What specific federal candidates did Kroger’s PAC fund in the 2023–2024 cycle and what were the amounts?

1. Kroger’s headline numbers: what the databases show

OpenSecrets’ candidate-recipient page for the Kroger Co. PAC presents the committee-level total for the 2023–2024 cycle as roughly $186,000 in contributions to federal candidates, a concise summary of the PAC’s federal giving for that two-year period ^[1]. OpenSecrets’ broader PAC profile also catalogs the committee’s receipts — Kroger Co. raised about $235,981 in that cycle — and links that contribution activity to granular entries that disclose which campaigns received funds ^[3]. The Federal Election Commission maintains the Kroger PAC’s committee record as well, confirming the committee’s existence and the reporting structure for its federal-cycle activity ^[4].

2. Examples pulled from news reporting and the public record

Contemporaneous reporting using FEC data illustrates how those sums were distributed: Reuters’ analysis of FEC filings showed that Kroger and Albertsons PACs together made dozens of contributions to congressional Democrats and that one named recipient, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, received $2,500 from Kroger’s PAC (Reuters’ compilation of FEC data cited in the reporting) ^[2]. News outlets repeating the Reuters tally reported that Kroger and Albertsons’ PAC contributions to congressional Democrats totaled roughly $185,000 through mid‑2024, illustrating that Kroger’s federal giving is part of a broader industry-level pattern ^{[2] [5]}.

3. What the official FEC record clarifies about PAC-to-candidate flows

The FEC committee profile for THE KROGER CO. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE underscores a technical but important point about these transactions: PAC reporting shows transfers and expenditures in support of candidates, but the FEC language emphasizes that “none of the funds are directly given to or spent by the candidate” in the committee’s supporting-expenditure reporting view — a reminder that PAC reporting often reflects transfers through campaign committees, party committees, or in-kind support and that nuance matters when interpreting raw totals ^[4].

4. Limits of the supplied reporting and how to get the candidate list

The sources provided here give clear aggregate totals and examples but do not include a complete, source-cited roster of every federal candidate Kroger’s PAC funded with line-item dollar amounts in the 2023–2024 cycle; OpenSecrets and the FEC host those line-item records on their candidate-recipient or expenditures pages, which must be consulted to extract a definitive list ^{[1] [6] [4]}. Kroger’s own political-spending report aggregates broader corporate political activity and reports a much larger total to “candidates” overall in 2024 — over $1,000,000 — but that corporate report appears to include state and local giving and trade-association dues allocations, so it cannot substitute for FEC/OpenSecrets federal-candidate line items without careful cross-checking ^[7].

5. Interpretation: patterns, agendas, and why this matters

The PAC-level totals and the examples reported by Reuters and OpenSecrets show Kroger’s PAC participating in routine corporate PAC engagement — modest-sized contributions to multiple federal campaigns, often aligned to protect business interests such as antitrust or labor policy — and that industry-wide pattern explains why grocery chains together became a focus of Democratic scrutiny amid Kroger’s proposed merger activity ^[2]. That said, precise assessment of who received what requires consulting the line-item FEC/OpenSecrets records; absent that extraction here, assertions about a long roster of named recipients and amounts would not be fully supported by the supplied excerpts ^{[1] [6] [4]}.