--- title: Meet the Top 50 Donors Who Influenced State Elections description: Meet the top 50 donors who influenced state elections in 2014 with more than $440 million in donations. canonical: https://time.com/3685185/top-50-donors-state-elections/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-28T10:00:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:55:39.989Z article:section: Politics og:title: Meet the Top 50 Donors Who Influenced State Elections og:description: They gave more than $440 million last year. og:url: https://time.com/3685185/top-50-donors-state-elections/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet the Top 50 Donors Who Influenced State Elections twitter:description: They gave more than $440 million last year. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Meet the Top 50 Donors Who Influenced State Elections by [Ben Wieder, Kytja Weir, Reity O'Brien, Rachel Baye / Center for Public Integrity](https://time.com/author/center-for-public-integrity/) ## Ben Wieder, Kytja Weir, Reity O'Brien, Rachel Baye / Center for Public Integrity Jan 28, 2015 10:00 AM UTC by [Ben Wieder, Kytja Weir, Reity O'Brien, Rachel Baye / Center for Public Integrity](https://time.com/author/center-for-public-integrity/) ## Ben Wieder, Kytja Weir, Reity O'Brien, Rachel Baye / Center for Public Integrity Jan 28, 2015 10:00 AM UTC The top 50 political donors gave more than $440 million to the people and groups pushing candidates for state office in 2014, according to [an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity](http://www.time.com/3684968/campaign-finance-donors-state-elections). Here’s a look at who the kingmakers were. ​​ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3685185/top-50-donors-state-elections/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3685185/top-50-donors-state-elections/"},"headline":"Meet the Top 50 Donors Who Influenced State Elections","datePublished":"2015-01-28T10:00:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:55:39.989Z","description":"Meet the top 50 donors who influenced state elections in 2014 with more than $440 million in donations.","url":"https://time.com/3685185/top-50-donors-state-elections/","keywords":["Campaign Finance","Chris Christie","2014 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ben Wieder, Kytja Weir, Reity O'Brien, Rachel Baye / Center for Public Integrity"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"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/campaign-finance/","name":"Campaign Finance"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3685185/top-50-donors-state-elections/","name":"Meet the Top 50 Donors Who Influenced State Elections"}}]}] ```