul 3, 2026
$13,000.17
PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY87 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$6,431.88
HICKENLOOPER FOR COLORADO21 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$3,326.18
COMMITTEE TO ELECT JARED GOLDEN40 itemized payments · latest Mar 9, 2026
$3,012.92
FETTERMAN FOR PA54 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$3,006.61
LAUREN UNDERWOOD FOR CONGRESS37 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$3,006.01
FRIENDS OF MARIA36 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$2,585.32
BARRAGAN FOR CONGRESS20 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$2,175.20
GRACE FOR NEW YORK24 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$1,909.99
RASHIDA TLAIB FOR CONGRESS16 itemized payments · latest Jul 2, 2026
$1,320.69
SCANLON FOR CONGRESS36 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$1,168.20
HEARTLAND PATRIOTS24 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$916.80
DEMOCRACY MOBILIZATION PROJECT PAC (DMP)2 itemized payments · latest Mar 12, 2025
$849.93
ELISSA SLOTKIN FOR MICHIGAN15 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$587.25
DOGGETT FOR CONGRESS2 itemized payments · latest Feb 3, 2025
$510.94
TAKING THE HILL PAC6 itemized payments · latest Dec 1, 2025
$349.75
DEMOCRATIC WOMEN OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY4 itemized payments · latest Dec 4, 2025
$259.80
SCOTT FOR CONGRESS8 itemized payments · latest Aug 4, 2025
$219.60
BERA FOR CONGRESS3 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2026
$154.09
IOWA DEMOCRATIC PARTY6 itemized payments · latest Jun 3, 2025
$110.08
FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY3 itemized payments · latest Jan 3, 2025
$99.01
Method boundary

Payee names are evidence, not conclusions.

Organizations only

Individual payees are excluded from this published store.

Amendment-normalized

5,262 superseded transaction versions were removed using committee, report, and transaction identifiers.

Memo rows excluded

358,460 memo-code X rows are excluded from totals because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.

Conservative matching

Punctuation and a small set of corporate suffixes are normalized. Electionpedia does not perform unverified corporate-family resolution.

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First Data Political Campaign Vendor Payments 2026

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