North Carolina's campaign finance reporting system is decades old — and hard to find, search, and understand. This is by design.

We built the NC Campaign Finance Tracker to change that. This tool helps the public easily follow the money and see exactly who is funding their legislators.

All data on this site comes directly from the North Carolina State Board of Elections website. This tool collects and displays that data in a more accessible way.

This tool covers the 2025–2026 election cycle. Data will be updated as new quarterly reports are filed.

Yes — all 170 currently serving members of the NC House and NC Senate are included. We may expand coverage in the future to include candidates not yet in office.

Some legislators don't actively fundraise in non-election years. They may have filed a report showing no activity, or certified their committee as "under threshold" — meaning they raised and spent less than $10,000 in the cycle.

This tracker only covers candidates for North Carolina state legislative office. Candidates for federal office (U.S. Senate, U.S. House) report to the Federal Election Commission. Candidates for local office (mayor, town council, county commission, etc.) typically file with their local county board of elections — if they are required to file at all.

Visit Carolina Forward's guide to the NC legislature for an overview of how it works, its partisan balance, district maps, and more.

Use the search bar in the navigation. You can also browse the member list, filtered by chamber or party, and sorted by any column.

Total Raised shows all contributions received during the 2025–2026 cycle. Cash on Hand is the balance in the committee's account as of the most recent filing.

It shows what share of each legislator's fundraising came from individuals (green), PACs and other committees (amber), and other sources such as party transfers (blue).

A candidate committee is the official fundraising account a candidate registers with the SBoE. All campaign money must flow through it, and all activity must be reported publicly.

Any individual or PAC may give up to $6,800 per election to a candidate. Because a primary and a general election count as separate elections, a single donor can give up to $13,600 to the same candidate in a full election cycle. Party committees (NCGOP, NCDP, etc.) are exempt from these limits. Candidates and their spouses may also contribute unlimited amounts to their own campaigns.

Under § 163-278.13, the limit increases automatically every two years. On July 1 of each even-numbered year, the SBoE recalculates the limit based on inflation, rounded to the nearest $100. The new amount takes effect January 1 of the following odd-numbered year.

A regular PAC can give money directly to candidates (up to $6,800 per election) but cannot accept corporate contributions. An Independent Expenditure PAC (IE PAC) works the other way: it can accept unlimited contributions from anyone — including corporations — but is prohibited from giving money directly to any candidate. It can only spend on ads, mailers, and organizing, and none of that spending can be coordinated with a campaign.

"Dark money" is a colloquial term — not a legal one — for political spending where the original donors aren't publicly disclosed. In NC, corporations that give to IE PACs must be disclosed. But donations to certain nonprofits (like 501(c)(4) organizations) that then spend on elections may not require full disclosure, obscuring the true source of the money.