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DATA COVERAGE not externally verified tier raw_mirror vintage 2026-08-27 coverage 1980-2024 · 2026 Midterms in flight! money live · figures computing (best estimates)
Dollar figures are still computing and reflect best estimates while the corrected-financial reconciliation completes. Relationships, counts, and dates are final.

Nelson, Shawn

candidate · H8CA39232
Nelson, Shawn CA · REP · House · CA-39 · open-seat
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Nelson, Shawn · every race, every cycle

cycle 20202018
2 cycles1 committees3 contributing committees34 vendors

Raised — contributing committees / cycle

Spent — vendor payments / cycle

IE support — independent expenditures for this candidate / cycle

Transferred out — other candidates funded / cycle

All four, combined -- 2016-2028

20162028
Raised Spent IE support Transferred out

2016–2028 · entity counts (money-dark); dollar trends light up at the flip. "Raised" is committee-routed contributions only — individual donors stay held pending the privacy decision, and there is no distinct bundler surface yet (#2488).

In this race

2018

DEM · primary contest (8 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Chen, Jay open-seat 35
Cisneros, Gilbert open-seat 139
Jammal, Samir open-seat 4
Janowicz, Phil Andrew Dr. open-seat 2
Lee, Herbert open-seat 1
Leggett, Suzi open-seat 1
Thorburn, Andy open-seat 3
Tran, Mai-Khanh open-seat 6

REP · primary contest (8 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Nelson, Shawn (this candidate) open-seat 3
Cullum, John J open-seat
Huff, Bob open-seat 1
Kim, Young open-seat 611
Liberatore, Phil open-seat
Royce, Ed Mr. incumbent 158
Sarega, Andrew open-seat
Vargas, Steven open-seat

IND

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Cox, Steve open-seat

Every candidate on file for this race. A party with more than one filer is a live primary contest -- who becomes that party's nominee isn't in the data yet. Cash on hand is the official FEC filing figure, as of the filing's own coverage date -- not a live estimate. The remaining columns are money-dark proxies (counts, not dollars); a dash means no data on file for that candidate yet. Click a column heading to sort.

Campaign contact

FULLERTON, CA, 92833

Website, phone and social accounts arrive with the campaign-contact ingest (FEC F1 + social sources).

Money raised vs spent

coming

Raised-vs-spent over time — the per-cycle totals surface is coming.

Where the money comes from

by source type

PACs 100%

Source typeContributionsAmount
PACs3$2,250
Total (committee-sourced)$2,250

Money received from committees, split by the type of the paying committee (PAC, Super PAC, party, joint-fundraising, conduit). Individual (person) giving is aggregated separately with privacy suppression and is not included here.

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

0% by dollars

0 of 1102 individual contributions on file routed through a conduit, lifetime -- not per-cycle (the underlying edge source can't be cleanly split by year). Conduit dollars are the true donor's money, passed through a platform; not double-counted.

PAC vs. individual money

by dollars

Individual (direct) 100% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 0%

1102 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 3 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($1,487,972 vs $2,250). Two different grains -- individual money is scoped to the principal committee only; committee-routed money spans every authorized committee -- combined here as the closest count-first read of PAC- vs individual-dependence available today. Part of the funding-concentration strip (#2730); donor-sector concentration and top-vendor share are not yet available.

Where the money goes

beneficiaries

Money disbursed by this candidate's principal committee: contributions to other candidates (the "raises big, then funds allies" signal), transfers to committees by destination type, vendor spending, and independent expenditures made.

Where the donors are

precinct-floored · suppressed
Partial data. About 15% of donor money is geocoded, concentrated in 9 states (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL). Every other state — including the largest donor states (CA, NY, TX) — currently has zero geocoded rows. A blank state means not yet geocoded, never no donors here. Not a complete picture of donor geography.
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Aggregated itemized individual giving, geocoded to donor home address, suppressed for privacy (small or single-donor-dominated cells withheld). Unitemized giving has no geography.

Who runs it

Treasurer · SLATER, JEN

Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Shawn Nelson For Congress Principal campaign committee H

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
Science Applications International Corporation Voluntary Political Action Committee $1,000 1 2018
Maximus Inc Political Action Committee (Maxpac) $1,000 1 2018
Hntb Holdings Ltd. Pac $250 1 2018

Committee & PAC contributions to this candidate. Individual donors remain held (donor-privacy decision).

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

3 of this candidate's 3 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Hntb Holdings Ltd. Pac 42% / 58%
Maximus Inc Political Action Committee (Maxpac) 58% / 42%
Science Applications International Corporation Voluntary Political Action Committee 38% / 62%

Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 1 committee · 3 expenditures · $22,774  ·  Opposing: 3 · 25 · $829,546

CommitteeStanceAmount
Dccc opposes $688,188
Hmp opposes $114,950
Spirit Of America supports $22,774
Priorities Usa Action opposes $26,409

Independent expenditures for or against this candidate. 2016 excluded (known IE undercount).

100% of this candidate's receipts + outside spending is outside money (independent expenditures for/against, as a share of receipts plus outside spending).

Money out — top vendors

$ shown
VendorPaidPaymentsCategory
Silver Streak Connect $82,511 16 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Anedot $13,687 15 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Campaign Compliance Group $13,000 9 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Majority Strategies Llc $319,834 9 006 (Campaign materials)
Bank Of America $245 8 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Thomas Partners Strategies $19,150 5 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Pluvious Group Llc $52,197 5 003 (Fundraising & solicitation)
Vanguard Business Center Llc $6,000 4 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Camp, James $24,500 4 001 (Administrative / overhead)
American Express $911 2 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Fishel, Audra $202 2 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Los Angeles County Registrar Of Voters $2,268 2 001 (Administrative / overhead)

Payment counts from the principal committee; dollar totals held. Arc maps of where money goes arrive with the geo layer.

Top expenditure categories

$ held
CategoryPayments
001 (Administrative / overhead)78
004 (Advertising)37
006 (Campaign materials)9
003 (Fundraising & solicitation)9
005 (Polling)1
002 (Travel)1

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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