Person: Steel, Michelle · 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).
DEM · primary contest (5 filers, order not yet known)
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunt, Cheyenne | challenger | — | 1 | ||||
| Nguyen, Kim | challenger | — | 8 | ||||
| Pai, Aditya | challenger | — | 1 | ||||
| Pham, Jimmy D | challenger | — | 1 | ||||
| Tran, Derek | challenger | — | 174 |
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steel, Michelle (this candidate) | challenger | — | 540 |
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.
SURFSIDE, CA, 90743
Website, phone and social accounts arrive with the campaign-contact ingest (FEC F1 + social sources).
Raised-vs-spent over time — the per-cycle totals surface is coming.
● PACs 71% · ● Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 26% · ● Super PACs 2% · ● Party committees 0%
| Source type | Contributions | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| PACs | 2454 | $3,387,195 |
| Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) | 42197 | $1,253,445 |
| Super PACs | 29 | $103,500 |
| Party committees | 6 | $23,000 |
| Total (committee-sourced) | $4,767,139 |
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.
| Payer type | Transfers | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Joint-fundraising committees | 114 | $3,637,380 |
| Total | $3,637,380 |
Committee-to-committee transfers received by this candidate's principal committee, split by the type of the sending committee.
48% by dollars
126272 of 142111 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.
● Individual (direct) 80% · ● Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 20%
142111 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 44686 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($18,830,196 vs $4,767,139). 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.
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.
Aggregated itemized individual giving, geocoded to donor home address, suppressed for privacy (small or single-donor-dominated cells withheld). Unitemized giving has no geography.
Treasurer · SLATER, JEN
Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.
| Committee | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Steel For Ca-48 | Authorized committee | H |
| Michelle Steel For Congress | Principal campaign committee | H |
Contributing committees & PACs · 2024:
Committee & PAC contributions to this candidate. Individual donors remain held (donor-privacy decision).
24 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.
| Committee / PAC | Overall giving | D / R |
|---|---|---|
| Honeywell International Political Action Committee | 50% / 50% | |
| Medtronic Inc. Pac | 50% / 50% | |
| Aflac Political Action Committee (Aflac Pac) | 51% / 49% | |
| America'S Credit Unions Pac Of Credit Union National Association, Inc. | 51% / 49% | |
| Elevance Health, Inc. Political Action Committee (Elevance Health Pac) | 51% / 49% | |
| Pricewaterhousecoopers Political Action Committee I | 49% / 51% | |
| National Beer Wholesalers Association Political Action Committee | 48% / 52% | |
| American Society Of Anesthesiologists Political Action Committee (Asa Pac) | 47% / 53% | |
| Thrivent Financial For Lutherans Political Action Committee | 47% / 53% | |
| American Council Of Engineering Companies (Acec/Pac) | 46% / 54% | |
| Ernst & Young Political Action Committee | 46% / 54% | |
| Comcast Corporation & Nbcuniversal Political Action Committee - Federal | 45% / 55% |
Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).
Supporting: 15 committees · 101 expenditures · $5,327,884 · Opposing: 13 · 77 · $12,328,305
| Committee | Stance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Americans For Prosperity Action, Inc. (Afp Action) Dba Cva Action And Dba Libre Action | supports | $735,370 |
| America Pac | supports | $795,133 |
| Congressional Leadership Fund | supports | $429,251 |
| Hmp | opposes | $6,421,846 |
| Planned Parenthood Affiliates Of California Votes Pac | opposes | $327,708 |
| Lcv Victory Fund | opposes | $369,011 |
| Dccc | opposes | $3,004,601 |
| For Our Freedom | opposes | $523,713 |
| Unite Here Local 11 Pac | opposes | $15,981 |
| Patriots For A Brighter America | supports | $26,444 |
| National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund | supports | $2,489 |
| United We Can | opposes | $3,700 |
| National Association Of Realtors Political Action Committee | supports | $69,677 |
| Majority Pac | supports | $36,498 |
| Votevets | opposes | $1,455,400 |
Independent expenditures for or against this candidate. 2016 excluded (known IE undercount).
79% of this candidate's receipts + outside spending is outside money (independent expenditures for/against, as a share of receipts plus outside spending).
| Vendor | Paid | Payments | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paychex | $85,708 | 87 | 012 (Donations) |
| Paychex | $76,521 | 83 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Fulfillment Solutions Inc | $491,789 | 78 | 003 (Fundraising & solicitation) |
| Targeted Victory Llc | $1,789,772 | 76 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Targeted Victory Llc | $1,313,993 | 75 | 012 (Donations) |
| Fulfillment Solutions Inc | $442,421 | 66 | 003 (Fundraising & solicitation) |
| Bank Of America | $2,691 | 59 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Onpoint Data Strategy | $38,146 | 59 | 003 (Fundraising & solicitation) |
| Sunrise Data Services | $48,779 | 55 | 003 (Fundraising & solicitation) |
| Bank Of America | $1,144 | 54 | 012 (Donations) |
| Paychex | $64,856 | 48 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Integram | $257,856 | 45 | 003 (Fundraising & solicitation) |
Payment counts from the principal committee; dollar totals held. Arc maps of where money goes arrive with the geo layer.
| Category | Payments |
|---|---|
| 001 (Administrative / overhead) | 1,607 |
| 003 (Fundraising & solicitation) | 1,313 |
| 004 (Advertising) | 621 |
| 012 (Donations) | 282 |
| 006 (Campaign materials) | 81 |
| 002 (Travel) | 52 |
| 005 (Polling) | 18 |
| 007 (Campaign events) | 13 |
Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.
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