FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026 · FEC bulk filing data · committee C00197095 · files monthly
SummaryAt a glance
Why it exists
No statement of purpose found on its site.
Money
$827.1K raised, $854.9K spent, $379.1K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
Who funds it
88% from donors giving over $200 · 11% from donors giving $200 or less · largest donor Steven Fay Abbass, $8.7K. See who funds it
Where it goes
$677.5K given to candidates and committees, the largest to Big SKY Opportunity PAC ($10K) · 49% of its support to Republicans, 45% to Democrats. See where it goes
Lobbying
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. lobbied on 5 issues. See lobbying
Its wordsWhat does this committee say it is for?
No published list of positions
This committee’s site publishes no list of positions we could read, and we found no statement of why it exists. We do not write one for it.
Who it gives toWhich candidates and committees get its money?
Each part reads different filings, so counts and totals can differ.
Party support distribution$456.5K to 103 candidates
Direct PAC contributions and independent expenditures explicitly reported as support, by the party of the candidate they went to.
For candidates $456,500
Republican 49%
Democratic 45%
Support by the party of the candidate
Party of the candidate
Candidates
Direct
Independent
Amount
Share
Republican
46
$223,500
$0
$223,500
49%
Democratic
45
$204,500
$0
$204,500
45%
Other or unresolved
12
$28,500
$0
$28,500
6.2%
Shown support
103
$456,500
$0
$456,500
100%
Contributions are reported money, not endorsements; a PAC giving to both parties is common.
Who this PAC gave to$677,500 in 296 payments
Every contribution on line 23 of the committee’s own Schedule B, which is the filing its summary totals are built from. That line covers federal candidates, party committees and other political committees alike, so a super PAC funding other super PACs appears here rather than under candidate giving.
By recipient
Line 23 contributions by kind and party of recipient
Recipient
Count
Amount
Democratic candidates
45
$204.5K · 30%
Republican candidates
45
$217.5K · 32%
Other or unresolved candidates
13
$34.5K · 5.1%
Republican party committees
1
$10K · 1.5%
Other PACs and committees
40
$213.5K · 31%
All recipients
144
$680K
By the candidate’s state
Contributions to candidates by the candidate’s state
State
Candidates
Amount
Wisconsin
8
$53K
Pennsylvania
5
$39.5K
California
10
$38.5K
New York
7
$35.5K
Illinois
5
$30.5K
Missouri
3
$26K
Texas
7
$25.5K
Massachusetts
3
$21K
The largest 8 of 39 states.
Recipients 144
Show candidate activity and the money network
Candidate and election activity as the recipients filed it
Lloyd K. Smucker2 receipts, latest Mar 20, 2026Smucker for Congress · H6PA16320$10K
James French Hill2 receipts, latest Feb 13, 2026French Hill for Arkansas · H4AR02141$10K
Darin McKay Lahood2 receipts, latest Mar 20, 2026Lahood for Congress · H6IL18088$10K
Hakeem Jeffries3 receipts, latest Sep 28, 2026Jeffries for Congress · H2NY10092$10K
Scott Fitzgerald2 receipts, latest Feb 13, 2026Scott Fitzgerald for Congress · H0WI05113$10K
Candidate contribution rows come from candidate committee Schedule A filings, the same rows the party chart above counts.
Committee money network
Money moving between this committee and other committees, matched on FEC committee ID rather than the name each filing was typed under. Both sides exclude memo entries. The figures here count each committee once, from the itemized transfers read for this section, so they will not match the payment counts under Who this PAC gave to.
Committees funding this one
Committees that reported giving to this one on their own Schedule A filings, grouped by the giver’s committee ID.
No committee-to-committee receipts were itemized this cycle.
Committees this one funds
Disbursements this committee itemized to another committee: candidate contributions, party transfers and payments alike, not contributions only.
