--- title: Bernie Sanders Just Broke His Latest Fundraising Record description: Bernie Sanders broke his monthly fundraising record, raking in more than $44 million in donations in March. canonical: https://time.com/4279143/bernie-sanders-breaks-fundraising-record/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-01T14:54:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:24:16.098Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bernie Sanders Just Broke His Latest Fundraising Record og:description: He raised more than $44 million in March og:url: https://time.com/4279143/bernie-sanders-breaks-fundraising-record/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt481c3643db63a3c7/69888ad3f887dc2b4fe9503e/515410404.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bernie Sanders Holds Campaign Rally At St. Louis Area High School og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bernie Sanders Just Broke His Latest Fundraising Record twitter:description: He raised more than $44 million in March twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt481c3643db63a3c7/69888ad3f887dc2b4fe9503e/515410404.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bernie Sanders Just Broke His Latest Fundraising Record  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Apr 1, 2016 2:54 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally on March 13, 2016 in St Louis, Missouri. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally on March 13, 2016 in St Louis, Missouri.Whitney Curtis—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Apr 1, 2016 2:54 PM UTC [Bernie Sanders](https://twitter.com/SenSanders?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) just broke his monthly fundraising record, raking in more than $44 million in donations in March. According to a [press release](https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-monster-march/) from the campaign, the new March total breaks Sanders’ previous record total in February, which was $43.5 million. The Vermont Senator’s total for the first quarter of 2016 is now $109 million. His campaign has received 6.5 million contributions from 2 million donors. Sanders out-raised rival and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in both January and February. She has not yet made her March fundraising totals public. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4279143/bernie-sanders-breaks-fundraising-record/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4279143/bernie-sanders-breaks-fundraising-record/"},"headline":"Bernie Sanders Just Broke His Latest Fundraising Record","datePublished":"2016-04-01T14:54:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:24:16.098Z","description":"He raised more than $44 million in March","url":"https://time.com/4279143/bernie-sanders-breaks-fundraising-record/","keywords":["Bernie Sanders"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt481c3643db63a3c7/69888ad3f887dc2b4fe9503e/515410404.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt481c3643db63a3c7/69888ad3f887dc2b4fe9503e/515410404.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bernie Sanders Holds Campaign Rally At St. Louis Area High School","caption":"Bernie Sanders Holds Campaign Rally At St. Louis Area High School","creditText":"Whitney Curtis—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/bernie-sanders/","name":"Bernie Sanders"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4279143/bernie-sanders-breaks-fundraising-record/","name":"Bernie Sanders Just Broke His Latest Fundraising Record"}}]}] ```