Mark Kelly
Democrat
· AZ Senate · 119th Congress
and Nuclear Innovation and Safety (Chair) · Joint Economic Committee · Senate Committee on Armed Services · Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · and Mining · Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Waste Management · Environmental Justice · and Regulatory Oversight · and Water · Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Senate Special Committee on Aging
Influence Score
78.8
Highly exposed
↓ -9.5
vs 118th (88.3)
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This score measures financial influence across twelve categories. Each bar shows how this member compares to all others in Congress. Longer bars mean more exposure.
Score breakdown — twelve categories
Contributionsmoney from PACs (political action committees) and individual donors
4.5
/ 12
Outside spendingmoney spent by groups to help elect them
6.0
/ 6
Spent to help elect them
$45,206,081
Outside groups that spent to help elect this member — this drives the outside-spending bar above
Spent to defeat this member
$81,505,314
Outside groups that spent to defeat this member (not counted in this score)
Lobbyinghow hard lobbyists push the committees this member sits on
5.3
/ 10
Vote alignmenthow often they vote the way their donors want
6.7
/ 12
Contribution timingmoney arriving near key votes
0.3
/ 6
Stock tradesbuying stocks in industries they regulate
0.0
/ 1
Dark moneyfunding from groups that hide their donors
0.2
/ 2
Outbound money distributionmoney this member sends out to the party and to colleagues
12.2
/ 16
Cluster network breadthhow many coordinated funding networks back this member
7.4
/ 10
Committee jurisdiction powerthe legislative reach of the committees this member sits on
8.7
/ 10
Foreign interestforeign-interest money — Israel-policy PACs and FARA-registered institutional lobbying allocated by committee jurisdiction
10.1
/ 12
Israel-policy PACs behind this score
JSTREETPAC
$4,953 direct
FARA institutional lobbying
This member’s committees are targeted by $44.70M in lobbying from FARA-registered firms representing South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia. This exposure is weighted at 0.2% of face value in the score — $89K.
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Score across four congresses
Score and tier for each Congress. Members are ranked against others in the same Congress, so tiers are comparable across rows. Raw scores reflect different data availability per Congress.
| Congress | Score | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| 116th · 2019-2021 | 40.2 | Least exposed |
| 117th · 2021-2023 | 76.3 | Most exposed |
| 118th · 2023-2025 | 88.3 | Most exposed |
| 119th · 2025-2027 | 78.8 | Highly exposed |
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Biggest funding source
The single network behind the most money and influence
Network
CLUB FOR GROWTH ACTION
Total money from this network
$18,546,485
Number of funding networks contributing
1
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Where most of the money comes from
What share of their combined contributions and outside spending comes from a single network. Party committees are excluded.
Network
VOTEVETS
Share from this one network
5.6%
Amount from this network
$92,500
Total from all networks
$1,658,633
Networks contributing
270
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Who funds Kelly
Every funding network we can measure, ranked by influence
$46,001,804
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Does the money match their power?
