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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)
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Simitian, S Joseph

candidate · H0CA15171
Simitian, S Joseph CA · DEM · House · CA-16 · open-seat
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Simitian, S Joseph · every race, every cycle

9 cycles1 committees1 contributing committees69 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 (2 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Simitian, S Joseph (this candidate) open-seat 2
Costa, Jim incumbent 392

UNK

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Heng, Elizabeth challenger 42

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

BURLINGAME, CA, 94010

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

Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 100% · PACs 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)2062$1,058,601
PACs1$4,000
Total (committee-sourced)$1,062,601

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

61% by dollars

3702 of 5646 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) 78% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 22%

5646 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 2063 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($3,817,394 vs $1,062,601). 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 · MILLER, RUSSELL H.

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Friends Of Simitian Principal campaign committee H

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $5,812 14 2018

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

Conduit dependency

via ActBlue / WinRed

100% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2018) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 14 of 14 contributions · 100% of dollars ($5,812).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$5,812

Conduits (ActBlue, WinRed) are passthroughs — individuals give through them to candidates. This is the share of committee-routed contributions flowing over that infrastructure. Donor-level pass-through to the ultimate recipient is tracked separately (in progress).

Super PAC spending

$ held · counts

No independent expenditures on file for 2018 (2016 excluded).

Money out — top vendors

$ shown
VendorPaidPaymentsCategory
Actblue Technical Services $40,382 134 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Rcbs Payroll $237,879 46 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Bmwl, Inc. $568,975 24 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Click And Pledge $494 24 001 (Administrative / overhead)
River City Business Services $31,919 22 001 (Administrative / overhead)
River City Business Services $3,203 21 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Actblue Technical Services $2,919 18 001 (Administrative / overhead)
River City Business Services $3,962 16 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Heritage Bank Of Commerce $540 16 001 (Administrative / overhead)
River City Business Services $2,501 13 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Weissglass, Keith C $9,061 12 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Law Office Of Russell H. Miller $34,885 11 001 (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)451
24R275
003 (Fundraising & solicitation)51
004 (Advertising)44
006 (Campaign materials)28
002 (Travel)14
005 (Polling)4
007 (Campaign events)3

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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