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AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

DC · US

Lobby focused on U.S. Middle East foreign policy

israel lobby
Cycle

Tracked direct giving

$51,555,843

LDA reported lobbying spend

$7,081,373

Connections

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Coalition view

AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE operates as part of a multi-committee coalition with DMFI PAC, AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE and United Democracy Project. Combined tracked totals across all coalition members below give the figure most public sources quote (Sludge, JNS, OpenSecrets).

Combined direct giving + IE support

$1,745,438

Combined tracked receipts

$9,922,187

Combined lobbying spend

$11,796,658

The Money Trail

How money flowed from AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

$51.6M
7 transactions across 1 counterparty
sum of 7 tracked donations shown

AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE directed $51.6M to United Democracy Project across 7 contributions between January 2022 and December 2025.

Jan 2022 – Dec 2025corporate
$51.6M tracked across 1 counterparty (sum of 7 tracked donations shown)
PAC Chain Attribution

Where AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE’s money ended up

Attributed amounts are modeled estimates of how money flowed through intermediary PACs, computed by proportional apportionment of FEC-reported transactions. They are not reported transactions themselves. How we compute this

$275K
modeled estimate
13 paths across 13 counterparties
$162Kmodeled estimateattributed to Jimmy Gomez
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $4K

$77Kmodeled estimateattributed to KIM, DAVID
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $11K

$10Kmodeled estimateattributed to Jamaal Bowman
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$10Kmodeled estimateAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE→United Democracy Project→Jamaal BowmanmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $23K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$9Kmodeled estimateattributed to Sarah Elfreth
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$9Kmodeled estimateAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE→United Democracy Project→Sarah ElfrethmediumSupportindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $23K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$5Kmodeled estimateattributed to Dave Min
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$5Kmodeled estimateAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE→United Democracy Project→Dave MinmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $23K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$4Kmodeled estimateattributed to Cori Bush
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$4Kmodeled estimateAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE→United Democracy Project→Cori BushmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $23K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$3Kmodeled estimateattributed to Wesley Bell
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$3Kmodeled estimateAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE→United Democracy Project→Wesley BellmediumSupportindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $23K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$1Kmodeled estimateattributed to John Hostettler
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$1Kmodeled estimateAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE→United Democracy Project→John HostettlermediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $23K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

Plus 5 additional chains totaling $3K.

$275K attributed (modeled estimate) across 13 paths·Up to 1 hop deep·Source FEC filings (Schedules A, B, E)·How we compute this

Lobbying Activity Detail

Disclosed lobbying expenditures from LDA filings where this entity is the client. Dollar amounts represent what was reported to the Senate Office of Public Records.

Top Lobbying Issues

FORForeign Relations
$11.8M
BUDBudget/Appropriations
$11.8M
DEFDefense
$11.8M
EDUEducation
$811K

Lobbying Firms Retained

In-house lobbyists (filed as its own registrant)$11.8M

Bills Referenced in Lobbying Filings

Ukraine supplemental

Lobbying data from Senate LDA filings and the LobbyView dataset (MIT/NSF, CC-BY-4.0). Dollar figures represent disclosed expenditures only and may not capture all influence activity. Issue codes follow the LDA general issue classification.

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Donations Given and Outside Spending

Largest 50 records. Rows badged “Spent to support” or “Spent to oppose” are independent expenditures this entity paid to vendors for or against the named candidate. That money was not given to them.

RecipientAmountDateCycle
United Democracy Project$25,000,000Sep 25, 20252026
United Democracy Project$11,000,000Sep 23, 20242024
United Democracy Project$8,500,000Jan 28, 20222022
United Democracy Project$5,000,000Dec 23, 20252026
United Democracy Project$2,000,000Oct 31, 20222022
United Democracy Project$33,075Jan 6, 20232024
United Democracy Project$22,768Dec 20, 20232024

Relationships

TypeConnected ToDetailsSource
Lobbied onUkraine Security Assistance SupplementalLDA filing: lobbied on Ukraine Security Supplemental, period 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31), reported amount $837,889Source
Instrument ofAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEAIPAC PAC is the political arm of the AIPAC lobbying organizationEditorial
Has as instrumentUnited Democracy ProjectUnited Democracy Project is AIPAC's affiliated super PACEditorial
Parent ofAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEAIPAC PAC is the federal political action committee operated by the AIPAC 501(c)(4) lobbying organization.Source
Has as instrumentAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEPolitical action committee affiliated with AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.Source