Donor Infrastructure

Where retail donor money enters U.S. politics.

$110.0M
2026 cycle volume
23
platforms tracked
~$4.2M
estimated fees retained

Donor infrastructure is the layer of platforms that move retail donor money INTO campaign and committee accounts. 23 platforms moved $110.0M this cycle, retaining an estimated $4.2M in per-transaction fees (at ~3.8% blended rate). ActBlue (Democratic-aligned) and WinRed (Republican-aligned) dominate by an order of magnitude over the long tail of independent processors.

2026 cycle volume by platform

2026 cycle flow by partisan lean

Democratic-leaning
$58.1M
9 platforms · $2.2M estimated fees
Republican-leaning
$52.0M
7 platforms · $2.0M estimated fees
Mixed / nonpartisan
$13K
0 platforms (plus unidentified recipients)

Top donor-infrastructure platforms by 2026 cycle volume

#PlatformParty lean2026 cycle volume Est. fees retainedRecipientsTop recipient committee (2026)
1 ActBlue Technical Services, Inc. D-leaning $49.8M $1.9M 1,505 DNC SERVICES CORP / DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE · $2.6M
2 WinRed Technical Services, LLC R-leaning $38.4M $1.5M 702 TRUMP NATIONAL COMMITTEE JFC, INC. · $6.9M
3 WinRed, LLC R-leaning $6.5M $245K 302 NRSC · $2.3M
4 Anedot R-leaning $6.9M $262K 1,122 TURNING POINT PAC INC. · $1.4M
5 ActBlue, LLC D-leaning $5.1M $193K 540 FRIENDS OF BERNIE SANDERS · $872K
6 Primepay LLC D-leaning $693K $26K 4 CORY BOOKER FOR SENATE · $599K
7 First Data Merchant Services D-leaning $544K $21K 46 RO FOR CONGRESS INC · $301K
8 Anedot.com R-leaning $33K $1K 7 SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PARTY · $17K
9 NGP D-leaning $1.1M $42K 57 FRIENDS OF BERNIE SANDERS · $262K
10 Braintree D-leaning $314K $12K 2 MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION · $312K
11 NGP Software, Inc. D-leaning $107K $4K 7 KAPTUR FOR CONGRESS · $44K
12 ACT Blue D-leaning $131K $5K 76 SARAH FOR IOWA · $40K
13 Rallypay Unidentified $2K $78 1 PAVC PAC · $2K
14 ACT Blue Technical Services D-leaning $339K $13K 6 DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF WISCONSIN FEDERAL · $300K
15 Edonation.com R-leaning $10K $369 3 JIM RISCH FOR U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE · $5K
16 Edonation Unidentified $10K $367 1 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY ENT PAC · $10K
17 Right Country List R-leaning $56K $2K 2 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE · $54K
18 Actblue Techinical Services Unidentified $0 $0 0
19 Daily KOS Unidentified $0 $0 0
20 Actblue Civics Unidentified $2K $67 1 WOMEN'S MARCH WIN · $2K
21 Raise THE Money Inc. R-leaning $113K $4K 3 TEAM HILL · $68K
22 Paya FKA Sage Payment Solutions Unidentified $0 $0 0
23 Farmers Group Inc Employees and Agents PAC - Small Contributor Committee Unidentified $0 $0 0

Cycle volume figures sum 2026-cycle Schedule B disbursements where each donor-infrastructure platform is the payee. Party-lean classification: for each platform we sum recipient-committee cycle volume by FEC committees.party_affiliation; D-leaning if D≥70% of identified volume, R-leaning if R≥70%, else mixed. Fee estimate uses a 3.8% blended platform rate (ActBlue ~3.95%, WinRed ~3.94%, Anedot ~3-4%). Some platforms classified here (e.g. Daily Kos, RightCountry List) function as donor-acquisition channels feeding into the major processors — they appear here for visibility but their flow primarily transits through ActBlue/WinRed downstream.