Person: Cardin, Benjamin L · 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 (2 filers, order not yet known)
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardin, Benjamin L (this candidate) | challenger | — | 10 | ||||
| Sarbanes, John P. Mr. | incumbent | — | 14 |
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.
Baltimore, MD, 21202
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 100%
| Source type | Contributions | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| PACs | 22 | $31,500 |
| Total (committee-sourced) | $31,500 |
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.
0% by dollars
0 of 7052 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) 99% · ● Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 1%
7052 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 22 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($3,621,778 vs $31,500). 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.
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 · Mark D. Dopkin Treasurer
Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.
| Committee | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Friends Of Ben Cardin - I | Authorized committee | H |
| Ben Cardin For Congress | Principal campaign committee | H |
Contributing committees & PACs · 2008:
No committee contributions on file for this cycle.
8 of this candidate's 10 top committee funders also fund the other side.
| Committee / PAC | Overall giving | D / R |
|---|---|---|
| Cerris Inc. Political Action Committee (Formerly Know As Mmc Corp Pac) | 52% / 48% | |
| American Academy Of Sleep Medicine Political Action Committee | 54% / 46% | |
| Amsted Industries Incorporated Pac | 45% / 55% | |
| National Association For Behavioral Healthcare Pac (Nabh Champions Pac) | 42% / 58% | |
| Air Line Pilots Association Pac | 60% / 40% | |
| Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative Sugar Pac (Mdspac) | 39% / 61% | |
| American Academy Of Family Physicians Political Action Committee (Fammedpac) | 63% / 37% | |
| Smiths Group Services Corporation Political Action Committee | 34% / 66% |
Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).
No independent expenditures on file for 2008 (2016 excluded).
No vendor disbursements on file.
No response on file. The subject of this page may add a statement here.
Is this you? Claim this page to respond. Statements are the subject's own words, verified and moderated — the underlying data is unchanged.
One-stop candidate summary · money-dark until the corrected-financial refresh. Data as of March 11, 2026, 11 a.m..