--- title: Hillary Clinton's Campaign Exceeds 2015 Fundraising Goal description: Clinton easily met her goal of raising $100 million. canonical: https://time.com/4165391/hillary-clinton-campaign-fundraising/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-01T21:17:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:45.812Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton's Campaign Exceeds 2015 Fundraising Goal og:description: Clinton more than met her goal of raising $100 million og:url: https://time.com/4165391/hillary-clinton-campaign-fundraising/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61ec44407283ef7f/69887752428a9ef011cd0c4a/gettyimages-502826656.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3600 og:image:height: 2025 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton Holds Last Campaign Event Of 2015 In New Hampshire og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton's Campaign Exceeds 2015 Fundraising Goal twitter:description: Clinton more than met her goal of raising $100 million twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61ec44407283ef7f/69887752428a9ef011cd0c4a/gettyimages-502826656.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton's Campaign Exceeds 2015 Fundraising Goal > Sponsored content. 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Clinton continues to poll strong in New Hampshire as the year comes to a close. Darren McCollester—Getty Images by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 1, 2016 9:17 PM UTC Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign announced Friday that it [raised $37 million in the last three months](http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/01/politics/hillary-clinton-fundraising-100-million/), bringing its yearly fundraising total to $112 million. This beats a fundraising goal of $100 million set by the campaign earlier in the year, reports CNN. The Clinton campaign also says that it has raised $18 million for the Democratic National Committee and for state Democratic parties across the country. Aides to the Democratic frontrunner say that many of these donors were women—and 94% of the donations were in increments of $100 or less. Coming into the New Year, the Clinton campaign says it has $38 million cash on hand as it prepares for the first electoral event in the election cycle, the Feb 1\. Iowa Caucus. Clinton’s fundraising totals for the fourth quarter are [higher than others that have been reported so far](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/hillary-clinton-campaign-says-it-raised-37m-fourth-quarter-n488951). Republican contenders Ben Carson and Ted Cruz raised $23 million and $19 million, respectively. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4165391/hillary-clinton-campaign-fundraising/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4165391/hillary-clinton-campaign-fundraising/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton's Campaign Exceeds 2015 Fundraising Goal","datePublished":"2016-01-01T21:17:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:45.812Z","description":"Clinton more than met her goal of raising $100 million","url":"https://time.com/4165391/hillary-clinton-campaign-fundraising/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61ec44407283ef7f/69887752428a9ef011cd0c4a/gettyimages-502826656.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61ec44407283ef7f/69887752428a9ef011cd0c4a/gettyimages-502826656.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton Holds Last Campaign Event Of 2015 In New Hampshire","caption":"Hillary Clinton Holds Last Campaign Event Of 2015 In New Hampshire","creditText":"Darren McCollester—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4165391/hillary-clinton-campaign-fundraising/","name":"Hillary Clinton's Campaign Exceeds 2015 Fundraising Goal"}}]}] ```