Where the money came from $827,127 reported receipts
Itemized (over $200)Donors who have given more than $200 this cycle, so the FEC itemizes (names) them.$728,61988%
Largest donors
Steven Fay Abbass42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT · SELF-EMPLOYED · NORTHPORT, NY$8,736
Alex Beilin42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT · SELF-EMPLOYED · NEW CANAAN, CT$8,736
Michael T. Byrne42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT · SELF-EMPLOYED · WALNUT CREEK, CA$8,736
C. Tait Cruse42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT · SELF-EMPLOYED · PLANO, TX$8,736
Brian Russell Cunningham42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT · SELF-EMPLOYED · LITTLETON, CO$8,736
John C. Ertz42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT · SELF-EMPLOYED · SHAKER HTS, OH$8,736
Corey R. Fleisner42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT · SELF-EMPLOYED · APPLETON, WI$8,736
Lance P. Franczyk42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT · SELF-EMPLOYED · TULSA, OK$8,736
Timothy J. Gerend42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · CHAIRMAN PRESIDENT & CEO · NML · WHITEFISH BAY, WI$8,736
Thomas J. Goes42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT · SELF-EMPLOYED · ORLANDO, FL$8,736
Thomas Goris Jr.42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT · SELF-EMPLOYED · LONG GROVE, IL$8,736
Todd Matthew Grabner42 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2026 · GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT · SELF-EMPLOYED · PARK CITY, UT$8,736
A donor who gave several times appears once. The 12 largest donors by total given are listed. In all, 6,676 itemized contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $728.5K. FEC contributor lists are public records and cannot be used for commercial solicitation.
Unitemized ($200 or less)Donors who have given $200 or less this cycle, so the FEC does not itemize (name) them.$89,00711%
Refunds and rebatesMoney coming back to the committee: rebates and refunds of what it spent, contributions it made that were returned, and loans it made that were repaid.$9,5001.1%
Total reported receipts $827,127
Every dollar the committee reported receiving this cycle, split by the source the FEC filing attributes it to. Open a source marked + to see who gave. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
Who donated: where they live, their employers and jobs
Where the donors live $728,497 placed by state
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under $9.9K
$9.9K+
$39.7K+
$89.3K+
$158.7K+
none
Top states
Top donor states
Name
Amount
Wisconsin3,392 contributions · 34%
$247,944
Florida235 contributions · 5.5%
$40,359
California310 contributions · 5.1%
$37,254
Connecticut166 contributions · 4.4%
SpendingWhere does the money go?
How the spending splits $854,850 reported
Contributions to candidates and other committeesMoney given to federal candidates, party committees and other PACs.$687,00080%
Other disbursementsEverything the committee reports outside the lines above.$167,85020%
Total reported disbursements $854,850
Every dollar this committee reported spending this cycle, split by the lines it reports against. Open a line to see who was actually paid on it. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
What the payments were for $677,500 itemized
Given to othersContributions to other candidates, party committees, and PACs.$677,500100%
Filed as
CONTRIBUTION$677,500
Paid to
Big SKY Opportunity PAC$10,000
Giving Willingly Empowering Nationally PAC$10,000
Leadership & Accountability Are National Keys PAC$10,000
Oorah! PAC$10,000
Hoops PAC$10,000
Pennsylvania Honor$10,000
Total itemized disbursements $677,500
Every itemized payment the committee reported this cycle, sorted by what it said each one was for. The categories are ours; the wording they are matched against is the committee’s own. Open a category to read the filed descriptions and who was paid. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
All 296 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.
$854.9K spent from Jan 2025 to Oct 2026. Most in one report: $104.8K, September 2026.
$854.9K
Jan 2025Oct 2026
The running total of what the committee’s FEC reports say it spent, independent expenditures included, with a point at the end of each report. The line is straight between reports because a report gives one total for its whole period.
What The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company lobbies on 2026 reports
Besides giving through its PAC, The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company pays lobbyists to press Congress and federal agencies. Each quarter it, or a firm it hires, files a public report under the Lobbying Disclosure Act saying which topics it worked on, what it spent, and whom it contacted. This is what those reports say.
Spent on lobbying in 2026
$4.7M
Quarterly reports read
13
Bills it named
15
Topics it lobbied on
Each report files its work under official topics. The bar shows how often each topic came up across the reports; open one to read what was filed under it. Naming a bill says the organization lobbied on it, not which side it took.
Insurancein 10 report entries · 4 bills named
In its own words
INS - Quarter 2 2026 H.R. 4583 and H.R. 4582/S.1552 - Living Donor Protection Act.
