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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)
Dollar figures are still computing and reflect best estimates while the corrected-financial reconciliation completes. Relationships, counts, and dates are final.

Gideon, Sara

candidate · S0ME00111
Gideon, Sara ME · DEM · Senate · ME · challenger
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Person: Gideon, Sara · every race, every cycle

4 cycles1 committees42 contributing committees176 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

2020

DEM · primary contest (6 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Gideon, Sara (this candidate) challenger 42
Kidman, Bre Mx. challenger 1
Lajeunesse, Ross challenger 1
London, Cathleen Greenberg Dr challenger 1
Sweet, Betsy challenger 1
Treacy, Jonathan challenger 1

REP · primary contest (2 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Collins, Susan M. incumbent 714
Levasseur, Derek Allen challenger

IND

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Linn, Max Mr. challenger

UNK

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Savage, Lisa Jill 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.

In the 2020 Senate field

ME

Gideon, Sara ranks #7 of 558 Senate candidates nationally in 2020.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Warnock, Raphael GA DEM $215,222,453
2 Ossoff, T. Jonathan GA DEM $214,842,226
3 Kelly, Mark AZ DEM $187,045,474
4 Harrison, Jaime SC DEM $119,916,011
5 Sullivan, Dan AK REP $109,507,676
6 McGrath, Amy KY DEM $81,476,987
7 Gideon, Sara (this candidate) ME DEM $58,099,579
8 Graham, Lindsey O. SC REP $55,788,928

The national Senate field for 2020, 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

SOUTH FREEPORT, ME, 04078

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) 100% · PACs 0% · Super PACs 0% · Party committees 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)1567653$57,892,134
PACs54$194,675
Super PACs8$7,770
Party committees1$5,000
Total (committee-sourced)$58,099,579

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 committees19$432,184
Total$432,184

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

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

86% by dollars

440493 of 469537 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) 60% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 40%

469537 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 1567716 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($88,410,860 vs $58,099,579). 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 · LUNN, LISA MS.

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Sara Gideon For Maine Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2020:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $57,892,134 1,567,653 2020
Windem $19,600 7 2020
Youth Progressive Action Catalyst $270 5 2020
United Steelworkers Political Action Fund $10,000 2 2020
International Union Of Painters And Allied Trades Political Action Together Political Committee $10,000 2 2020
Lobo Pac $7,500 2 2020
Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners $10,000 2 2020
National Committee To Preserve Social Security & Medicare Pac $4,125 2 2020
Ua Union Plumbers & Pipefitters Vote! Pac (United Association Of Journeymen And Apprentices Of The Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry Of The United States And Canada) $10,000 2 2020
American Association For Justice Political Action Committee (Aaj Pac) $10,000 2 2020
Bend The Arc Jewish Action Inc. Pac $2,000 2 2020
United Food And Commercial Workers International Union Active Ballot Club $10,000 2 2020
Seiu Cope (Service Employees International Union Committee On Political Education) $10,000 2 2020
Asian American Action Fund $10,000 2 2020
Joint Action Committee For Political Affairs $5,000 2 2020
Persistence Pac $200 1 2020
International Longshore And Warehouse Union -- Political Action Fund $5,000 1 2020
American Federation Of State County & Municipal Employees P E O P L E $5,000 1 2020
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen Pac Fund $2,500 1 2020
International Brotherhood Of Boilermakers Campaign Assistance Fund $3,000 1 2020
Unite Here Tip Campaign Committee $5,000 1 2020
Indian American Impact Fund $2,500 1 2020
Emilys List $5,000 1 2020
Blue Rising $1,000 1 2020
MacHinists Non Partisan Political League Of The International Association Of MacHinists & Aerospace Workers $5,000 1 2020

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 (2020) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 1,567,653 of 1,567,716 contributions · 100% of dollars ($57,892,134).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$57,892,134

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

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

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners 81% / 19%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 32 committees · 282 expenditures · $8,058,561  ·  Opposing: 8 · 245 · $41,861,661

CommitteeStanceAmount
Senate Leadership Fund opposes $12,514,291
Nrsc opposes $15,550,655
Vote For Equality supports $20,364
Planned Parenthood Votes supports $755,903
Priorities Usa Action supports $471,546
Cffe Pac supports $3,571,574
When Democrats Turn Out Pac supports $2,584
1820 Pac opposes $7,681,818
Lcv Victory Fund supports $678,240
American Crossroads opposes $2,207,858
Protect Our Winters Action Fund supports $2,016
Progressive Turnout Project supports $26,883
Club For Growth Action opposes $350,681
Dmfi Pac supports $2,654
Human Rights Campaign Equality Votes supports $166,952

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

46% 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
Democracy Engine, Llc $38,697 131
United States Postmaster General $64,154 105
Actblue Technical Services $2,231,000 102
Payroll Data Processing $3,603,976 87
Aisle 518 $6,153,622 66
Numero $45,039 45
Amalgamated Bank $22,641 43
Shopify $3,611 40
Grassroots Media $20,484,245 39
First Data Merchant Services, Llc $37,128 37
Amalgamated Bank $2,250 28
Amalgamated Bank $7,756 26

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
006 (Campaign materials)33
003 (Fundraising & solicitation)26
001 (Administrative / overhead)18

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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