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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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Padilla, Alex

candidate · S2CA00955
Padilla, Alex CA · DEM · Senate · CA · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Padilla, Alex · every race, every cycle

4 cycles1 committees263 contributing committees157 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

2022

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
Padilla, Alex (this candidate) incumbent 309
Harris, Kamala D incumbent 47
Ingram, Denard challenger 1
O'Dowd, Dan challenger
Ursich, Timothy J Dr challenger 1

REP · primary contest (11 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Bradley, James challenger 1
Elist, Jon challenger
Girard, Yvonne Renee challenger
Hall, Myron Louis Dr. challenger
Heng, Elizabeth challenger 1
Liew, Sarah challenger
Lucero, Robert George Mr Jr. challenger
Meuser, Mark challenger 11
Smith, Charles E challenger
Williams, Cordie Lee Dr. challenger
Zhou, Lijun (Lily) challenger

IND

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Bradford, Daphne challenger 1

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.

In the 2022 Senate field

CA

Padilla, Alex ranks #21 of 748 Senate candidates nationally in 2022.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Warnock, Raphael GA DEM $215,222,453
2 Kelly, Mark AZ DEM $187,045,474
3 Fetterman, John Karl PA DEM $60,730,598
4 Cortez Masto, Catherine NV DEM $59,540,356
5 Ryan, Timothy OH DEM $44,196,849
6 Barnes, Mandela WI DEM $36,011,252
7 Hassan, Margaret Wood NH DEM $35,587,066
8 Beasley, Cheri NC DEM $27,632,915
21 Padilla, Alex (this candidate) CA DEM $5,711,294

The national Senate field for 2022, ranked by money raised. Party affiliation shown as filed — third-party and state-party labels (DFL, WFP, etc.) are not merged into DEM/REP.

Campaign contact

LOS ANGELES, CA, 90017

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) 71% · PACs 29% · Super PACs 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)55533$3,383,260
PACs631$1,369,047
Super PACs8$22,800
Total (committee-sourced)$4,775,108

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 committees11$245,124
Total$245,124

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

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

35% by dollars

21178 of 28451 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) 80% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 20%

28451 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 56172 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($18,674,484 vs $4,775,108). 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 · TRONCOSO, MICHAEL

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Alex Padilla For Senate Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2022:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $2,964,069 43,368 2022
American Israel Public Affairs Committee Political Action Committee $95,630 102 2022
Hdr, Inc. Employee Owners Pac $20,000 6 2022
Molina Healthcare, Inc. Pac $11,000 5 2022
The Boeing Company Political Action Committee $6,000 5 2022
Air Line Pilots Association Pac $20,000 5 2022
American Sportfishing Association Political Action Committee $5,500 5 2022
Employees Of Northrop Grumman Corporation Pac $10,000 5 2022
T-Mobile Us, Inc. Political Action Committee (T-Pac) $8,000 5 2022
Microsoft Corporation Stakeholders Voluntary Pac - Msvpac $8,500 4 2022
International Association Of Firefighters Interested In Registration And Education Pac $20,000 4 2022
National Air Traffic Controllers Association Pac $5,000 4 2022
General Motors Company Political Action Committee (Gm Pac) $10,000 4 2022
Lobo Pac $10,000 4 2022
Toyota Motor North America, Inc Political Action Committee (Toyota/Lexus Pac) $10,000 4 2022
National Beer Wholesalers Association Political Action Committee $5,000 4 2022
Anheuser-Busch Companies Llc Political Action Committee $15,000 4 2022
Comcast Corporation & Nbcuniversal Political Action Committee - Federal $20,000 4 2022
O'Melveny & Myers Political Action Committee $5,500 4 2022
Fedex Corporation Political Action Committee $8,000 4 2022
American Council Of Engineering Companies (Acec/Pac) $10,000 4 2022
Greenberg Traurig, P.A. Pac $10,000 3 2022
Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union Of Operating Engineers $14,000 3 2022
Ballard Spahr Llp Pac $7,000 3 2022
California Poultry Industry Federation Poultry Pac $6,900 3 2022

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

Conduit dependency

via ActBlue / WinRed

99% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2022) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 43,368 of 43,920 contributions · 71% of dollars ($2,964,069).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$2,964,069

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

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

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Entertainment Software Association Pac (Esa Pac) 50% / 50%
Medtronic Inc. Pac 50% / 50%
National Association Of Realtors Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
Anduril Industries, Inc. Political Action Committee (Anduril Pac) 49% / 51%
Employees Of Northrop Grumman Corporation Pac 49% / 51%
T-Mobile Us, Inc. Political Action Committee (T-Pac) 51% / 49%
Verizon Communications, Inc. Political Action Committee (Verizon Pac) 49% / 51%
American Water Works Company, Inc. Employee Federal Pac 48% / 52%
National Beer Wholesalers Association Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
Samsung Electronics America Inc Political Action Committee 52% / 48%
Anheuser-Busch Companies Llc Political Action Committee 47% / 53%
Foley & Lardner Political Fund, Inc. 53% / 47%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 14 committees · 34 expenditures · $11,236  ·  Opposing: 0 · 0 · —

CommitteeStanceAmount
Coalition To Grow San Francisco - Grow Sf Pac supports $2,424
Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project Los Angeles County Action Fund supports $354
Dolores Huerta Action Fund supports $746
Santa Barbara Women'S Political Committee (Fed) supports $149
Democratic Alliance For Action supports $1,550
Planned Parenthood Of Orange And San Bernardino Counties' Community Action Fund Pac supports $22
Alice B. Toklas Lgbtq Democratic Club Federal Pac supports $3,129
Democrats Of Southwest Riverside County supports $1,187
Ventura County Democratic Central Committee supports $419
Ohlone Area United Democratic Campaign supports $303
Democratic Women Of Santa Barbara County supports $89
Democratic Central Committee Of Marin supports $146
Sierra Club Independent Action supports $10
Sonoma County Democratic Party supports $710

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

0% 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
Actblue $116,303 117
Actblue $12,716 111
Democracy Engine $6,368 58
Kaufman Legal Group $288,803 56
Internal Revenue Service $112,254 45
Employment Development Dept. $17,266 44
Thrive Strategies $289,055 41
Aisle 518 Strategies Llc $829,418 40
River City Business Services $3,826 39
Internal Revenue Service $4,653 39
Negrete, Robert $28,430 30
Kaufman Legal Group $124,510 29

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

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