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 (3 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 | ||||
| Manning, Chelsea Elizabeth | challenger | — | 1 | ||||
| Segal, Jerome | challenger | — | 1 |
REP · primary contest (3 filers, order not yet known)
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell, Antono Wade | challenger | — | 3 | ||||
| Faddis, Charles S | challenger | — | — | ||||
| Grigorian, Christina | challenger | — | — |
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon, Neal | challenger | — | 2 |
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puskar, Michael B | 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.
Cardin, Benjamin L ranks #41 of 529 Senate candidates nationally in 2018.
| # | Candidate | State | Party | Raised |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sanders, Bernard | VT | IND | $56,355,723 |
| 2 | Brown, Sherrod | OH | DEM | $43,945,698 |
| 3 | Tester, R. Jon | MT | DEM | $41,514,204 |
| 4 | McSally, Martha | AZ | REP | $38,525,275 |
| 5 | Murphy, Christopher S | CT | DEM | $31,406,433 |
| 6 | Warren, Elizabeth | MA | DEM | $30,998,675 |
| 7 | Baldwin, Tammy | WI | DEM | $30,006,651 |
| 8 | Casey, Robert P. Jr. | PA | DEM | $26,183,788 |
| 41 | Cardin, Benjamin L (this candidate) | MD | DEM | $2,739,827 |
The national Senate field for 2018, ranked by money raised. Party affiliation shown as filed — third-party and state-party labels (DFL, WFP, etc.) are not merged into DEM/REP.
CATONSVILLE, MD, 21228
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 50% · ● Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 49% · ● Super PACs 1%
| Source type | Contributions | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| PACs | 752 | $1,363,940 |
| Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) | 7235 | $1,340,032 |
| Super PACs | 11 | $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.
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.
● 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.
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.
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 · MATHIAS, JAMES
Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.
| Committee | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:
Committee & PAC contributions to this candidate. Individual donors remain held (donor-privacy decision).
91% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2018) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 6,164 of 6,809 contributions · 51% of dollars ($1,222,534).
| Conduit | Amount |
|---|---|
| ActBlue | $1,222,534 |
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).
39 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.
| Committee / PAC | Overall giving | D / 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).
Supporting: 4 committees · 7 expenditures · $6,562 · Opposing: 1 · 3 · $29,650
| Committee | Stance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Nea Advocacy Fund | supports | $4,016 |
| People Over Politics | opposes | $29,650 |
| Planned Parenthood Votes | supports | $36 |
| Nea Fund For Children And Public Education | supports | $2,500 |
| Sierra Club Political Committee | supports | $10 |
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).
| Vendor | Paid | Payments | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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