Whether their money comes from the industries their committees actually oversee
Money from industries they regulate
9.1%
Extra weight when money matches their committees
2.00×
Share of outside spending tied to their policy areas
46.7%
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Money timed to key votes
Donations arriving near key votes in the policy areas this member regulates
Times money arrived near a vote
5
Money that arrived near votes
$14K
Distinct donors
6
Distinct employers
4
Share of their total fundraising
0.29%
Biggest clusters of timed money
JOHN GORRIE INVESTMENT
$5K
JOHN GORRIE INVESTMENT
$5K
WELLS FARGO ADVISORS
$2K
SV ANGEL
$1K
BANK OF AMERICA
$1K
AGM FINANCIAL SERVICES
$500
AGM FINANCIAL SERVICES
$500
AGM FINANCIAL SERVICES
$500
WELLS FARGO BANK
$500
CORD INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
$250
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Top Donors
Biggest sources of contributions, grouped by employer, this cycle
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
$95K
GOOGLE
$95K
APPLE
$72K
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
$60K
MICROSOFT
$59K
INTEL
$43K
WILMERHALE
$40K
KIRKLAND ELLIS LLP
$40K
MOTLEY RICE
$39K
AMAZON
$35K
JANE STREET
$32K
BANNER HEALTH
$31K
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
$29K
YALE UNIVERSITY
$26K
RAYTHEON
$26K
MIT
$23K
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
$23K
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
$22K
IBM
$22K
US GOVERNMENT
$22K
Where the outside money comes from
How much of the outside spending for and against Mark Kelly comes from groups that disclose their donors versus groups that hide them
Total outside spending received
$62.93M
Disclosed outside spending
$41.97M
Dark-money outside spending
$20.96M
Share that is dark money
33.31%
Dark money tied to their policy areas
$4.85M
Groups hiding their donors
25
By funding network
NRSC
$38.39M
DEFENDARIZONA
$34.10M
SLF PAC
$29.71M
SAVING ARIZONA PAC
$16.68M
CLUB FOR GROWTH ACTION
$15.94M
PRIORITIES USA ACTION
$15.45M
THE SENTINEL ACTION FUND
$13.35M
SMP
$8.92M
LCV VICTORY FUND
$8.43M
SOMOS PAC
$7.62M
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN INC.
$5.91M
PATRIOT MAJORITY PAC
$2.83M
OUR AMERICAN CENTURY
$2.56M
EDF ACTION VOTES
$2.32M
WOMEN SPEAK OUT PAC
$2.27M
Groups that hide their donors
$6.68M
$4.01M
$3.68M
$1.99M
$1.41M
$659K
$560K
$456K
$397K
4 smaller groups under $500
$894
Likely donors behind the dark money supporting this member
Inferred
Donors who fund the disclosed PACs in the same network as the hidden groups above. "Coverage" is how many of that network's disclosed groups a donor funds — the more they fund, the more likely they also back the hidden group.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTES
$10.50M
WORKING FAMILIES PARTY PAC
$8.23M
COMMUNITY CHANGE VOTERS
$3.15M
AMERICA VOTES
$2.20M
WAY TO LEAD PAC
$600K
JAMES SANDLER
$500K
MOVEMENT VOTER PAC
$460K
AFSCME
$400K
JEFF DEAN
$400K
UFCW LOCAL 99 PAC
$256K
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Pro-Israel network donors
This counts contributions to this member from individuals whose FEC filings also show contributions to one of the 16 pro-Israel political action committees tracked by the Index. It is a measure of donor overlap — not a claim about why any individual gave, and not part of the influence score.
427 individuals who also gave to pro-Israel PACs contributed $1.38M to Mark Kelly across 1,479 contributions.
Total from shared contributors
$1.38M
Shared contributors
427
Contributions
1,479
By cycle
| Cycle | Shared donors | Gifts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 360 | 1,144 | $738K |
| 2024 | 20 | 133 | $296K |
| 2026 | 94 | 202 | $348K |
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Revolving Door
2 former staff members
who worked for Mark Kelly or the committees they serve are now registered lobbyists.
| Lobbyist | Former position | Firm | Clients | Filings | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ED GERAK | Senator Sinema, Senator Kelly, Congressman Grijalva, Congressman Ciscomani and C… | IRRIGATION AND ELECTRICAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA, INC. | 1 | 4 | 2023–2025 |
| JENELL BIGGS SMOLOVA | AZ members: Ciscomani, Biggs, Crane, Gosar, Hamadeh, Senator Mark Kelly and Sen … | UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | 1 | 6 | 2023–2025 |
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Mark Kelly's file shows clear influence markers across multiple categories for the top funding network, placing them in the upper range of this Congress. The pattern runs above what coincidence would produce, and the methodology page documents what each category requires.
Data: FEC (Federal Election Commission) filings · 118th–119th Congress · lobbying disclosures · VoteView recorded votes
All findings derived programmatically from public records · No prior knowledge required
All findings derived programmatically from public records · No prior knowledge required