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WHERE

Where do Derrick Van Orden's campaign contributions come from?

Funding summary

Total raised
$7.7M
Total spent
$7.3M
Cash on hand
$517K

Where the money came from

  • Individual donors$5.0M(65%)
  • PACs$1.0M(13%)
  • Political parties$19K(0%)
  • Self-funding$0(0%)
  • Other receipts$1.6M(21%)

“Other receipts” in FEC candidate totals covers transfers from other committees the candidate controls, offsets to operating expenditures, refunded contributions, and interest — not itemized donor activity. FEC's itemized filings hold the detail.

Top industries

Of $819K in itemized individual donations where the donor listed an employer. This is only a slice of total fundraising — PACs, parties, small-dollar donors, and self-funding are not included here.

  • General Business$488K
  • Finance & Real Estate$90K
  • Technology & Media$71K
  • Healthcare$68K
  • Legal & Lobbying$38K

An additional $2.8Min itemized donations couldn't be classified — either the donor left the employer field blank or listed “retired”/“self-employed,” or the employer didn't match a known industry.

BASELINE

Vote-finance correlation

Data through Jul 2026 · Sources: 2FEC individual filings (2026 cycle), Congress.gov roll calls (119th Congress) [28]

This report shows how Representative Derrick Van Orden voted on 28 bills. It also shows $2,086,085.97 in donations analyzed. The data shows a pattern between donations and votes for two sectors. Representative Van Orden voted on 12 bills related to Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate. He voted yes on 83.3% of these bills. He received $0 in donations from this sector. He also voted on 12 bills related to Defense. He voted yes on 66.7% of these bills. He received $0 in donations from this sector. There is not enough data to compare Representative Van Orden to other members of his delegation.

Fewer than 5 other members of the WI House delegation have comparable data right now, so no peer comparison is shown.

This analysis shows factual patterns in public data. Campaign contributions are legal and do not indicate wrongdoing. Voting alignment with donor industries is common across all legislators. Correlation does not indicate causation or improper behavior.

Full methodology and academic citations

Campaign finance data from FEC.gov. Totals reflect the current two-year cycle. Industry breakdown covers only itemized individual donations where the donor listed an employer. Full methodology

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