Costa, Jim
candidate · H4CA20082
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Person: Jim Costa Mr. · every race, every cycle
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
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
2012DEM · primary contest (4 filers, order not yet known)
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costa, Jim (this candidate) | incumbent | — | 392 | ||||
| Hernandez, John Stephen | challenger | — | — | ||||
| Rubio, Michael | challenger | — | — | ||||
| Xiong, Blong | challenger | — | — |
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valadao, David | challenger | — | 730 |
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
FRESNO, CA, 937111200
Website, phone and social accounts arrive with the campaign-contact ingest (FEC F1 + social sources).
Money raised vs spent
comingRaised-vs-spent over time — the per-cycle totals surface is coming.
Where the money comes from
by source type● PACs 96% · ● Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 3% · ● Super PACs 1% · ● Party committees 0%
| Source type | Contributions | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| PACs | 1762 | $3,012,437 |
| Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) | 299 | $97,760 |
| Super PACs | 14 | $30,500 |
| Party committees | 7 | $141 |
| Total (committee-sourced) | $3,140,838 |
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
lifetime5% by dollars
725 of 15373 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) 84% · ● Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 16%
15373 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 2082 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($16,963,254 vs $3,140,838). 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- $7,259,576 to vendors
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 · suppressedAggregated 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 · DIEBERT, STEVEN D.
Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.
Committees
authorized| Committee | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Costa For Congress | Principal campaign committee | H |
| Fresno County Democratic Women'S Club/Democrats In Action | Unauthorized / leadership PAC | N |
Money in
committee & PAC contributionsContributing committees & PACs · 2012:
No committee contributions on file for this cycle.
Cross-party support
who funds both sides34 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.
Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).
Super PAC spending
$ held · countsNo independent expenditures on file for 2012 (2016 excluded).
Money to other candidates
redistribution · countsThis candidate's committees fund 1 other candidate across 1 state — 0% of those contributions go outside CA. 0.0% of receipts raised have been redistributed to other candidates.
| Candidate | State | Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| Huerta, Emilio J. Mr. | CA | 1 |
Contributions from this candidate's own committees (principal + leadership / authorized) to other candidates, by count. Recipients are public candidates. Leadership-PAC linkage grows as committee↔candidate resolution improves.
Money out — top vendors
$ shown| Vendor | Paid | Payments | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aristotle Inc. | $11,899 | 80 | |
| Aristotle Inc. | $8,298 | 74 | |
| Aristotle Inc. | $15,687 | 70 | |
| Flagship Merchant Services | $10,649 | 65 | |
| Actblue | $1,813 | 48 | |
| At&T Mobility | $9,314 | 48 | |
| Aristotle Inc. | $6,942 | 44 | |
| At&T Mobility | $6,503 | 43 | |
| Democracy Engine, Inc., Pac | $6,093 | 36 | |
| Premier Valley Bank | $2,385 | 36 | |
| Visa | $110,244 | 35 | |
| Actblue | $665 | 35 |
Payment counts from the principal committee; dollar totals held. Arc maps of where money goes arrive with the geo layer.
Top expenditure categories
$ held| Category | Payments |
|---|---|
| 002 (Travel) | 18 |
| 004 (Advertising) | 8 |
Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.
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