The bill would promote and protect from discrimination living organ donors.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securitiesin 7 report entries · 6 bills named
In its own words
FIN - Quarter 2 2026 H.R.20/S.852 - Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act.
To amend the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, and the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.
Issue: independent contractor status.
H.R. 3682/S. 3578 - Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2025.
This bill will restore transparency to FSOC by imposing procedural guardrails, including enhanced due process protections, and a stronger analytic framework before a firm can be designated as systemically important.
Issue: Dodd-Frank Act reform.
S. __ - Protecting Innovation in Investment Act - To prohibit the Securities and Exchange Commission from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with respect to conflicts of interest associated with the use of predictive data analytics by broker-dealers and investment advisers.
Issue: Predictive data analytics.
Issue: FHLBank System Issue: Basel III Issue: Regulation Best Interest Issue: Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) reform.
No bill number assigned.
FIN - Quarter 1 2026 H.R.20/S.852 - Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act.
FIN Quarter 1 2026 H.R.20/S.852 - Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act.
Consumer Issues/Safety/Productsin 4 report entries · 3 bills named
In its own words
CSP - Quarter 2 2026 H.R.__/S.__ Online Privacy Act - The legislation would provide for individual rights relating to privacy of personal information, to establish privacy and security requirements for covered entities relating to personal information, and to establish an agency to be known as the Digital Privacy Agency to enforce such rights and requirements.
Issue: Data Privacy H.R. __ - Responsible AI Disclosure Act.
The bill would require the Federal financial agencies to carry out a study and report on standardized descriptions for vendor-provided artificial intelligence systems.
Issue: Artificial Intelligence (AI).
H.R. 8413 - SECURE Data Act.
To establish a national framework for consumer privacy rights and the protection of personal data.
Issue: Data Privacy H.R. 8398 - Guidelines for Use, Access, and Responsible Disclosure of Financial Data Act.
The bill would make improvements to title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Issue: Data Privacy.
H.R.___ and S.___ - Draft data privacy legislation.
Issue: Data Privacy H.R. __ - Draft cybersecurity legislation.
CSP - Third Quarter 2026 Public Law 111-203, H.R. 4173- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Issue: Implementation, Global Capital Standards and Regulatory reform.
Retirementin 4 report entries · 2 bills named
In its own words
Retirement - Third Quarter 2026 Income Security S. 2415 and H.R. 7107, the Long-Term Care Affordability Act: Would allow for tax free distributions from retirement accounts to fund LTC contracts.
Retirement Security, Q2 2026 Income Security S. 2415 and H.R. 7107, the Long-Term Care Affordability Act: Would allow for tax free distributions from retirement accounts to fund LTC contracts.
Retirement Security, Q1 2026 Income Security S. 2415 and H.R. 7107, the Long-Term Care Affordability Act: Would allow for tax free distributions from retirement accounts to fund LTC contracts.
Reported twice a year by the lobbying filer. $282.6K is political giving that also appears in FEC filings.
Philip Sarnecki (R)$12K
Republican Assembly Campaign Committee (RACC)$12K
Rep. Jason Smith (R)$10K
Rep. Katherine Clark (D)$10K
ACLHIC PAC$9.8K
Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee (ADCC)$9K
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R)$7.5K
Rep. Mike Thompson (D)$7K
Rep. Rudy Yakym, III (R)$6K
Sen. Todd Young (R)$6K
Matched by name: these reports are filed for “THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY”, found by searching “NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE”. Lobbying and FEC records share no ID, so an organization that lobbies under another name is missed. Source: LDA.gov, accessed Oct 27, 2026. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.
THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NMPAC)
Filings covered
Through Oct 14, 2026
Data source
FEC bulk filing data
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. PAC is registered with the Federal Election Commission as a PAC (qualified). It is a lobbyist/registrant PAC. Official FEC summary: Federal Election Commission committee record.
Pages quoted 0 pages
No pages quoted
Nothing from this committee’s or its sponsor’s site is quoted yet.
Linked public records
No approved organization identity yet
The official FEC committee record remains available under Filings.
