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Which members of Congress received the most AIPAC PAC donations in 2022 and 2023?
Executive Summary
The available precompiled analyses show that AIPAC’s PAC was an active funder in 2022 and continued contributions into 2023, with one report stating the PAC distributed over $17.5 million in 2022 and naming several high-profile recipients such as Shontel Brown, Ken Calvert, Haley Stevens, and Don Bacon [1]. However, the documents provided do not supply a single, consolidated ranked list of which individual members of Congress received the most AIPAC PAC donations across 2022 and 2023, and publicly compiled recipient-by-recipient totals appear only in broader PAC summaries rather than the direct lists in these materials [2] [3]. This analysis extracts key claims from the materials supplied, identifies gaps, and compares available figures and emphases across sources to clarify what can and cannot be concluded from the supplied evidence.
1. What the sources say plainly — big-dollar totals and named beneficiaries
One source explicitly reports that the AIPAC PAC distributed more than $17.5 million to pro-Israel candidates in 2022 and lists notable recipients including Congresswoman Shontel Brown, Congressman Ken Calvert, Congresswoman Haley Stevens, and Congressman Don Bacon among those who received significant support [1]. That same document stresses the PAC’s broad endorsement strategy — backing 365 candidates and supporting the full leadership teams of both parties — which explains why many members received funds even if individual sums vary [1]. The claim is concrete about the aggregate spend and highlights specific named recipients, giving evidence that those members were among significant beneficiaries, but it does not translate aggregate spending and endorsements into a ranked, member-by-member donation table for 2022 or 2023.
2. Where the supplied materials fall short — no definitive ranked recipient list
Other provided analyses and profiles explicitly note an absence of a specific ranked list of top recipients in the supplied pages; for example, one profile says it does not specifically list the members who received the most AIPAC PAC donations in 2022 and 2023, even as it mentions several names associated with significant support [4]. A PAC profile indicates AIPAC contributed $1,492,000 to federal candidates in a 2023–2024 slice and provides percentage splits by party, but that resource is framed as a cycle-level summary rather than a per-member ranking for prior cycles and is dated in the supplied metadata as July 23, 2025 [2]. Several OpenSecrets-derived pages included in the bundle focus on donors to the PAC or broader pro-Israel PAC activity and explicitly state they do not contain the sought 2022–2023 recipient ranking [5] [6] [3].
3. Reconciling named recipients with aggregate totals — plausible top beneficiaries
Given the documents’ combination of aggregate totals and repeated naming of certain members, the best-supported inference from these materials is that the members cited repeatedly (Shontel Brown, Haley Stevens, Ken Calvert, Don Bacon, Young Kim, Glenn Ivey in some summaries) were among the more prominent or highly visible recipients of AIPAC PAC support in 2022 and into 2023 [1] [4]. That inference rests on two facts present across sources: the PAC made large total disbursements in 2022 and the same handful of members appear in multiple recipient mentions. The materials do not, however, provide per-member dollar totals or an explicit ordering, so claiming any single lawmaker received the “most” would exceed what the supplied evidence documents.
4. Multiple viewpoints and possible agenda signals in the sources
The documents reflect both factual reporting on monetary totals and strategic framing by interest-tracking organizations. The AIPAC PAC summary emphasizes broad bipartisan leadership support and a large slate of endorsed candidates, which highlights an agenda to show wide influence [1]. OpenSecrets-style profiles in the bundle present cycle-level contribution breakdowns and donor lists and emphasize data transparency but in these extracts stop short of a final ranked list, indicating their aim to aggregate cycle data rather than produce narrative top-recipient claims [2] [5]. Readers should note that naming particular members repeatedly can serve both informational and framing purposes, spotlighting beneficiaries without providing the full numeric context required to rank them definitively.
5. Conclusion and what remains needed to answer the question precisely
The supplied materials establish that AIPAC PAC gave substantial sums in 2022 and name several congressional recipients who received notable support, but they do not provide a complete ranked list of who received the most in 2022 and 2023 [1] [4] [2] [3]. To produce a definitive ranking by dollar amount for each year would require accessing the underlying itemized Federal Election Commission or OpenSecrets recipient-by-recipient tables for the 2022 and 2023 cycles. The current evidence supports identifying a set of frequently named beneficiaries as likely top recipients but does not justify asserting an exact ordering or naming a single top recipient based solely on the supplied documents.