Portland Council · 13 City-covered campaigns
Who gets the larger gifts?
Count the individual gifts above $250. Then see how much money they bring.
Gift records, not unique donors. Dollars exclude City matching, in-kind and outside spending.
Eric ZimmermanD4 · Incumbent Individual gifts above $250: 159These gifts brought $55,49249.3% of private dollars
159 larger gifts. 49.3% of private money.
159 of 1,120 individual gifts
$55,492 of $112,658.40
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $25
- Mean
- $95.31
- Mode
- $25
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Kellie TorresD3 · Challenger Individual gifts above $250: 142These gifts brought $49,41242.6% of private dollars
142 larger gifts. 42.6% of private money.
142 of 1,384 individual gifts
$49,412 of $116,011
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $25
- Mean
- $83.21
- Mode
- $25
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Olivia ClarkD4 · Incumbent Individual gifts above $250: 127These gifts brought $44,52540.8% of private dollars
127 larger gifts. 40.8% of private money.
127 of 1,250 individual gifts
$44,525 of $109,172.30
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $25
- Mean
- $84.07
- Mode
- $25
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Steve NovickD3 · Incumbent Individual gifts above $250: 110These gifts brought $39,40036.8% of private dollars
110 larger gifts. 36.8% of private money.
110 of 1,218 individual gifts
$39,400 of $107,016.39
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $50
- Mean
- $86.10
- Mode
- $25
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Eli ArnoldD4 · Challenger Individual gifts above $250: 73These gifts brought $28,22527.8% of private dollars
73 larger gifts. 27.8% of private money.
73 of 1,917 individual gifts
$28,225 of $101,377.15
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $25
- Mean
- $52.86
- Mode
- $25
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Mitch GreenD4 · Incumbent Individual gifts above $250: 62These gifts brought $23,16724.8% of private dollars
62 larger gifts. 24.8% of private money.
62 of 2,559 individual gifts
$23,167 of $93,518.64
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $25
- Mean
- $35.40
- Mode
- $25
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Tiffany Koyama LaneD3 · Incumbent Individual gifts above $250: 48These gifts brought $17,202.5018.2% of private dollars
48 larger gifts. 18.2% of private money.
48 of 2,558 individual gifts
$17,202.50 of $94,276.51
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $25
- Mean
- $35.94
- Mode
- $25
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Angelita MorilloD3 · Incumbent Individual gifts above $250: 46These gifts brought $16,20819.6% of private dollars
46 larger gifts. 19.6% of private money.
46 of 2,335 individual gifts
$16,208 of $82,744.42
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $25
- Mean
- $34.14
- Mode
- $25
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Jamey EvenstarD4 · Challenger Individual gifts above $250: 15These gifts brought $5,32519.9% of private dollars
15 larger gifts. 19.9% of private money.
15 of 719 individual gifts
$5,325 of $26,798.47
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $25
- Mean
- $35.19
- Mode
- $25
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Jayne CronlundD4 · Challenger Individual gifts above $250: 7These gifts brought $3,40020.1% of private dollars
7 larger gifts. 20.1% of private money.
7 of 424 individual gifts
$3,400 of $16,892
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $25
- Mean
- $39.84
- Mode
- $25
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Jeremy Beausoleil SmithD4 · Challenger Individual gifts above $250: 3These gifts brought $1,0454.1% of private dollars
3 larger gifts. 4.1% of private money.
3 of 1,108 individual gifts
$1,045 of $25,229
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $25
- Mean
- $22.26
- Mode
- $25
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Esther LeónD3 · Challenger Individual gifts above $250: 2These gifts brought $6838.8% of private dollars
2 larger gifts. 8.8% of private money.
2 of 382 individual gifts
$683 of $7,791.43
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $10
- Mean
- $20.40
- Mode
- $5
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
Tom SollittD3 · Challenger Individual gifts above $250: 0These gifts brought $00.0% of private dollars
0 larger gifts. 0.0% of private money.
