(Reuters) - Individual donors to presidential candidates can contribute up to $2,500 for the state-by-state party nominating contests and another $2,500 for the general election. But independent groups called Super PACs have no limits on what they can raise from individuals, corporations or labor unions.
Here is a look at wealthy individuals who have contributed at least $500,000 to the major political action committees, or PACs, as disclosed to the Federal Election Commission.
RESTORE OUR FUTURE
Total raised as of April 30: $56.5 million
(Supports Republican Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor)
Dozens of donors gave more than $500,000 to the Super PAC. Below are those who donated at least $750,000.
* Bob Perry - Houston builder who was a major donor to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that helped undermine 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry by attacking his Vietnam War record. He is also a longtime supporter of Texas Governor Rick Perry. Total donations: $4.0 million
* F8 LLC and Eli Publishing - Provo, Utah-based firms that share an address. Both have been linked to former executives of Nu Skin, a Utah-based skin care and cosmetics company. Total donations: $2.0 million
* Julian Robertson - hedge fund industry legend at Tiger Management. Total donations: $1.3 million
* Kenneth Griffin - Chicago-based hedge fund manager and CEO of Citadel LLC. Total donations: $1.1 million
* John Paulson - a prominent New York hedge fund manager at Paulson and Co. Donation: $1.0 million
* John Kleinheinz - Texas hedge fund manager for Kleinheinz Capital Partners Inc. Donation: $1.0 million
* Edward Conard - a New York investor and former executive at Bain Capital, a private equity firm co-founded by Romney. Donation: $1 million
* Paul and Sandra Edgerly - Paul Edgerly of Brookline, Massachusetts, is an executive at Bain. The Edgerlys each have given $500,000. Total donations: $1.0 million
* Robert Mercer - New York hedge fund manager at Renaissance Technologies. Donation: $1.0 million
* Paul Singer - hedge-fund manager who helped fund efforts to legalize gay marriage in New York. Donation: $1.0 million
* Rooney Holdings Inc - A private investment firm formed in 1980s to acquire the Manhattan Construction Co. and since expanding into many areas. Total donations: $1.0 million
* J.W. Marriott Jr. - chairman and CEO of Marriott International, brother of Richard Marriott. Total donations: $1.0 million
* Richard Marriott - chairman of Host Marriott International. Total donations: $1.0 million
* Steven Webster - private equity executive at Avista Capital in Houston. Total donations: $1.0 million
* Harold Hamm - chairman and CEO of Continental Resources, he recently became one of Romney's top energy advisers. Donation: $985,000
* Harold Simmons - billionaire Dallas banker and pioneer of leverage buyouts, chairman and CEO of Contran Corp. Total donations: $800,000
* Oxbow Carbon - a Florida-based firm run by Bill Koch that sells coke, a key ingredient in aluminum manufacturing. Koch also personally gave $250,000. Total Oxbow donations: $750,000
* Huron Carbon - a private firm that shares its address in Florida with Oxbow Carbon. Donation: $1 million
* Chris Shumway - a prominent Connecticut hedge fund manager who got his start working with Robertson's Tiger Management. Donation: $750,000
* Miguel Fernandez - chairman of MBF Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm. MBF Family Investments also donated to the Super PAC. Total donations: $1.0 million
PRIORITIES USA ACTION
Total raised as of April 30: $6.1 million
(Supports Democratic President Barack Obama)
* Jeff Katzenberg - chief executive of DreamWorks Animation. Donation: $2 million
* Bill Maher - stand-up comedian. Donation: $1 million
* Service Employees International Union Committee on Political Education - union representing more than 2 million workers. Donation: $1 million
* National Air Traffic Controllers Association - union representing more than 16,000 workers. Donation: $1 million
* Kareem Ahmed - chief executive at Landmark Medical Management in California. Donation: $1 million
* Amy Goldman - writer and heiress to the New York real estate fortune of Sol Goldman. Donation: $1 million
* Fred Eychaner - Chicago media magnate. Donation: $500,000
AMERICAN CROSSROADS
Total raised as of April 30: $29.8 million
(Supports Republican candidates for federal offices)
* Harold Simmons - billionaire Dallas banker and CEO of Contran Corp. who has contributed to PACs supporting Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich. Total donations: $11 million
* Bob Perry - Houston homebuilder. Total donations: $3.0 million
* Contran Corp. - Simmons' Dallas-based maker of titanium components. Total donations: $2 million
* Jerry Perenchio Living Trust - a trust of billionaire television tycoon A. Jerrold Perenchio, who is a former chairman of Spanish-language broadcaster Univision. Donation: $2 million
* Robert Rowling - an Irving, Texas, businessman and a conservative and active Republican donor. Donation: $1 million
* TRT Holdings, Inc - Rowling's company that runs Omni Hotel and Gold's Gym chains. Donation: $1 million
* Whiteco Industries - Indiana-based company involved in advertising, construction entertainment and hotels. Donation: $1 million
* Philip Geier - New York executive. Total donations: $1 million
* Irving Moskowitz - a Florida bingo magnate who runs a charity in California and is known for his support of Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem. Donation: $1 million
* Kenneth Griffin - Citadel Investment Group chief executive. Total donations: $1 million
* Crow Holdings - Dallas-based company with real estate and other interests. Donation: $500,000
* Kenny Troutt - Dallas-based billionaire and founder of Excel Communications. Donation: $500,000
* S.W. Childs Management - New York-based financial management firm. Donation: $500,000
WINNING OUR FUTURE
Total raised as of April 30: $23.9 million
(Supports Republican Newt Gingrich, a former House of Representatives speaker who ended his campaign on May 2)
* Sheldon Adelson - billionaire Las Vegas casino magnate who built the Venetian hotel and casino. Donation: $7.5 million
* Miriam Adelson - doctor, wife of Sheldon Adelson. Donation: $12.5 million
* Sivan Ochshorn, Yasmin and Oren Lukatz, Shelley Maye Adelson - daughters and son-in-law of Miriam and Sheldon Adelson. Total donation: $1.5 million
* Harold Simmons - Initially supported Rick Perry. Donation: $1.1 million
* William Propst - real estate investor in Huntsville, Alabama. Donation: $500,000
RED WHITE AND BLUE FUND
Total raised as of April 30: $8.3 million
(Supports Republican Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator who ended his campaign on April 10)
* William J. Dore - founder of Global Industries, president of Dore Energy Corp. Donation: $2.3 million
* Foster Friess - billionaire investor from Jackson, Wyoming, and founder of the PAC. Donation: $2.1 million
* Annette Simmons - wife of billionaire Dallas banker Harold Simmons and an executive at his Contran Corp. Donation: $1.2 million
* Susan Gore - founder of Wyoming Liberty Group think tank and daughter of the founder of multibillion-dollar chemical technology firm W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. Donation: $500,000
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