Companies Using ActBlue

I expected ActBlue's footprint to be scripts. It's mostly links. A domain counts here when a page links to a donate page on secure.actblue.com or loads ActBlue's form script, and our October 2026 crawl finds 3,476 live domains that do, 1,656 of them matched to an organisation. To see what that number is made of I opened 110 random ActBlue domains in a browser. 90 showed ActBlue. 86 of the 90 were plain links to a donate page, and 88 of the 90 pointed at the site's own committee or group.

What the count is, and what it isn't

A link test counts anyone who mentions ActBlue, so I checked whose pages the links lead to. (Vagaro had already caught my eye: a salon-booking company in the top 50 of a political tool.) Two of the 90 linked someone else's. One was Vagaro, whose homepage still links a 2019 donation page across 9 of its domains; the other was a real estate firm. Four sampled domains redirect to another site, usually a candidate's newer one, and link that site's page. No committee's page turned up on more than one sampled site, so no single organisation's network is padding the count. The 18 domains that failed to load were bot checks, timeouts and an expired Squarespace site.

Sales signal: treat each domain as one fundraising account, but dedupe redirects first and drop the few businesses that link a cause they support.

A count taken weeks before an election

The chart reads 2,965 in June, 3,261 in July, 3,276 in August, 3,417 in September and 3,476 in October. I wouldn't read that as growth. Our crawl reached more of the web over the summer and changed how it captured pages in August, the set of domains we crawl turns over every month as dead sites drop out and new ones arrive, and our detection widens over time. The number I trust more is the exits: 351 domains dropped ActBlue on at least one hostname since we began tracking it on 16 March 2026. At an October re-check, 45 of 355 such domains still ran it on another hostname.

The calendar is the bigger unknown. The November 2026 midterms come a few weeks after this crawl, per USA.gov, and our tracking hasn't covered a general election yet. By a simple name match (vote..., elect..., ...forcongress and similar), about three in ten live ActBlue domains look like candidate sites, and they were a similar share of this year's drops: 88 of the 310 domains that removed ActBlue from every hostname.

"ActBlue's count is a snapshot of an election season. About three in ten of these domains look like candidate sites, and we haven't watched one of them through polling day yet." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: if you sell to campaigns, this list ages fast. Reach candidate sites before November and pull the list again afterwards. Committees, PACs and advocacy groups are the part that lasts.

Who the customers are

Matching is harder here than in most categories. Only 1,656 of the 3,476 domains (47.64%) link to a LinkedIn company page, against 85.65% on Neon CRM's profile, because a local candidate's campaign rarely has one. Among those that do, 67.2% have 1 to 10 staff and 22.98% have 11 to 50, and only 14 list more than 1,000. They're young: 43.8% were founded in the 2010s and 27.95% in the 2020s. The large names are national committees and long-running advocacy groups: the Democratic National Committee, the DCCC and DSCC, EMILY's List, MoveOn, the Center for American Progress and UNITE HERE, all of which linked ActBlue pages from their homepages when I checked.

Sales signal: most ActBlue users are a few staff and volunteers working to a deadline. Products that save time in the last weeks of a race, such as printing, texting, data entry and compliance reporting, fit this list better than long software rollouts.

Party committees and the groups around them

Political Organizations makes up 54% of matched organisations with an industry, and public policy, government administration and government relations add 4.85%. The second block is nonprofit: Non-profit Organizations (13.79%) and Civic and Social Organizations (11.21%), which include unions, immigrant coalitions and legal aid groups such as Legal Aid DC. Geography is fixed by ActBlue's rules: 1,411 of 1,424 matched organisations with a known country are American.

Sales signal: split the list by industry before you use it. A party committee and a 501(c)(3) on AB Charities have different buyers, budgets and compliance rules, even though both send donors to secure.actblue.com.

Who runs a second donation tool

We found no switching flows large enough to publish. Our check found one pairing worth a look, Fundraise Up: 18 domains run both today, of 21 ever seen with both. Those 18 come from a handful of organisations. Seven are Everytown sites, including Moms Demand Action, and there are pairs such as People's Action with People's Action Institute and USAction with the USAction Education Fund, each a political arm beside a charitable one. Donorbox and GiveWP lead the category on volume, but they serve charities rather than candidates, so I wouldn't call them ActBlue's rivals. WinRed, the Republican-side platform, isn't a technology we track.

"The overlap between ActBlue and charity donation tools comes down to a few organisations with two legal arms, a political one and a charitable one." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: nothing here supports pitching an ActBlue replacement. The opening is the organisation with a political arm and a charitable one, running two donation systems and two sets of donor records.

The stack around it

Of the 3,475 domains in our stack sample, WordPress runs on 45.9%, Squarespace on 22.99%, Elementor on 13.61% and Wix on 10.71%. Google Analytics is on 47.42%, against 62.24% on Neon CRM's domains. The advertising tags are a campaign's: DoubleClick Floodlight on 5.55%, Twitter Ads on 2.94%, StackAdapt on 0.89% and The Trade Desk on 0.81%. Payment tags are rare, PayPal at 2.16%, because ActBlue's hosted page takes the card. MailChimp, the most common email tag, is on 4.63%.

Sales signal: these are template sites run by small teams. Web agencies that build for campaigns have room here, and so do analytics and email vendors: fewer than half of these sites run Google Analytics.

What it costs

ActBlue's pricing page (checked October 2026) lists a 3.95% processing fee on each contribution and no setup fee. Raise by ActBlue, built for state and local campaigns, charges 3.5%. The Website Builder costs $40 a month, and Field Tools, for texting and phone banking, has no licensing fee. ActBlue calls itself a nonprofit, and the FEC lists it as a hybrid PAC registered on 17 May 2004, with $2.26 billion in receipts from January 2025 to August 2026.

Sales signal: the fee comes out of each gift, so a campaign's cost rises with its success. State and local campaigns that need their own merchant account pay a different fee structure, which makes them the users with a processor decision to make.

Key takeaways

1. 3,476 live domains, 10th of 54 in Donations & Fundraising, and 99.09% of matched organisations are American.

2. 86 of 90 sampled sites link to ActBlue rather than embed it, and 88 of 90 raise money for themselves.

3. 54% are political organisations and about a quarter are nonprofits; 67.2% have 1 to 10 staff.

4. About three in ten domains look like candidate sites, and the November 2026 midterms follow this crawl by weeks.

5. Only 18 domains run ActBlue and Fundraise Up together, mostly organisations with two legal arms.

How to use this list

Split it by industry, separate candidate sites from standing organisations, and dedupe redirects. For the full list of 3,476 ActBlue domains with organisation, size and stack data, explore TechnologyChecker.io.