McDonald Rivet, Kristen
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Kristen Lee McDonald Rivet is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the Michigan Senate for the 35th district, where she was the assistant majority floor leader from 2023 to 2025. Her district, located in Central Michigan, includes Flint and the Tri-Cities metropolitan area of Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City.
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Core attributes
- Current office
- Representative
- Office level
- federal
- Canonical name
- McDonald Rivet, Kristen
- First name
- Kristen
- Last name
- McDonald Rivet
- Occupation
- —
- Education
- —
- Year of birth
- —
Races
- Michigan 8th Congressional District — 2026 General Election 2026-11-03 DEM C
- Michigan 8th Congressional District — 2024 General Election 2024-11-05 DEM C
Campaign finance
Money at a glance
2024 cycle
- Coverage
- 2023-01-01 to 2024-12-31
- Source
- Official FEC candidate summary
- Outside spending
- Outside spending details
- Total receipts
- $6,067,031.69
- Total disbursements
- $6,050,001.17
- Cash on hand
- $17,030.52
- Net self-funded
- $7,657.30
- Debts owed by the committee
- Not available
Receipt components disclose $6,067,031.69 in total receipts for the 2024 cycle.
Receipt source components are not loaded yet.
Sources: FEC candidate and committee summaries
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| Label | Values |
|---|
Fundraising detail
Itemized totals cannot be reconciled to committee summary totals, so this view uses itemized-only contribution facts.
- Small-dollar share
- Small-dollar share unavailable
- Small-dollar amount
- Committee summary totals are not available yet.
- Coverage
- 2023-01-01 to 2024-12-31
Individual contribution totals
- 2024 cycle
- $3,954,909.00
- Itemized
- $3,954,909.00
- Unitemized
- $0.00
- Itemized transactions
- 6016 transactions
Only itemized individual contributions are included; unitemized totals are unavailable for this view.
Itemized individual contributions total $3,954,909.00 in the 2024 cycle.
Monthly contribution columns
Sources: FEC Schedule A itemized individual contributions
View chart data
| Label | Values |
|---|---|
| January 2023 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| February 2023 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| March 2023 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| April 2023 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| May 2023 | Dollars: $118.00;Transactions: 4;Coverage: Covered |
| June 2023 | Dollars: $4.00;Transactions: 1;Coverage: Covered |
| July 2023 | Dollars: $119.00;Transactions: 3;Coverage: Covered |
| August 2023 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| September 2023 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| October 2023 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| November 2023 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| December 2023 | Dollars: $60,350.00;Transactions: 35;Coverage: Covered |
| January 2024 | Dollars: $222,668.00;Transactions: 247;Coverage: Covered |
| February 2024 | Dollars: $110,051.00;Transactions: 134;Coverage: Covered |
| March 2024 | Dollars: $215,898.00;Transactions: 242;Coverage: Covered |
| April 2024 | Dollars: $33,190.00;Transactions: 80;Coverage: Covered |
| May 2024 | Dollars: $105,021.00;Transactions: 164;Coverage: Covered |
| June 2024 | Dollars: $409,311.00;Transactions: 410;Coverage: Covered |
| July 2024 | Dollars: $304,030.00;Transactions: 456;Coverage: Covered |
| August 2024 | Dollars: $822,284.00;Transactions: 1,078;Coverage: Covered |
| September 2024 | Dollars: $887,720.00;Transactions: 1,347;Coverage: Covered |
| October 2024 | Dollars: $731,375.00;Transactions: 1,608;Coverage: Covered |
| November 2024 | Dollars: $48,760.00;Transactions: 202;Coverage: Covered |
| December 2024 | Dollars: $4,010.00;Transactions: 5;Coverage: Covered |
Unitemized contributions are excluded from count and geography charts.
Itemized contribution-size buckets discloses $3,954,909.00 across 6,015 reported transactions in the 2024 cycle.
Sources: FEC Schedule A itemized individual contributions
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| Label | Values |
|---|---|
| $200 and under | Dollars: $158,944.00;Transactions: 2,283 |
| $200.01-$499.99 | Dollars: $351,911.00;Transactions: 1,290 |
| $500-$999.99 | Dollars: $504,296.00;Transactions: 970 |
| $1,000-$1,999.99 | Dollars: $831,054.00;Transactions: 771 |
| $2,000 and over | Dollars: $2,108,704.00;Transactions: 701 |
Reported rows exclude unitemized counts and do not equal unique donors.
