Which individual donors gave $5 million or more to pro-Harris or pro-Biden super PACs in 2024 according to FEC/OpenSecrets filings?
Executive summary
The public FEC/OpenSecrets trail for 2024 names very few individual donors who gave $5 million or more directly to pro–Biden or pro–Harris super PACs; the clearest, on-record example is Dustin Moskovitz, reported as an individual who gave roughly $38 million to pro‑Harris super PACs [1]. Much of the five‑million‑and‑up money supporting Harris was routed through large nonprofit “dark money” intermediaries—most notably Future Forward USA Action—which masks the identities of many backers and complicates a simple tally from FEC/OpenSecrets disclosures [1] [2].
1. The straightforward filings: Dustin Moskovitz is the named individual donor at $5M+
FEC-reported and analyst-reviewed data point to Dustin Moskovitz as the prominent individual megadonor to pro‑Harris super PACs in 2024, with reporters and the Brennan Center identifying a roughly $38 million total tied to Moskovitz’s contributions to pro‑Harris vehicles [1]. OpenSecrets and major outlet summaries of FEC filings corroborate that tech industry entrepreneurs were a major source of large gifts to Democratic-aligned outside committees during the cycle, reinforcing Moskovitz’s status as an on‑record, $5M‑plus individual donor to groups supporting Harris [3] [4].
2. The opaque layer: large sums came through dark‑money nonprofits, not FEC donor lines
A decisive complication is that super PACs received very large transfers from nonprofit organizations that themselves do not disclose donors; Future Forward USA Action donated to the pro‑Harris super PAC ecosystem and reported transfers totaling in the hundreds of millions, including a $136 million infusion to its affiliated super PAC—amounts that appear on FEC filings but conceal the nonprofit’s funders [1] [5] [6]. Investigations and watchdog groups report that Bill Gates reportedly gave $50 million to Future Forward’s nonprofit arm—an amount that will not appear as an individual contribution on FEC or OpenSecrets donor rolls because it was routed through a 501(c) [2] [7].
3. What FEC/OpenSecrets can and cannot show: the difference between direct donors and money behind nonprofits
FEC and OpenSecrets disclosures reliably list dollar amounts sent to super PACs and identify direct individual donors when those individuals give directly to the super PACs [3] [8]. However, when a nonprofit or dark‑money group gives to a super PAC, the FEC record shows the nonprofit as the donor and does not reveal the nonprofit’s funders; consequently, FEC/OpenSecrets public records undercount or render anonymous large individual donors who use intermediaries [2] [5]. Reporting by the Brennan Center and Campaign Legal Center makes clear that the largest single “donor” entries on the pro‑Harris side are organizations like Future Forward USA Action and that a significant share of $5M‑plus money comes via these intermediaries rather than as itemized individual contributions [1] [2].
4. Alternative viewpoints and reporting limitations
Advocates for transparency point to the FEC’s requirement that super PACs disclose donors and argue that existing filings already reveal significant individual donors [3], while campaign‑finance researchers and watchdogs emphasize that dark‑money intermediaries are the main reason so much high‑value giving remains unattributed to named individuals [2] [5]. The sources reviewed explicitly note that Bill Gates’s reputed $50 million gift to Future Forward’s nonprofit arm does not show up in FEC donor lists because of the nonprofit vehicle used [2] [7]. This analysis is limited to the provided reporting and cannot claim to exhaustively reproduce every FEC or OpenSecrets entry; where reporting does not name an individual as a $5M+ filer to pro‑Harris/pro‑Biden super PACs, this account does not assert that such an individual does or does not exist beyond the cited sources [1] [3] [2].
5. Bottom line
Based on the cited FEC/OpenSecrets‑based reporting in these sources, Dustin Moskovitz is the principal named individual donor who gave $5 million or more directly to pro‑Harris super PACs in 2024; much larger sums that boosted the same pro‑Harris apparatus came through dark‑money nonprofits such as Future Forward USA Action, which conceal the names of their funders—including a reported $50 million that watchdog reporting attributes to Bill Gates but which does not appear as an individual contribution on FEC/OpenSecrets donor lists [1] [2] [7]. Those two facts—named megadonors in the filings and vast, anonymized flows through nonprofits—together explain why a simple list of $5M+ individual givers to Harris/Biden super PACs is short on names despite the enormous totals reported on FEC/OpenSecrets summaries [1] [3] [6].