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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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Jacobs, Sara

candidate · H8CA49074
Jacobs, Sara CA · DEM · House · CA-51 · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Jacobs, Sara · every race, every cycle

5 cycles2 committees2 contributing committees305 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
Jacobs, Sara (this candidate) incumbent 62
Vargas, Juan C. incumbent 238

REP · primary contest (2 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Hidalgo, Juan M Sgtmaj Jr. challenger 5
Renison, John challenger 1

NNE

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Mercado, Juan challenger

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

SAN DIEGO, CA, 92112

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) 85% · PACs 15% · Super PACs 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)9948$1,312,354
PACs113$230,000
Super PACs3$3,000
Total (committee-sourced)$1,545,354

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.

Transfers in

from committees
Payer typeTransfersAmount
Joint-fundraising committees3$45,000
Total$45,000

Committee-to-committee transfers received by this candidate's principal committee, split by the type of the sending committee.

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

15% by dollars

7184 of 8607 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) 94% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 6%

8607 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 10064 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($25,561,196 vs $1,545,354). 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 · PETTERSON, JAY

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Sara Jacobs For Congress Principal campaign committee H
Sara Jacobs For Congress Principal campaign committee H

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $403,899 1,649 2018
Emilys List $5,000 1 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 — 1,649 of 1,650 contributions · 99% of dollars ($403,899).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$403,899

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

27 of this candidate's 39 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Honeywell International Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
National Association Of Realtors Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
American Academy Of Dermatology Association Political Action Committee (Skinpac) 51% / 49%
America'S Credit Unions Pac Of Credit Union National Association, Inc. 51% / 49%
National Beer Wholesalers Association Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
National Emergency Medicine Political Action Committee / American College Of Emergency Physicians 52% / 48%
American Sugar Cane League Of Usa, Inc Pac 47% / 53%
American Council Of Engineering Companies (Acec/Pac) 46% / 54%
American Crystal Sugar Company Political Action Committee 54% / 46%
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Pac (Asha Pac) 54% / 46%
Michigan Sugar Company Growers Political Action Committee 46% / 54%
National Association Of Chain Drug Stores, Inc. Political Action Committee 46% / 54%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 2 committees · 44 expenditures · $2,369,080  ·  Opposing: 2 · 4 · $26,597

CommitteeStanceAmount
Women Vote supports $2,362,547
Flip The 49Th! Neighbors In Action supports $6,534
California 2020 opposes $795
Neighbors For A Better Congress opposes $25,802

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

61% 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
Gusto $251,424 147
Actblue Technical Services $22,389 108
Actblue Technical Services $18,484 106
Gusto $81,635 97
Bank Of America $2,980 93
The Frost Group $190,610 85
Gusto $245,064 85
Bank Of America $800 68
Actblue Technical Services $12,817 64
Ngp Van $55,101 50
Kuhn, Amy $35,798 49
Butkiewicz, Jacob $45,527 46

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

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