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Cunningham, Cal

candidate · S0NC00202
Cunningham, Cal NC · DEM · Senate · NC · challenger
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Cunningham, Cal · every race, every cycle

8 cycles2 committees45 contributing committees146 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 (5 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Cunningham, Cal (this candidate) challenger 45
Fuller, Trevor Michael challenger 1
Goel, Atul Kumar challenger
Mansfield, Eric challenger 1
Smith, Erica Danette challenger 2

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
Smith, Sandy challenger
Tillis, Thom R. Sen. incumbent 850
Tucker, Garland S III 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

NC

Cunningham, Cal ranks #11 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 ME DEM $58,099,579
8 Graham, Lindsey O. SC REP $55,788,928
11 Cunningham, Cal (this candidate) NC DEM $42,572,662

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

WASHINGTON, NC, 20003

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) 99% · PACs 1% · Super PACs 0% · Party committees 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)1119499$42,315,345
PACs66$237,318
Super PACs2$10,000
Party committees2$10,000
Total (committee-sourced)$42,572,662

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 committees41$1,254,991
Total$1,254,991

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

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

87% by dollars

241880 of 257922 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) 61% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 39%

257922 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 1119569 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($65,830,076 vs $42,572,662). 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 · MELE, STEVEN

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Cal For Nc Principal campaign committee S
Cunningham For Us Senate Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2020:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $42,315,279 1,119,495 2020
Windem $19,600 7 2020
Nea Fund For Children And Public Education $10,000 4 2020
Common Ground Pac $10,000 3 2020
Political Action Committee Of The International Alliance Of Theatrical Stage Employees $5,000 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
Forward Together Pac $10,000 2 2020
D.R.I.V.E. - Democrat, Republican, Independent Voter Education (The Pac Of The International Brotherhood Of Teamsters) $10,000 2 2020
National Committee To Preserve Social Security & Medicare Pac $4,118 2 2020
American Federation Of Govt. Empl. Political Action Committee $7,500 2 2020
Great Lakes Pac $10,000 2 2020
Joint Action Committee For Political Affairs $5,000 2 2020
Lobo Pac $5,000 2 2020
M-Pac $10,000 2 2020
Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners $10,000 2 2020
Unite Here Tip Campaign Committee $10,000 2 2020
Getting Stuff Done Pac (Gsd-Pac) $10,000 2 2020
American Association For Justice Political Action Committee (Aaj Pac) $10,000 2 2020
International Longshore And Warehouse Union -- Political Action Fund $5,000 2 2020
International Association Of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail And Transportation Workers Political Action League $5,000 1 2020
North America'S Building Trades Unions Political Educational Fund $1,000 1 2020
When Democrats Turn Out Pac $5,000 1 2020
National Treasury Employees Union Political Action Committee $5,000 1 2020
National Association Of Postal Supervisors Pac $3,000 1 2020
National Active And Retired Federal Employees Association Political Action Com (Narfe-Pac) $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 — 1,119,495 of 1,119,565 contributions · 99% of dollars ($42,315,279).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$42,315,279

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

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

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
No Labels Pac 50% / 50%
North America'S Building Trades Unions Political Educational Fund 63% / 37%
Americans For The Arts Action Fund Pac 69% / 31%
National Association Of Letter Carriers Of U.S.A. Political Fund (Letter Carrier Political Fund) 78% / 22%
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: 46 committees · 511 expenditures · $28,107,396  ·  Opposing: 12 · 273 · $89,388,952

CommitteeStanceAmount
Senate Leadership Fund opposes $47,079,409
Priorities Usa Action supports $6,737,917
Vote For Equality supports $41,596
Progressive Turnout Project supports $146,190
Planned Parenthood Votes supports $437,331
Nrsc opposes $13,631,107
Americans For Prosperity Action, Inc. (Afp Action) Dba Cva Action And Dba Libre Action opposes $2,671,516
United We Dream Action Pac supports $2,477
North Carolina Latino Power supports $24,228
Women Speak Out Pac opposes $234,371
Sierra Club Independent Action supports $161,496
Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund supports $855
Protect Our Winters Action Fund supports $20,379
American Crossroads opposes $23,799,889
New American Jobs Fund supports $1,214,949

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

73% 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 $1,664,517 134
Democracy Engine, Llc $27,749 98
Stripe $3,832 83
United States Postal Service $29,509 75
Payroll Data Processing Inc. $1,508,435 67
American Airlines $13,183 53 002 (Travel)
Screen Strategies Media $37,244,809 44
Hotels.Com $12,707 36 002 (Travel)
Delta Airlines $8,981 31 002 (Travel)
United Airlines $8,510 31 002 (Travel)
Ups $1,555 29
Democracy Engine Llc $4,705 27

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
002 (Travel)168
001 (Administrative / overhead)64
003 (Fundraising & solicitation)45
007 (Campaign events)6
012 (Donations)2
011 (Political contributions)1

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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