What candidates did LOWPAC (Lowe’s PAC) fund in the 2019–2020 and 2023–2024 cycles?
Executive summary
LOWPAC is Lowe’s employee political action committee that disbursed federal and state political contributions in the 2019–2020 and 2023–2024 cycles, but the sources provided here document overall receipts and reporting mechanisms rather than an explicit, fully enumerated list of candidate names; OpenSecrets and Lowe’s corporate disclosures summarize cycle totals and describe LOWPAC’s contribution process [1] [2] [3]. The precise, per-candidate recipient lists for those cycles are available in federal disclosures and PAC recipient pages maintained by the FEC, OpenSecrets and state databases; those original filings are the authoritative records for the question but are not reproduced in full in the supplied material [4] [5].
1. What LOWPAC is and how it decides donations
LOWPAC is Lowe’s employee political action committee funded by voluntary employee contributions and governed by a board of senior leaders; Lowe’s corporate policy says LOWPAC supports candidates and political committees “supportive of Lowe’s business interests,” with contribution decisions approved by the Vice President of Government Affairs and, when necessary, the General Counsel, and overseen by the independent Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee [3]. That governance framing is important because it signals corporate controls and an asserted business-interest test rather than a declared partisan litmus; sources describe process and oversight but do not, in the excerpts provided, disclose a candidate-by-candidate ledger in plain text [3] [2].
2. What the public record shows about dollar totals in 2019–2020
Publicly available PAC trackers summarize LOWPAC’s activity in the 2019–2020 cycle: OpenSecrets reports that Lowe’s Companies raised $769,192 during the 2019–2020 election cycle, a figure that captures receipts to the PAC and helps bound the scale of contributions distributed in that period [1]. Those cycle totals indicate non-trivial political engagement but do not, in the provided excerpts, translate into a named roster of congressional or statewide candidates paid by LOWPAC; for itemized recipients the FEC and OpenSecrets candidate-recipient pages are the next step [4] [5].
3. What the record shows about 2023–2024 activity and reporting avenues
Lowe’s 2023 annual political report confirms LOWPAC activity in 2023 and states the PAC made contributions that year, and Lowe’s corporate site reiterates that LOWPAC contribution itemizations are provided at least annually to the company committee overseeing political engagement [2] [3]. The FEC’s summary tables and PAC data pages aggregate contributions by two-year cycle and are the canonical public source for enumerating which federal candidates received LOWPAC funds in 2023–2024; the supplied materials point to those records rather than printing an exhaustively named list in the excerpts provided [4].
4. Why specific candidate names weren’t listed in the supplied excerpts
The documents and trackers provided include summary reports, policy statements and cycle totals but the snippets do not extract the full recipient-by-recipient disbursement lists for 2019–2020 or 2023–2024; sources like OpenSecrets and the FEC maintain and display candidate-recipient pages where LOWPAC’s individual contributions are recorded, and Lowe’s own LOWPAC annual reports typically accompany those filings but may require consulting the FEC or state election commission files for complete line-item detail [1] [5] [4] [2]. Given that limitation, asserting a definitive roster of candidate names from these excerpts would be premature.
5. How to get the definitive list and what to expect
To produce a definitive, sourced list of which candidates LOWPAC funded in 2019–2020 and 2023–2024, consult the FEC two-year summary tables and the LOWPAC committee pages on OpenSecrets/FollowTheMoney which display disbursements and candidate recipients; those databases pull directly from FEC and state filings and are explicitly referenced in the provided materials as the repositories for cycle-by-cycle recipient data [4] [5] [6]. The corporate disclosures and policies supplied here are useful context—explaining who makes contribution decisions and why—but they complement rather than replace the line‑item public finance records needed to answer the question with candidate names [3] [2].