Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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StateIowa Senate

Molly Donahue

State senator, Senate District 37

Re-elected Nov 3 (unofficial results). Serving another term.

Party
Democrat
District
Senate District 37See it on a street map
Committees
7 committees
Tracked votes
75
The record

Voting record

Votes on the education bills we track. Each bill links to its history, text and who sponsored it.

Campaign money

Who funds their campaign

Money given to Molly Donahue’s campaign for the Iowa Senate, from reports it files with the state. It doesn’t include money raised for any other race, such as a run for Congress, which is reported to the Federal Election Commission instead. We show totals; we don’t name individual donors.

$47,697raised in 2025–26, through Oct 14

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Party committees
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
85%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
50%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 16% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$4,000
  2. Linn Phoenix ClubPAC$3,000
  3. Iowa Health PACPAC$2,500
  4. Heavy Highway Political Action CommitteePAC$2,000
  5. Linn County Democratic Central CommitteeParty$2,000
  6. Operating Engineers Local 234 Political FundPAC$2,000
  7. Credit Union PACPAC$1,500
  8. Iowa Providers PACPAC$1,000
  9. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 125 Political Education FundPAC$1,000
  10. Iowa Dental Political Action CommitteePAC$750
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$21,83646%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$23,25049%
Party committees State and county party committees$2,0004%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$00%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$6111%
In-kind gifts (included above)$4,0929%

Totals cover their campaign committee only, not money spent by outside groups. In-kind gifts count at their reported value. Party money often passes through caucus committees, which show up here as PACs. How we count campaign money

From Iowa Campaign Contributions Received, published by the Iowa Ethics & Campaign Finance Disclosure Commission under CC BY-NC 4.0. We total and summarize the reports as campaigns filed them. Last checked Nov 7.

Where bills start

Committees

Where they serve

Senate District 37

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Molly Donahue represents Senate District 37, which is in Linn County.

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District lines from the US Census Bureau, drawn in Iowa’s 2021 redistricting. Street map © OpenStreetMap contributors, OpenFreeMap.

Legislator details from Open States. Votes last checked Nov 6. Report a mistake