# Documented HP political donations

Research checked September 29, 2026. U.S. scope. Historical records, not a complete lifetime or current-cycle donor inventory. Offices and party labels refer to the period of the disclosure.

## Current status

HP says corporate candidate contributions and employee-PAC support ended in 2021. The FEC lists committee C00626648 as terminated. HP separately reports $3.56 million in federal lobbying expenditure for 2025; lobbying spending is not a campaign donation. Sources: [HP current disclosure](https://www.hp.com/us-en/hp-information/government-affairs/us-political-engagement.html), [FEC committee record](https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00626648/).

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a separate company following the 2015 separation. Its active PAC's donations are excluded from this HP Inc. list. [HP's separation/board history](https://www.hp.com/us-en/newsroom/press-releases/2017/meg-whitman-steps-off-hp-inc--board-of-directors--company-appoin.html).

## HP Inc. corporate contributions: 2020

Amounts from pages 1–2 of [HP's corporate disclosure](https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c05932255.pdf). Each is a reported contribution amount, not a lifetime total. January–June entries continue onto page 2 before the 2019 heading.

| Recipient | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---:|
| Gavin Newsom | July–December | $21,000 |
| Marc Berman | January–June | $3,000 |
| Autumn Burke | January–June | $1,500 |
| Jim Cooper (California) | January–June | $1,250 |
| Jacqui Irwin | January–June | $1,500 |
| Evan Low | January–June | $1,150 |
| Brian Maienschein | January–June | $1,500 |
| Anthony Portantino | January–June | $1,500 |
| Bill Quirk | January–June | $1,500 |
| Anthony Rendon | January–June | $1,500 |
| Blanca Rubio | January–June | $1,500 |
| Michael Gianaris | January–June | $1,000 |
| Carl Heastie | January–June | $1,000 |
| Liz Krueger | January–June | $750 |
| Crystal Peoples-Stokes | January–June | $500 |
| Andrea Stewart-Cousins | January–June | $1,000 |
| Helene Weinstein | January–June | $750 |

## HP employee PAC: 2020

Source: [HP employee-PAC disclosure](https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c05930496), pages 1–2. Employee-funded PAC donations are distinct from HP corporate funds. Retrieved through the search index's reproduction of HP's tables; the direct PDF download failed.

### January–June

| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---:|
| Chris Coons | $1,000 |
| Mark Warner | $1,500 |
| Peter DeFazio | $1,000 |
| Anna Eshoo | $1,500 |
| Scott Peters | $1,000 |
| Donna Howard | $1,000 |
| Trey Martinez Fischer | $1,000 |
| Bryan Hughes | $1,000 |

### July–December

| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---:|
| John Cornyn | $2,500 |
| Joni Ernst | $2,500 |
| Cory Gardner | $2,500 |
| James Inhofe | $2,500 |
| David Perdue | $2,000 |
| James Risch | $2,000 |
| Michael Rounds | $1,500 |
| John Thune | $1,500 |
| Kevin Brady | $2,500 |
| Tony Cardenas | $1,000 |
| Jaime Herrera-Beutler | $2,500 |
| Joe Neguse | $1,000 |
| Cedric Richmond | $1,000 |
| Garnet Coleman | $1,500 |
| Sarah Eckhardt | $1,000 |
| Celia Israel | $1,000 |
| Nathan Johnson | $1,500 |
| Tom Oliverson | $1,500 |
| Jim Murphy | $500 |
| Angela Paxton | $1,000 |

Excluded: a $2,000 Coons/Blue Hen PAC replacement check for a 2019 error; HP excludes it from its 2020 total.

## Strong historical affiliation: Meg Whitman

HP confirms Whitman chaired HP Inc. from the November 2015 separation until July 2017. [HP board announcement](https://www.hp.com/us-en/newsroom/press-releases/2017/meg-whitman-steps-off-hp-inc--board-of-directors--company-appoin.html).

Whitman personally gave **$500,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020**, according to [Washington Post reporting](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/19/one-third-biden-ambassador-nominees-so-far-are-campaign-bundlers/).

[S&P Global's contemporaneous reporting](https://www.spglobal.com/en/research-insights/market-insights/daily-update-august-13-2020) corroborates the amount in its discussion of Biden fundraising. This was after her departure from HP's board, dated in HP's announcement above. The [FEC classifies Biden Victory Fund as a joint fundraising committee](https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00744946/?cycle=2020); the amount was not a $500,000 donation directly to Biden's candidate committee. The reporting is corroborated, but the original individual FEC transaction was not independently retrieved.

## What the records support

The listed donations establish financial support and its reported source. They do not establish bribery, a quid pro quo, a vote concerning printer ink, or a recipient's support for HP's cartridge restrictions. No such link was verified in this research. Ordinary employees' personal donations are not treated as corporate donations. Historical affiliation is explicitly dated.

Additional periods, state-filing reconciliation, refunds, and a complete executive/board-member contribution search remain outside this documented list. No inference that the listed amounts are net of later refunds.