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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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Cardin, Benjamin L

candidate · S6MD03177
Cardin, Benjamin L MD · DEM · Senate · MD · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Cardin, Benjamin L · every race, every cycle

12 cycles7 committees9 contributing committees170 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

2016

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
Cardin, Benjamin L (this candidate) incumbent 373
Edwards, Donna Fern open-seat 3
Mikulski, Barbara incumbent 2
Staley, Violet Scheryl open-seat
Van Hollen, Chris open-seat 285

REP · primary contest (4 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Douglas, Richard James open-seat
Hooe, Joseph David open-seat
Kefalas, Chrysovalantis P open-seat
Szeliga, Kathy open-seat 5

GRE

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Flowers, Margaret open-seat

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 2016 Senate field

MD

473 Senate candidates nationally in 2016.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Fetterman, John Karl PA DEM $60,730,598
2 Cortez Masto, Catherine NV DEM $59,540,356
3 Hassan, Margaret Wood NH DEM $35,587,066
4 Bennet, Michael F. CO DEM $17,127,591
5 Duckworth, L. Tammy IL DEM $14,884,078
6 Schumer, Charles E. NY DEM $13,811,846
7 Murray, Patty WA DEM $12,048,061
8 Harris, Kamala D CA DEM $11,824,890

The national Senate field for 2016, ranked by money raised. Party affiliation shown as filed — third-party and state-party labels (DFL, WFP, etc.) are not merged into DEM/REP. This candidate did not appear in the returned set.

Campaign contact

CATONSVILLE, MD, 21228

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

PACs 50% · Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 49% · Super PACs 1%

Source typeContributionsAmount
PACs752$1,363,940
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)7235$1,340,032
Super PACs11$19,000
Total (committee-sourced)$2,722,972

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.

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

15% by dollars

5220 of 28988 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) 90% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 10%

28988 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 7998 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($25,228,740 vs $2,722,972). 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 · MATHIAS, JAMES

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Cardin-Casey Victory 06 Joint fundraising S
Cardin-Maryland Victory 2012 Joint fundraising N
Maryland Delaware Victory Fund Joint fundraising S
Maryland Seante Victory 2006 Joint fundraising Y
Ri Mn Md Victory Fund Joint fundraising S
Team Blue Joint fundraising H
Ben Cardin For Senate, Inc. Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2016:

No committee contributions on file for this cycle.

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

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

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Iheartmedia Inc. Pac 50% / 50%
National Association Of Realtors Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
The Esop Association Pac 50% / 50%
Aflac Political Action Committee (Aflac Pac) 51% / 49%
Equipment Leasing And Finance Assn Pac (Leasepac) 49% / 51%
K&L Gates Llp Political Action Committee (Dc) 51% / 49%
L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Pac 51% / 49%
The Vanguard Group Committee For Responsible Government 49% / 51%
Exelon Corporation Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
National Emergency Medicine Political Action Committee / American College Of Emergency Physicians 52% / 48%
The Guardian Life Insurance Company Of America Political Action Committee - Federal (Guardian Life P 52% / 48%
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Political Action Committee (Nmpac) 48% / 52%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 4 committees · 7 expenditures · $6,562  ·  Opposing: 1 · 3 · $29,650

CommitteeStanceAmount
Nea Advocacy Fund supports $4,016
People Over Politics opposes $29,650
Sierra Club Political Committee supports $10
Nea Fund For Children And Public Education supports $2,500
Planned Parenthood Votes supports $36

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

1% 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 $2,103 88
Actblue Technical Services $2,189 70
Actblue Technical Services $5,222 31
Paychex $16,611 30
Ngp Van $36,225 26
Verizon Wireless $6,167 23
Erickson & Co Inc $46,058 23
Cardmember Services $45,041 23
Verizon Wireless $5,561 22
Paychex $5,117 22
Cardmember Services $30,959 22
Evans & Katz Llc $6,322 22

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

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