Charles Ergen
Profile Summary
Charles Ergen is a U.S. media-industry billionaire based in Colorado, born in 1953, with an estimated net worth of ~$14.8B RTB. SEC records identify him as Charles W. Ergen and link his filings to EchoStar, DISH Network, Primo Water, Ergen Cantey, and DeFi Technologies SEC EDGAR. He is also listed as a Giving Pledge signatory under the name Charlie Ergen Wikidata.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR shows 354 filings associated with Charles W. Ergen, including 346 insider filings SEC EDGAR. The recent filings listed are primarily Form 4 reports from 2024 and 2025; Form 4 is the SEC form corporate insiders use to report changes in their ownership of company securities SEC EDGAR.
Political Activity
Federal Election Commission records show at least 100 contributions in the most recent 100 contributions on file, totaling $396,841.17; these sampled records cover June 7, 2022, through March 3, 2026, while the FEC reports 659 contributions in total FEC. In the sample, $185,841.17 went to Democratic recipients, $100,900 to Republican recipients, $96,900 to recipients with unknown party affiliation, $6,600 to Democratic–Farmer–Labor recipients, and $6,600 to independent recipients FEC. The largest listed recipients in the sample were the Democratic National Committee at $77,800, the Harris Victory Fund at $50,000, the EchoStar and DISH Network PAC at $15,000, Guthrie for Congress at $13,600, and Deb Fischer for U.S. Senate at $13,200 FEC.
These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
U.S. Presence
Political Contributions
These figures cover the 100 most recent of 659 federal contributions on file, not the full record. The total, party split, top recipients and dates below are all computed over that sample, so each is a floor rather than a complete figure.
By Party (in the sample)
Every party in this sample is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $396,841.17.
Top Recipients (in the sample)
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SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Giving score
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