$680K across 146 recipient committees, or 80% of everything this committee reports spending. The largest 12 are shown. A further $5K was filed as memo entries, which FEC reports separately to avoid counting it twice.
Built from FEC Schedule A and Schedule B filings for the selected cycle. A committee only appears here if the money was itemized under its FEC committee ID.
$31,883
Illinois188 contributions · 4%
$28,812
New York170 contributions · 3.2%
$23,555
Texas204 contributions · 3.1%
$22,704
Ohio124 contributions · 3.1%
$22,472
By the state each contributor wrote on the filing. The FEC aggregates every Schedule A line together, so one committee or organization transfer can account for a whole state. Contributors who have given $200 or less this cycle are not itemized and cannot be placed on a map. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total.
Donors’ employers as filed
Donors’ employers
Employer as filed
Amount
Self-employedWritten instead of an employer · 2,937 contributions · 64% of ranked
$465,406
NML3,737 contributions · 36% of ranked
$262,841
The Valles Group LLC2 contributions · <0.1% of ranked
$250
Itemized receipts grouped by the words contributors filed. The FEC aggregates every Schedule A line here, so committee and organization money sits alongside individuals; this is not an industry classification. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($89,007) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
Donors’ occupations as filed
Donors’ occupations
Occupation as filed
Amount
General Insurance Agent2,937 contributions · 64% of ranked
$465,406
Managing Director267 contributions · 1.4% of ranked
$10,231
EVP & Chief Financial Officer42 contributions · 1.2% of ranked
$8,736
VP Real Estate42 contributions · 1.2% of ranked
$8,694
Chairman President & CEO38 contributions · 1.1% of ranked
$7,904
EVP & Chief Field Officer38 contributions · 1.1% of ranked
$7,904
EVP & Chief Legal & Public AFF38 contributions · 1.1% of ranked
$7,904
EVP & Chief Product Officer38 contributions · 1.1% of ranked
$7,904
Itemized receipts grouped by the words contributors filed. The FEC aggregates every Schedule A line here, so committee and organization money sits alongside individuals; this is not an industry classification. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($89,007) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
The people, firms and committees paid the most, across every kind of payment. Each share is of everything the committee reported spending this cycle, not only the itemized payments above. A payee that is itself a committee links to its own profile.
FIN - Third Quarter 2026 H.R. 3682/S. 3578 - Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2025.
Issue: FHLBank System Issue: Basel III
Issues related to data privacy;
Issues related to H.R. 8398 - Guidelines for Use, Access, and Responsible Disclosure of Financial Data Act;
Issues related to H.R. 8413 - SECURE Data Act;
Issues related to artificial intelligence;
Issues related to Basel III Endgame capital requirements.
Issues related to data privacy; Issues related to artificial intelligence; Issues related to Basel III Endgame capital requirements.
The legislation would establish duties of care, loyalty, and confidentiality, and a violation of the duties would be treated as a violation of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule with fine authority.
Issue: Data Privacy H.R.__/S.__ Online Privacy Act - The legislation would provide for individual rights relating to privacy of personal information, to establish privacy and security requirements for covered entities relating to personal information, and to establish an agency to be known as the Digital Privacy Agency to enforce such rights and requirements.
Issue: Data Privacy H.R. 8413 - SECURE Data Act.
Issue: Data Privacy H.R.___ and S.___ - Draft data privacy legislation.
Issue: Data Privacy Issue: Artificial Intelligence (AI).
CSP - Quarter 1 2026 H.R.__/S.__ Online Privacy Act - The legislation would provide for individual rights relating to privacy of personal information, to establish privacy and security requirements for covered entities relating to personal information, and to establish an agency to be known as the Digital Privacy Agency to enforce such rights and requirements.
Issue: Artificial Intelligence (AI). ___ - Draft legislation on data privacy.
Issue: Draft legislation that would require notice of data security breaches.
Issue: Cybersecurity and Privacy.
CSP Quarter 1 2026 H.R.__/S.__ Online Privacy Act - The legislation would provide for individual rights relating to privacy of personal information, to establish privacy and security requirements for covered entities relating to personal information, and to establish an agency to be known as the Digital Privacy Agency to enforce such rights and requirements.