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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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Costa, Jim

candidate · H4CA20082
Costa, Jim
Costa, Jim CA · DEM · House · CA-21 · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Jim Costa Mr. · every race, every cycle

12 cycles2 committees208 contributing committees442 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

2020

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
Costa, Jim (this candidate) incumbent 392
Cox, Terrence John (Tj) incumbent 82

REP

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

coming

Raised-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 typeContributionsAmount
PACs1762$3,012,437
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)299$97,760
Super PACs14$30,500
Party committees7$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

lifetime

5% 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

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 · DIEBERT, STEVEN D.

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
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 contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2020:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $14,734 28 2020
National Air Traffic Controllers Association Pac $7,000 11 2020
Pro-Israel America Pac $14,450 8 2020
American Association For Justice Political Action Committee (Aaj Pac) $5,000 5 2020
American Medical Association Political Action Committee $5,000 5 2020
Blue Dog Political Action Committee $6,000 4 2020
By Farmers, For Farmers Pac Land O'Lakes, Inc. Pac (By Farmers, For Farmers Pac) $4,500 4 2020
International Fresh Produce Association Fresh Political Action Committee (Fresh Pac) $7,500 4 2020
Across The Aisle Pac $4,000 4 2020
Independent Community Bankers Of America Political Action Committee $8,000 4 2020
Lockheed Martin Corporation Employees' Political Action Committee $4,000 4 2020
National Cotton Council Of America Committee For The Advancement Of Cotton $7,500 4 2020
National Cattlemen'S Beef Association Political Action Committee (Ncba-Pac) $9,000 4 2020
Corteva, Inc. Employees Pac (Corteva Agriscience Pac) $4,000 4 2020
American Veterinary Medical Association Political Action Committee $4,000 4 2020
Salt River Valley Water Users' Association Political Involvement Committee ( Srppic) $3,000 3 2020
National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association Rockpac $5,000 3 2020
Rain And Hail Insurance Society Political Action Committee $8,000 3 2020
Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union Of Operating Engineers $5,000 3 2020
The Doctors Company Federal Pac (Docpac) $6,000 3 2020
Conocophillips Spirit Pac $6,500 3 2020
America'S Credit Unions Pac Of Credit Union National Association, Inc. $5,000 3 2020
Ncta - The Internet & Television Association Political Action Committee (Nctapac) $3,000 3 2020
Verizon Communications, Inc. Political Action Committee (Verizon Pac) $5,000 3 2020
Honeywell International Political Action Committee $7,500 3 2020

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

Conduit dependency

via ActBlue / WinRed

8% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2020) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 28 of 361 contributions · 2% of dollars ($14,734).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$14,734

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).

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

34 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Basf Corporation Employees Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
Honeywell International Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
National Association Of Realtors Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
America'S Credit Unions Pac Of Credit Union National Association, Inc. 51% / 49%
Sempra Energy Employees Political Action Committee- Federal 49% / 51%
American Veterinary Medical Association Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
National Beer Wholesalers Association Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
American Crystal Sugar Company Political Action Committee 54% / 46%
National Milk Producers Federation Pac (Nmpf Pac) 54% / 46%
At&T Inc. Employee Federal Political Action Committee (At&T Employee Federal Pac) 45% / 55%
Dairy Farmers Of America, Inc. Political Action Committee; Aka Dfa-Pac 45% / 55%
Walmart Inc. Pac For Responsible Government 45% / 55%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 6 committees · 13 expenditures · $294,752  ·  Opposing: 0 · 0 · —

CommitteeStanceAmount
National Association Of Realtors Political Action Committee supports $54,452
Cooperative Of American Physicians Independent Expenditure Committee supports $147,739
Planned Parenthood Votes supports $60
No Labels Action, Inc. supports $51,751
Center Forward Committee supports $40,000
Together We Thrive supports $750

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

9% of this candidate's receipts + outside spending is outside money (independent expenditures for/against, as a share of receipts plus outside spending).

Money to other candidates

redistribution · counts

This 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.

CandidateStateContributions
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
VendorPaidPaymentsCategory
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
CategoryPayments
002 (Travel)18
004 (Advertising)8

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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