Contribution Limits

An individual may give a maximum of:

• $1,000 per election to a Federal candidate or the candidate's campaign committee. Notice that the limit applies separately to each election. Primaries, runoffs and general elections are considered separate elections.
• $5,000 per calendar year to a PAC or State party committee. This limit applies to a PAC (political action committee) or a State (or local) party committee that supports Federal candidates. (PACs are neither party committees nor candidate committees. Some PACs are sponsored by corporations and unions & trade, industry and labor PACs. Other PACs, often ideological, do not have a corporate or labor sponsor and are therefore called nonconnected PACs.) Party committees and PACs use your contributions to make their own contributions to Federal candidates to fund other election-related activities.
• $20,000 per calendar year to a national party committee. This limit applies separately to a party's national committee, House campaign committee and Senate campaign committee.
• $25,000 total per calendar year. This annual limit places a ceiling on your total contributions
• $100 in currency (cash) to any political committee. (Anonymous cash contributions may not exceed $50.) Contributions exceeding $100 must be made by check, money order or other written instrument.

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