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president Donald Trump’s biggest donors In the first year of his second term, his membership includes CEOs of artificial intelligence and technology companies, equity bosses on the board of TikTok’s parent company and others. His relatives face years in prison.
For many wealthy donors, Trump-affiliated super PAC MAGA Inc. This is something they have never done before.
A dozen of them gave at least $1 million to super PACs in late 2024 and 2025, more than any previous federal political contributions they had made to others, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records. NBC News.
Contributing to Trump’s war chest could be crucial It’s time for the upcoming midterm exam, Republicans could lose their slim majority in the House of Representatives.
One of MAGA Inc.’s largest donors last year was OpenAI CEO Greg Brockman, who donated $12.5 million in September 2025, while his wife Anna donated the same amount on the same day, according to donation documents.
Before Brockman walked away from the multimillion-dollar donation, his largest donation to a political campaign was about $2,700, which he donated to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016 and former Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry in 2018, NBC News reported.
In December 2025, Brockma directly praised Trump’s “willingness to engage directly with the AI community and approach emerging technologies with a growth-focused mindset” in a social media post on X.
“This year, my wife, Anna, and I became politically involved, including through political donations, reflecting support for policies that advance American innovation and constructive dialogue between government and the technology sector,” Brockman wrote.
Documents show Alexander Karp, chief executive of data analytics company Palantir, donated $1 million to MAGA Inc. in December 2024, as Trump was preparing for his second inauguration.
Palantir has long been a government contractor, working with various U.S. agencies on issues ranging from tax data to distributing vaccines, but the company has a significant and lucrative role in the Trump administration. Carrying out mass eviction campaign.
In April 2025, the company Wins $30M Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract Provide an operating system for tracking and managing deportations and provide “near real-time visibility” to those who are “self-deported.”
Another large donation came from the CEO of equity firm General Atlantic, who donated $1.25 million to MAGA Inc. in January 2025, days before Trump was inaugurated.
General Atlantic Investment Group’s website states that the company’s CEO, William Ford, is a board member of ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company. Trump spent much of last year helping ByteDance negotiate a spinoff deal with a consortium of U.S. investors Tik Tok The United States itself formed a joint venture to mitigate privacy concerns and potential misuse of user data.
ByteDance signed a deal last month Selling its U.S. entity It is a joint venture controlled by American investors.
Relatives of two other MAGA Inc. donors who faced federal prison terms while donating to Trump’s war chest later received leniency from the government, NBC News reported.
Isabela Herrera, the daughter of a Venezuelan-Italian billionaire banker who is accused of trying to bribe Puerto Rico’s former governor, reportedly donated $2.5 million to MAGA Inc. in December 2024. new york times and NBC News.
Months later, the Justice Department dropped the most serious charges against Herrera’s father and authorized a misdemeanor plea deal.
Following this decision, Herrera donated $1 million to MAGA Inc. in July 2025, NBC News reported, citing recent FEC filings.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice told the times Last month, “the decision to resolve this case was made through appropriate channels and was not influenced by any donation to MAGA Inc.”
Elsewhere, prominent Republican donor Elizabeth Fago gave $1 million to MAGA Inc. in April 2025, her largest donation, NBC News reported. Her son Paul Walczak, a former nursing home executive, pleaded guilty to tax crimes and was sentenced to 18 months in prison shortly after the donation.
But he was pardoned by Trump after his mother attended a Mar-a-Lago fundraising dinner, where she reportedly spoke directly to the president. Walczak’s pardon application also cited his mother’s contributions to the presidential campaign, according to reports at the time.
A White House spokesman was interviewed the times An anonymous source said at the time that it was Fargo’s words, not her cash, that persuaded the president to spare her son.
“He spoke directly to a mother who was pleading for her son, and that’s a very powerful thing when you talk to a mother who’s pleading for her son,” the source reportedly said.
A White House official also revealed the times Walczak “has become a target of the Biden administration because of his family’s conservative politics.”