0 of 403 individual gifts
$0 of $10,152
Same gifts, different denominators. Private dollars include other reported source types; individual gift counts do not.
- Median individual gift
- $10
- Mean
- $22.96
- Mode
- $5
These statistics cover City individual-coded monetary records of all amounts, not unique people. ORESTAR statistics elsewhere cover named individual donations.
The public contribution
A small gift can bring much more.
Illustration, not a payment determination. Assumes a certified participating campaign below its funding cap and no other eligibility restriction. A new gift does not restart the same donor’s $25 matching allowance for that candidate.
2026 City formula: 10-to-1 on the first $25 per qualifying donor, per candidate. Official rules · Actual City distributions
What these numbers can—and can’t—tell you.
Aggregated does not mean anonymous cash
Illustration, not an actual transaction. A reporting category does not identify the payment method.
State reports generally identify a contributor once their giving to a committee exceeds $100 in a calendar year. Combined entries can conceal individual amounts, but anonymous and false-name contributions are prohibited. ORS 260.083 and 260.402; state manual.
City records add gift detail, not a completed audit. Unknown geography does not establish an out-of-state donor. Stable identifiers, amendment histories and refund links are still needed to reconcile final totals. City disclosure rules.
PAC money and outside spending are separate
Illustration: $100 moving through two stages, not $200 in backing.
The chart covers campaign gifts. It does not count outside spending. An ad opposing one candidate is not automatically support for a particular rival. Shared mailers need documented allocations; bills and their payments must not be counted twice. Independent-expenditure reporting rules.
These records cannot establish donor wealth, legal compliance or whether large gifts cause challengers to win.
A gift-size cutoff is not a legal limit
The $250 cutoff is an analytical choice. The City program’s $350 individual allowance has separate seed-money rules: up to $875 per contributor, subject to a $5,000 campaign seed-money cap. Matching depends on certification, eligibility and funding caps. Full limits table.
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About 10 KB compressed. Amount frequencies preserve the arithmetic without publishing donor identities.
Definitions, exclusions and reproducibility
- 17,448 monetary records across 13 campaigns, reduced to 611 candidate/year/type/amount frequency rows. Source capture: November 1, 2026, 7:01 p.m. Pacific. Main window: January 1, 2025–October 31, 2026; alternative: January 1–October 31, 2026.
- Private dollars include all reported non-City monetary source types. City matching and in-kind records are excluded. Totals are gross observations; refunds are not netted. Source labels are used as reported.
- The default cutoff is strictly above $250; exactly $250 is excluded. The cutoff control also offers $250 or more and $350 or more. Counts describe individual-coded monetary gift records, not unique donors. Small gifts are records of $100 or less. Medians, means and modes cover those City individual records of all amounts. ORESTAR medians elsewhere cover named individual donations and have different coverage.
- Gift records are not unique donors. Amount bands do not aggregate a person’s repeated giving. No City-to-ORESTAR or donor-name join is used for these charts.
- Among the selected campaigns’ source rows, 27 date values fall outside the comparison window and one is malformed. They are excluded without correcting dates. The public feed does not provide enough version, status or refund information to resolve final net receipts.
- The linked public source code includes processed, submitted and awaiting records. Its deployed revision is unconfirmed. This is a provisional feed comparison, not a certified statement of fundraising.
- Unzip and run
python3 reproduce.py. The standard-library script verifies the input hash and writessummary.json. Amounts are integer cents; frequency weights are preserved. The separate ORESTAR download has its own source, date range and limitations.
Official sources
- Open Elections Portland public contribution feed, captured November 1; public dashboard; version-pinned public source code.
- City of Portland: 2026 election and program participants; contribution limits and matching formula.
- City program rules and reporting forms; administrative rules effective November 3, 2025, rule 14.
- Oregon Revised Statutes, chapter 260, especially 260.012, 260.083 and 260.402; Oregon Campaign Finance Manual, January 2025 edition. Rules checked November 2, 2026.