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Don Bacon
Before officeAssistant professor · Jeff Fortenberry
File · Money Read
What the money shows
Don Bacon has an estimated net worth of $1.1M. The 2026 campaign raised $969,827. Outside groups had $8.7M spent against Don Bacon and $3.3M spent for Don Bacon. Don Bacon sits on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation and Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
Sources: House disclosures · Senate disclosures · FEC
Est. net worth
$1.1M
$97K – $2.2M
Raised (last cycle)
$970K
FEC · cycle 2026
Years in role
9
Representative since 2017
Net-worth filings
9
+$547K since 2017
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.
Ideological / Leadership
$2.9M 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.
Other
$216K 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.
Real Estate & Construction
$197K 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.
Labor / Unions
$177K 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.
Law & Lobbying
$105K in corporate money from law · 9 roll calls · 8 bills
Foreign-policy advocacy
$27K 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.
Energy & Utilities
$24K in corporate money from energy · 10 roll calls · 9 bills
Sports, Media & Entertainment
$21K in corporate money from sports, media · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
against sports, media
0 bills
with sports, media
0 bills
No scored votes
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Health & Pharma
$17K 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.
Defense & Aerospace
$10K in corporate money from defense · 3 roll calls · 3 bills
against defense
0 bills
with defense
0 bills
No scored votes
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Transportation
$10K in corporate money from transportation · 2 roll calls · 2 bills
against transportation
0 bills
with transportation
0 bills
No scored votes
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Banking & Financial
$8K in corporate money from banking · 9 roll calls · 7 bills
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.
Insurance
$5K 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.
File A — Net Worth
Net worth over time
Estimated from financial disclosures. The band shows the disclosed range; the line is the midpoint estimate.
Why negative? Financial disclosures require officials to report mortgages and loans as liabilities, but exclude personal residences and other non-income-producing assets. Someone whose main asset is their home can show a negative disclosednet worth in some years — it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re in debt. See methodology.
midpoint disclosed range govt salary
source filing →File C — Service
Term history
- RepresentativeNE-2R2025 – 2027 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeNE-2R2023 – 2025 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeNE-2R2021 – 2023 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeNE-2R2019 – 2021 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeNE-2R2017 – 2019 · 2 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.
File — Background
Representative Don Bacon, NE
Born August 16, 1963.
Studied at
Northern Illinois University · University of Phoenix · National Defense University [wikidata]
Before office
2014-2015Jeff Fortenberrylast job before office
File — The 2026 race
Nebraska · District 02
General election 2026-11-03. Money figures are FEC filings for the 2026 cycle.
The read · Nebraska · District 02
Don Bacon ranks No. 4 in money raised.
Democrat Denise Powell leads the field with about $2.7M raised.
Denise Powell reports 86% of campaign money from individuals.
The incumbent, Don Bacon, ranks No. 4 in the money.
Public campaign-finance filings, 2026 cycle. Candidate rows are filers on record, not final ballot lists. Totals are rounded to whole dollars.
The tale of the tape
Money, side by side. Green marks the leader on each line.
Denise Powell D · challenger DP | vs | BH Brinker Harding R · challenger |
|---|---|---|
| $2.7M | Raised | $1.6M |
| $997K | Cash on hand | $1.1M |
| 12% | From PACs | 16% |
| 86% | From individuals | 84% |
| Too few to rank | Top donor sector | Too few to rank |
| No | Incumbent | No |
Contractor money
Federal contractors who funded this member
This is a documented association, not a claim that campaign money caused an award.
Bills
Recorded votes
166 votes · 151 Yea · 13 Nay. "Sector money" is this member's corporate and union money from the sector each bill touches. Receipts, not a claim about the vote. Money-linked votes first.
1–15 of 166
File — The Nebraska delegation
Who else Nebraska sends to Congress
2 senators and 3 of 3 House seats filled. Counting this seat.
Seat counts come from the 2020 census apportionment. A seat shows as open when no current member holds it. Source
File — Where this page comes from
Don Bacon · sources
Only sources that fed this profile are listed here.
| Source | What it gave this page | Last fetched |
|---|---|---|
| @unitedstates congress-legislators github.com | Roster, terms, identifiers, official site link | 2026-07-30 |
| Wikidata www.wikidata.org | Education, career before office, family ties | 2026-07-30 |
| The member's official site | Where to reach them. We link out rather than republishing office addresses and phone numbers. | - |