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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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Casten, Sean

candidate · H8IL06139
Casten, Sean IL · DEM · House · IL-06 · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Casten, Sean · every race, every cycle

5 cycles1 committees79 contributing committees669 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 (8 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Casten, Sean (this candidate) incumbent 344
Cheney, Carole challenger 3
Haaf, Grace challenger
Howland, Amanda challenger 2
Huffman, Ryan challenger 1
Mazeski, Kelly challenger 7
Wilkins, Becky Anderson challenger 1
Zordani, Jennifer Ms. challenger 2

REP

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Roskam, Peter incumbent 621

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

DOWNERS GROVE, IL, 60515

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) 84% · PACs 16% · Super PACs 0% · Party committees 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)176797$11,715,395
PACs1233$2,263,975
Super PACs21$24,249
Party committees33$16,620
Total (committee-sourced)$14,020,238

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 committees5$42,628
Total$42,628

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

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

85% by dollars

85593 of 91425 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) 65% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 35%

91425 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 178084 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($26,104,590 vs $14,020,238). 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 · SCHEFFKI, MICHELLE M

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Casten For Congress Principal campaign committee H

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $3,512,823 80,792 2018
Jstreetpac $34,692 72 2018
Dccc $5,000 11 2018
Windem $18,900 7 2018
Goodwerk $1,249 7 2018
Progressive Choices Pac $4,352 5 2018
National Air Traffic Controllers Association Pac $5,000 4 2018
New Democrat Coalition Action Fund $7,500 4 2018
Turquoise Pac $6,000 4 2018
Committee For A Livable Future $6,000 3 2018
Democrats Reshaping America (Dreampac) $3,000 3 2018
National Organization Of Social Security Claimants' Representatives Pac (Nosscr Pac) $2,000 2 2018
Committee For Leadership And Progress $2,000 2 2018
Visionary Pac $1,500 2 2018
Nea Fund For Children And Public Education $5,000 2 2018
American Federation Of Govt. Empl. Political Action Committee $5,000 2 2018
Beepac (Building Economic Empowerment Pac) $3,500 2 2018
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen Pac Fund $1,000 2 2018
Moveon.Org Political Action $5,000 2 2018
The Boeing Company Political Action Committee $10,000 2 2018
Fair Shot Pac $2,000 2 2018
Environment America Inc. Voter Action (Abbv. 'Environment America Voter Action') $5,000 2 2018
International Association Of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail And Transportation Workers Political Action League $7,500 2 2018
Shore Pac $3,000 2 2018
Local 881 United Food And Commercial Workers Political Action Fund $5,000 2 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 — 80,792 of 80,996 contributions · 93% of dollars ($3,512,823).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$3,512,823

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

35 of this candidate's 40 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%
Ubs Americas Inc. Political Action Committee (Ubs Pac) 50% / 50%
America'S Credit Unions Pac Of Credit Union National Association, Inc. 51% / 49%
Pricewaterhousecoopers Political Action Committee I 49% / 51%
Teachers Insurance Annuity Association Of America Pac (Tiaa Pac) 51% / 49%
Zurich Holding Company Of America, Inc. Committee For Good Government (Z-Pac, Zurich Pac) 49% / 51%
Exelon Corporation Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
Mortgage Bankers Association Political Action Committee (Morpac) 48% / 52%
Bmo Financial Corp Good Governance Fund: Federal (Bmo Pac) 53% / 47%
National Multifamily Housing Council Political Action Committee 53% / 47%
New York Life Insurance Company Political Action Committee 47% / 53%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 10 committees · 211 expenditures · $228,367  ·  Opposing: 6 · 34 · $3,396,351

CommitteeStanceAmount
Progressive Turnout Project supports $93,881
Moveon.Org Political Action supports $18,050
Congressional Leadership Fund opposes $2,882,575
Planned Parenthood Votes supports $16,618
Sierra Club Political Committee supports $77
Esafund opposes $48,352
Freedomworks For America opposes $10,250
The Principles Project supports $88,700
New Prosperity Foundation; The opposes $435,000
Climate Hawks Vote Political Action supports $6,248
Environment America Action Fund supports $39
Build The Wave supports $1,400
Restoration Pac opposes $17,500
Family Research Council Action Political Action Committee opposes $2,674
Nea Advocacy Fund supports $67

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

21% 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 Technical Services $139,736 121
Actblue Technical Services $63,922 115
Paychex Inc. $215,982 99
Facebook Inc. $34,984 76 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Actblue Technical Services $97,537 76
Break Something, Llc $1,559,746 74
Pnc Visa $234,951 74
Actblue Technical Services $122,832 74 003 (Fundraising & solicitation)
Paychex Inc. $47,364 73
Amazon.Com $8,993 64
Paychex Inc. $145,875 60
Actblue $18,271 59 001 (Administrative / overhead)

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
001 (Administrative / overhead)310
003 (Fundraising & solicitation)153
004 (Advertising)88
002 (Travel)36
012 (Donations)35
006 (Campaign materials)21
007 (Campaign events)14

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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