District geography uses a Census 119th-Congress / 2020-ZCTA approximation.
- District share
- 12% in district
- District share basis
- $473,978.00 in district and $3,410,531.00 out of district; $70,400.00 unknown district excluded from the share.
Unknown is included in the visible geography denominator. Unknown is $70,400.00 with 100 reported transactions; visible denominator is $3,954,909.00.
Geography dollar share
District geography uses a Census 119th-Congress / 2020-ZCTA approximation.
Sources: FEC Schedule A itemized individual contributions
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| Label | Values |
|---|---|
| In district | Dollars: $473,978.00;Transactions: 1,314;Denominator: $3,954,909.00 |
| Elsewhere in state | Dollars: $766,036.00;Transactions: 1,131;Denominator: $3,954,909.00 |
| Out of state | Dollars: $2,644,495.00;Transactions: 3,471;Denominator: $3,954,909.00 |
| Unknown | Dollars: $70,400.00;Transactions: 100;Denominator: $3,954,909.00 |
Top reported contributor names
| Reported contributor name | Total | Transactions |
|---|---|---|
| HOWARD, BARRY | $9,900.00 | 3 transactions |
| SONG, LINH | $9,900.00 | 3 transactions |
| WILCOX, ALLISON | $7,200.00 | 6 transactions |
| KELLER, DONALD | $7,075.00 | 8 transactions |
| GANDHI, MILAN | $6,850.00 | 3 transactions |
| JONES, THOMAS C | $6,800.00 | 7 transactions |
| HAWKINS, NEIL | $6,600.00 | 8 transactions |
| JAFFE, DAVID | $6,600.00 | 5 transactions |
| BAHAR-COOK, REBECCA | $6,600.00 | 4 transactions |
| GOROFF, NANCY | $6,600.00 | 4 transactions |
Top reported employer names
Top employers aggregate raw employer names from itemized individual contributions only.
The raw ranking remains employer-name data; see Methodology for source-linking and evidence limitations.
| Employer | Total | Transactions |
|---|---|---|
| Unclassified / not provided | $2,142,954.00 | 3788 transactions |
| SEFL EMPLOYED | $24,650.00 | 18 transactions |
| DOW INC | $21,500.00 | 22 transactions |
| DOW CHEMICAL CO | $19,950.00 | 11 transactions |
| DOW | $18,250.00 | 13 transactions |
| UC SAN FRANCISCO | $15,587.00 | 12 transactions |
| DTE ENERGY | $13,585.00 | 31 transactions |
| GOUGEON BROTHERS INC | $13,200.00 | 4 transactions |
| UC BERKELEY | $12,053.00 | 10 transactions |
| $11,132.00 | 25 transactions |
Industries among top reported employer names
Industries are assigned from reported employer names by the server. This rollup covers only eligible returned top-employer rows for the selected cycle.
| Industry | Total | Transactions |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown / unclassified | $138,775.00 | 121 transactions |
| Technology | $11,132.00 | 25 transactions |
Classified: $11,132.00 and 25 transactions out of $149,907.00 and 146 transactions among eligible top-employer rows.
Finance data loading
Source and freshness
Last pulled: 5 days ago (2026-08-25)
Data is current.
FEC Bulk Data (campaign_finance/federal/fec)
Source record ID: cn:2026:H4MI08218
View source recordFEC Bulk Data (campaign_finance/federal/fec)
Source record ID: cn:2024:H4MI08218
View source recordUS Congress Legislators (unitedstates/congress-legislators) (campaign_finance/federal/congress)
Source record ID: house:M001237
View source recordFEC Federal Races (civics/federal/fec)
Source record ID: fec_races:H4MI08218:2026
View source recordFEC Federal Races (civics/federal/fec)
Source record ID: fec_races:H4MI08218:2024
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Key metrics
- Identifiers
- 5
Identifiers
- bioguide_id
- M001237
- fec_candidate_id
- H4MI08218
- fec_candidate_ids
- H4MI08218
- govtrack_id
- 456995
- wikidata_id
- Q115227000