Which companies behind well-known brands give money to Trump and the Republicans?

At least 41 companies behind brands that shoppers in Europe buy every week gave money to Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2025. That is what the inaugural committee's own filings with the US Federal Election Commission, the FEC, show. The 13 groups behind food, drinks and everyday goods alone gave a combined US$12,564,750. The largest donor was Pilgrim's Pride, owned by the Brazilian meat group JBS, with 5 million dollars.

The list below shows the companies, their well-known brands and the amounts. It also shows how the companies' political action committees split their money between Republicans and Democrats in the 2025 to 2026 election cycle. At 27 of the 41 companies, the PAC gives more to Republican than to Democratic candidates. Click a brand to see who owns it and which products it has.

The groups behind food, drinks and everyday goods

The 13 groups below are behind brands in the fridge, the drinks cabinet and the bathroom. The amounts are what the committee behind Trump's inauguration reported from each company. Several groups gave through a US subsidiary, shown in brackets.

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Source: Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, Form 13 filing with the FEC, last amended 7 August 2025. Amounts as reported by the committee.

European brands are on the list too

It was not only American groups that gave to the inauguration. Aperol Spritz is Italian, but Campari Group, which owns Aperol and Campari, gave 500,000 dollars through its US company Austin, Nichols, the maker of Wild Turkey. Belgian AB InBev, which owns Corona, Stella Artois and Leffe outside the United States, gave 1 million dollars through its US company Anheuser-Busch. German Bayer, behind Bepanthen and Rennie, gave 1 million dollars. British Diageo, which owns Guinness, Smirnoff and Baileys, gave 125,000 dollars. And Swedish Match, behind ZYN and General and owned by Philip Morris International since 2022, gave 500,000 dollars.

Ownership follows the group, not the country a brand comes from. That is why Made O'Meter shows the ultimate owner on every brand.

Tech, cars, payments and services

Beyond everyday goods, a long list of technology, car and payment companies gave to the inauguration. Amazon gave the most with US$1,888,894. Meta, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Toyota, Hyundai, General Motors and Uber each gave 1 million dollars or more.

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Source: Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, Form 13 filing with the FEC, last amended 7 August 2025. Amounts as reported by the committee.

How to read the numbers

The money for the inauguration came from the companies themselves. US law bars companies from giving directly to candidates, but not to an inaugural committee. The committee behind Trump's inauguration raised more than 245 million dollars, a record.

The PAC columns are a different matter. A company's political action committee, or PAC, is funded by voluntary contributions from executives and employees, not from the company's own funds. The PAC gives to candidates from both parties. The percentages show how much of the PAC's money went to Republican and Democratic candidates and party committees in the 2025 to 2026 cycle. The rest went to other committees and trade associations with no party. The figures run to 31 August 2026, for a few PACs to 30 June 2026. At 6 companies the PAC gave as much or more to Democrats: Bayer, Meta, Microsoft, General Motors, Uber, Airbnb. That is in the table too.

How to use the list

The list is information, not a recommendation. Made O'Meter takes no side in American politics and does not tell you what to buy. We show who owns the brand and where the money goes. What you do with that is your choice.

Click a brand to see the owner, the owner's country, the products and where they are made. If you are holding a product, scan it in the app and get the same answer straight away.

How we compiled it

The inauguration amounts come from Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, Inc.'s Form 13 filings with the US Federal Election Commission: the report for 15 November 2024 to 20 April 2025 (amended 7 August 2025) and the supplement for 21 April to 19 July 2025. The committee's page at the FEC: fec.gov/data/committee/C00894162. We added up all reported contributions from the same company. Only companies whose ownership of brands in Made O'Meter we could establish are included. Johnson & Johnson, for example, gave 1 million dollars but is not on the list, because its consumer brands such as Listerine and Neutrogena have belonged to the separate company Kenvue since 2023.

The PAC party split is based on the FEC's records of each PAC's disbursements to candidates and committees in the 2025 to 2026 cycle, with the recipient's party from the FEC's own data. Candidate and party committees count as Republican or Democratic, all other recipients as other. The "PAC" link in the table leads to the PAC's own page at the FEC. Pilgrim's Pride has no PAC of its own and is shown with the JBS USA PAC. All figures can be checked at fec.gov. If you find an error, write to us. The list is updated until the midterm elections on 3 November 2026.

Disclaimer: The figures were taken from the FEC's public filings on 24 September 2026 and reproduced to the best of our ability. Filings can later be amended by those who submitted them, and our compilation may contain errors. Made O'Meter accepts no liability for errors in the sources or in our own processing. If you find an error, write to us and we will correct it as soon as possible.