A study of donations that corporations have made to political candidates in the last 25 years finds that most of the groups at the top of the list either exclusively fund Democrats or are mostly left-leaning.
The study, from OpenSecrets.org, places Democratic funding organization ActBlue at the top of a list that only includes groups that donate individually to candidates or to organizations that make public the money they receive. They are also all "organizations that have historically qualified as 'heavy hitters'--groups that lobby and spend big." OpenSecrets explains that the advent of super PACs has made it easier for individuals to donate large sums of money in a way historically reserved for corporations, and the data is too new to reflect this. The group uses casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who alone would make it to second place on the list, as an example of someone who does not fit their definition of "heavy hitter" and has too little history to be placed on the list, as well as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
With that caveat, the group released a list of the donors who have contributed the most in American politics since the beginning of the first Bush administration. Every organization in the top ten, with the exceptions of AT&T and the National Association of Realtors, either leans left or exclusively donates to Democrats:
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