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Bill Foster

Bill Foster

Representative· ILDHouse● In officeOn the ballot in 2026
Before officeBusinessperson · Physicist · Entrepreneur · Fermilab
File · Money Read

What the money shows

Bill Foster has an estimated net worth of $20.3M. The 2026 campaign raised $2.2M. Outside groups had $28,100 spent against Bill Foster and $103,156 spent for Bill Foster. Bill Foster sits on Financial Institutions and Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Sources: House disclosures · Senate disclosures · FEC

Est. net worth
$20M
$10M+
Raised (last cycle)
$2.2M
FEC · cycle 2026
Years in role
13
Representative since 2013 · 18y in office
Net-worth filings
16
−$1.3M since 2008
File — Balance

Bills weighed against funded sectors

Each pan counts bills. Excluded bills are shown beside the scale when the vote or bill direction is unclear.

Banking & Financial

$192K in corporate money from banking · 9 roll calls · 7 bills

against banking
3 bills
with banking
1 bill
3 excluded · not weighed

Other

$106K in corporate money from other · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against other
0 bills
with other
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Ideological / Leadership

$62K in corporate money from ideological / leadership · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against ideological / leadership
0 bills
with ideological / leadership
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Insurance

$43K in corporate money from insurance · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against insurance
0 bills
with insurance
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Foreign-policy advocacy

$41K in corporate money from foreign-policy advocacy · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against foreign-policy advocacy
0 bills
with foreign-policy advocacy
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Labor / Unions

$32K in union money · 1 roll calls · 1 bills

against labor / unions
0 bills
with labor / unions
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

1 excluded · not weighed

Law & Lobbying

$24K in corporate money from law · 9 roll calls · 8 bills

against law
2 bills
with law
0 bills
6 excluded · not weighed

Real Estate & Construction

$20K in corporate money from real estate · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against real estate
0 bills
with real estate
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Health & Pharma

$7K in corporate money from health · 6 roll calls · 6 bills

against health
0 bills
with health
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

6 excluded · not weighed

Tech & Telecom

$7K in corporate money from tech · 6 roll calls · 6 bills

against tech
0 bills
with tech
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

6 excluded · not weighed
SourcesFEC money recordscongressional roster and vote records
File A — Net Worth

Net worth over time

Estimated from financial disclosures. The band shows the disclosed range; the line is the midpoint estimate.

midpoint disclosed range govt salary
source filing →

† Includes one or more open-ended top brackets (over $50M). The high end is a floor, so the true figure may be higher.

File C — Service

Term history

  1. RepresentativeIL-11D
    2025 – 2027 · 2 yrs
  2. RepresentativeIL-11D
    2023 – 2025 · 2 yrs
  3. RepresentativeIL-11D
    2021 – 2023 · 2 yrs
  4. RepresentativeIL-11D
    2019 – 2021 · 2 yrs
  5. RepresentativeIL-11D
    2017 – 2019 · 2 yrs
  6. RepresentativeIL-11D
    2015 – 2017 · 2 yrs
  7. RepresentativeIL-11D
    2013 – 2015 · 2 yrs
  8. RepresentativeIL-14D
    2009 – 2011 · 2 yrs
  9. RepresentativeIL-14D
    2008 – 2009 · 1 yrs
File D — Benchmark

If they'd just invested 20%

A disciplined-saver benchmark: 20% of each year's government salary, invested at an assumed 10%/yr return — versus actual disclosed net worth.

hypothetical retirement actual net worth salary

Hypothetical, not actual savings — see methodology.