Adelson's reported pledge to Crossroads, others: $35 million

Sheldon Adelson has no shortage of suitors interested in a piece of his extremely large financial pie this cycle, but the amount he's planning to give three major outside entities is a bit clearer, via Peter Stone:

Crossroads GPS — founded by GOP consultants Rove and Ed Gillespie in 2010 alongside the super PAC American Crossroads — could wind up as the major recipient of the casino titan's largess, due to Adelson's longstanding and close ties to Rove. Crossroads GPS has already received one $10 million cash infusion this cycle from Adelson, who, according to the two GOP fundraisers, recently committed to another donation of the same amount.

The fundraisers said that Adelson also recently committed to sending $10 million to a nonprofit with links to the billionaires Charles and David Koch. In January, Adelson for the first time attended one of the semi-annual conferences that the billionaire brothers host for wealthy conservatives to tout their favorite political projects. It's not known which of several Koch-affiliated nonprofits Adelson is expected to support, but the two biggest this year are expected to be the Koch-founded group Americans for Prosperity and the Arizona-based Center to Protect Patient Rights, which in 2010 was used as a conduit to send tens of millions to other conservative bastions, according to tax records filed with the IRS.

Additionally, Adelson has committed $5 million to the Young Guns Network, a nonprofit group set up by former aides to Cantor, with whom Adelson is close and who, like the casino magnate, is a high-profile player in conservative Jewish circles.

The total among the three, per Stone's math, is $35 million. The story of super PACs and the influx of outside cash has now been established as one of the major stories of the 2012 cycle. But Adelson is a story within his own right, given the scope of the spending.

Maggie Haberman is senior political reporter for Politico.